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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 have a huge amount of appreciation for the fact that Nautilus / can seamlessly pattern-select, batch-rename and move files both from its treeview and from search results… all with keyboard shortcuts! Extremely useful to clean up filenames.

Today, in someone else's messy folders, I was able to cleanly rename everything and eliminate at least 40 duplicates in a directory that contained over 180 files, most of which were in the wrong locations.

nekohayo,
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@antoniof With its self-documenting label I personally find it pretty straightforward to use, though I could imagine these improvements:

  • Showing an item for it in the folder pathbar's meatballs menu, for discoverability (instead of only the "Ctrl+S" keyboard shortcut)?
  • Maybe using some color or bold type on the * and ?? / ??? characters in the example label?
  • Wild idea: a realtime preview or indication of how many files the user's pattern would match? A bit like the batch renaming dialog?
eugenialoli, to debian
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On #Debian 11, the whole system along with #XFce was taking 500 MB of RAM. On Debian 12, the system takes 850 MB of RAM. On Trixie/Sid-unstable, it takes 1.3 GB. I honestly don't know what they're shoving in it.

With #Cinnamon and #Gnome, it takes 1.6 GB on idle. Since when Cinnamon, a gnome2/gtk3 fork takes (or should take) as much RAM as Gnome4/gtk4? Something's amiss.

#linux #opensource #foss

nekohayo,
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@eugenialoli With kernel caching etc. (i.e. "unused RAM is wasted RAM"), is it still meaningful to compare total RAM usage across DEs, vs analyzing individual RAM usage of components/applications to look for a more specific anomaly?

But even then, my observation in the past few years is that the more RAM you have available in a system, the more it tends to use it anyway.

tbernard, to random
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Damn, Mahjongg looks pretty slick nowadays 👀

Latest visual changes aren't released yet, but you can get the last release from Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.Mahjongg

nekohayo,
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@tbernard Could we polish it up to this level eventually? 👇
The 3D graphics and ambient sound track on this version are really realistic 😜 https://youtu.be/qzcmCvOM2KY?t=4

tamas, to GNOME

The performance improvement in the #GNOME Files app is fantastic (particularly, opening a directory with many entries is almost instant now). Thanks to whoever fixed that 🙏

nekohayo,
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@sonny @antoniof @tamas @gnomelibre
And yet, there's still a lot of room for potential performance improvements in future Nautilus versions. For large directories, these come to my mind:

For searching, these come to my mind:

eugenialoli, to debian
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So I found myself in a weird predicament. I had some older laptops that I converted to #Debian & #XFce with a bunch of added apps and games. I gave some to my family, and the rest I wanted to give them to kids for school. I asked around. Well, no one seems to want them. No one is using computers anymore in #Greece it seems, they only use #smartphones. They barely browse the web too (just some gov sites). They just use #tiktok and few apps, consoles for games. That's it.

#linux #opensource #foss

nekohayo,
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@eugenialoli This problem has been around for over ten years now, and it's not getting any better: http://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/

sam, to GNOME
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Every now and then I think I should go back to using because it would be simpler than my own weird mix of Mate and i3 and look a lot nicer, and then I try one of their apps… I just tried out their official Markdown editor and it starts running noticeably slowly (menus don't respond, the rendering preview gets locked up, etc.). This is on a very fast laptop and this is just a text editor. This matches my previous experiences running gnome years ago. Maybe I'll go with something else…

nekohayo, (edited )
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@sam @gnomelibre Gimme a sample Markdown file and clear instructions on how to reproduce the issue and I will performance-profile it as a public service, if you can't.

nekohayo,
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@sam @gnomelibre I'm running 15-years-old hardware and I made the latest versions of GNOME Shell + apps fast on it over the past year of profiling and reporting.

You'll need to be MUCH more specific than your description above. Provide a way to instantly test your exact data and context (distro, software versions, packaging format, graphics driver, graphics server…). The basics of https://handbook.gnome.org/issues/reporting.html

No guarantees, as Sysprof doesn't do Python yet; manually profiling Python would be a pain

nekohayo,
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@sam OK, so Intel GPU, not nVidia?… you're running on Xorg though, that'll slow you down a bit.

I see GTK 4.14.3 in your list of packages with Apostrophe 3.0. I'd bet the problem is that this version of GTK is running its new "NGL" renderer. It's the sole reason I haven't upgraded to Fedora 39 / GNOME 46, as I'm too scared of the glitches and perf regressions, with the amount of issues with that "gpu renderer" tag mentioned in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/6411

Try this trick: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=294168

nekohayo,
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@sam Which animations where? And you are running Intel graphics (or at least open source AMD graphics), not nVidia, right?

Worst case scenario, you can disable most animations globally with GNOME Control Center's "Reduce Animations" accessibility setting, but animations "shouldn't" be slow if the graphics stack is in order.

nekohayo,
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@sam Also use https://developer.gnome.org/documentation/tools/inspector.html to check the global properties of the app's graphics stack, and see if you see any mention of "LLVMpipe" in there. If so, that would mean the app/GTK is somehow running in software rendering mode, without any GPU assistance, everything on the CPU, and that's terribly slow. Also watch out if it's running Vulkan (instead of GL) on a GPU that is not actually Vulkan…

nekohayo,
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@sam I'm kind of out of ideas there, as it sounds like you're running non-broken Intel graphics, which is the best scenario… yet it seems like something is still wrong somewhere in Mesa/GTK, somewhere in middleware. It might fix itself with updates eventually.

At least the Inspector might help you troubleshoot further with fellow Arch users; or it might be that everyone with the latest versions is in trouble, AFAICS in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues?label_name=gpu+renderer

You somehow make me even more scared to upgrade! 👀

thomholwerda, to random
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At least my choice to ditch GNOME for KDE turns out, once again, to be the right choice.

nekohayo,
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@dusthillperson @thomholwerda @frumble To claim that we GNOME developers "hate" our users is pretty damned wild.

nekohayo, to UX
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Filed this little #UX issue in the #Remmina VNC/RDP/SSH application, but it can apply to other software applications in general:
If your app depends on strict input of hostnames/usernames/passwords and does not check for invisible whitespaces prefixing/trailing the value in a field, eventually an idiot like me will spend weeks troubleshooting an issue resulting from having pasted something from a spreadsheet/website and being unable to see the invisible character: https://gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina/-/issues/3106

nekohayo, to firefox
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It turns out that GitLab's homebrew PDF files previewer is so wildly inefficient that it is an excellent performance torture test for any browser engine, not just WebKitGTK but also .

I have reported an issue here in Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1893884

…but I have been unable to capture a performance profile so far. If anyone manages to do so, that could be quite helpful to add to the report!

nekohayo, to random
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Found an interesting Calc scrolling performance bug report in Bugzilla some days ago, that was reported to be more visible with HiDPI screens, so tonight I grabbed a 4K laptop with Wayland and ran to try to capture at least partial performance profile information on this issue: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154602#c16

thomas, to linux
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Okay, which font am I missing now? :thaenkin:

nekohayo,
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@thomas GNOME's official font currently is "Cantarell".

nekohayo, (edited ) to fedora
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How do I report an issue on the NetworkManager connectivity check ("/static/hotspot.txt") being "patched to be located on a US server that refuses to respond to any embargoed countries' IP addresses", in a way that it would get taken seriously?

This is essentially breaking that whole distro's desktop networking even if you're just a traveller passing through (ex: on vacation, visiting relatives, etc.), and in my view this is unacceptable for . Ubuntu has no issues there.

nekohayo, to random
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My parents' crappy unreliable Internet connection is making me file bug reports about novel ways to break @EvolutionGnome's handling of #NetworkManager again: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/2734

nekohayo,
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@diegoe Ah!
A connaisseur of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/issues/2125 and https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251336 I see! 🧐

nekohayo, to restaurants
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bloggers live in a bubble, it shows particularly in this ( + ), where they keep saying things like, "Not only are the ambience & food great, it doesn't wreck your wallet either: you can get a meal for two at merely 49$ per person!" (+15% tip, +15% tax) 🤌
…while I make myself fairly high-quality (and definitely healthier) meals for 5$ worth of ingredients.

Sure, I lose 200$ worth of my time doing so, but hey, I've always been terrible at math 😉

nekohayo, to security
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I have reported a mild #security & #privacy issue in #Kanboard where, if I am not mistaken, the kanban board or task details' URL could probably be leaked to third-party websites as Kanboard does not tell the web browser to use noreferrer 😬 I'm surprised nobody noticed this in all these years: https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard/issues/5457

raphagm, to GNOME

One of #gnome problems is the standard interface resolution...
Ignore the fact that not everyone has ALL devices with FullHD resolution. Therefore, placing all the information/options in the same menu is not practical. Even if there is no responsive scroll bar in this menu....

nekohayo,
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@raphagm I don't think the MPRIS widget is supposed to be in that location. I bet you are using extensions there, so your situation is not part of the default experience as designed.

nekohayo,
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@raphagm I don't know how GNOME Shell's layout manager works, but I bet that if it was so easy to have an auto-adapting scrolling UI, it would have been done from the start, unless it was simply forgotten because nobody designed for this situation… my guess is rather that it must technically be a pain to handle, on a whole other level compared to a GTK UI layout.

gnomelibre, to GNOME
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Today, I had to fill in a #PDF form to send to my insurer. I opened it with #GNOME Document Viewer and filled in the various fields without any problem 🙂

Unfortunately, at the end of the document, we have to write our name and sign, but the application doesn't offer any options for adding text and inserting an image 😬

#Linux

nekohayo,
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@m_j @gnomelibre The issue is here for anyone who might have the skills to implement it; patches would be incredibly welcome: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Incubator/papers/-/issues/60

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