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...
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!
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.
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.
I was sad to find a surprising lack of visual scripting apps for Linux. Apple's Shortcuts app is very powerful and can be incredibly useful. It's not like we don't have the technical ability to make something similar.
So I started working on one myself :blobfoxfloofcofe:
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
I'm no developer, so of course I don't know shit, but it feels strange to me that applications individually decides whether or not ctrl+q will close them. Alt+F4 is decided on a system level, so why not also ctrl+q?
I hope future #gnome will actually be able to pre-render these thumbnails without me having to open files first.. it's a bit ridic.. even my sway/thunar setup does that..
@codemonkeymike this is gnome you're talking about, they're more likely to take away the option to change how you view the file list than ever give MORE options on viewing thumbnails.
@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!
@gnomelibre That would most likely degrade the experience for GNOME app developers. I think there’s value in having specialized tools. As mentioned by @andyholmes, a lot of Builder’s code most likely can be reused anyways since it has been abstracted into libraries.
I really want to love the GTK builder, it looks really great and I love the flatpak integration, but I always fall back to the more general use IDE even for gtk development (I am not really a Gnome developer but I dabbled)