Plasma developer David Edmundson demonstrates how a desktop using Wayland, Qt6 and KWin can recover from a catastrophic crash as if nothing had happened.
@kde I'm very interested on how #gtk will handle this, especially for very long running applications such as IDE's or Emacs.
Currently GTK commits suicide for you if it looses the connection to the Wayland display server by calling _exit().
What's worse than having to run a web browser to collaborate on GNOME things w/ Matrix? Having to still run an IRC client as well because this libera bridging rull-pull bullshit.
To be honest, I'm pretty annoyed in all directions.
@blackwolf12333@cassidy I think what you are referring to is the ibus emoji annotation mode (when pressed, a weird underlined e appears and allows for emoji selection). Interestingly this key binding does not work on my Manjaro GNOME install. Anyway, what I was looking for was a way to have the #gtk#emojipicker#systemwide which seems to be impossible by design for non GTK apps.
The tutorial for #gtk also cover how programs can help the desktop environment search for data that the program can handle, but it’s more relevant to files, I would guess.
@kushal
Be sure to use the nightly build, via Flatpak. I prefer Fractal over the Element client, even though it still lacks some features. It has a fast and goodlooking #GTK interface and works on Linux mobile devices too. A speed improvement would be nice, but that has more to do with the Matrix protocol itself.
As a macOS user, my #Linux journey began with trying to make my DE look & work like #macOS, but with the added features a Linux DE provides - first #GNOME, then #KDE, finally settling on #Cinnamon as my favorite.
Then @thelinuxEXP released his video about bad UX design where he trashed the concept of a menu to launch apps & demonstrated how GNOME’s approach is superior… 🤔
@davidbisset beautiful! This makes me want to finally learn #gtk to build a nice #libadwaita#gnome app around this. Will put it on my sideproject list :D (if anyone else is faster though, go for it!)
Introducing #Metronome 1.3.0. This version fixes a major problem with off-beat ticks and introduces the ability to change the BPM while the metronome is playing. It also adds tooltips to several buttons.
If you're currently able to run Orca from master, we need your help testing an update to Orca's keyboard handling that was merged a few hours ago. In short, Orca now uses the same keyboard handling implementation, the one provided by at-spi2-core, for all applications, regardless of whether they use GTK 4 or a different toolkit. This makes Orca compatible with future GUI toolkits that, like GTK 4, don't implement the legacy approach to keyboard handling. In other words, the new approach to keyboard handling is no longer special-cased to GTK 4. Note that, by itself, this change doesn't fix any of the known problems with keyboard handling on Wayland, but that is being worked on. For now, the fix will only benefit X11 users, while not introducing any regressions for Wayland users.
Please especially test this change with web browsing scenarios, as these rely most heavily on conditionally treating ordinary keystrokes as Orca commands.
Note that the Orca master branch now requires at-spi2-core 2.48.0 or later.
We look forward to your reports, good or bad, as you test this change.
What causes this #text issue in #linux ? I'm using #xfce in #debiansid. I see it now and again, seems to be an issue mainly with #gtk apps from #flatpak. I also see it in #spotify. The app in the image is #joplin with the #Remoods plugin theme. Changing the used font doesn't fix it.
Seems like there is quite a bit of "wasted potential" going on in Gnome (Circle) App development.
Example: Chess Clock. Nice looking and functional app. But for that to be useful you need.
2 people in the same room who want to play chess, they need to have a chess board and pieces, a phone running Linux, and then install and use Chess Clock.
Multiple levels of unlikely things going on there to actually use that App. It's really cool it exists, but its not gonna get a lot of use is it.
Whereas if it was on google play or iphones, it could be one of the nicer chess clocks there.