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O chamado para palestras no GNOME Latam 2024 está aberto!
Você tem algo para compartilhar sobre o ecossistema #GNOME ou software livre? Esta é sua oportunidade! Envie sua proposta e junte-se a nós em Medellín, Colômbia, ou online.
Holy cow, #Transitous-based #publictransit routing has just landed in the nightly version of #GNOMEMaps, and therefore the number of cities you can get transit directions in… has gone waaaay up! It can even route through a mess like Los Angeles' multiple transit authorities, or calculate long-distance trains! 
Big props to @mlundblad for implementing this: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-m…
We're happy to announce that @Tuba has been accepted into GNOME Circle. Tuba lets you explore the federated social web. With its extensive support for popular Fediverse platforms like Mastodon, GoToSocial, Akkoma, and more, it makes it easy to stay connected to your favorite communities, family, and friends. Congratulations!
Get Tuba on Flathub: flathub.org/apps/dev.geopjr.Tu…
Follow its maintainer: @GeopJr
Learn more about GNOME Circle: circle.gnome.org
#GNOME #GNOMECircle #Tuba
I blogged about my Google Summer of Code project where I added TypeScript support to Workbench!
vixalien.com/blog/workbench-ty…
#gnome #workbench #typescript #gsoc
Support for async/sync/finish introspection annotations has landed in GLib for the next unstable release, gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/…
#GLib #MaintainerLife #gobject-introspection #GNOME
Looking for a #gnome #linux suggestion. I'm running #debian on my laptop with Gnome. I'm looking for how to configure a Gnome hot key to do something I'm used to doing.
On a Mac or on Windows, Alt-Tab cycles through open applications. This works the same on Gnome. On both Windows and Mac there's another key combination (Ctrl-Tab on Windows, I think; Cmd-~ on Mac) that will let you cycle through windows of the currently focused application. If I have 2 or 3 terminal windows open, I can press Cmd-~ to bring different ones in focus. These keystrokes don't seem to be working in Gnome. I can't find a key sequence to switch between VSCodium windows, or terminal windows, or Firefox windows.
What's the trick?
Těch možností voleb a konfigurace je tam nespočet. V případě Gnome to teď sice úplně neplatí, což je důvod, proč používám Plasmu, ale o tom to přesně je, o té možnosti volby.
Rozumím směru, kterým M$ jde a jsem rád, že mám možnost volby jiného OS.
zive.cz/clanky/zkracene-datum-…
Zkrácené datum a skrytí tlačítka oznámení. Microsoft ladí hlavní panel ve Windows 11
Microsoft dále ladí hlavní panel ve Windows 11. Nedávno zlepšil navigaci mezi programy pomocí klávesnice tak, jak to fungovalo ve Windows 10. To se týkalo stabilní varianty, další novinky se dopékají v programu Insider. V kanále Beta siPetr Urban (Živě.cz)
New blueprint release! A lot has happened since the previous release in March, including:
- Greatly improved decompiler/porting support, including a CLI command to convert .ui to .blp
- Syntax support for string arrays and multi-value accessibility relations
- QoL improvements to the CLI output and language server
- A ton of bugfixes
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!
gitlab.gnome.org/jwestman/blue…
v0.14.0 · James Westman / Blueprint · GitLab
Added Added a warning for unused imports. Added an option to not print the diff when formatting with...GitLab
Tamnjong Larry Tabeh wraps up his @outreachy internship as a UI/UX researcher for @gnome medium.com/@larrytabeh/wrappin…
Wrapping Up My Outreachy Internship - Tamnjong Larry Tabeh - Medium
As my Outreachy internship comes to a close, I find myself reflecting on the journey with a sense of gratitude. What began with a mix of excitement and fear has turned into a rewarding experience…Tamnjong Larry Tabeh (Medium)
Say hello to Resources by @nokyan, the latest addition to GNOME Circle! This app lets you keep an extra eye on system resources with style.
Resources is available on Flathub: flathub.org/apps/net.nokyan.Re…
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#162 Late Friday Edition
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/…
Sometimes your text document is perfect, it's just not in the right format. For changing extensions, for converting to PDF, RTF and EPUB, Morphosis is the perfect app! Just drop your file in and chose what new form you want your words to take. Supporting a wide range of export formats, Morphosis even lets you choose between sans and serif for your output!
You can follow the app's creator here: @monster
You can get the app on Flathub here: flathub.org/apps/garden.jamie.…
A new release of #Multiplex, the app that lets you watch torrents together in a way similar to Apple's SharePlay and Amazon's Prime Video Watch Party, is out!
This brings the latest and greatest #GNOME and #libadwaita technologies, modernizes the underlying dependencies, enhances accessibility, and makes it easier to contribute to the project with improved contributor documentation and a rewrite of the UI markup!
And more is to come soon-ish, so stay tuned 🥳
Rejoice! GNOME 47.Beta is released!
discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-47…
GNOME 47.beta Released
Hello, GNOME 47.beta is now available. It also marks the start of the UI, feature and API freezes (collectively known as The Freeze).GNOME Discourse
Reminder! Registration for #LAS2024 is open. Join us for a deep dive into Linux applications. Register now: conf.linuxappsummit.org/event/…
#KDE #GNOME #OpenSource
A technical overview of the Kolibri app for GNOME
This blog post has been floating around as a draft for several years. It eventually split off into a presentation at GUADEC 2022, titled Offline learning with GNOME and Kolibri (YouTube). In that p…Dylan McCall
Only a few days left to submit your #LAS2024 talk! Make sure to submit your proposal by Aug 21: conf.linuxappsummit.org/event/…
#KDE #GNOME #opensource #Linux
Linux Desktop Migration Tool 1.4
After many months, I finally found the time to finish the GNOME desktop/application settings migration in the Linux Desktop Migration Tool and did another release.
#dconf #gnome #linux #migration
enblog.eischmann.cz/2024/08/19…
phosh 0.41.0 is out 🚀📱:
- media player widget gained track position, length and progress bar
- New Wi-Fi HotSpot QuickSetting
- New Bluetooth Status page
- More vert space for status pages
- Silent mode on Vol-
- new layouts in squeekboard
- swipe to close gesture in phosh-osk-stub
There's much more. Check out the full release notes at phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.41.0…
🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.
#phosh #librem5 #pinephone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile
Blogging on the Fediverse
WordPress.com has recently allowed blogs to Enter the Fediverse, so you can now follow my writings on Mastodon and other places. Click the new ‘Follow’ button in the sidebar, or paste this succinct Fediverse address:
@[url=https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/@samthursfield.wordpress.com]samthursfield.wordpress.com@samthursfield.wordpress.com[/url].
This blog is more serious writing about technology, you can also follow @vladimirchicken@mastodon.art which is mostly music, art and needless complaints over things I can’t change.
Reflections on GUADEC 2024
I was lucky enough to attend GNOME’s 2024 conference in Denver. I had a great time, saw many people I haven’t seen this decade, and it was also my first trip into the USA beyond the easternmost parts of the east coast.
It was a unique edition of the conference, we were about 50 people as you can see in the group photo, with another 30-40 people in Berlin. I posted a thread already on what we learned about hybrid conferences.
I have a more thoughts about this year’s event which are complex and contradictory and better discussed face to face. Sometimes you have to hold multiple conflicting thoughts in your head at once. I’ve written some of these thoughts down below.
The world is huge … like really big. Denver is a full EIGHT timezones away from Berlin, right? If you get up at 9AM in Denver then it’s already 5PM in Berlin, and it’ll be 6PM by the time you’ve brushed your teeth. How can you unite two groups of people across such a big time gap?
Having tried it, my feeling that a “federated” event split across different locations at the same time is not a replacement for a single, global in-person event. The community splits according to the geographical distribution of its members, roughly following Conway’s Law.
Travelling back from Denver to Santiago de Compostela took me about 50 hours in the end. It was supposed to be less but there was a 5 hour delay in Denver due to a shortage of air traffic controllers in Newark, which led to missing a connection to Madrid, the next day some bad weather added two more hours of delay, and then the trains from Madrid were largely full so I couldn’t get back home until early evening.
I kind of enjoy travel chaos (and my feeling is that as a society, we’ll only reduce our dependence on air travel if and when it becomes frustratingly inconvenient to use).
I feel lucky that I don’t have to do this kind of trip very frequently. I have more appreciation now for the significant effort people go through to get to events in Europe.
Multiple people in Denver told me they share the feeling I mentioned last month, that many Free Software communities are Euro-centric.
Some benefits to holding a GUADEC in the USA. Inspirational keynotes by local speakers, both Ryan Sipes’ story of Thunderbird, and Stephanie Taylor who is the force behind Google Summer of Code. Meeting contributors who don’t travel to Europe. Media coverage of the GNOME Foundation AGM, in a good way.
I think we missed an opportunity to make more of the event. Involving “the local community” in a summer event is always tricky, as during the summer holidays, “casual” attendees such as students and hobbyists are mostly on holiday. They aren’t usually looking for new software conferences they might attend. That said, GNOME would definitely would benefit from more hands focused on communication outside the project, what we often call “marketing” and “engagement”. It’s a difficult and often thankless task and we have to pay someone to do it. (With all the endless money we have, of course).
I did mention the thing about multiple conflicting ideas at once, right?
Let’s not pretend that a video conference or a hybrid BOF is the same as an in-person meetup. Once you’ve sung karaoke with someone, or explored Meow Wolf, or camped in the desert in Utah together, your relationship is richer than when you only interacted via Gitlab pull requests and BigBlueButton. You have more empathy and you can resolve conflicts better.
Let’s keep exploring new ways to collaborate. Regional events and hybrid events. And accept that these will form bubbles. If you live near members of the GNOME design team and meet in-person with them, you’re going to be able to influence GNOME’s design, more easily than if you live on a continent such as Africa where (to my knowledge) you can’t meet any existing design team members without leaving your continent. If you have a friend who maintains Nautilus it’s going to be easier to get up to speed with Nautilus development yourself, compared to if you’re starting from scratch and you live in a timezone that’s 10 hours offset from Europe.
We want to rethink technical governance in GNOME, which currently somewhat resembles the 15th century Feudal system. (See also, Tobi’s less flippant explanation of how decisions are made). Let’s keep geography in mind when we discuss this. And let’s also think how we can balance out the implicit advantage you get for being based in a certain place, and how we can grow local communities in places that don’t currently have them. I suspect this effort will need to be larger than just the GNOME project, and we can’t be the only community thinking about this stuff.
The USA is just as crazy as you imagine from its TV output. I was ready for beautiful scenery, long car journeys, no pavements, icy air conditioning, unhealthy food and franchises inside of franchises inside of franchises. I was genuinely surprised how hot it gets everywhere — even during my unwanted stopover in Newark the weather was 35° humid heat. And I wasn’t ready for disposable plates, cups and cutlery at every hotel breakfast. I’ve stayed in very cheap and very expensive hotels in many places, and all of them manage to wash and reuse the plates.
I want to see the single location, in-person GUADEC continuing while it’s still possible to do it. Count how many plane tickets were bought this year to attend GNOME events, and compare it to the number of flights taken just by Elon Musk’s private jet. It’s great that we avoided a few dozen plane tickets compared to last year but I’m yet to see a noticeable impact on the airline industry; while the impact on the GNOME project of splitting the community into two physical locations was very noticeable indeed.
We should alternate in-person GUADEC with more radically decentralized events, under a different name. We need to continue developing those as well. Like it or not there are big changes coming in society as the world gets increasingly hot. Tobi outlined all this very well in 2022. Nobody knows exactly what will happen of course, but you can expect that building resilience to change will be worthwhile, to put it very mildly. The key is for this to be something positive rather than a negative. The creation of something new rather than the loss of something we fondly remember. I mean, you can’t claim “GUADEC” is a particularly great name 🙂
It’s easy to write about this stuff in a blog post of course, harder to put into practice, and actually it wasn’t even easy to write…. this has taken me three hours.
Fairphone 5
I was going to write more stuff here but it turns out I had a lot to say about GNOME this month. At FOSDEM 2024, which I could easily attend in-person because I’m European, I saw a great talk by Luca from Fairphone, and decided my next phone would be a Fairphone 5. And I just got one. More on that next month, I guess.
Picker is a simple app; give it a list of items and let it pick one out for you! It can help make decisions, picking from tasks you haven't started but really should, or it can help you decide what you want for lunch, picking from ingredients in your fridge! Once the app has selected an item, Picker gives you the option to copy it or even to remove it from the list entirely!
You can get the app on Flathub here: flathub.org/apps/io.github.mez…
I thought that Chats (GNOME Chatty) is an SMS app, but it actually supports Matrix and XMPP too. So I can join discussions on the postmarketOS Matrix server from postmarketOS devices. Cool.
#linuxmobile #postmarketOS #matrix #chat #gnome
There's a @fedora 41 @gnome 47 Test Day next Monday, August 19! There are various ways you can help make our upcoming release rock solid.
Visit fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Da… for more info.
ported Identity and Video Trimmer to the new css stuff (well, ported is a strong word, there's like 10 lines of css there), so now Video Trimmer is ready for accent colors!
(yeah yeah i know that window needs a design overhaul but for now im too lazy)
#gnome #gtk #libadwaita
Love this Damask app, I can just query it to find a style of wallpapers and it just figures it out. My other laptop queries `beagles` instead and it's doing a great job there too.
flathub.org/apps/app.drey.Dama…
comparison of new Nautilus-as-filechooser (left) and the current GTK4 filechooser (right)
(the former being in a GNOME OS VM, the latter not in the VM, but positioned over top of it)
#GTK #GNOME #LibAdwaita
I've proposed a merge request to GNOME's likely new Video Player app codenamed Showtime. The feature? Toggling between video duration and time remaining by clicking the end timestamp. :)
It's the little things!
I think this might be my first contribution to a GNOME Python app. It was a bit of a trip coming from Vala and JavaScript land, but I _think_ I did okay for a first pass.
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Incubat…
#GNOME #OpenSource #Linux
window: Toggle end timestamp between duration and time remaining (!13) · Merge requests · GNOME / Incubator / Showtime · GitLab
Addresses one part of #70, specifically...GitLab
Question for you high-contrast theme users.
I recently started an initiative in @gnome Design to standardize drag & drop overlays in entire windows and predominant views. I would really appreciate it if you could criticize / give feedback on the high-contrast variants of the overlay:
gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/…
Edit: moved to gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/…
(Boost appreciated)
#Accessibility #a11y #HighContrast #Contrast #GNOME
Standardize drag & drop overlays (#158) · Issues · Teams / Design / Initiatives · GitLab
Note: Moved to os-mockups#186 (comment 2189414) ...GitLab
Part three of the file chooser implementation was merged!
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilu…
#GNOME #GTK #Nautilus #FOSS #GTK4 #OpenSource #GNOMEFiles #libadwaita
Part four of the file chooser implementation was merged!
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilu…
#GNOME #GTK #Nautilus #FOSS #OpenSource #GNOMEFiles #libadwaita
