sonny

thibaultamartin, 12 hours ago to random

Source code is a snapshot of the collective and opinionated solution to a problem at a specific moment in time.

The real value comes from the people who:

1. Understand the problem to solve
2. Can articulate, and test an opinionated way to solve the problem
3. Know how to implement the solution

Open source projects need to make sure they don't focus exclusively on the latter.

sonny, 2 days ago to linux

Very happy and proud of this collaboration between @codethink @gnome and @sovtechfund

https://www.codethink.co.uk/articles/2024/GNOME-OS-systemd-sysupdate/

Our goal is to make GNOME OS a daily driver for QA and finalize the migration, but this work will be fundamental to the future of all secure image based / immutable Linux distributions.

#Linux #GNOME #systemd

jsparber, 2 days ago to random

I have been looking into the focus stealing prevention mechanism in GNOME Shell/Mutter. Now i gonna use it in strict mode (instead of smart) and see how many more "<Application> is ready" notifications i get.

In really really simple terms, this means that the app starting the new app didn't hand over focus to the new application and therefore the focus stealing prevention mechanism kicks in. Unfortunately it's not that simple to implement it.

sonny, 2 days ago to GNOME

GSoC didn't even officially started @vixalientoots already made Workbench able to compile and run TypeScript code 🤯 🎩

#GNOME #TypeScript #GTK

sonny, 3 days ago to GNOME

Got very excited by @matt demo of AccessKit integration in #GTK

AccessKit is a cross-platform abstraction for accessibility infrastructure written in Rust.

His work will bring a11y support for GTK on macOS and Windows as well as for the new accessibility architecture on Linux code-named "Newton".

https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

https://blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2023/10/27/a-new-accessibility-architecture-for-modern-free-desktops/

#GNOME #rustlang #accessibility #a11y #Linux #Windows #macOS

pojntfx, 3 days ago to random

I think I might have found a way to run and distribute #GTK4/ #libadwaita apps (without Broadway) locally on an Android device 👀

Greenfield running the Adwaita Demo
Greenfield running the Adwaita Demo

benpocalypse, 6 days ago to random

Is today the day that I successfully make use of the GtkListView in Gtk4 using a GtkListItemFactory? Stay tuned to find out...

#gtk

pwithnall, 8 days ago to GNOME

Disappointed to see pages given to in-person events and financial reporting in the latest GNOME Foundation report, but not a single mention of environmental reporting or the work multiple people have done to allow remote participation in GNOME events.

This stuff is important. We cannot keep doing business as usual and ignoring the emissions elephant in the room.

#GNOME #GnomeFoundation

smallcircles, 8 days ago to ubuntu

Why is it so hard in #Ubuntu and with #Gnome to show thumbnails of the screenshots I made, so I know which image to select without painstakingly opening them one by one from separate file window?

There's many images in my screenshot dir, all having thumbnails, except those created in the last 5 days. Why no thumbnails here? Why?

#AskFediWhy

thomholwerda, 10 days ago to random

Is anyone following me a #wayland expert? My Chuwi MiniBook X can only do 50Hz, but users on Windows have managed to crank that up to 60 or even 90. I've tried to use this method to do set a custom resolution/refresh rate on wayland:

https://www.davejansen.com/add-custom-resolution-and-refresh-rate-when-using-wayland-gnome/

But it didn't work. Any suggestions on how to force wayland to use a refresh rate the display wrongly claims it doesn't support?

tamas, 11 days ago to GNOME

The performance improvement in the #GNOME Files app is fantastic (particularly, opening a directory with many entries is almost instant now). Thanks to whoever fixed that 🙏

thomholwerda, 13 days ago to random

At least my choice to ditch GNOME for KDE turns out, once again, to be the right choice.

eugenialoli, 14 days ago to linux

After more annoyances that Gnome/RedHat is pulling lately ( https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/issues/288 ), I just donated to #Linux #Mint, instead of my original intention, #Gnome.

The Gnome Project is a wall-garden, but not of the Apple kind. It's a club of mostly #Redhat programmers & a few select others, and either you're in it, or you're not. Your user needs, your bug reports, your patches, all end up on /dev/null. They listen to no one. Never have, never will.

So, my money went to a fork.

#opensource #foss

matk, 14 days ago to random

I wonder: If a project deliberately unilaterally abandons a #Freedesktop specification, would it be reasonable to ignore their voice in subsequent change discussions to that particular specification, for changes that other projects want to make to it?

After all, by breaking the convention, there apparently is no longer any interest in collaboration and cross-desktop integration anyway...

It would suck though, it would make the Linux desktop poorer, inconsistent and app dev's lives harder.

sonny, 14 days ago to random

Amayzing

sonny, 15 days ago to GNOME

Congrats to the 9 applicants who got accepted into GSoC with GNOME! 🧑‍🎓

They'll be working on

• Rework Bustle's Diagram
• Add TypeScript Support to Workbench
• Port Workbench demos to Vala, new library
• Create a web IDE for Tracker SPARQL (2x)
• Mobile/touch support for Papers
• More durable synching for FlatSync
• Port libipuz to Rust
• Add support for the latest GIR attributes and gi-docgen formatting to Valadoc

And thanks to mentors!

#GSoC #gsoc2024 #GNOME #rustlang #TypeScript #vala

zeska, 15 days ago to random

Microsoft naming their authenticator "Authenticator" and Google naming their authenticator "Authenticator" and giving each other the evil eye from across the room