Notices by Brage Fuglseth (bragefuglseth@fosstodon.org)

It's wild how popular #Reddit is considering how ridiculously bad it is as a technical product.

I know a lot of people switched to the new #Adwaita fonts right after their conception, but I've actually sticked with Cantarell 'till the very end except for some light testing. Just upgraded to the latest Fedora beta with the new fonts, and it's a whole new world!

This is the culmination of years of discussion and research by many people, but @monster deserves a special thanks for spearheading this particular solution and pushing the initiative over the finish line once and for all.

#GNOME

@BrodieOnLinux I don’t think it was one particular well-defined event per se, but rather just obscene amounts of traffic from AI scrapers over time. @barthalion probably has a better answer.

@forteller I think that’s why @razze wrote that second paragraph 🙂

Iotas has been accepted into GNOME Circle! Iotas aims to provide distraction-free note taking, and lets you sync your notes across devices with Nextcloud.

Learn more on the Apps for GNOME website:

https://apps.gnome.org/Iotas/

#GNOME #GNOMECircle #Iotas

Keypunch was super easy to integrate with Discord's rich presence feature because it has so many game-like characteristics. However, I didn't expect that people would put it in, like, their actual video game libraries, until someone recently asked if I could upload some Keypunch assets to SteamGridDB and Lutris. So, um, here you go, I guess! Relevant assets have been submitted for review on their respective sites.

https://github.com/bragefuglseth/keypunch/pull/100

#Keypunch #GNOME

I'm digging this new @flathub section promoting mobile apps!

#Flathub

Keypunch 5.0 is out! This update brings:
- A system warning displayed when attempting to log out in the middle of a typing session
- Integration with your Discord status when using it alongside Keypunch
- Better utilization of available screen space on small sizes
- Text generation for Basque, Finnish, Romanian, and Vietnamese
- Arabic, Basque, Kabyle, Romanian, Russian, and Swedish user interface translations, making Keypunch available in a total of 23 languages

#GNOME #Keypunch

Libadwaita's new adaptive testing feature has motivated me to finally fix Keypunch's mobile layout! The configuration dropdowns are now moved down to the text view on narrow screen sizes. It was pretty easy to accomplish with the new multi-layout widgetry. Amazing how far we've come on the adaptivity road now.

#libadwaita #Keypunch #GNOME

Trying out some experimental libadwaita changes in Keypunch 👀

@forteller https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/Whiteboards

@tbernard I've been thinking of writing a piece on applying to Circle, that would also include tips about looking through the entire review checklist before applying, being somewhat responsive to the reviewers during the process, etc. Some common papercuts could totally be included in that.

I just pasted a Reddit link to share with someone privately here on Mastodon, and got notified by @Tuba that it had removed a tracking parameter from the link! This kind of QoL improvement is what I think takes an app from good to great.

Seems like there is some interest in having a local #GNOME meetup in #Oslo 🇳🇴, where I live. Not a hackfest or anything Berlin-level (yet), just an informal meeting in an easily accessible place, for both contributors and anyone else who is interested and happens to live nearby.

Does anybody here have any previous experience with this? What is it like? What is there to talk about? What kinds of venues are best suited? Any other useful pieces of advice? I could go on and on… 😂

@forteller At that point I’d rather just change it to something completely different, to be honest.

@anselmschueler It's not arbitrary CSS restyling, at least. That's what people have defined "themes" as previously.

@anselmschueler If any sort of restyling was out of the picture, we wouldn't have light/dark mode either. This system still provides app developers with full control, as they can choose to opt out. If they don't, though, there is only a limited set of possible colors to account for, as opposed to an infinite amount of arbitrary CSS.

@Baa

> Oh, and thumbnails in the file-picker seriously wth is with that.

Already exists, has been there for a year or so

@delegatevoid

If you’d like something that sorts and organizes your library: GNOME Music.
https://apps.gnome.org/nb/Music/

If you want to just select a file or a folder and play it in a stylish fashion: Amberol
https://apps.gnome.org/nb/Amberol/

@forteller bare å glede seg til GNOME 46 - høydepunktene inkluderer at Files, Software, Settings og hele GNOME Shell har fått flunkende nye og fullt dekkende oversettelser, og at datoen i topplinjen endelig blir korrekt formatert etter norsk rettskrivning! (fra mars 17 til 17. mars) 😁