One setting/feature I wish was in #GNOME Files (formerly Nautilus) is the ability to exclude removable drives from the recently-used files list. "Recents" is handy and I'd like to leave it on, but what's the point of listing thumb drives that aren't even in the system?
(Same could be said of many network file shares, but that should be a separate setting. Maybe have a list of paths and addresses to ignore, like /media or 10.10.10.10:/ )
Just watched it and it is really interesting. I am so fascinated by these completely alternative ways to interact with a computer.
The screen reader does not tell what it can see on the screen, but rather communicates directly the interface of an app to the user, its structure and content.
I hope this new accessibility stack will be ready as soon as possible! It will be like an update from #GNOME 1 (or 2?) to current (right now 46) for sighted users.
I contributed to GNOME Shell! It's just a one-liner, but still, it's a contribution!
I added touchpad gestures so you can now change workspaces not just with a 3-finger swipe, but also a 4-finger swipe (or any amount of fingers larger than that, if you're feeling really adventurous).
I needed #Rust bindings for an app to interact with #feedbackd to submit #haptic feedback. Here's the generated bindings for libfeedback in case someone else needs it too:
the csd/ssd discourse is annoying. why can't we have both. ask the window manager to draw the window, then tell the client where it can place things like extra window buttons and tabs and things. kinda like windows but good. this would allow people who want to customise to be able to do so, but if you just install a desktop environment like gnome it still solves the problem. #linux#gnome#linuxDesktop#desktopEnvironment#CSD#windowManager
I have tried #Plasma6 on my #Fedora laptop. Seems all great, but I reverted back to #GNOME. I prefer the simplicity of GNOME. Yes, you can keep Plasma simple as well, but I am too tempted to tinker with all the possibilities there. Looking forward to try out #COSMIC deskop one day, though. But GNOME has been my daily driver (on my personal laptop) for more than ten years and I keep it pretty much in its vanilla config. Most of my work is done in the terminal anyway.
Wrote a little app launcher for all of my manually installed applications using Tauri in about 2 hours and with less than 100 lines of code. The .deb package it generated is just 2.8 MB in size. I added this to my startup applications using Gnome Tweak Tool.
P.S. One hour was spent fighting the borrow checker. AppImage is 164 MB.
I think the lack of a good screenshot utility is what's going to get me to leave #Gnome behind. The default one is not great, and none of the others that work on Wayland work for me on Gnome. Get the same errors with grim/slurp and flameshot.
Well I ran out of battery halfway through the hand install, so several hours of recovery later I can boot into #guix fsvo. Where are all my other bootable partitions though, and will I be able to tolerate #GNOME long enough to learn to live with it? These are the questions. Stay tuned, rat-fans.
So, #GNOME is resolutely ignoring the login session setting, and just doing it's own suspend thing, quelle suprise. (It doesn't even offer a plain hibernate action)
I presume this might be inhibition locks, and I'll have to figure out if elogind also implements these aspects of systemd-logind. Alternatively, I could find a desktop environment that offers a bit more configuration flex.