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

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

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

nekohayo, (edited )
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@VincentTunru Oh for sure the translation work would need to be done by native folks, or at least people who have studied the language pretty extensively! But it would be pretty nice to see it happen. I'm sure it is not the only minority language in that situation, either.

hecladus, to Montreal French
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Des gens de pour prendre un verre ce soir ou demain pm ? (poke @jacouzi)

nekohayo,
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@hecladus @jacouzi Est-ce que vous seriez encore dans le coin mardi (ou plus tard dans la semaine)? 🤔 J'y retourne ce jour là pour une soirée d'infos d'aménagement/travaux publics de la Ville, entre autres.

pieq, to GNOME
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I have a server running on my NAS. I want to access the calendars on it from Calendar. How to achieve this? I haven't found anything neither in Calendar itself nor in "Online Accounts" section in the Settings.

I found an old blog post from 2016 mentioning having to install to do this:

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/gnome-caldav.html

Is this still the only way to do this?

cc @gnome

nekohayo,
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@pieq @sonny @vixalientoots @gnome
According to my testing while debugging, if your server provides URIs for every CalDAV calendar, you can just tell GNOME Calendar to add one of them as a calendar, and it will prompt you for username and password (there's a bug where it will create a duplicate local calendar, I have a patch for that waiting to get merged).

I don't know if that's how it actually is how CalDAV users do things normally.

nekohayo,
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@pieq
Inputting URLs in the "Add calendar" dialog should have started working again since GNOME Calendar 44 if my memory is correct, though of course you should be using 46 at this point because we fixed a hundred other things since last year and every previous version is by definition insufferable 😏 the Flatpak version lets you be GNOME-version-independent.

forteller, to GNOME
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I have never in my life had a computer with more than one account on it. Yet, every time I have ever turned on any PC the last I don't know how many years I've had to choose an account first, before I can type my password. And I frequently forget this thing I've done every day for many, many years, and just start typing my password without choosing the account first!

So I have questions:

  1. What is wrong with me?
  2. Why can't the only account on the PC just be pre-selected?

nekohayo,
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@forteller https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/4392

nadim, to random
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New blog post: We Need to Talk About the State of Calendar Software on Desktop https://nadim.computer/posts/2024-04-18-calendar.html

nekohayo,
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Bonjour @nadim,
GNOME Calendar improves measurably every 6 months.
The road ahead remains pretty long; I eagerly await your merge requests to bugfix/improve the app's remaining issues. Come talk to me in the Matrix chatroom if you want guidance.

Pour ce qui est du multiplateforme: en tant que bénévole, je n'ai aucun intérêt à rendre les usagers Windows et Mac confortables dans leurs prisons, vs créer une application de grande qualité sous Linux, la seule plateforme qui nous appartient.

nekohayo,
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@nadim
Before calling my view (that FLOSS devs have no interest in supporting unsustainable, non-auditable platforms that we don't use) "arrogant", I'd suggest you re-read your blog post from the perspective of a maintainer of such apps. Your depiction (a "complete disaster", "dismal", "insane", etc.) and your claim that we need to create "a new open source calendar project" (see you in 15 years), is a peak of arrogance and hubris.
How about helping instead of shitting on those who do the work?

nekohayo, to GNOME
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Alright people, time to seize the opportunity in 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 backend renderer performance issues, this should help have a noticeably faster and power-efficient reader app 🤞 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Incubator/papers/-/issues/119

nekohayo,
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@hub If I am not mistaken, I believe @pabloyoyoista did not make an official stable release yet to avoid setting expectations too high for GNOME 46, but there is a package in GNOME's Nightly flatpak repo, that's what I'm daily-driving. That said, maybe the readme file should hide the flathub button until this thing exists there…

nekohayo,
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@hub The two key selling features so far (until more land) are "It's GTK4" and "A new, very active community has formed around it".

Also, some parts are being rewritten in (on which I hold no opinion, but I hear it's all the rage these days):

nekohayo,
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@hub I'd be curious to know whether that would be considered in scope (vs better PDF forms filling and annotations support), when there are specialized apps out there for document pages rearrangement, like https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.jeromerobert.pdfarranger for example 🤔

Personally, the lack of complete annotations & forms support has been my number one pain point. On Linux, we have nothing to replace Adobe Reader on that front.

wjt, to random
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Food £200
Data £150
Transport £800
Fairy-related stuff on Etsy to leave out overnight for my kids to find in the morning £3,600
Utility £150

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this.

nekohayo,
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@wjt That "Food" cost is ludicrous... have you tried eating less avocado toast? As they are not locally grown, clearly that must be the main issue visible in your budget 😏

swetland, to linux
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Anyone have a recommendation for a scanner that works reliably with Linux (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for preference), ideally using the scanimage commandline tool?

My goal is to scan some old photos at 1200 DPI. I picked up a CanoScan LIDE 400 and it is extremely fussy, stopping responding until I unplug/replug it every now and again (dunno if that's the scanner, the driver, or what, exactly).

Nothing's larger than 5"x7". Flatbed seems preferable.

#Linux #Photos #Scanning #Questions

nekohayo,
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@swetland Your issue might be: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan/-/issues/256

nekohayo, to random
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I did some testing on a Windows machine and tried out 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?!

sandyarmstrong, to random
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In Kindergarten, all of the dinosaurs I drew had lasers and armor. Does anybody else have images like this embedded in their hindbrain?

nekohayo,
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@sandyarmstrong How can you possibly forget car culture when talking about dinosaurs from the future? Sir, we will need you to leave this continent… Please hand over your US driver's license at the security desk when exiting the premises. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr2iQ96em2w

nekohayo,
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@sandyarmstrong
And the episodes are even on YT in full 🤫
Now if we could find some sort of remastered AV1 version somewhere…

nekohayo, to python
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Proposing some naïve pseudocode heuristic to protect against users who try to compare big binary blobs (and then complain that Meld/GTK's text views choke under it…), Zerg Rush edition: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/-/issues/281#note_2079941

Feel free to propose a smarter heuristic than mine (or even better: a real fine-tuned patch… after all, it's , how hard can it be™?)

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

Me: "Yes."

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

nekohayo,
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@craftyguy It can't reasonably be done AFAIK, just like diffing binaries; it would be diffing gibberish and would wreck performance, unlike text-based formats… hence why these media file extension filters are provided to filter out those files from the view by default (which is something users can toggle on/off).

stragu, to random
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Optus is shutting down 3G and requiring devices supporting a specific 4G band, in September 2024. I bought this refurbished phone last year, it was initially released in 2019, it supports 4G, yet I won't be able to use it by the end of the year?
News outlets say more than 1 million devices might be affected in Australia. No one mentions the incredible waste of resources. Why bother trying to use the same phone for more than 5 years if software and networks don't let you.

nekohayo,
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@stragu We see the same bs happening in the US and Canada lately, 4G VoLTE… what a monumental waste.

nekohayo, to opensource
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I don't typically file refactoring meta-tickets, but when I do, I summon chef Gordon Ramsay to express the / project maintainers' true feelings: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1217

nekohayo, to Montreal French
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Ma première sortie printanière en vélo aujourd'hui fut un trajet d'une heure vers le Sud, pour gagner 30 secondes sur la durée de l'éclipse solaire totale. Si ça c'est pas du FOMO, je sais pas c'que c'est!

J'ai également pu constater d'énormes bouchons de circulation sur les autoroutes et ponts menant à la Rive Sud de (et même sur les autoroutes de la Rive Sud); sur plusieurs kilomètres, j'ai doublé allègrement à 25-30 km/h en bicyclette tout ce traffic pratiquement à l'arrêt 😏

lordphoenix, to GNOME French
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yop les utilisateurs de et un tuyaux pour dégager les bookmarks des dossiers synchronisé ajouté systématiquement dans Nautilus sans mon avis ?
Sérieux, ce genre de passage en force ça me fait l’impression d’être de retour sous …

nekohayo,
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@lordphoenix Y'a une raison particulière d'utiliser un "client" NextCloud, vs juste activer le compte NextCloud dans les comptes en ligne du panneau de configuration de GNOME, et ainsi utiliser la fonctionnalité native de Nautilus?

nekohayo, to firefox
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Why does Mozilla default to allowing websites to use persistent storage, and thus consume gigabytes of disk space when few websites actually have legitimate reasons to use the StorageManager? Isn't that both an invitation to fill my disk and a / pitfall?

Seems like there's no UI to facilitate selectively cleaning this stuff, i.e. nuking the local storage for all websites "except these few websites" (and without touching cookies), nor do I see a way to require opt-in.

nekohayo, (edited )
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@gnomelibre Bah non, je veux pas un navigateur complètement amnésique 😅 sinon je serais toujours en navigation privée...

L'idée serait juste que les sites devraient avoir à me demander la permission de faire du "Local Storage" (pas la même chose que les cookies), et qu'il faudrait un outil qui permet de purger le stockage local "autre que les cookies" pour tout sauf une "liste autorisée" de sites… présentement, la suppression est "tout ou rien".

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