Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)

Free & #OpenSource contributor (#Linux + #GNOME + #GStreamer) since 2004. Now co-maintaining the most magical desktop productivity apps combo (Getting Things GNOME! (npub154u…hlj7) & GNOME Calendar) as their benevolent lean engineering manager + occasional User Interaction & UX designer.

Waging war on mediocrity & unsustainability in business.
Founder of ideemarque (npub1fs8…frzz) + Studio Atypica (npub10td…yq0a), and Managing Partner at Regento (npub1pp4…wrnu).

Ex-Collabora, ex-psy, ex-Shinra.
I don't roleplay but I wear a cloak. ❄️
#fedi22

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2026-05-06 16:42:45 CEST

For a year and a half, we've been chasing an infamous random crash on opening folders in Nautilus. The main ticket was https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/work_items/4035, but there were many others…
Someone recently provided access to a computer where it could be reproduced consistently, and @npub1n50…5e2k was able to create a fix for it, in GTK itself: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/9913. Wow 😲
I was not experiencing the bug myself, but I'm so happy that it's fixed for the affected @npub1dug…kxeq users! 😌
#GNOME #GNOMEFiles #Nautilus #GTK

2026-04-26 14:20:24 CEST

Being able to finally fully remove the remaining Xorg packages from my computers after upgrading to Fedora 44's Wayland-only GNOME is such a satisfying moment, after decades of carrying this cruft around!
The command I used:
dnf remove xorg-x11-server-Xorg
I guess the drivers really are in the kernel / Mesa nowadays, because my computers are still working fine after a reboot.
#Wayland #X11 #Xorg #Fedora #GNOME #Linux #Mesa3D
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2026-04-26 03:34:01 CEST

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People love to hate Nautilus (but also they feel strongly about it because they care / because they do use it intensively).
It's just… I have no more patience for asocial people abusing my fellow overworked volunteer devs.
Since you went the extra mile to write a nice polite suggestion in the forum, I added a reference to it in the ticket to ensure the idea is somewhere on the radar and can be considered by the devs and the design team.
@npub1ze4…0y3x

2026-04-26 03:20:43 CEST

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The reason I locked the previous ticket was: impatient entitled users getting very aggressive towards Nautilus developers there, while the devs didn't have a clear path forward (stuck with a limitation from libadwaita's AdwDialog, and no designed solution available as an alternative UI for Nautilus).
Thanks for your understanding & willingness to start a kinder dialogue on the forums… material for a GNOME Design "Whiteboard" ticket maybe; I hope that team will consider it.

2026-04-25 17:25:49 CEST

If you've been testing GTK/libadwaita applications on a touchscreen and experienced difficulty pasting text using only the touchscreen, I believe I have now filed the bug report you are looking for: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/8172
#UX #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #GNOME #libadwaita #GTK
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/466/058/528/274/883/original/75172899f339e4ad.mp4

2026-04-25 03:11:12 CEST

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I for one would welcome skeuomorphism back, even as an easter egg like Shortwave's wood panel and brushed metal buttons. If we want to modernize a bit, we can even have corgi fur instead of leopard fur :blobpeek:

2026-03-29 01:59:50 CET

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It's an Ubuntu / "Dash to Dock" thing, not a GNOME issue. Vanilla GNOME does not show its dash (panel/dock) outside of the overview mode, and does not have notification counters showing on application launchers. Those are all Ubuntu modifications.

2026-03-19 07:36:46 CET

Very happy about the new @npub1dug…kxeq release, and I'm proud about what my fellow contributors have accomplished together in this cycle. Tons and tons of bugfixes and new features! The release notes at https://release.gnome.org/50/ cover a small portion of the most user-visible changes, but there's a lot more to discover.
Meanwhile, in the #GNOME hashtag…
(after 40 minutes of reading through https://fedi.absturztau.be/notice/B4O8ucxRQoQyBxrrpg, I cannot imagine a more insane thread in the #fediverse)
#FLOSS #OpenSource #gratefulness
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2026-03-14 01:07:56 CET

PSA: following the example from various other projects within GNOME, and based on libadwaita's policy document, GNOME Calendar now explicitly forbids AI-generated contributions: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/725
We honor the exquisite art of organic homegrown code made with care and a willingness to learn the craft, and want to protect the time of people who help review merge requests.
#MaintainerLife #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #OpenSource #GNOMECalendar #NoAI #aislop #genAI #LLM #GNOME #libadwaita

2026-02-14 00:13:53 CET

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Yup, was just pointing out that it's not "just" in the Settings panel, it's in three compliant apps at once too 🙂

2026-02-14 00:02:44 CET

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You might be interested in this addition, as it applies to multiple applications at once: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Websites/release.gnome.org/-/issues/64#note_2679981
This required a whole lot of coordination here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/160#note_1872970

2026-01-30 22:35:03 CET

After 1.5 years in the making, @npub1dug…kxeq Papers 50 will let you create freestanding text & ink annotations on PDFs (using a Wacom tablet stylus, for example), i.e. drawing & handwriting (to circle things or sign documents the old-fashioned way, or highlighting on scanned documents): https://lbaudin.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/blog/posts/drawing-writing-with-papers/
Used it in practice today. I've been hoping for this for about 20 years.
Papers nightly is such a massive improvement!
Thank you @npub159u…054t for implementing it :owi:
#GNOMEPapers #PDF #Poppler

2026-01-24 00:49:51 CET

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It's already been requested:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/5052
and https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/412

2026-01-21 15:23:25 CET

If you saw someone outside with a thin short-sleeved t-shirt at -12°C this morning, that was me running after a #Purolator truck that just showed up to say "Failed Delivery Attempt".
Me, catching the guy in his truck: "Hi, you tried delivering at ****…"
Them: "Yeah, intercom doesn't work" (there's a big paper sign on it that says so!)
Me: "Why didn't you call the phone number on the package?"
Them: "I don't have a phone"
I hate private sector couriers.
I never have issues with #CanadaPost.

2026-01-17 15:36:14 CET

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absolutely not similar to the Windows 11 situation, considering that I am running the latest GNOME on computers that are 18 years old right now...

2026-01-16 04:33:28 CET

I stumbled upon a 2300-pages-long PDF document that actually is a fantastic benchmark for slow search performance (1.5 to 5 minutes) in most PDF readers (including GNOME Papers, Evince and Okular)… so I fired up #Sysprof through GNOME Builder to measure the slowness, and reported my findings in #Poppler for all of you performance optimization aficionados: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1660
#PDF #profiling #performance #FreeDesktop #Linux #GNOMEBuilder #GNOME #GNOMEPapers #Evince #Okular
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2026-01-01 16:10:37 CET

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Other than https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/2913 and https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/1688, what remains slow for you in Software?

2025-12-27 15:07:15 CET

I made GNOME Maps stop doing search queries faster than most people can type, with this One Weird Trick™: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/merge_requests/584
Medium-to-fast typists will no longer see flickering search results and won't be doing "Hokuto no ken" network requests anymore. I presume #GNOME users will have less chances of collectively DDoSing servers when the Year of the Linux Desktop™ happens.
#GNOMEMaps #OpenStreetMap #GraphHopper #EnergyEfficiency #EnvironmentThisWeek

2025-12-23 02:41:22 CET

For years I have been hoping for a FLOSS alternative to "Adobe Scan", the Android app to scan receipts (essentially) with automatic cropping + deskewing + cleanups + OCR, and there was nothing… until three months ago, where #FairScan just materialized out of the blue, and I discovered it today: https://www.fairscan.org
Your turn, #LinuxMobile, time to make #GNOME's "Simple Scan" application "camera-ready" 😉 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan/-/issues/344

2025-11-22 14:48:19 CET

Wow. Finally, after 21 years, #Firefox 147 will support the #FreeDesktop XDG basedir specification to store the config/data/etc. in the standard locations in your home directory on #Linux, for fresh installations: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259356#c224
Unfortunately this only applies to clean installs, existing configs are kept in place and not automatically migrated.

2025-11-18 18:53:17 CET

Another notable feature merged in the GNOME Calendar live coding session today: the ability to export an entire calendar as an .ics file.
This was originally added to the wishlist 10 years ago: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/31
Thanks to @npub13fr…t5w3's dedication towards implementing this (alongside the individual event .ics export feature) this year, you will be able to use this feature in #GNOME 50 (or the nightly flatpak version of Calendar today): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/615
#GNOMECalendar #calendaring

2025-11-18 01:03:18 CET

This week, Georges "feaneron" Stavracas will be doing livestreams between 11h to 14h Brasília Time (14-17h UTC) while working on merge requests reviews in #GNOMECalendar!
The first session is planned this Tuesday here: https://youtube.com/live/CpgrEcG_KCE
Don't miss it if you want to learn practical @npub1dug…kxeq GObject C #programming from a wizard :blobwizard:
#GNOME

2025-11-11 16:54:01 CET

Month view scrolling performance in #GNOMECalendar nightly has improved by 10 to 30 frames per second on my computers thanks to this simple patch where we tell the month view's widget rows, "Hide yo kids!" :blobpeek: (also, we deleted a bunch of code)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/659
Scrolling smoothness investigation continues in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1125#note_2600678
#GNOME #performance

2025-11-04 16:50:31 CET

Let's make GNOME's biggest keyboard-centric workflow easter egg a bit easier to discover: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/whiteboards/-/issues/351
#GNOMEShell #GNOME #windowmanagement #productivity

2025-11-03 19:54:26 CET

Alright, #FountainPen experts, does anyone recognize this pump-like mechanism on the side of my mom's 40-years old "Lady" Parker fountain pen?
It won't budge at all when attempting to press it, as if had some sort of very dried up cracked sac underneath it. No clearly serviceable hole on the rear end of the metal tube (which I presume to be the reservoir). No reaction to being dunked into warm water. Any way to fix that?
Surely that is not a Parker #Vacumatic ? 🧐
#fountainpens #pens
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2025-10-02 15:11:35 CEST

Found why the #Bluetooth behavior in #GNOME was so confusing to me over the years: while my computer (and the gnome-bluetooth backend) supports connecting & pairing multiple devices at once, it turns out that #BlueZ sometimes reports some devices as disconnected when reactivating Bluetooth… so I end up accidentally disconnecting a device when I think it is not already connected :blobpats:
…as discovered in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/8692, it turns out to be a BlueZ issue… but BlueZ has no bug tracker 🫠
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2025-09-13 06:11:11 CEST

Ordered a new fountain pen to try out as a balanced everyday writing tool (for brainstorming meetings or networking): a screw-cap all-metal "Hongdian 517s" with Fine 0.5mm nib.
A whopping 12 Canadian Pesos splurge!
I am hoping this lavish expense will give me a more balanced handwriting experience compared to my fat heavy metal pen (and its medium nib that sips too much ink for my taste and lefthandedness) vs the cheap plastic pen (with its fine nib) that feels too lightweight 🧐
#FountainPens
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2025-09-11 18:13:51 CEST

As I'm doing magazine-style brochure design with #Scribus again lately, I thought I'd report this long-standing #Evince issue in #GNOMEPapers : layout metadata not being respected when opening #PDF documents that explicitly specify they should be viewed as booklets.
Currently, anyone in GNOME receiving a fancy PDF from me would need to intuitively know that they are not meant to be displayed as single pages!
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/papers/-/issues/507
#UX #design #DTP
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2025-09-04 15:18:26 CEST

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Thank you for letting us know! It turns out the "Aranet4 Home" has a 25% back-to-school rebate for Canadians too, i.e. 180 canadian pesos (-5% extra with random coupons) instead of $240+.
Being suspicious of the big price disparity compared to their Amazon listing, I feared some unaccounted duty fees, so I asked them where they ship from: they say from a warehouse in Toronto 😌 so it's just +15$ shipping fee, + 10$ federal sales taxes.
I placed an order for myself now.
#Aranet4

2025-09-02 07:16:19 CEST

Who here has ever managed to get working #Jitsi audio/video conferencing calls on #Android with some sort of headset? How?
I have NEVER been able to get working microphone input, whether on a Pixel 7a (USB-C and Bluetooth only) or a OnePlus2 (with ⅛ analog headset jack):
- Bluetooth headphones with microphone: as soon as you enter Jitsi, the headset says "call disconnected."
- Analog earbuds with mic: microphone doesn't work, whether on ⅛ jack or analog-to-USB-C. Works fine on a laptop.

2025-07-26 16:26:43 CEST

The @npub1u4t…7ldx XMPP chat application has modernized quite a bit and evolved a lot compared to when I last used it 15 years ago!
Also, I made a simple enhancement UX request there, and it was fixed within a day. Pretty cool: https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/issues/12381
#Gajim #Jabber #XMPP

2025-07-19 18:01:09 CEST

Anyone here using #Linphone as a VoIP softphone on Android (from F-Droid) knows a trick to easily / painlessly export call recordings to a computer (my best files transfer method is using the "Material Files" app's built-in FTP server)? Preferably preserving file creation timestamps etc.
Seems almost impossible to get Linphone to export those things, and its filesystem doesn't really seem accessible. It's a pain in the butt.
#Android #VoIP #SIP

2025-05-26 00:54:20 CEST

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personally I just put a ton of little utilities in that panel, like "Astra monitor" sensors and 4-5 world clock timezones… very handy, and wouldn't have been possible if that kind of flexible free space didn't exist to begin with.
Also, not everyone has the same display width…

2025-05-19 14:06:52 CEST

The #GNOME "Contacts" addressbook application has a really weird bug when it comes to being able to search partial strings within words. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Maybe someone out there can help narrow down when it does and doesn't work, and hopefully contribute a fix?
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-contacts/-/issues/146#note_626384
#QA #heisenbug

2025-05-01 01:40:24 CEST

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Where would you use it other than in Nautilus? I can't think of any place where this would be used cross-apps, considering that Nautilus is also the file chooser.

2025-04-08 22:00:56 CEST

Incredible how twist-lock powerbars are absolutely not a thing in North-American #hardware / #electronics stores (or any online store, even Chinese ones), and only found at reasonable prices in their natural habitat: #Japan.
I don't mean "twist to close", I mean twist-lock with the device plugged in. Incredibly useful for under-desk mounting, so that you can lock your "wall warts" in place without gravity (or any slight pull on the cord) unplugging them… this should be standard design.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/304/104/114/305/118/original/ac2c487fb2421602.jpeg

2025-03-24 09:11:37 CET

Great news for @npub184x…2a9r users: in Evolution 3.58 (expected to ship alongside GNOME 49 in Q4 2025), the calendar events conflict checks in meeting invitations received via email will now respect the user preferences; this will boost performance quite a bit: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/1441#note_2382738
We will need someone to implement the corresponding per-calendar property in #GNOMECalendar's calendars management GUI, see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1297
#performance #GNOME #email #calendaring

2025-03-23 14:38:54 CET

Wait a minute, the "Extension Manager" app from https://flathub.org/apps/com.mattjakeman.ExtensionManager has an "Upgrade Manager" feature to batch-check all your #GNOMEShell extensions for compatibility with the next #GNOME version, and nobody among you has told me about it?!
And it's not even mentioned as a bullet point in the app's features list?! :psyduck:
This "Upgrade Manager" hamburger menu item deserves to be more widely known.
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2025-03-21 23:21:14 CET

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The published updated version of the text doesn't have the bunch of hyperlinks I originally included in https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Websites/release.gnome.org/-/merge_requests/57/, but you can still see the diff of that merge request's 2nd commit if you wish to have the sources for all those claims 😉

2025-03-21 23:15:36 CET

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An updated version of the release notes (https://release.gnome.org/48/) is now live, with a dedicated section for the Calendar app, greatly clarifying how major the timezones feature is… it goes beyond a slight improvement to the event editor 🙂

2025-03-20 00:52:47 CET

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It's a bit unfortunate that the @npub1l78…m0ct article about #GNOME 48 summarizes #GNOMECalendar 48's whole release as one line that says, "Calendar offers various Event Editor dialog improvements"
…when the Calendar app landed one of the most fundamental productivity (and format compliance) features of the last 12 years (after many, many months of design & development work): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/2
At least 40 issues resolved for that release overall: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/?state=closed&milestone_title=GNOME+48

2025-03-16 00:29:55 CET

Found a new image converter GUI app that can do batch #JPEGXL lossless conversion (rarest thing on earth, seriously?), but it's not on Flathub, it only provides Ubuntu and appimage packages, and the README says, "The recommended way of using XL Converter is through the official binary releases. The building process is time-consuming and tedious."
I don't expect it to be packaged for Fedora, so yeah, I guess I'm making a wish for an official #flatpak version here: https://github.com/JacobDev1/xl-converter/issues/95
#JXL

2025-03-16 00:15:05 CET

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GUI toolkits deal with widgets.
The backgrounded app status is not a widget.

2025-03-15 14:02:07 CET

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That doesn't make intuitive sense to me, and I'm not sure the widget toolkits people are going to think it makes sense either.
The background apps API is not a direct "do this specific graphical widget" kind of thing, it's an "operating system behavior" API.
It is the same to me than inhibiting screenlock or suspend (it does not involve a GUI toolkit) or emitting desktop notifications (you don't ask a widgets GUI toolkit to do it for you, you just do it)—the behavior is up to the DE.

2025-03-12 20:38:48 CET

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For what it's worth, playing YouTube video kinda works here on Epiphany 47.2 on Fedora, and on the "Epiphany technology preview" flatpak version, but you might be encountering https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289194, or https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245852

2025-03-11 18:47:34 CET

Made some progress in investigating the likely cause of slowness for some #GNOMECalendar users who have a metric shitton of events to display: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1381#note_2375819
#Sysprof #performance #GNOME
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2025-03-09 22:35:09 CET

As courtesy, after I was recently made to comment on qBittorrent's ticket about supporting the XDG background application status APIs (i.e. the replacement for traditional system tray icons, and more), I have now provided that kind of information to the Transmission project as well: https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/5484#issuecomment-2709060231
#FreeDesktop #Wayland #Flatpak #Linux

2025-03-04 16:20:05 CET

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To my surprise, even Wikipedia shows Apache's #OpenOffice to be a security disaster :blobsweats: : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice#Security

2025-03-04 16:02:48 CET

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Regarding OOo vs LOo, it's not so much a matter of opinion, but a demonstrable fact that OpenOffice has been essentially abandoned and has not had a significant release in over a decade (while #LibreOffice, the successor, has had over 23+ major releases since then).
Apache's #OpenOffice is not only buggier & less featureful, it's also considered a security risk to be using it.
The chart at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org#Forks_and_derivative_software and comparison at https://openhub.net/p/_compare?project_1=LibreOffice&project_0=Apache+OpenOffice show the staggering difference

2025-03-01 22:16:51 CET

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Might we worth mentioning Epiphany (WebKitGTK) in the article for those who may be satisfied with a simpler browser that is still not based on Blink :blobcatcoffee:
Playing DRMed content with it isn't really an option, though.

2025-02-27 19:50:41 CET

For those worried about what's going on with #Mozilla's new T&C for #Firefox and seeking alternatives to Blink-based browsers (aka Chrome-in-a-trenchcoat), consider helping @npub1req…6fnv (a port of @npub1k5x…df3x), used by apps throughout the FreeDesktop.
#WebKit/WebKitGTK/WPE is effectively the only other mature/production-ready web engine you can use *today*, not many know that (see also https://github.com/Fyrd/caniuse/issues/6807).
I hedge my bets by simultaneously helping QA Firefox and Epiphany (WebKitGTK) for parity.

2025-02-19 19:06:19 CET

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The new system does a whole lot more than an icon on a panel. And it is likely to do even more in the future: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/whiteboards/-/issues/272
Sorry that we don't want to stick to Windows 95's limitations, but this is no different than apps being expected to respect the modern light/dark mode standard, the XDG user directories standard, the screensharing/webcam/microphone portals, the power management inhibition API, etc.
They need to get on with the programme. File tickets on those apps.

2025-02-19 00:50:43 CET

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I doubt they ever implemented the FreeDesktop background portal, nobody even made the request: https://github.com/search?q=repo:qbittorrent/qBittorrent+background+portal
In comparison, people have made such requests for other apps, from what I can see:
* https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/5484
* https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Fragments/-/issues/30#note_1909051

2025-01-15 15:19:25 CET

Alright, you FLOSS business folks with countless appointments and meeting invitations each month, hear me out: what if in @npub184x…2a9r we could have an integrated visual preview of the surrounding schedule context of an event you are being invited to? 🤔
Here's my ponies-on-rainbows suggestion for it (other #GNOME email clients are welcome to steal my idea): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/2950
#productivity #email #calendaring #FLOSS #Linux #meetings
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2025-01-12 22:03:50 CET

Can anyone running #GNOMECalendar on @npub1vnu…8mqn / #LinuxMobile find a way to trigger this #CalDAV synchronization backend heisenbug reliably enough to provide the requested debug logs or some proof of what is actually going on? Otherwise, our hands are tied: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/929#note_2318261
#PostMarketOS

2025-01-08 14:58:21 CET

Ever wondered why websites and web applications keep consuming CPU/power in the background with #GNOMEWeb?
This is the #WebKitGTK enhancement request I have filed to allow stopping the animations frame clock and telling websites that the window is not in focus (so that they can throttle themselves): https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285167
Not sure how widespread power throttling is among #web apps, but this provides a path for pretty significant power savings in #GNOME, #LinuxMobile & #embedded with #Wayland.

2025-01-05 22:48:27 CET

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Oh wow, new ultrawide wallpaper right there 😸
I love how it is simultaneously:
- Light and dark: not too light that it would burn my eyes in dark mode, but not so dark that it would fade away;
- Clean enough to not be distracting, but has some texture
- A reflection of the "interesting times" we live in
I see https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1052/light-in-the-darkness remains the old no-lucioles version compared to https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/artworks__2024-11-11_Light-in-the-Darkness_by-David-Revoy.html … is the coexistence of both intentional? I guess it's dark vs light theming 😉

2024-12-27 14:51:48 CET

Wow, #GNOMEPapers Nightly now has luminosity-based colour inversion for its night mode, preserving the general hue of colours!
Now comes the tricky part: having the ability to not invert images at all, particularly for photographic content: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Incubator/papers/-/issues/319
#GNOME #PDF #darkmode

2024-12-16 12:13:47 CET

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Hi Augusto!
I don't disagree with your message here, but you are using a photograph that I made, and that I did not license for public reuse. It is only meant for use on my personal website and on the @npub1fs8…frzz case study here: https://idmark.ca/project/gnome-foundation-annual-reports/
Please edit your post to not use photos from that page; either not have a photo at all (your post's topic doesn't seem to need one, IMHO) or use one that is actually public domain or CC licensed.

2024-11-03 18:12:59 CET

I cannot _believe_ that in 20 years of using @npub184x…2a9r, I had never realized until now that I could use this setting so that people in the emails header show up with cleanly readable hyperlinked names instead of "the name <the email address>":
Mail Preferences > Headers > turn off "Show full mail addresses in message preview"
So much cleaner, more compact and faster to look at, especially when you have 5-15 people in C.C.!
#GNOME #email #productivity #UX
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2024-10-25 05:35:36 CEST

Found this hilarious video on the planning struggles of tactful #email scheduling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CkIFzFBx1k
I feel so seen :blobsweats:
I'd seriously be willing to pay in a crowdfunding campaign for an indie dev to develop an @npub184x…2a9r GUI feature (whether in Core or as a plug-in shipped with the app) to schedule-send emails with #IMAP + #SMTP (& eventually #JMAP).
I added my usecases examples in this ticket's description: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/411
Know additional ones? Let me know here.

2024-10-21 19:44:40 CEST

With big thanks to @npub14s0…6hhn, we are now entering stage 3 of my evil plan to allow #GNOMECalendar (and other related applications like #GNOMEShell, among others) to let the user configure which day is considered the first day of the week, through the GNOME Settings application.
I really want to get this solved for #GNOME 48, because it's been a daily annoyance for me & others for a very, very, very long time: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/160#note_1872970

2024-10-21 17:28:40 CEST

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You will be pleased to hear that this is fixed for the upcoming Firefox 133 release: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1568722#c53

2024-10-14 20:32:53 CEST

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I think help is wanted here:
* https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/1688
* https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/2370

2024-10-13 06:42:41 CEST

Finally, an explanation for #GNOMESoftware's slow scrolling when browsing apps! Thanks to @npub1k8p…8h0m for finding out that it only happens when the mouse is over the items instead of "in the margin on the side"…
The fact that it is hundreds of times slower, however, was a rather unexpected finding :blobsweats:
I added some #Sysprof performance profiles to this ticket: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/2172
I wonder whether it's #GTK, the pixbufs, or something else in the #GNOME graphics stack 🤔
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2024-09-20 23:31:58 CEST

Ce samedi, c'est la Journée internationale du #logiciellibre, et je serai présent pour donner deux présentations/ateliers à l'ÉTS:
- Comment se familiariser avec #GIMP et le personnaliser pour les besoins de base
- Présentation de mon top-50 des applications #GNOME qui facilitent la vie au quotidien
Détails de l'événement ici:
- https://agendadulibre.qc.ca/events/2430
- https://www.rencontres-linux.quebec/event/21-ans-de-linux-meetup-au-quebec-1/page/introduction-21-ans-de-linux-meetup-au-quebec
#softwarefreedomday #Montréal

2024-09-15 22:21:49 CEST

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GNOME apps are reasonably consistent across the board, at least for shortcuts found in https://developer.gnome.org/hig/reference/keyboard.html

2024-09-07 17:45:16 CEST

Pro tip for @npub1dug…kxeq newcomer contributors: you can subscribe to specific labels/tags for newcomer-specific email notifications in a project.
If you go to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/labels for example, you can subscribe to be notified each time I tag a GNOME Calendar issue as newcomers-friendly (in terms of implementation difficulty).
You can of course also click those labels anywhere you see them in GitLab to see a list of issues filtered with that label.
#OpenSource #GNOMECalendar #GitLab #GNOME
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2024-09-06 03:52:31 CEST

Wait a damn minute, look at that pull request discussion and the diff as committed… the CTO of #Firefox has amended #Mozilla's "Neutral" position regarding #JPEGXL to indicate that their "cost" concerns are mainly about the security risks of a decoder being 100k lines of C++, and that they would be "open to shipping" a memory-safe decoder that meets their requirements?
And some folks at Google are going to write that implementation in Rust?!
I… I did not expect that.
https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064

2024-09-05 07:25:28 CEST

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Are you kidding me? I just bought a T480 less than a year ago because that was a huge leap into the future for me, and I still can't believe how ridiculously overpowered it is 😏

2024-09-03 17:13:20 CEST

I've always envied Adobe Reader/Acrobat users and tablet apps users who have forever been able to freely write on PDFs as if they are physical sheets of papers. Yes, you can use #Xournal++, but I want it as a streamlined UX built into my day-to-day #GNOME PDF reader app.
Although it was not implemented in #Evince, the #Poppler library has some support for ink-like handwritten #PDF annotations.
I have now put together usecases & broad ideas into this #GNOMEPapers ticket: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Incubator/papers/-/issues/236

2024-09-02 18:41:17 CEST

"Whaddyamean, you could remove the built-in spyware?
No no no, that's a bug, the removal option was not supposed to be available, let's fix that…"
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/2/24233992/microsoft-recall-windows-11-uninstall-feature-bug
I do pity the general population who has to be subjected to that sort of built-in data collection, and all the security and privacy problems it entails. Too bad #Linux is not even a blip on the public consciousness & cultural upbringing.
#Windows11 #WindowsRecall #SurveillanceCapitalism

2024-09-01 15:41:00 CEST

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Ah yes, just like how the Windows system crash screens are so detailed and helpful, with its bountiful logs and troubleshooting advice! That's *clearly* The Reason why it succeeded on the desktop™ :blobcatcoffee:
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2024-08-28 03:15:53 CEST

The last fundamental visual piece of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/39 (to clarify what's going on with hidden #calendars) has now landed in the nightly version of #GNOMECalendar, in time for #GNOME 47!
One extra #UX wishlist item remains to be done, awaiting a newcomer to implement it: an overlay toast widget after you import/create events into a hidden calendar, so that you can get a visual confirmation and a quick shortcut to show that calendar. Any takers? :blobmiou:
See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1185

2024-08-26 23:48:10 CEST

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 :blobaww:
Big props to @npub1hzd…902r for implementing this: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/merge_requests/440
#GNOME #transit #travel
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2024-08-21 02:55:50 CEST

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For what it's worth, Astra Monitor claims to be "performance-focused" and "Designed to be lightweight and efficient. Resources are only queried when needed. No polling. No wasted resources. Hidden components are not queried nor rendered."
Even then, I have configured it to set very slow refresh intervals, like "once per 3 to 10 seconds" for most things, particularly on my laptop, to have the smallest possible impact on energy consumption.

2024-08-20 16:45:29 CEST

The "Astra Monitor" lightweight system resources monitoring #GNOMEShell extension is seriously awesome.
Very useful to keep an eye on my system (without having GNOME System Monitor running all the time) to catch any runaway process eating excessive amounts of CPU or RAM over long periods of uptime, or to remind myself that I really need to free disk space because I only have about 600 megabytes left out of 2 terabytes :blobsweats:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/6682/astra-monitor/
#Linux #lifehacking
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2024-08-17 17:16:39 CEST

After the building's drain was finally unclogged yesterday, I noticed my siphon (P-trap) cleanout cap threading is imperfect, and water was slowly dripping out of it.
After cleaning the threading with a soapy toothbrush, I wrapped teflon tape (6 rounds, in the direction where you screw the cap on) on the thread, and used a Sharpie® to annotate my servicing technique (tool & rotation direction).
Forget pliers, use a jar opener; no excessive force, no damage.
#DIY #plumbing #lifehacking
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2024-08-14 20:34:53 CEST

With apologies to those who come at me every few months to complain that some of my toots have #hashtags within the contents instead of "after the contents", this is an argument that can never be won, as I illustrate below.
I'd rather see screen reader applications (or a11y-aware #Mastodon clients) automatically solve the problem by removing the hashtag and/or colors for those who don't want them. Otherwise, you're petitioning each individual instead of fixing the tools. Ya heard me, #MastoDev
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2024-08-13 15:20:41 CEST

I don't have a #LinuxMobile phone, but if I did, and I were to be using the #GNOME Snapshots app to take pictures, I would want to have exposure locking, focus locking and white balance locking and manual controls, like I do on #OpenCamera (incidentally, that's why I can take decent pictures on a phone, at all).
Here's the ponies-on-rainbows feature suggestion for this mobile #photography trick: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/snapshot/-/issues/215

2024-08-07 04:53:51 CEST

Wow, a friend of a friend gave me a #Monstera Deliciosa to thank me for giving them 2 🚲 to get settled in the city :blobaww:
I'm a bit worried as to how to not kill this plant. #houseplants don't do terribly well here when they need "bright indirect light", as my windows block 80% of rays outside visible spectrum, and it seems most plants & devices think it's dusk all the time.
Should I place it east-facing? Or 1-2m away from a south-facing window & gradually bring to the edge (acclimate it)?

2024-06-23 17:59:04 CEST

I find myself a bit surprised that banks, increasingly often, have random transient bugs preventing login with #Firefox (usually, if you try some hours/days later, it works), while logging in with #GNOMEWeb works fine during that time.
As a result, I'm increasingly starting to add banking websites as Epiphany "web apps", just-in-case. It also lets me pre-set the downloads folder to the correct folder.
I'm glad this exists as an alternative when needed.
#GNOME #WebKitGTK #banking #browsers

2024-06-03 05:58:30 CEST

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

2024-05-06 22:52:34 CEST

I have a huge amount of appreciation for the fact that Nautilus / #GNOMEFiles can seamlessly pattern-select, batch-rename and move files both from its treeview folders and from search results. *Extremely* useful to clean up filenames.
Today, in someone else's messy folders, I was able to cleanly rename everything and eliminate at least 30 duplicates in a directory that contained over 180 files, most of which were in the wrong locations.
#GNOME #productivity #gratitude