Valentin David

By the way, I use GNOME OS. Before it is cool.

Home page: https://valentindavid.com

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2026-04-15 20:16:02 UTC

GNOME OS's systemd-repart built DVD booting under 10 minutes on real hardware. Soon available in systemd 261! https://youtu.be/AWBVCl0RatU #dvd #asmr #gnomeos #systemd #retrocomputing #uefi #speedrun

2026-03-27 14:45:01 UTC

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My guess gnome-shell https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/blob/main/js/portalHelper/main.js?ref_type=heads
Maybe it is missing something to allow webkit to zoom in.

2026-03-27 14:36:10 UTC

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As in changing the font size? Or the window?

2026-03-27 14:15:15 UTC

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It could be gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-control-center, gnome-shell, webkitgtk, NetworkManager.

2026-03-27 14:12:46 UTC

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that depends what the issue is

2026-02-18 10:12:11 UTC

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Also it shows up in the "Files" section of the overview. So it should open Files. If you search for a contact, it shows in Contacts, and opens in Contacts. It does not call it.

2025-06-25 18:34:22 UTC

Thanks to the work of pioneers from #postmarketos it is actually easy to install any Linux OS on some phones. Here is #gnomeos on a OnePlus 6 that was installed through USB using systemd-repart. A few tweaks here and there, but it is almost stock GNOME OS.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/745/422/989/642/767/original/c2e1167b8b78cec1.jpg

2025-05-02 10:20:54 UTC

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I was looking at our openQA tests of GNOME OS, and the smoke test for the screen reader is incomplete. We only test the text to speech part, and not the screen reading. But I suppose the test was written before it was finally fixed. I will see if we can complete the test. Though a smoke test is good to not deploy something completely broken, we need people to raise issues for the details. I hope we will get you back to the Linux community.

2025-05-02 08:07:09 UTC

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The screen reader works. That sounds like an old issue. I remember some years ago, Orca did not even work on Wayland. Then there has been a lot of work, specially with Gtk 4.

2025-05-01 14:38:48 UTC

We have finally retired the old #gnomeos installer image, and replaced it with the new live image. So now you can actually test GNOME OS before you install it. Get it at https://os.gnome.org/

2025-02-18 22:52:35 UTC

Typically Linux distros have a live system to run an installer that installs a second system. What if instead, we booted from the ISO into the installed system and saved it to disk in the background while already using the system. I call it prêt-à-booter image, and I have made a demo for GNOME OS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gG96DwtUgM

2025-02-12 21:31:46 UTC

Finally, I have managed to make an hybrid ISO live image of GNOME OS that uses the same UKI and /usr partition as the main image. That is without using dracut. So now we will be able to test GNOME OS on Boxes without going through the installation.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/993/047/285/411/125/original/7aca9c95366c45a3.png