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wtf is up with Flathub calling X11 "legacy windowing system" and marking apps with X11 support as "unsafe".

I know GNOME likes role-playing as the sole owners of the Linux ecosystem, but it's not a good look to push their opinions on an otherwise neutral marketplace.

#Linux #Flatpak #Flathub #GNOME #X11 #Xorg

#linux #gnome #Flatpak #flathub #x11 #xorg

#linux #privacy #offline #gnome #Flatpak #flathub #grammar

@nekohayo pointed me to this slashdot article - tech.slashdot.org/story/25/02/….
Woo, it has all the old hits. It's the Princess Bride of threads with conspiracy theories, systemd hate, X11 romance, GNOME 1 supremacy - it's like I stepped back in time largely because they are still battling old grievances from 20 years ago.

#GNOME


Is It Time For a Change In GNOME Leadership? - Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader BrendaEM writes: Command-line aside, Cinnamon is the most effective keeper of the Linux desktop flame -- by not abandoning desktop and laptop computers.
tech.slashdot.org
#gnome @Jeff Fortin T.

#linux #gnome #Flatpak #flathub #grammar

After years of hard work, countless reviews, and tons of community testing, we're happy to share that dynamic buffering has landed in Mutter for GNOME 48!

This improves the smoothness of GNOME across a wide range of hardware and software setups.

Thanks to everyone involved in this collaboration! Special thanks to author Daniel van Vugt from Canonical and reviewers Jonas Ådahl and Michel Dänzer from Red Hat.

Read more in This Week in GNOME: thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…

#GNOME #OpenSource #Linux


#187 Triple Buffered Notifications

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from February 07 to February 14.
thisweek.gnome.org
#linux #opensource #gnome

#gnome #ThisWeekInGNOME #twig

Happy I Love Free Software Day! 💕

Unfortunately, this year I could not join nor organize any in-person celebration, BUT of course I want to share my gratitude to the many, countless #FreeSoftware services I don’t merely use, but actually depend on.

Last year, I decided to focus only on #YunoHost, because it would have been crazy to list all the projects I use and I love.

This time, even if I will most certainly forget someone, I am challenging myself to mention all the #LibreSoftware my life is powered by.

Without further ado, THANK YOU to:

  • @yunohost, for powering Nebuchadnezzar
  • @fedora, for running my beloved #Framework laptop
  • @frameworkcomputer, for designing and building repairable, #Linux-friendly and truly open hardware
  • @gnome and @GTK, for being just gorgeous
  • @calyxos (thus @LineageOS), for powering my #Fairphone5
  • #Obtainium, for making me directly download apps on my phone, and @fdroidorg for distributing them
  • #AuroraStore, for proxying the download of apps I am doomed to get from Google Play
  • @element, for developing #Synapse, even though the new proprietary Synapse Pro is VERY PROBLEMATIC AND DISAPPOINTING
  • #Fractal, for being the most beautiful and awesome #Matrix client ever
  • @signalapp, for keeping me connected with the people I love
  • @Mastodon, for also maintaining a feature-packed experimental fork (#GlitchSoc), that is what Pan runs
  • #Tuba and #Moshidon, for being the most beautiful and awesome #Mastodon clients ever
  • #Firefox, for still remaining the best possible #browser choice, despite #Mozilla’s governance messiness
  • @openstreetmap, for allowing us to find the right path, both literally and metaphorically!
  • @organicmaps, for being the simplest, cleanest, yet feature-rich #OSM client and navigation app
  • @protonvpn, for making me browse safely from/to anywhere in the planet and @protonprivacy #ProtonMail, for hosting my email, despite the latest alarming political statements…
  • @libreoffice, for allowing me to draft documents with ease, the last of which was my #CV
  • #LanguageTool, for preventing me from making embarassing spelling mistakes
  • @photoprism, for safely storing and indexing all my photographic memories, on Aby, and for providing stellar and friendly support too!
  • #Actual, for moderating the very likely risk of ending up completely broke, since it forces me to manage my finances consciously and coherently
  • @readeck, for storing and sorting ALL my varied and overwhelming inputs
  • @nextcloud, for storing and synchronizing my data, for its #calendar, its #tasks, and all its awesome apps
  • #Rustdesk, for preventing my friends and family members from going crazy, by allowing me to remotely connect to their devices and directly address the issues they have
  • #Listmonk, for sending out my newsletter
  • @eleventy, for powering all the websites I maintain, above all the virtual representation of my mind, and for being the only reason why I resist and try to continue learning #JavaScript
  • @forgejo, for giving us a chance to truly control and collectively develop the sources of our software, but most importantly @Codeberg, for RESISTING, RESISTING, RESISTING, despite the hatred and attacks nazi assholes throw at them
  • @musicbrainz for keeping music knowledge open and free, and @ListenBrainz for scrobbling the crazy music I listen to
  • The @fsfe, for promoting this celebration and fighting the good fight!

Lastly, but most importantly, the biggest thank you goes to all the free software libraries and dependencies the above mentioned #software are made of/built with, including #C, #JavaScript, #Python, #Rust, and all community-maintained programming languages.

I am super sorry if I forgot someone!

#OpenSource #ILoveFS #SoftwareFreedom #Fairphone #Android #LineageOS #FSFE #OpenStreetMap #PhotoPrism #LibreOffice #Readeck #Eleventy #11ty #GNOME #Signal #forgejo #Codeberg #MusicBrainz #ListenBrainz #MetaBrainz


Nebuchadnezzar

Information and insights concerning the configuration and maintenance of Tommi’s server.
Tommi (Tommi’s mind)
#FreeSoftware #android #linux #matrix #codeberg #firefox #opensource #signal #Mastodon #mozilla #browser #software #libresoftware #gnome #libreoffice #fairphone #python #fsfe #softwarefreedom #synapse #rust #ilovefs #javascript #lineageos #openstreetmap #c #framework #tuba #OSM #fractal #RustDesk #yunohost #ProtonMail #calendar #forgejo #eleventy #tasks #GlitchSoc #aurorastore #moshidon #11ty #listenbrainz #readeck #Fairphone5 #photoprism #obtainium #cv #languagetool #actual #listmonk #musicbrainz #metabrainz @LibreOffice @Mastodon @Nextcloud 📱☁️💻 @GNOME @OpenStreetMap @Free Software Foundation Europe @ProtonVPN @F-Droid @Codeberg.org @GTK @Eleventy 🎈 v3.0.0 @Signal @LineageOS @Framework @Forgejo @Organic Maps @PhotoPrism 💎 @CalyxOS @Fedora Project @Element @Readeck @YunoHost @Proton @MusicBrainz @ListenBrainz

#gnome

#matrix #gnome #fractal

If there is no foot in the logo, and if we're leaning into the pointy hats aesthetic instead, I believe we will need to uphold the brand through this specific dress code at conferences:

#GUADEC #GNOME

Photo of an elderly man with a long beard, wearing gardening gloves, jeans, a red pointy hat, while riding upright on a modded fatbike kitted up as if heading to a rave party in an abandoned warehouse in San Francisco
#gnome #GUADEC

#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #floss #gnome #logo #branding #brandequity

GNOME nemá české překladatele

Posledních minimálně 15 let byly překlady GNOME do češtiny ve výborném stavu. U každého vydání jsem jen hlásil, že je vše přeložené, poslední roky to platilo i pro drtivou většinu dokumentace. Poslední rok se to ale začalo zadrhávat. Přispěvatelé, kteří to dlouhé roky táhli, odešli a není nikdo, kdo by to po nich převzal. Proto jsme se rozhodli jít s pravdou ven: GNOME momentálně nemá české překladatele a pokud se toho neujme někdo nový, překlady začnou postupně upadat.

#Gnome #l10n #Linux #openSource

blog.eischmann.cz/2025/02/11/g…
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GNOME nemá české překladatele

Sesivany's blog
#linux #opensource #gnome #l10n

GNOME Has No Czech Translators


For at least the last 15 years, the translations of GNOME into Czech have been in excellent condition. With each release, I would only report that everything was translated, and for the last few years, this was also true the vast majority of the documentation. However, last year things started to falter. Contributors who had been carrying this for many years left, and there is no one to take over after them. Therefore, we have decided to admit it publicly: GNOME currently has no Czech translators, and unless someone new takes over, the translations will gradually decline.

Personally, I started working on GNOME translations in 2008 when I began translating my favorite groupware client – Evolution. At that time, the leadership of the translation team was taken over by Petr Kovář, who was later joined by Marek Černocký who maintained the translations for many years and did an enormous amount of work. Thanks to him, GNOME was almost 100% translated into Czech, including the documentation. However, both have completely withdrawn from the translations. For a while, they were replaced by Vojtěch Perník and Daniel Rusek, but the former has also left, and Dan has now come to the conclusion that he can no longer carry on the translations alone.

I suggested to Dan that instead of trying to appeal to those who the GNOME translations have relied on for nearly two decades—who have already contributed a lot and are probably facing some form of burnout or have simply moved on to something else after so many years—it would be better to reach out to the broader community to see if there is someone from a new generation who would be willing and energetic enough to take over the translations. Just as we did nearly two decades ago.

It may turn out that an essential part of this process will be that the GNOME translations into Czech will decline for some time.Because the same people have been doing the job for so many years, the community has gotten used to taking excellent translations for granted. But it is not. Someone has to do the work. As more and more English terms appear in the GNOME interface, perhaps dissatisfaction will motivate someone to do something about it. After all, that was the motivation for the previous generation to get involved.

If someone like that comes forward, Dan and I are willing to help them with training and gradually hand over the project. We may both continue to contribute in a limited capacity, but the project needs someone new, ideally not just one person, but several, because carrying it alone is a path to burnout. Interested parties can contact us in the mailing list of the Czech translation team at diskuze-l10n-cz@lists.openalt.org.

#gnome #l10n #translations

#gnome #l10n #translations

I created a .desktop file for an #app that comes as an executable binary (without an icon) and added a custom icon to it.
In the #gnome app grid, both the app and my #icon show up as desired, but not in the #dock, where the generic executable binary icon still shows up.
Do I need to clear some kind of cache to make this work?
PD: Rebooting did not help and some commands (e.g. ’update-icon-caches /usr/share/icons/*’) shared around the internet didn't either. 🤔
#app #gnome #icon #dock

#gnome #ThisWeekInGNOME #twig

#apps #gnome

Experimented yesterday with Fedora’s KDE spin… I was shocked by the level of accessibility, although it wasn’t perfect. My primary issues with it were that I had to use a lot of Orca’s navigation commands to read panels in the systems settings app, and I had major issues with Konsole, the default terminal app. I wasn’t able to read any of the information in that particular apps interface using Orca. I also tried the Fedora workstation edition, which uses Gnome as it’s a desktop environment. Let’s just say that was not worth my time. Had accessibility issues there as well, and surprisingly it was worse than the experience I had with KDE. I know KDE defaults to Wayland, as does Gnome, but KDE’s accessibility implementation seems to be a lot better than what Gnome has under Wayland, with the exceptions I’ve previously mentioned. Incidentally, the X 11 experience with Gnome is actually worse now than it was previously. For example, the terminal app does not even open for me. I should also note that all this is under Fedora 41, so people aren’t confused. #A11Y #Accessibility #Blind #Experiments #Linux #Fedora41 #KDePlasma #Gnome #Wayland #X11
#a11y #Accessibility #linux #blind #gnome #experiments #Wayland #x11 #kdeplasma #fedora41

#gnome

Besides the AMD crasher, I wondered why the dev version of Showtime, #GNOME's power-efficient video player in incubation, sometimes still refused to launch; turns out it's randomly crashing with a segfault on startup for another reason.

After jumping through hoops to get a backtrace (#Python in #Flatpak makes things somewhat harder to debug), it turns out that #GStreamer is not the culprit. Presumably, it may be a bug in #GTK or somewhere else in the stack. Details here: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Incubat…


Showtime Nightly randomly segfaults on startup (even with no video) (#158) · Issues · GNOME / Incubator / Showtime · GitLab

Testing the latest nightly flatpak version on my desktop workstation with discrete open source AMD graphics (and another testbench with onboard AMD graphics), I realized one of the...
GitLab
#gnome #gtk #Flatpak #python #gstreamer

Hey! Does anyone from #GNOME or that works with GNOME technologies know how I can make my #python #GTK4 / #Libadwaita app run in the background when closing ? And how to make it appear correctly in GNOME background app menu, or even in the AppIndicator extension ?

Any link to relevant documentation will be useful ! :)

Thank you in advance!

#gnome #python #libadwaita #GTK4

#linux #gnome #fedora

Thank you everyone who stop by #GNOME at #FOSDEM, see you next year!!
#gnome #fosdem

#gnome #outreachy @GNOME @Outreachy Internships

FOSDEM tradition maintained: drop by the #gnome booth, say hello, do the rounds, then leave. See y’all at the event this evening
The GNOME booth at FOSDEM 2025: a table with merch and a few people around it
#gnome

#gnome #ThisWeekInGNOME #twig

The 2025 GTK hackfest has started in earnest, here in Brussels

#gtk #GNOME #hackfest

GTK developers around a table, with laptops and coffee, ready to turn caffeine into lines of code
#gnome #gtk #hackfest

🎉 FOSDEM 2025 is almost here! 🎉
If you're going, make sure to stop by the #GNOME booth for awesome swags, the latest GNOME updates, and a chance to meet our fantastic contributors!
We're in the AW building—don’t miss out!
#FOSS #OpenSource #GNOME #FOSDEM2025
#foss #opensource #gnome #fosdem2025

#gnome #ThisWeekInGNOME #twig

#gnome #crosswords

#gnome #Flatpak #fedora #flathub #flatpaks

#ADHD folks & #minimalism fans with overflowing #email inboxes (or some #GNOME devs with too many mailing lists & bug tracker emails) might be pleased to discover that @EvolutionGnome has a secret gsetting (that you can toggle in dconf-editor) to disable unread mail counts for folders in the sidebar: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evoluti…

Because what's the point of knowing you have 787 unread emails instead of 785, anyway? :patcat:

Wish I had per-folder notifications to go with that: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evoluti…

A screenshot of a bunch of email folders in an IMAP account, where folders with unread mails have their name in bold, but there are no unread counter numbers.

mail-notification: Allow to enable per-folder notifications (#672) · Issues · GNOME / evolution · GitLab

The mail-notification plugin allows account-granularity exclusions, but not folder-granularity. I've cooked up a first draft patch (see attached) that implements the latter, while retaining the former. It's not...
GitLab
#email #gnome #adhd #minimalism @GNOME Evolution

#gnome #Flatpak #ThisWeekInGNOME #twig

#gnome

#gnome #ThisWeekInGNOME #twig

Last donations of 2024 made! This time I donated money to the following great FOSS projects:

- Codeberg: donate.codeberg.org/
- GNOME: gnome.org/donate/
- KDE: kde.org/fundraisers/yearend202…
- LibreOffice: libreoffice.org/donate/
- Thunderbird: thunderbird.net/en-US/donate/

Which projects did you support this year? #opensource #donations #codeberg #gnome #kde #libreoffice #thunderbird


Support Good People

Good people in the world of tech populate the non-profit communities run by altruistic volunteers with no commercial interests, and therefore no interest in exploiting you, your work, or your data.
Support Good People
#codeberg #opensource #gnome #libreoffice #thunderbird #KDE #donations

#gnome #ThisWeekInGNOME #twig

Introducing Refine, an app to tweak advanced and experimental settings in GNOME. It is an alternative to GNOME Tweaks, and is a pet project I'm currently working to experiment with PyGObject and dconf, while following the data-driven, object-oriented, and composition paradigms.

The entire codebase is made up of widgets that provide all the functionality needed to add an option. For example, instead of adding each option programmatically in Refine, the ultimate goal is to have it all done in the UI file.

For example, if we want to add an option to enable or disable middle click paste, all we need is the following code in the UI file:

$RefineSwitchRow {<br>  title: _('Middle Click Paste');<br>  schema-id: 'org.gnome.desktop.interface';<br>  key: 'gtk-enable-primary-paste';<br>}<br>

That's it. The RefineSwitchRow widget will do whatever it needs to do to ensure the option is available, grab the setting if it's available, and display it to the user. Many of these widgets provide extra functionality, such as a Reset button.

You can get Refine on Flathub: flathub.org/apps/page.tesk.Ref…

Everything else (source code, screenshot, etc.) is in the project website: tesk.page/refine/, as well as the Flathub link.

#GNOME #Flatpak #Flathub #FOSS #OpenSource #GTK #Libadwaita


Install Refine on Linux | Flathub

Tweak various aspects of GNOME
Flathub
#foss #opensource #gnome #gtk #Flatpak #libadwaita #flathub

Starting a new year by almost forgetting to do a Friday sketch. New year resolution is obvious -- skip as few of these as possible!

#procreate #app #icon #sketch #gnome

This is a sketch of a classic typewriter drawn in blue pencil. It features a vintage design with distinct elements like a keyboard, a paper carriage, and a roller. The sketch has a hand-drawn, illustrative feel with simple and minimalistic detailing, giving it a charming and retro aesthetic.
This sketch appears to zoom in on the keyboard portion of a vintage typewriter, drawn with the same blue pencil style. It features circular keys with classic typewriter font, displaying the letters "QWERASDFZXCV" arranged in rows. Two additional keys are visible, one with a shift-like symbol on the left and another with an "X" inside a box on the right, possibly representing a backspace or delete key. The drawing uses simple, minimal strokes to create a retro and charming aesthetic.
This sketch portrays another vintage typewriter design, drawn with a blue pencil in a similar hand-drawn style. It highlights a front-facing view with more detailed features compared to the first sketch. The typewriter includes: A rounded, central ribbon spool housing with radiating lines, adding visual focus. A more detailed keyboard layout with keys shaped like ovals or rectangles, representing functionality. Knobs on either side of the paper roller, maintaining the retro feel. A compact and symmetrical design overall, emphasizing its nostalgic aesthetic. The illustration retains its minimalistic, charming approach with clear structural elements.
#app #gnome #procreate #icon #sketch

#gnome #procreate #Flatpak #flathub #sketch #sketchfriday

#gnome #ThisWeekInGNOME #twig

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