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cassidy

@cassidy@blaede.family

Building useful, usable, delightful products that respect privacy.

:eos: Partner success at https://floss.social/@EndlessOS Foundation
:gnome: @gnome Foundation member
:flathub: https://floss.social/@flathub contributor

Previously: co-founder and CXO at elementary OS, UX architect at System76.

Frequently posting about #OpenSource, specifically in #GNOME and #Flatpak realms. I also enjoy #StarWars, #LEGO, & #3DPrinting.

I have a background in UX architecture, open source, product design, communication, and project coordination.

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cassidy, (edited ) to fedora
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TIL Fedora is packaging a web browser app I developed for elementary OS, stopped updating over three years ago, and marked as end-of-life two years ago—yet it happily shows up in Fedora 40 if you search my name. It crashes on launch, so it doesn’t even work…

WHY??

Edit: I guess the package is being EOL'd in Fedora due to it no longer building and this thread, huzzah! My recommendation to distros: don’t package random apps and then not maintain them/communicate with upstream.

cassidy,
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@berkough I would be happy for someone to actually take the idea and make something decent from it. But I discontinued it because it didn’t really work well in a Flatpak world plus it was way over my head for responsible maintenance.

I didn’t even know it was being packaged by Fedora, let alone just there in the app store in Fedora 40.

moshidon, to random
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Inset drawables changing behavior after the latest Android 14 update without warning is the most google thing I have ever seen

cassidy,
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@moshidon is this the tiny icon issue? 🤔 I keep forgetting to report that.

flathub, to random
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We’re hearing reports of intermittent issues loading the website; we’re aware and looking into it!

cassidy,
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@cameronbosch @flathub possibly a sort of unintentional self-DDoS. 😅 Developers smarter than me could probably explain it better, but I think the new homepage’s significantly increased API calls plus a ton more traffic than usual (plus maybe the API caching not working correctly?) brought things down. But they’re working on fixing it up so we can bring it back.

cassidy, to GNOME
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The latest release of Tally for Plausible Analytics is here!

Check out your Plausible dashboard from GNOME/Linux desktops and mobile devices with these updates:

• The latest GNOME 46 runtime
• Slick adaptive dialogs
• Fixed styling on “Add Website” page and others
• New brand colors for the Flathub website

Grab it here! https://flathub.org/apps/com.cassidyjames.plausible

cassidy, to gamedev
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The future of game development is open source.

https://youtu.be/EYt6uDr-PHQ?si=uJ4evnp1-f4Z4XgA

lizkecso, to random
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Look at how pretty this orange cream soap turned out! 😍

cassidy,
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@lizkecso it looks soo good! 🍊🥛

MishaalRahman, to random
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Do you often forget to turn off extra dim in the morning?

Android 15 is preparing a new "even dimmer" display option that'll let adaptive brightness automatically go even dimmer, basically extra dim but adaptive to ambient lighting!

More details can be found in my latest article for Android Authority: https://www.androidauthority.com/android-15-even-dimmer-3436221/

cassidy,
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@MishaalRahman yay, that was my main complaint of this feature. It seemed weird that it would always stay on, even when the display was not at its dimmest.

cassidy, to random
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I’m seeing a strange issue in several GNOME 46 apps: it seems like if the first interaction within the app is touch, then a bunch of things like menus/popovers just don’t respond to either touch or mouse input until you close and re-open the app.

Am I going crazy, here? I’m testing this on Endless OS but I have a bug report against one of my apps stating this as well.

I need to do some more testing, but I’ve seen this in apps like GNOME Music and GNOME Builder as well.

Baa, to GNOME
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If there were any feature of Gnome I'd want, it'd be the ability to right-click any icon in the Applications menu and immediately edit the .desktop file.
Oh, and thumbnails in the file-picker seriously wth is with that.

now... why are there two...

cassidy,
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@bragefuglseth @Baa there’s still the bug last I checked where the directory has to be thumbnailed by Nautilus before new thumbnails will show up; the file picker does not trigger thumbnailing of new files.

This will probably be resolved by switching the file picker to be provided by Nautilus, but idk.

cassidy, (edited ) to random
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I really need to automate this somehow, but my latest estimate is 3.13 million active users of Flathub!

This is a number of updates delivered to a popular dependency, org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default//23.08, between the 23.08.14 and 23.08.15 releases. This was less than a month window (March 18 through April 9).

Pretty impressive stuff!

Edit: updated, more realistic stats based on @alatiera; thanks!

#Flatpak #Flathub

cassidy,
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@sonny yeah exactly—I don’t think this methodology can give us a precise “monthly active users” metric, but that’s probably the closest equivalent. And it doesn’t account for any users who don’t install updates for each release (e.g. on a computer that’s usually offline or only used once a month or less).

cassidy,
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@alatiera hey there you go! Let me do the math…

cassidy,
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@alatiera well heck that puts it at 3.13 million🫨

cassidy,
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@alatiera this is 100% why we should script this and publicize it better; then at least we could agree on the methodology and numbers!

cassidy,
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@sonny @alatiera yeah I mean could do, I (or someone) would have to actually write a script. So far I’m just doing it all by hand:

• Find the most-used platform in the Flathub stats

• Look at the release numbers/dates of the FreeDesktop SDK

• A little bit of reasoning to pick two recent sequential releases more than a short time apart (e.g. not within days of each other)

• Use the handy third-party stats aggregator (https://klausenbusk.github.io/flathub-stats/#ref=org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default%2F23.08&downloadType=updates) to add the daily updates between the two releases

cassidy, to GNOME
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Image encoding × FOSS desktop nerds, I have a question…

The current format for dynamic/dark-style wallpapers in GNOME is not great. I don’t think anyone—including distros, designers, & maintainers—likes how it works: it’s a legacy system of GSettings keys and an XML format that sets those keys but is not biderectional; choosing that XML file in Settings sets the individual GSettings manually, making it hard to show the pair of wallpapers as selected.

So let’s do better?

cassidy, (edited )
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I’m imagining some agreed-upon spec for an image format/container that contains at least a default and dark-style wallpaper, in one image file.

Idk about HEIF/HEIC itself and potential patent/royalty issues, but can we do something in JPEG-XL or some other royalty-free format? And importantly, can we standardize it under the FD.o umbrella so these new dynamic wallpapers could work across e.g. GNOME, KDE, elementary OS, etc.?

cassidy,
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Of course I could imagine 1000 different approaches with a compressed archive or a bespoke format, but the advantage of an actual image format is that… it's an image format fundamentally. So it has some amount of cross-platform compatibility and viewability out of the box, even if it wouldn’t necessarily work as a dynamic wallpaper everywhere to start.

cassidy,
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@nclm yep that’s what I was wondering as well. I think it would make sense, and (as I've written elsewhere in this thread) I really like the advantage of using an existing image format rather than making something entirely novel.

I think the most important piece would be documenting it and getting FD.o platforms on board, because right now the GNOME thing is unique to GNOME and undocumented and hard to work with. :)

cassidy,
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@doctormo afaik SVG rendering libraries are (intentionally?) limited to prevent a whole bunch of potential code execution issues.

I suppose it could work theoretically for the layering, but then we'd still need to document and standardize how it should appear/work across platforms. Maybe the format itself is the least interesting part here, and the more interesting bit is, "Hey FD.o platforms, can we work on this together?"

cassidy,
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@fell @doctormo GNOME does already support SVG wallpapers, and has shipped some. :)

ErikUden, to random
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cassidy,
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@ErikUden this has to be satire. Right? Right????

cassidy, (edited ) to ai
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I was listing something on eBay, and they encourage starting with an existing listing—presumably to increase the amount of detail and decrease the amount of work.

When I selected the same model, I got a default description that was extremely robotic and wordy while just repeating the spec sheet. I thought it sounded LLM-generated; sure enough when I went to edit it, there is a big shiny “write with AI” button.

🤢

This is not actually helping anyone.

cassidy,
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@alexhammy and also wrong!!! It does not have a full-color and adjustable white finish, that makes no sense!

flathub, to linux
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You may have noticed something different when you share links to apps on Flathub 👀

Every app now gets a dynamically generated “meta image” for sharing on social media, in messaging apps, etc. Give it a try the next time you share a link to your favorite app!

And as an appropriate demo, check out this app that lets you preview how a link will show up on social media before you actually share it:

https://flathub.org/apps/com.rafaelmardojai.SharePreview

#Flathub #Flatpak #Linux

cassidy,
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@vintprox @razze @flathub if this specific link was shared on your instance in the past, it’s possible it’s cached from before Flathub added the link previews.

alice, to random

Ok, making a new thread for Highscore stuff, since the old ones are a mess because of migration etc.

Previous threads:

Continuation will be here.

cassidy,
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@alice I’d love to have this in GTK/Adwaita/its own library! I’ve considered making lean-back type apps for a while but input always stopped me; it’s just so much to handle.

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