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   Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 04:29:29 JST Danielle Foré

   This kind of thing makes me really love our community. We’ve cultivated a culture where the details matter 🩷 https://github.com/elementary/shortcut-overlay/pull/157#discussion_r2094044066

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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 04:29:23 JST Danielle Foré

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     Did some more indicator stuff this week and took a detour into trying to make the upgrade path for Bluetooth indicator easier which took me into some other Bluetooth things.

     My little Friday Funday project today was a redesign for Bluetooth Settings! This uses some new Gtk4 features for dealing with ListModels and should improve screen reader accessibility: https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-bluetooth/pull/246

     Zé Andarilho repeated this.
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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 04:29:23 JST Danielle Foré

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     There's a number of bugs to fix, but I have a basically minimally usable GTK4 panel building from source 🎉

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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 04:29:24 JST Danielle Foré

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     • leolost

     I know I just posted a thing about resting, but I had a splinter in my brain 😅 The first GTK4 panel indicator is now building in Daily! You won’t be able to use it unless you manually compile the gtk4 panel—and then you’ll lose all the gtk3 indicators—but it’s there! Shoutouts @leolost for porting it :)

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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 04:29:24 JST Danielle Foré

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     I think Monday I’ll try to get as many indicators building in daily as possible and then try to get Applications Menu building before the end of the week possibly. So could be maybe a viable gtk4 panel situation even if it’s a bit buggy just to test? I dunno. Might be a bit optimistic but we’ll try

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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 04:29:24 JST Danielle Foré

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     Wasn't able to finish the GTK4 port of applications menu this week, but several indicators are now building in daily!

     Decided to animate some icons for my friday fun day

     https://github.com/elementary/quick-settings/pull/122

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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 04:29:25 JST Danielle Foré

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     Getting into more applications menu GTK4 porting. There’s a lot of keypress handling stuff that’s kinda janky. Replacing things with event controllers. Fixing some bugs along the way 💪

     Like, check this out. Saved 50 lines by using a built-in feature of Gtk.SearchEntry https://github.com/elementary/applications-menu/pull/643

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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 04:29:25 JST Danielle Foré

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     • aaron

     New release of Shortcut Overlay being published in a couple hours. This release is now screen reader accessible! Thanks again to @fireborn for pointing it out. Inching towards a full accessible desktop. Reminder again that if you encounter any issues—accessibility related or not—to report them in GitHub! I want to know about them and I want to fix them :) https://docs.elementary.io/contributor-guide/feedback/reporting-issues

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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 04:29:25 JST Danielle Foré

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     Okay latest on panel GTK4 porting is that Quick Settings is now ready for review! Sound, Power, and Applications Menu are all that’s left. I’m making really good progress on Applications Menu and Power just needs to be cleaned up, it’s basically ready for review as well. Maybe Gtk4 panel in daily by July? Cross your fingers 😊

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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 04:29:26 JST Danielle Foré

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     New releases of Online Accounts and Display settings coming at you! Fixed a few crashes with multi-monitor and an issue with signing into Caldav accounts where the port isn’t specified

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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 04:29:27 JST Danielle Foré

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     GTK4 porting often means rewriting some very old and very janky code 😅 I’m currently getting into Applications Menu and Sound Indicator and woof. At least this will probably mean bug fixes to do things The Right Way™

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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 04:29:27 JST Danielle Foré

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     There’s about 3 people right now working on ARM builds for running on—for example—M series Macs. So far they’ve got it booting in a live session but installation is failing: https://github.com/elementary/os/pull/754

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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 04:29:27 JST Danielle Foré

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     Little update on issue triage progress:

     📨 4.7K total reports across the org, including website, docs, actions, etc
     📊 ~2K reports sorted by type

     🐞 47% Bugs
     🪄 44% Feature requests
     👩🏻💻 9% Tasks, Tech Debt etc

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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 04:29:27 JST Danielle Foré

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     If we can solve ~20 issues/mo it’ll only take 8 years until no bugs 😅 Luckily a lot of these are duplicates or can’t be confirmed or were fixed but the report wasn’t closed. So the final total should be fewer. But issue triage is serious work!

     If you want to help:
     * look at this list: https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aelementary+++&type=issues&state=open&s=created&o=asc
     * leave a comment if something was fixed, you can’t reproduce, or you found a duplicate issue
     * 👍 react if you can confirm the issue still happens

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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 04:29:28 JST Danielle Foré

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     • aaron

     I’m so grateful that @fireborn has been hanging around in our community lately. Thanks to his feedback we’ll soon be publishing updates to make the shortcut overlay and notifications visible to the screen reader!

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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 04:29:29 JST Danielle Foré

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     • Leo :spinny_cat_gay:

     We’re about to do some really cool stuff with Launcher actions! @lenemter has a couple branches so you can create keyboard shortcuts for any app OR any app’s actions: https://github.com/elementary/settings-keyboard/pull/536

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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:54:37 JST Danielle Foré

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     I’ve started down a dangerous path that I fear is going to lead me to learning math that I don’t want to know

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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:54:37 JST Danielle Foré

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     • Florian

     Today I went through my notes from @zersiax’s recent accessibility live stream and made branches for things that were straightforward to fix and issues for things that might take some more time and consideration.

     It feels really good to be able to take action. It’s one thing to say, “as an org we support [marginalized group here]” but to be able to actually do something material scratches my imposter syndrome itch in just the right way

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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:54:37 JST Danielle Foré

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     • leolost

     Working on our background portal implementation with @leolost

     https://github.com/elementary/dock/pull/394

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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:54:38 JST Danielle Foré

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     One of those days where a lot of hours reading docs and prototyping and making mistakes doesn’t convert to the GitHub contributions graph 😅

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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:54:39 JST Danielle Foré

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     Also, Drag n Drop and event controllers in general in GTK4 are so good. Really fantastic work. The toolkit just keeps getting better at making it easy to do hard things

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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Jul-2025 04:54:39 JST Danielle Foré

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     Trying to create a proper swipeable row widget for Gtk4 instead of abusing Adw.Carousel, which means learning to make some multitouch primitives for Granite and thinking of a sensible API for adding swipe actions

     https://github.com/elementary/granite/pull/881

     https://github.com/elementary/granite/pull/880