After making my #framework laptop my daily driver, I still had to fix all the #electron applications looking like crap under #wayland (when using fractional scaling).
So another good reason to make a blog post, I guess? :ablobcathappypaws:
Slack, Discord, Spotify, Obsidian, VS-Code, ... now they all look good using 1.25x scaling.
@mcchaos Google for "Frag Jan Zuerst" or go to https://www.die-wuestens.de/eindex.htm and click on "Catalogue" in a top left. He has all kind of "wrird" or unusual electronic stuff, including tubes.
Not affiliated with him, not even bought one thing ever.
But he's been there for some years and was mentioned in the german "Funkamateur" magazine several times.
@mstankiewicz: had not you realised they had not worked for a short time because apple sabotages the legislations supposed to break the dominance? apple's quacking just because they can't dominate yet another market is a good sign they don't really deserve to control a significant market
@slavistapl it doesn't matter to me at all. All I care about is that it works and I don't like the fact that the Union is introducing some unnecessary invention of its own. I know that many EU regulations are needed, but here nothing needed to be done. I chose the iPhone as I have and was aware of what restrictions iOS imposes
Protip. Don't use #electron for your apps if you rely on secure communication. And especially don't leave the developer tools on, or store Auth tokens in plaintext.
So, I finally got my Framework Laptop. A day early, too! Beautiful machine, I must say. I put the RAM and SSD in, followed the instructions and I made my choice of operating system.
I hesitated a lot between @fedora and Elementary, but in the end, I went with Fedora because it was recommended and I love @gnome. When @elementary 8 releases, I'll make sure to check it out, though.
Battery life has been surprisingly good! I've done a lot of things on it today, lots of downloading, opening and closing stuff, with constant downloading and music streaming in the background. I've been losing around 10% per hour.
Honestly, it's all good hardware side. I'm still not a fan of the keyboard which could be a deal breaker as this is the one thing that I'm stupidly picky with, but I think I just need to get used to it.
My issues are more with the software and on that, there isn't much the @frameworkcomputer team can do.
First off, the animations in GNOME just aren't smooth and I can't seem to figure out why, I'm never getting that buttery smooth 60 fps scrolling, for exemple. But I can deal with this.
No, my two big gripes for now, are : Scrolling speed. I've looked it up and I found people complaining about of a simple "scroll speed" adjuster in GNOME for years. It's a massive issue right now, scrolling is just ridiculously sensitive and because I'm not a very technical person, I haven't been able to figure out how to fix it. :(
Another thing is... what's up with #electron apps? I use three. Notesnook, Cider 2 for Apple Music and #Signal. All three look blurry.
Notesnook takes it one step further by being especially weird at this. I used two versions of the app. The Flatpak. And the Appimage. Both have their own annoyances. The flatpak is crisp af, I love it, BUT... it's header is light theme only, not following the theme of GNOME and the mouse cursor gets either huge or tiny when using it. The Appimage though, follows the theme correctly, has normal size cursor... but is a blurry mess.
@notesnook Is this something you can fix? Or is this just out of your control?
It's my understanding that Electron apps and Wayland are not into each other? I hope they accept one another soon and kiss, because this is really bothering me. And I hate that I don't know how to contribute to this, so I'm sitting here. Complaining. While not contributing anything. Like an asshole. :(
@desikn@atplume Blurry Electron apps is due to several reasons, one of which is the app developers choosing for them to be running under XWayland, another being that the Framework Laptop requires non-integer scaling out of the box. Luckily, this should be resolved soon: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3567
It’s possible the scrolling performance issue you see is similarly due to non-integer scaling, but I’m not sure. 🤔
🚀 Missions réussies pour Rocket Lab et son lanceur #Electron : 4 satellites Skylark pour la surveillance spatiale ont été placés sur orbite basse et le premier étage a été récupéré dans la mer après descente sous parachute
📷 Rocket Lab
📢 Mercredi, jour de lancement
🚀 #Electron - tentative de récupération du premier étage après descente sous parachute et amerrissage
🛰 “Four Of A Kind”, 4 satellites Skylark de Spire pour la surveillance des débris spatiaux
⏰ 6h15 UTC
🌎 Péninsule de Mahia, Nouvelle-Zélande
📷 Rocket Lab
📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDyxRPGWhRo