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nekohayo

@nekohayo@mastodon.social

Free & #OpenSource software contributor (#Linux + #GNOME + #GStreamer) since 2004. Currently co-maintaining the most magical desktop productivity apps combo you can find (https://fosstodon.org/@GettingThingsGNOME & GNOME Calendar), as their benevolent lean engineering manager + occasional User Interaction & UX designer.

Waging war on mediocrity & unsustainability in business.
Founder of https://mastodon.social/@ideemarque + https://mastodon.social/@atypica, and mercenary CMO https://mastodon.social/@regento.

Ex-Collabora, ex-psy, ex-Shinra.
I don't roleplay but I wear a cloak. ❄️

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nekohayo, to GNOME
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As the team keeps making progress in refactoring and optimizing , we can see 's file manager steadily becoming faster.

Among the few performance issues remaining, I believe the probable "Final Boss" of search performance is this issue, which would require some refactoring across the views. Anyone up for a challenge? https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/3452

ploum, to random French
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Nous nous dépêchons lentement vers la catastrohpe

nekohayo,
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@ploum Laquelle, parmi les multitudes? 😣

gamey, to GNOME German
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I often feel like could leverage right click in it's UI a lot more, all I can do if I right click on an app icon for example is open a new window, pin to dash and app details. App details is relatively useless because it's build into the Software Center and only recognizes apps installed from their, a "go to files" button is missing which would be very helpful, I can't hide a app from there using the GUI and for open Windows there is no right click to E.g. force quit or similar.

nekohayo,
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@gamey Do you mean specifically right-click on app launcher icons in GNOME Shell's dash or apps grid? If so, there are only a few usecases I was able to imagine among the apps I use...

GNOME Calendar being one of them: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1187
GTG being another: https://github.com/getting-things-gnome/gtg/issues/1047

Patches welcome 👀

nekohayo,
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@gamey Hmm, well the window manager will already prompt you with a modal dialog offering to kill any with an unresponsive mainloop though, so nontechnical users don't need to be fishing for that in a right-click menu (which would not be something even I would have naturally thought to do), I think.

As for hiding an app from the apps list, neither Android nor iOS (last time I tried them) allow you to do that, AFAIK; if you want it gone from the general apps list, you uninstall it, no? 🤔

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@gamey Oh, I see what you mean with the "it's a pain to go fishing through ~/.var/app/ " (though Nautilus' search helps). Kind of an advanced user usecase though.

Have you tried the "Warehouse" app? I suspect you'll love it. It has that "Open User Data Folder" shortcut, and much more: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.flattool.Warehouse

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@gamey Oh I see… well, about hiding "minions" apps, my workaround would be to group them into an app folder (dragging them on top of each other) and name that folder "junkyard" 😆 that's the kind of cheating I do on mobile OSes sometimes for infrequent apps…

I wish GNOME Shell's folders grouping interaction was improved though, it has many papercuts that make it not very efficient.

loptimist, to ubuntu French
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Alors, il y a un truc qui me dépasse avec et : Parfois, quand je boot et que je me log dans ma session, tout est nickel, le touchpad de mon Thinkpad fonctionne nickel : le touch to click, to select et to drag, Jean Passe (force à lui) et des meilleurs... Et... Parfois non, il n'enregistre plus tous les inputs, le drag et le select ne fonctionne juste plus (bref, tout ce qui est à base de double tap en somme). Incompréhensible.

nekohayo,
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@loptimist @mzfbee J'ai remarqué que ça fait ça quand le touchpad est mouillé, même après l'avoir essuyé, me faut parfois un suspend+resume pour que ça marche à nouveau.

woltiv, to GNOME
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I'm not seeing "add thumbnail mode to the file picker" anywhere in the #gnome five year plan https://foundation.gnome.org/strategicplan/
#linux

nekohayo,
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@woltiv It's already implemented.
You are looking at the GTK2 file picker.
You need to be running a GTK4 application.

astro_ray, to typst
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Is there any developer out there who is working on / GUI editor for typesetting documents in /. As much as I love them, modal editors like / are not for me.

nekohayo,
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@astro_ray It already exists? See the "Setzer" app

Joseph_of_Earth, to random
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Past Me: I must do everything I can to save battery

Present Me with 2 days of battery: how can I get under 80% battery so my battery stays healthy for 7 years?

nekohayo,
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@Joseph_of_Earth By sending a patch for https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/2553 of course!

nekohayo, to UX
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Double-click being unintuitive / harmful to / when it is the only way to accomplish something, exhibit no. 2768: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/2768

nekohayo, to Montreal French
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Ce chatmedi 1er juin 2024, il y aura le tout premier pique-nique de au Square St-Patrick, au bord de la piste cyclable du canal Lachine à dans le … La météo s'annonce parfaite.

J'y serai, au cas où il y a d'autres fans du et Python de qui aimeraient se rencontrer dans un contexte verdoyant 😎

https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/montreal-python/events/300968143/

nekohayo, to Montreal
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Turns out there is a informal meetup event coming up this Saturday (June 1st, 2024) on the in (near ) in … the first outdoors event as far as I know, as a family-friendly picnic/potluck, right next to the cycleway. Beautiful weather is to be expected.

I'll be there in case anyone else from the extended / programming community wants to meet to… literally touch grass 😎

https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/montreal-python/events/300968143/

nekohayo, (edited ) to GNOME
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The Rebel Alliance showing up on May 26th in https://discourse.gnome.org/tag/elections2024, with eleven candidates running for six seats in https://vote.gnome.org/2024/candidates.html, makes for the most intriguing election in years. Lots of young blood and also very fine vintage blood on offer there.

I made this poster to encourage y'all to vote, whatever your blood type is. Using the "Cantarell" font instead of "Inter" on the 1st line symbolically counterbalances the 2nd line's futuristic "Youngblood" font.

nekohayo,
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@lw64 As a NPC, I'm afraid I cannot do that. The players would hunt me down and lock me in a dungeon.

GoatsLive, to random
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Why oh why #libreoffice are you all the sudden installing stupid help files in dozens of languages that I do not even speak. Can't you tell what language is default and only install that one? This latest update is HUGE and unnecessary!

nekohayo,
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@GoatsLive @jrmat As far as I know, this is not a problem with the Flatpak version from FlatHub.

If you are talking about LibreOffice installed from your distro's packages, then that's your distro's problem, not LibreOffice per se.

nekohayo, to wordpress
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For the time being, the team doesn't want to add support, even in their "Modern Image Formats" plugin, because Chrome & AVIF n' stuff. Uuuuuurghhh 😒

https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/12#issuecomment-2137688307

nekohayo,
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@otto42 ImageMagick already support it. LibGD is interested but would like help ("when", not "if").

However, WordPress always need extra enablement officially, because it does not allow non-whitelisted formats to be used in the media library and publishing.
So yes, WordPress needs explicit "allowed format" support for this to work out of the box. And that would count as "interest from the ecosystem", because, y'know, it is the platform that powers roughly half of websites out there.

nekohayo, to web
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It is wild that the whole resistance front is held together by and , where only Apple's is accounted for in https://caniuse.com/jpegxl (but not Epiphany, see https://github.com/Fyrd/caniuse/issues/6807 …), and that 's desktop & mobile hegemony (and their corporate influence over Mozilla…) is the reason why we can't have nice things 😒

nekohayo, (edited ) to ADHD
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#ADHD / #AuDHD / #autism / #neurodivergent folks, plz compare:

In your experience, would UX from the 2nd link distract, overstimulate or bother you in a way that represents an #accessibility issue?

Note: I'm not the one proposing this, I'm not even affected. I ask for the sake of others; polling for statistical sample size.

#usability #humancomputerinteraction #cognitivescience #UX

nekohayo,
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@vixalientoots If you like that, then don't worry about that specific part, that's already what it does in the branch (my videos don't show the widget's editing UX because that's not what I was curious to poll about)

nekohayo,
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@vixalientoots It also trims the protocol prefix, if that's what you mean (like other browsers).

nekohayo,
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@mattiasb Yeah, I think using the world "real" would have caused more confusion than "serious", as anything can be said to be "real" by someone who perceives something, while "serious" is meant to clearly differentiate between an annoyance (still "real") vs something that "disrupts with consequences" levels of severity. i.e. Would it be considered harmful, or annoying, or not at all.
The characters (& choices) limit in polls makes it a bit hard to write things, but I think it's pretty balanced.

nekohayo, to accessibility
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Huge thanks to @kabushawarib for eliminating the flickering that occurred in 46's "Global Search" feature! This should help performance a bit, and improve for light/motion-sensitive users.
If all goes well, the bugfix would probably make its way into 46.3, I presume.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/3403

nekohayo, to GPS
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After being kneecapped by a troll years ago, Location Services, the only somewhat trusted (non-Google/Apple) "Wi-Fi positioning system" (geolocation based on triangulating collected SSIDs), is now shutting down: https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065

MLS was how could get a meters-accurate location without a receiver / sky line-of-sight.

It was used by many / apps to get instantaneous neighborhood-level location (for maps, local weather…) on laptops.

The "Tenacious D" protagonists singing a long "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck~" reaction upon realizing they're in big trouble

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