Are there any users of Adwaita-Swift by @david_swift? I'd like to chat a bit about the what the developer experience is like using those bindings. Feel free to DM me on Matrix!
Wrapping up a very productive GNOME design call… about accent colors! We addressed every single blocking topic and have a clear way forward. I don’t want to promise anything specific (especially timelines), buuuut it’s looking good to me.
I might write up a blog post to summarize the direction once we sort some of the little details out. But there’s a pretty good consensus across half a dozen or so people doing the work—harder than it sounds. 😅
How fast can you type? Find out with my new app, Keypunch!
I've worked on this for the last couple of months, and it's finally out. Keypunch lets you practice your typing skills with automatically generated pseudo-text in your language of choice. Alternatively, you can supply it with your own text, such as song lyrics, Wikipedia articles, and quotes. Get ready to accelerate your typing speed!
I'd like to thank @gregorni, @vixalientoots, and Ibrahim Muhammad for helping me with quality checking the internationalized text generation so far. Ibrahim has patiently tested my various iterations of the text widgetry to ensure that it handles Arabic text properly.
I'd also like to thank @sophie for pointing me in the right direction when building the text widgetry, and for helping me get started with libadwaita's animation framework.
An Unabashed Geek at that. As much as I like the way Apple looks and feels, I detest that you are locked into it. The same goes for Windoze.
With GNU/Linux you have multiple #Desktops. #Gnome is probably the most popular (but please for Gawd's sakes don't quote me). Then there's #KDE (which makes me think of Windoze). Then #Mate, #Cinnamon, #Budgie, #LXQt, #Deepin. These are just a few. Each has it's own pros and cons (LXQt is extremely light on resources but not very customisable). Deepin has incredible graphics and animations, but is extremely resource hungry. Mate uses Gnome 2 (because the author hated Gnome 3). etc etc etc...
I often feel like #Gnome could leverage right click in it's UI a lot more, all I can do if I right click on an app icon for example is open a new window, pin to dash and app details. App details is relatively useless because it's build into the Software Center and only recognizes apps installed from their, a "go to files" button is missing which would be very helpful, I can't hide a app from there using the GUI and for open Windows there is no right click to E.g. force quit or similar.
@nekohayo The force quite part might just be me but I get annoyed when I already know the app won't respond and still have to wait till that dialog comes up, especially if I open a long loading app by accident but you might be right about the right click thing. About the hiding, I would like certain apps (E.g. all of those wine assistant apps) to show up in the search as normal app but not have them in my app list, that would just be a convenience feature to me.
@gamey Oh I see… well, about hiding "minions" apps, my workaround would be to group them into an app folder (dragging them on top of each other) and name that folder "junkyard" 😆 that's the kind of cheating I do on mobile OSes sometimes for infrequent apps…
I wish GNOME Shell's folders grouping interaction was improved though, it has many papercuts that make it not very efficient.
Shout out to Text Pieces! I needed to URL-encode a big ugly string (creating a template form from URL parameters, yay!) and yep, sure enough, it made it stupidly easy.
The next time you need to encode, transform, or convert some text on Linux, reach for this pretty little offline app instead of pasting your data into some random website. 👍
I voted in my first ever GNOME Foundation Board election today. If you're a foundation member who haven't done so, I strongly encourage you to read the candidate statements and vote, vote, vote!
Anyone attending GUADEC in Denver want to chat about metered data and resource scheduling? I might have inherited some stuff there and I think it would be amazing to sync up with what everyone’s working on.
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
@haeckerfelix This is some exiting stuff! I was really worried after that ominous thing last week, but it seems everything is great with the STF now. Very happy to hear it!