nekohayo

nekohayo, 5 days ago to GNOME

As the #Nautilus team keeps making progress in refactoring and optimizing #GNOMEFiles, we can see #GNOME'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

nekohayo, 10 days ago to wordpress

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

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

nekohayo, 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to GNOME

The #GNOME 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 #GNOMEFoundation 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, 12 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to ADHD

#ADHD / #AuDHD / #autism / #neurodivergent folks, plz compare:

• Left-aligned URL bar contents: https://youtu.be/sSz9xrLc06A?t=23
• Center-aligned contents: https://youtu.be/U8hgcH5Tgmk?t=44

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, 12 days ago to accessibility

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

#GNOME #performance #trackersearch

nekohayo, 12 days ago to python

Did you know there's a cool little #Python + #GTK #libadwaita #weather forecasting native desktop application for #Linux, called #Mousam ?

Seems like it was started a year ago. I just discovered it now, and am somewhat impressed by how much detail it provides (including Air Pollution / Air Quality Index).

So of course I filed my ponies-on-rainbows enhancement request to suggest an interactive stacked graphs representation (like a certain website I use, shown below)… 🤞👀

https://github.com/amit9838/mousam/issues/130

nekohayo, 14 days ago to 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

nekohayo, 15 days ago to random

Indeed there is nothing quite like a 15-thousand pages #PDF document to serve as a #Poppler loading & rendering performance benchmark, profiled with #Sysprof 🧐 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1485

nekohayo, 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to random

Found yet another aluminium road #mastobike abandoned by some uncaring person: all rusted, busted grip shifters, no tape, brake levers in bottom position, flat tyre, some broken spokes, bent rear dérailleur, etc. Dual-pivot caliper brakes though! 👌

Shop owner has no idea whose it was, so we claimed it. I cleaned it up, removed most of the rust. Could look decent. Weighs ~16kg. Wondering if I could easily convert it into a light single-speed for cheap? (new ones are 400$)

#bicyclemaintenance

nekohayo, 19 days ago to photography

Whoa, the Government of Canada has an incredibly detailed page on the dark art of scanning photographs with a flatbed scanner. It is full of practical & theoretical info, incl. color theory (color space, models, gamuts, accuracy, distance, illuminance, bit depth, dynamic range, etc.), common scanning issues… and you can even the #Coloraid (Wolf Faust) "IT 8.7/2" color calibration target referenced, plus #GIMP screenshots 🤯

https://www.canada.ca/en/heritage-information-network/services/digitization/scan-reflective-objects.html

#photography #arts #digitizing #colormanagement

nekohayo, 20 days ago to Montreal

There's something incredibly enjoyable about my neighbourhood in the summer on a sunny "long week-end" when construction stops; you can hear the wind, birds chirping, playful children in the area…

I've been subconsciously traumatized by the last 10 years of uninterrupted roadworks & building construction noises; it's why in the past 2 years I often escaped the city during weekdays and come back to it on week-ends.
I hope to spend time there more often in 2025; #Montreal is lovely when quiet.

nekohayo, 21 days ago to GNOME

For the past 10+ years, I was unable to daily-drive the #Wayland version of #GNOME …
…until version 45.2+, where performance improvements landed for my specific usecases.

Since then, for the past 6 months, I've been running 45.x on Wayland.

This week, when I went back to the Xorg/X11 version for 1-2 days, I was surprised to see it now feels unbearable to me from a performance standpoint! Even with animations disabled.

I guess I can't go back after having used a no-delays no-jank version 🤷

nekohayo, 23 days ago to accessibility

There's a nice article out there by @jzb summarizing @matt's recent #OSSNA presentation on his work on #AccessKit and "Newton", the new #accessibility architecture for #Wayland and the future of #GNOME & #Linux for assistive technologies: https://lwn.net/Articles/971541/

nekohayo, 29 days ago to debian

The attitude shown by the #Debian packager who insists on going against the will of @keepassxc devs, in this comment: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10725#issuecomment-2104401817 is… wow 🤦

This "packagers thinking they know better than the developers, and unilaterally patching things" mentality, along with distros often shipping outdated versions, is why many upstream software developers dislike dealing with Debian (& any LTS distro), and now ask users to test/run #Flatpak versions of their applications first and foremost.

nekohayo, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to GNOME

I have a huge amount of appreciation for the fact that Nautilus / #GNOMEFiles can seamlessly pattern-select, batch-rename and move files both from its treeview and from search results… all with keyboard shortcuts! Extremely useful to clean up filenames.

Today, in someone else's messy folders, I was able to cleanly rename everything and eliminate at least 40 duplicates in a directory that contained over 180 files, most of which were in the wrong locations.

#GNOME #productivity #gratitude

nekohayo, 1 month ago to random

Found an interesting #LibreOffice Calc scrolling performance bug report in Bugzilla some days ago, that was reported to be more visible with HiDPI screens, so tonight I grabbed a 4K laptop with Wayland and ran #sysprof to try to capture at least partial performance profile information on this issue: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154602#c16

nekohayo, 1 month ago to random

My parents' crappy unreliable Internet connection is making me file bug reports about novel ways to break @EvolutionGnome's handling of #NetworkManager again: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/2734

nekohayo, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to fedora

How do I report an issue on the #Fedora NetworkManager connectivity check ("/static/hotspot.txt") being "patched to be located on a US server that refuses to respond to any embargoed countries' IP addresses", in a way that it would get taken seriously?

This is essentially breaking that whole #Linux distro's desktop networking even if you're just a traveller passing through (ex: on vacation, visiting relatives, etc.), and in my view this is unacceptable for #security. Ubuntu has no issues there.

nekohayo, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to houseplants

My neighbor is throwing a bunch of #houseplants at me to care for during her absence this summer.
Among them is this wonderful mystery plant is. She did not remember what it is. Apparently it does fine in the shade, not even next to a window.

Update: turns out it's a zamioculcas zamiifolia, and it just so happens that I was looking for one too! Talk about coïncidences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamioculcas
#plants #plantsofmastodon

nekohayo, 1 month ago to MountainBiking

While I only wear #cloaks at -30 to 0°C, and #capes from 0 to 10°C, on this 19°C sunny day while #biking in #Montreal, I encountered someone on the cycleway who:
✅ …wore a blue velvet cape
✅ …with a cat-ears motorbike helmet
✅ …on a Segway.

So of course I shouted, « Merci de normaliser les capes! 👍 » ("Thank you for normalizing capes! 👍") as I passed them.

nekohayo, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

#InvoiceNinja, a dedicated timesheets and invoicing web application, being somehow unable¹ to consistently support #ISO8601 for timesheets, gives me very strong #KRAZAM "Microservices vs ISO timestamps" satyre sketch² vibes.

I wish this was a joke on the part of the InvoiceNinja people, but apparently they can't figure out how to have their settings for YYYY-MM-DD dates & 24-hour times actually apply consistently for input in the UI 🤦‍♂️

• ¹: https://github.com/invoiceninja/ui/issues/1717#issuecomment-2068264904
• ²: https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ?t=7

nekohayo, 1 month ago to linux

I sometimes wonder why on #Linux / the #FreeDesktop, champion of underrepresented languages & locales, we still don't have the #ScotsLanguage to facilitate cultural preservation in #Scotland : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language

I for one would love to set it as my display #languages in #GNOME but it is not among the choices.

Aboot that, #Firefox has #Scots available fur ye tae wale, and is the most awesome leid in the settins ye can stert yaisin richt noo! 👌 Ah dinnae find #Shetlandic though.

nekohayo, 1 month ago to GNOME

Alright people, time to seize the opportunity in #GNOMEPapers to fix one of my long-time performance annoyances with Evince: a potential 2x speedup by… avoiding rendering everything twice (due to the sidebar's thumbnails).

Barring #Poppler backend renderer performance issues, this should help #GNOME have a noticeably faster and power-efficient #PDF reader app 🤞 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Incubator/papers/-/issues/119

nekohayo, 1 month ago to random

I did some testing on a Windows machine and tried out #Bitlocker #encryption for the first time… I'm shocked. This thing is black magic.

How did they manage to do full disk encryption that can be toggled on/off instantly? I was expecting it to rewrite the whole drive, like what would happen with LUKS on Linux OSes/utils, but no: even a whole existing C:\ drive with Win installed, you just enable encryption, it reboots in seconds instead of minutes/hours, and it's done.

What sorcery is this?!

nekohayo, 1 month ago to random

"How many of the most popular image/audio/video file formats do you want to include in the #Meld file extensions filters?"

Me: "Yes."

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/-/merge_requests/119/diffs