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nekohayo

@nekohayo@mastodon.social

Free & #OpenSource software contributor (#Linux + #GNOME + #GStreamer) since 2004. Currently co-maintaining the most magical desktop productivity apps combo you can find (https://fosstodon.org/@GettingThingsGNOME & GNOME Calendar), as their benevolent lean engineering manager + occasional User Interaction & UX designer.

Waging war on mediocrity & unsustainability in business.
Founder of https://mastodon.social/@ideemarque + https://mastodon.social/@atypica, and mercenary CMO https://mastodon.social/@regento.

Ex-Collabora, ex-psy, ex-Shinra.
I don't roleplay but I wear a cloak. ❄️

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nekohayo, (edited ) to GNOME
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I love how @antoniof names his #GNOMEFiles merge requests like episodes of a #GNOME #opensource epic saga coming soon to your nearest streaming service 👌

nekohayo, to random
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New specs compliance nightmare fuel for developers and designers: the fact that events can reference completely made up "virtual" timezones 😵

In which a university campus platform declares to be its own timezone (with , of course!): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1243

nekohayo, to microsoft
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The "#WindowsRecall feature will be disabled by default" headfake move is pretty meaningless when we know #Microsoft is going to constantly nag all their users to turn on that "feature" for an "enhanced" user experience and AI-powered productivity superpowers n' stuff, it's just one click away!

[Yes / Remind me later]

"Thanks, we're here all week, try the Edge!"

#MicrosoftRecall

brainwane, to random
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Biological features I would like to borrow from other species:

  • Photosynthesis (would make ultralight backpacking way easier if I didn't have to carry food)
  • Gills (swimming, yeah, but also, just more options for breathing)
  • Blood temperature regulation and skin toughness for wider range of comfortable temps
  • Seeing more colors, as shrimp do
  • Elephant-like trunk (for grasping and occasional water fights)
  • Whatever it is that makes tummy rubs and head scratches so dynamite for pet dogs
nekohayo,
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@brainwane So basically you're saying you really want to be Link in "Zelda: Majora's Mask" 😜

nekohayo,
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@brainwane Arguably my knowledge of the lore is very limited, I only played that one game 😅 …but your desired attributes seemed to match the protagonist's transformations into various species of live plant (the Deku), "rock people" (the Goron), aquatic humanoids with gills+fins+webbed feet (the Zora), etc., and the rest I presume is just an elaborate set of Python scripts 😉

nekohayo, to random
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This morning's spontaneous "Wouldn't it be cool if we had that as a FreeDesktop app" idea: a visual framing and Depth of Field simulator for running Linux, like https://dofsimulator.net but FLOSS and fully offline (not just ): https://gitlab.gnome.org/bertob/app-ideas/-/issues/266

nekohayo, to random
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Since I've been jealous of my parents' JVC sound system, with its elegant brown wood #speakers and crisp sound with rich bass, I sent out my dad on a wild goose errand today to pick up an early-2000's JVC "mini-HiFi" compact stereo sound system.

Here it is stacked on top of their sound system while I was doing side-by-side comparisons.
Their 3-drivers speakers still sound much better than these 2-drivers black ones… but mine was bought second-hand for 25 canadian pesos 😉

#BudgetAudiophile

gamey, to GNOME German
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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,
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@gamey Do you mean specifically right-click on app launcher icons in GNOME Shell's dash or apps grid? If so, there are only a few usecases I was able to imagine among the apps I use...

GNOME Calendar being one of them: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1187
GTG being another: https://github.com/getting-things-gnome/gtg/issues/1047

Patches welcome 👀

nekohayo,
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@gamey Hmm, well the window manager will already prompt you with a modal dialog offering to kill any with an unresponsive mainloop though, so nontechnical users don't need to be fishing for that in a right-click menu (which would not be something even I would have naturally thought to do), I think.

As for hiding an app from the apps list, neither Android nor iOS (last time I tried them) allow you to do that, AFAIK; if you want it gone from the general apps list, you uninstall it, no? 🤔

nekohayo,
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@gamey Oh, I see what you mean with the "it's a pain to go fishing through ~/.var/app/ " (though Nautilus' search helps). Kind of an advanced user usecase though.

Have you tried the "Warehouse" app? I suspect you'll love it. It has that "Open User Data Folder" shortcut, and much more: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.flattool.Warehouse

nekohayo,
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@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.

ploum, to random French
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Nous nous dépêchons lentement vers la catastrohpe

nekohayo,
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@ploum Laquelle, parmi les multitudes? 😣

nekohayo, to GNOME
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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

nekohayo, to techno
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The judicious placement of pretzels next to an alpine horn, as demonstrated in the video below, resonates with me. Upon discovering this band now, I am urgently listening to every track in ' SoundCloud account 🧐 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8qrbwfhtn4

nekohayo,
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The wild thing about as I discovered them today is that… before pivoting to techno, they started out as a "funk dance fusion" band, with what seems to be a mixture of synth, funk, jazz and ska; that previous work of theirs is just as amazing as their humorous techno tracks… For example, a live practice session from their "Funky Dance Fusion" album: https://youtu.be/zj_3j3tFFjI?t=21

loptimist, to ubuntu French
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Alors, il y a un truc qui me dépasse avec et : Parfois, quand je boot et que je me log dans ma session, tout est nickel, le touchpad de mon Thinkpad fonctionne nickel : le touch to click, to select et to drag, Jean Passe (force à lui) et des meilleurs... Et... Parfois non, il n'enregistre plus tous les inputs, le drag et le select ne fonctionne juste plus (bref, tout ce qui est à base de double tap en somme). Incompréhensible.

nekohayo,
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@loptimist @mzfbee J'ai remarqué que ça fait ça quand le touchpad est mouillé, même après l'avoir essuyé, me faut parfois un suspend+resume pour que ça marche à nouveau.

woltiv, to GNOME
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I'm not seeing "add thumbnail mode to the file picker" anywhere in the five year plan https://foundation.gnome.org/strategicplan/

nekohayo,
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@woltiv It's already implemented.
You are looking at the GTK2 file picker.
You need to be running a GTK4 application.

astro_ray, to typst
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Is there any developer out there who is working on #GTK4/#libadwaita GUI editor for typesetting documents in #latex/#typst. As much as I love them, modal editors like #vim/#helix are not for me.

nekohayo,
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@astro_ray It already exists? See the "Setzer" app

nekohayo, to UX
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Double-click being unintuitive / harmful to #usability / #UX when it is the only way to accomplish something, exhibit no. 2768: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/2768

Joseph_of_Earth, to random
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Past Me: I must do everything I can to save battery

Present Me with 2 days of battery: how can I get under 80% battery so my battery stays healthy for 7 years?

nekohayo,
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@Joseph_of_Earth By sending a patch for https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/2553 of course!

nekohayo, to Montreal French
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Ce chatmedi 1er juin 2024, il y aura le tout premier pique-nique de au Square St-Patrick, au bord de la piste cyclable du canal Lachine à dans le … La météo s'annonce parfaite.

J'y serai, au cas où il y a d'autres fans du et Python de qui aimeraient se rencontrer dans un contexte verdoyant 😎

https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/montreal-python/events/300968143/

nekohayo, to Montreal
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Turns out there is a informal meetup event coming up this Saturday (June 1st, 2024) on the in (near ) in … the first outdoors event as far as I know, as a family-friendly picnic/potluck, right next to the cycleway. Beautiful weather is to be expected.

I'll be there in case anyone else from the extended / programming community wants to meet to… literally touch grass 😎

https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/montreal-python/events/300968143/

nekohayo, to wordpress
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For the time being, the #WordPress team doesn't want to add #JPEGXL support, even in their "Modern Image Formats" plugin, because Chrome & AVIF n' stuff. Uuuuuurghhh 😒

https://github.com/WordPress/performance/issues/12#issuecomment-2137688307

nekohayo,
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@otto42 ImageMagick already support it. LibGD is interested but would like help ("when", not "if").

However, WordPress always need extra enablement officially, because it does not allow non-whitelisted formats to be used in the media library and publishing.
So yes, WordPress needs explicit "allowed format" support for this to work out of the box. And that would count as "interest from the ecosystem", because, y'know, it is the platform that powers roughly half of websites out there.

GoatsLive, to random
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Why oh why #libreoffice are you all the sudden installing stupid help files in dozens of languages that I do not even speak. Can't you tell what language is default and only install that one? This latest update is HUGE and unnecessary!

nekohayo,
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@GoatsLive @jrmat As far as I know, this is not a problem with the Flatpak version from FlatHub.

If you are talking about LibreOffice installed from your distro's packages, then that's your distro's problem, not LibreOffice per se.

nekohayo, (edited ) to GNOME
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The #GNOME Rebel Alliance showing up on May 26th in https://discourse.gnome.org/tag/elections2024, with eleven candidates running for six seats in https://vote.gnome.org/2024/candidates.html, makes for the most intriguing #GNOMEFoundation election in years. Lots of young blood and also very fine vintage blood on offer there.

I made this poster to encourage y'all to vote, whatever your blood type is. Using the "Cantarell" font instead of "Inter" on the 1st line symbolically counterbalances the 2nd line's futuristic "Youngblood" font.

nekohayo,
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@lw64 As a NPC, I'm afraid I cannot do that. The players would hunt me down and lock me in a dungeon.

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