Registration is Now Open for #GNOME’s #GUADEC 2023 Event in Riga, Latvia 9to5linux.com/registration-is-…

@gnome #GUADEC2023 #Linux #OpenSource

New article: "Overview of Flatpak's Permission Models"

theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/2023…

Huge thanks to @orowith2os for proofreading the article :)

#Flatpak #Linux #GNU #Security #FOSS #OpenSource

Overview of Flatpak’s Permission Models

Flatpak’s permissions can be confusing. Some are technical and need knowledge on how they work, and others are self-explanatory.

^{TheEvilSkeleton}

For better accessibility testing of the software I build, I've started testing more with screen readers.

On Android, enabling and using TalkBack is relatively straightforward, but for testing on my desktop, Orca is completely unusable.

I have a brand new Debian VM with GNOME, and Orca enabled, but actually using it in firefox just barely works. TalkBack has a nice workflow with highlighted elements that you move between as you read the page, but Orca seems delegated to using caret browsing and reading whatever your cursor is on? Am I missing shortcuts (which are also a pain, because the modifier can only be caps-lock or insert, not really conveniently placed)

Am I missing something, or is this the state of #Accessibility on #Linux?
Also the tts quality is very poor, which would make this even worse for any prolonged testing, but maybe there are alternative engines?

Somebody PLEASE make something like github.com/vadimdemedes/ink-ui but for GTK.

I would be a LOT more inclined to create native #linux #gtk apps if I could create them using #react or something similar.

Creating interfaces using GTK's native APIs feels like programming in the 90s.

GitHub - vadimdemedes/ink-ui: 💄 Ink-redible command-line interfaces made easy

💄 Ink-redible command-line interfaces made easy. Contribute to vadimdemedes/ink-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

Welcome back to the ThunderCast: Episode 2 is READY!

We welcome special #Mozilla guest @mconley, a software mechanic, musician, livestreamer, and self-described “pre-internet phenomenon” among many other awesome things.

Join us for a great conversation full of nostalgia, a behind-the-scenes look at some great Firefox features, and much more!

blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/t…

#Podcast #Firefox #OpenSource #Dev #Email #Linux

ThunderCast Episode #2: With Special Mozilla Guest Mike Conley

Mozilla's Mike Conley joins us to discuss the nostalgia of the early internet, his first task for Thunderbird, and some great Firefox features

^{Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)}

Greetings!

Well, after finding out that #WhaleBird
github.com/h3poteto/whalebird-…is a decent enough accessible MacOS client for use with #Misskey, you'll see me post on here from time to time now as well! Most of the time I'll still be posting on my Mastodon account, though watch this space! Three-Thousand characters is more than i ever would need myself, but I'll take it!

For users of #VoiceOver, the 'J' & 'k' keys currently do not speak under the curssor what the post is, thus nornal VO commands for now are necessary. Definitely a client for #Blind users to check out though!

NB. As noted among the GitHub page, WhaleBird is also available for #Windows and #Linux, though I'll leave those builds to you guys!

GitHub - h3poteto/whalebird-desktop: An Electron based Mastodon, Pleroma, and Misskey client for Windows, Mac, and Linux

An Electron based Mastodon, Pleroma, and Misskey client for Windows, Mac, and Linux - GitHub - h3poteto/whalebird-desktop: An Electron based Mastodon, Pleroma, and Misskey client for Windows, Mac, ...

^GitHub

Snapshot, the new Camera (photo/video) app is available on Flathub 🎉 📷

It looks fantastic, here is a picture of Hermine sleeping next to my desk.

flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.Sna…

Made by @maximiliano 🎩

#Flatpak #Flathub #GNOME #LinuxMobile #Linux #Rust #Gtk

Big thanks to Sakamoto for stepping up to maintain the #Firewire subsystem for the #Linux kernel.
I still use an #RME #Fireface800 and it works super well with the #ALSA driver he wrote using #pipewire.

I hope even post 2029 someone will be up for maintaining it as the devices are solid and using them on Linux is a great countermeasure against their planned obsolescence.

phoronix.com/news/Linux-Firewi…

Linux Has A New Firewire IEEE-1394 Maintainer - Intends To Maintain Support To 2029

It's likely been years since many of you have heard of Firewire and some readers likely never had the opportunity to use it

^{www.phoronix.com}

Does anyone know any way to verify that the account at floss.social/@gnome is official?

I suggested to them they might verify their web link, but as far as I can tell the haven't? Also emailed GNOME via their official website to check if this is their account, but didn't receive a response.

Any ideas? Anyone know someone at GNOME who could verify?

I'm not suggesting it's fake by the way, it's just frustrating not to be able to verify! :)

#GNOME #Linux

A new #Flathub website launched at #LAS2023 last weekend! 🎉 The redesigned site brings a fresh look and a verification feature. Developers can now log in and verify ownership of their apps, earning a blue check mark. Check it out here: flathub.org/

#GNOME #Linux #opensource

We are very proud to be sponsoring #LAS2023 in #Brno this weekend!

Jason @killyourfm will be in attendance with a LOT of #Thunderbird stickers and T-shirts to give away to our #Linux family.

Look for him at the venue all weekend, and at tonight's welcome party -- he'll be wearing a black Thunderbird shirt with a white logo that looks like this:

Anyone to continue/fork Headlines?

It's an awesome Reddit client as good as Android ones. But the project is archived 😥️

gitlab.com/caveman250/Headline…

#gtk #GNOME #Linux

Jason Wood / Headlines · GitLab

A GTK4/libAdwaita Reddit client written in C++

^GitLab

🚂.🚃.HYPE.🚃.TRAIN.🚃

Fedora Linux 38 will release on Tuesday, April 18!

We've hit the early target dates for our beta and stable releases, so props to the Fedora community. And thanks to all who helped with testing!
#Fedora #Linux

More updates on Friday's Fedora Facts: communityblog.fedoraproject.or…

Friday's Fedora Facts: 2023-15 – Fedora Community Blog

Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)! Fedora Linux 38 will be released on Tuesday — the early target date! I have weekly office hours most Wednes…

^{Ben Cotton (Fedora Project)}

Been working on a new project the last couple of months and it's finally ready for beta release!

#Fedimeister is a #Java based #Mastodon client (available for #Linux, #Windows and #MacOS under the Apache #opensource license) with a focus on #writing and #journalism. Features:

* Break long texts into threads
* Scheduled posting
* Hashtag research
* #Twitter quote tweeting emulation

fedimeister.onyxbits.de

@fediversenews
@fediverse

We have 2 openings in my team to work on #OpenSource full time vr.se/om-vetenskapsradet/jobba… #sunet #python #Linux #debian #sweden

I can vouch for the team & the management, and your work will directly affect research & higher education sector across the globe. Oh, also the identity developer role also means you will work on projects touching every EU residence's life.

Lediga jobb

Här ser du alla Vetenskapsrådets lediga jobb. Du kan också starta en prenumeration och få ett mejl när vi har lediga jobb att söka.

^www.vr.se

Soon, friends.
Soon.

(Not available yet, we're testing it internally)

#Flatpak #Linux #Thunderbird

Alex Castellani (@alecaddd) is leading the charge on Thunderbird’s modern redesign, and we're thrilled to have him on the team!

But before he discovered the awesomeness of #OpenSource, he had to learn a hard life lesson about pricey, proprietary software...

Find out that story and much more in our "Meet The Team" series, a series of conversations with the people behind the software you use every day.

blog.thunderbird.net/2023/03/m…

#Thunderbird #Community #Linux #UX #Interview #Email

Meet The Team: Alex Castellani, Product Design Manager

Meet the humans behind the Thunderbird software you use and love. Let's kick it off with our Product Design manager, Alex Castellani!

^{Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)}

Recent updates to Mutter (included in #GNOME44!) deliver improved performance for even the most demanding apps, including games and interactive 3D apps.

Find the details here: blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2023…

#GNOME #Linux #OpenSource

The Thunderbird podcast is now available on several major podcast clients, such as:

#ApplePodcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/…

#Deezer: deezer.com/us/show/5866547

#Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5tWzGLQb…

You can also subscribe using good old #RSS: feeds.transistor.fm/thundercas…

If we're not in your favorite app, give it a few days and check again. Thanks for listening!

#Thunderbird #Podcast #ThunderCast #Email #OpenSource #Linux

ThunderCast

Listen to ThunderCast on Spotify. An inside look at the making of Mozilla Thunderbird, and community-driven conversations with our friends in the open-source software space.

^Spotify

Found this on other account. Please boost for reach: Fedora Linux is focusing on accessibility for the next five years. I'd love to see people with disabilities, very much including blind people, comment on this. If you're interested in Linux, or free and open source software, your voices are valuable. I hope Fedora finds our voices valuable too.

discussion.fedoraproject.org/t…
#accessibility #linux #fedora #foss

Fedora Strategy 2028: Focus area review (Accessibility)

Hello. Yes, sometimes, setting things up is a challenge, however, things are improving. The QT environment variables are definitely not needed for QT 6, and likely 5. Same can be said about GTK_MODULES, which are not needed at least from GTK 3.

^{Fedora Discussion}

Here is the detailed post about our team's experience at @fosdem 2023 in Brussels by Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras!

puri.sm/posts/fosdem-2023-even…

#fosdem #Fosdem2023 #linux #mobile linux #mobile

Trying out this RDP based desktop sharing to see if I can use #gnome @gnome for remote work.

It's clunky compared to XForward. An entire desktop required and the shared computer is basically useless to anyone else since it won't share a desktop that's not showing on the monitor in the physical space.

Bit of a leap backwards if I'm being honest. Every time #linux copies #Windows or #MacOS I get this sinking feeling that we've just given up being great and are settling for good enough.

Xfce’s Apps Update for February 2023: Ristretto Gets Printing Support, Orage Gets #Wayland Support, Major Notifications Changes, and Much More 9to5linux.com/xfces-apps-updat…

#Xfce #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

For #Linux folk, I have a list of my common typographic symbols using the Alt Graph & Compose keys, hosted on @Codeberg, derived from @aral blog post ar.al/2018/07/18/typographical…

Might be useful
codeberg.org/natureworks/gists…

Typographical typing habits for Linux

Many of our bad habits date back to the limitations of typewriters. Typography lends us the voice that the written word takes away from us. Good typography makes your message accessible and comprehensible and strengthens its intent.

^{Aral Balkan}

Phosh 0.25.0 is out 🚀📱:

See phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.25.0… for details.

#phosh #librem5 @purism #gnome #linux #mobile #lLinuxMobile #MobileLinux

The start of something beautiful

#librem5 #linuxphone #linux

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#Linux #laptop #review

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No 2 ways about it, this is a big device. It has a 17 inch screen, 16:10. It weighs 2.8 kilos, and it's 38 cm wide, 27 cm deep, and 2.7 cm thick.

The chassis is made of aluminium and has literally no flex, no bend, no creaking. It also resists fingerprints really well, thanks to a soft touch coating on the inside of the laptop.

You're free to open it, and you can access and replace the 2 M.2 SSD slots, the RAM, the wireless card, and the battery as well, which is screwed in and not glued.

The CPU is the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX. All models come with at least 16 gigs of RAM, and an RTX 3070Ti with 8Gigs of vRAM. You also get 250 gigs of PCIe3 SSD, and Wifi 6 + BLuetooth 5.2.

It can go up to 64 Gigs of 4800 Mhz RAM, up to 4TB of PCIe 4 storage, and, either an RTX 3080, or a 3080Ti. And all cards run at their maximum Total Graphics Power allowed by Nvidia,. You also get a 99Wh battery.

On geekbench 6, it gave me scores of 2121 in single core, and 10219 in multi core.

I ran the Shadow of the Tomb Raider benchmark, at high settings, at the native resolution of 2560x1600, and it got me an average of 101 FPS. When cranking all the settings to the max, still at the native resolution, it managed to reach 97 FPS. At 1080p highest details, the Stellaris 17 got 110FPS.

It also gave me an idea about thermals, at 75 °C under heavy load, which isn't bad at all.

With its 99Wh battery, running in Nvidia on demand mode, with the display at 50% brightness, wifi being used to play youtube videos in a loop in Firefox, the laptop lasted for 8 hours and 12 minutes.

The keyboard uses Cherry MX ultra low profile switches. The key travel is really good, at 1.8 mm, and the click happens at 0.8 mm. Some of the keys aren't using mechanical switches, notably the function keys and the whole numpad, they're using membrane switches instead.

The touchpad is humongous. It's also thankfully centered, and it's covered in glass, so it's really smooth. It feels very precise, and using it with tap to click feels great.

It's a diveboard mechanism, so obviously you can't click everywhere on it, it has to be in the bottom half of the touchpad, and the sound it makes is satisfying and doesn't rattle.

The dislay 16:10, 17 inches, and it goes up to 240hz refresh rate. It is G Sync compatible, to avoid any screen tearing issues. It's decently bright, at 380 nits, and it has full sRGB coverage.

In terms of ports, on the left, you get the usual Kensington Lock, a USB-A 3.2 Gen2x1 port, a microphone input, and a headphone jack. On the right, you get an SD card reader, and 2 USB-A 3.2 Gen1 ports. And on the back, you have a port for the Aquaris external watercooling solution, a USB-C 3.2 Gen2x1 port, an HDMI 2.1 port, a Gigabit ethernet port, and a barrel jack.

Let's finish with the mic, speakers and webcam. The microphone is decent, but nothing to write home about. You'll want to run it at about 25% volume. The speakers get really loud, but they don't distort or sound tinny at all, they have a good amount of bass.

As per the webcam, well it's 1080p, and it can produce good results with decent lighting, but it's still a bit grainy even in natural light. It's just a small notch above the usual potato cam.