Today, I learned that diversity, equality and inclusivity is apparently a bad thing, and will kill a project? (From the comments under my latest news talking about #GNOME’s 5 year plan).
So, wanting people to feel comfortable contributing to a project is bad and woke now? Serisouly, what do they put in these people’s water? They’re going insane.
Sometimes I hack around with the transparency & blur implementations for #GNOME, create a #GtkWebView2 with a tranparent background enabled, and just am in awe for a minute at what is possible on this platform
To illustrate just how utterly boneheaded #GNOME UI design has become, I present you with Geary.
This is the minimum size of the window. If I make it any narrower, the email portion will disappear and the email list will expand to cover the entire area.
But! You say, you can use the column dividers, to resize the individual columns, right? Nope, the GNOME/Geary people think you should not be able to resize the columns manually like you could before. No explanation, just fuck you.
So. Much. Whitespace. The amount of whitespace wasted in Geary is absolutely batshit insane. This window could present the same amount of information while taking up half the screenspace and still be 100% clear and usable.
Related to 3, no options to change density or other options to reduce this whitespace hellscape.
This one fucking email client takes up nearly my entire 2x 4K display. I can't believe we let these people define the 'default' Linux desktop and let them get away with it.
There's been so many Windows enshitification moments where people say this is our best opportunity for helping more people get their freedom trough #Linux.
Now we have maybe the best of these moments yet – W11 demanding new PCs, W10 being killed off, and this whole Recall shit.
Yet, after all this, I've never seen any really newbie friendly website explaining why and how to try Linux – with simple text and elegant design.
It seems to me the #Gnome designers would be perfect for making this.
Time for this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News! In this one, we have a terrible feature being added to #Windows, we have the # KDE #Plasma 6.1 beta, and a 5 year plan for #GNOME!
On top of the performance optimizations that Milan has done in #GNOMESoftware some months ago, I'm proposing my one-liner search performance trick for the #GNOME software center app store thingy that people love to hate on #Linux, to reduce the jankiness and improve performance further for most practical purposes. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/merge_requests/2032
Oh no. The dev of a new YT player for #Gnome chooses to illustrate it by showing the channel of a nazi and a fraud.
I can't know if the developer knows, of course. But we know that this kind of uncertainty is weaponized by the "alt right" all the time. So, how does one deal with it?
Also, the dev probably won't influence what content the users of the app actually sees, so how much does it really matter if the app is good? I feel these are difficult questions.
An update to Tally, my desktop app for Plausible Analytics, is incoming! Tally 3.2.1 refreshes the visuals a bit, and I really like the more subtle look with the header bar. This addresses some feedback that the old look was too bold.
The GNOME Foundation's Five-Year Strategic Plan Draft is here! This draft comes after hard work from our ED with input from the Board, Staff, and members but we need YOUR feedback!
Hmmmm? If I open one of Gnome's application pseudo-folders, e.g., Utilities, I can't close it by clicking elsewhere on the display, which seems appropriate. I need to click on the bar across the top of the display, or tap esc on the keyboard. #Linux#Gnome
Since we’re all onboard with telling off Linux evangelists in this moment, Linux has privacy issues too! If your screen goes to sleep, when you come back you’re greeted by your screen contents - not the Lock Screen for a solid two seconds or so (at least in GNOME Shell, the default desktop environment for many distros). #gnome#linux#security
Web Apps lets you install websites as desktop apps, to be displayed in their own window. You can set a custom name or icon and choose which browser features will be enabled. Pick if you want to show loading bars or enable JavaScript, then have your new web app added to your desktop applications list. Use the net in a whole new way with Web Apps!
"GNOME Wayland sucks because I have to decorate my own windows which is out of the scope for my project."
Just... Don't? :confused_dog: If GNOME doesn't want to have a fallback for server-side decorations, then the intended functionality of the desktop is to just not have window decorations for your app. If people open bug reports about it, close them and direct them to the GNOME issue tracker. I don't get why this is considered a stopper for so many developers targeting Wayland. Just don't have them, I don't get it. :neocat_what:
Are there any useful learning resources out there that are essentially "build systems for dummies"?
I haven't built any complex projects from source manually so far (spoiled by meson + GNOME Builder's Flatpak integration), but I'm finding myself wanting a better understanding of what's actually happening under the hood to turn the stuff in my project folder into something runnable. I don't know much about tweaking meson.build files, for instance.
If anyone wants to or knows someone who wants to hack on a PineNote, let me know. I’m willing to send it to an eager developer for the cost of shipping. It’s unclear where the project is heading, but it seems some people are trying to run Debian and #GNOME. There’s an effort to get mainline #Linux kernel support in for it. I just don’t have the patience and time to contribute.
I’ve already left a message in the Pine Discord offering the same.