Why is it that in modern #Linux OSes we have to stick with the original format when saviing files with the OS dialogue?
Isn't it an easy task to convert say a JPEG to PNG? I'm a #Gnome user btw.
@Junicast It is not the FileChooser's job to be a transcoder. It is complex & unmaintainable enough as it is (nobody wants to touch that code)… now imagine needing to bundle the equivalent of ImageMagick+Poppler+GStreamer across multiple OS platforms 🤯 That'd be a technical, security, and legal nightmare.
File format export/conversion is the apps' job, and it's a specialized job, as every encoder has tunable parameters. The FileChooser just lets you pick a location for the app to write to.
@Junicast For example, the default JPEG encoder found almost everywhere is utter shite compared to MozJPEG, or now JPEG-LI. I explicitly have to use specialized apps when encoding JPEG because of this. Same goes for PNG if I want a PNG with -30% filesize in exchange for much longer encoding times, but some may favor speed over size efficiency; don't even get me started on video codecs…
Gnome Search on a smartphone is a killer feature. You can do so much useful stuff and customize everything to your liking.
Some tips: https://itsfoss.com/gnome-search/
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.
@thelinuxEXP This has to do with the forced inclusion, from what i can understand, it seems that the forced inclusion makes people see the inclusion this way, when in reality, it's actually badly made inclusion.
The problem itself it's not the inclusion, it's HOW you make the inclusion.
Even Freedom Planet has better inclusion than majority of videogames and series nowadays.
@chalex2020 But that’s not what is happening in most cases. No foundation or company worth its salt would hire or keep someone that’s not suited for a job.
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
@panpantepan@pojntfx GTK isn't really involved: blurring the contents of the screen behind a window requires the compositor to do that, because it's the only component that knows what's behind a window. All that GTK has to do is to make the background of that window transparent, and it already allows you to do that.
@ebassi@panpantepan If GNOME Shell ever gets upstream support for this - from a developer's perspective, it's not just transparency but also things like the blur radius and more. Optimally, this would be background: transparentandbackdrop-filter: blur(8px) etc. :)
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.
@codemonkeymike Off the top of my head: short & sweet at the front, internal links to longer texts explaining more, no technical lingo, lots of screenshots only of GUI. Needs to cover at least:
Reasons to drop W (mostly inside a link, no reason to expand on the front page b/c most people there are likely interested)
What software can you run and what can you not, inc easy workarounds and who might not be able to switch
How to install. Serious question: Would it be possible to make a USB flasher that runs in the browser, so that you could just tell the person to plug in a memory stick and press this one button, and it flashes the iso for you with no extra steps? If not, make it as simple as possible, perhaps download just a flasher which then dls the correct ISO
Where and how to get support
The best would be if LUGs started meeting up again and it could connect you to your local LUG
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
@pethil It waits 500 miliseconds instead of 150 miliseconds after you stopped typing before actually triggering a package manager search, because 150ms is a bad default for expensive operations. It's like doing this to your backends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmoLf1Jh6SQ
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!
@thelinuxEXP can't believe what Microsoft is doing with Windows 11 now tbh. Thought they would want people to move across from 10. If they add stuff like the recall thing to Windows 10, they are screwing themselves over even more
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.
@reesericci I mean, that's a completely different service that I don't use and so can't test. It's a simple enough app that someone could probably throw something similar together, though.