Notices by Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online), page 7

Menubars are shit design and they should have been allowed to die https://mastodon.social/@agiletortoise/114797525277979539

I know I’ll never be rich person because as soon as I have anything at all, I’m treating and helping my friends. Can you imagine having a billion dollars and not giving it all away? I can’t

Gonna put on my evil capitalist business owner hat for a second:

Trying to appeal to a broader audience is bad for engagement.

If you want followers/customers/volunteers/community that strongly identify with your brand, you need to be confident in excluding people who don’t resonate with your stated values. The things that will create powerful brand loyalty with some people will be deal breakers for others, and this is okay. Being bland, generic, and safe is plainly unattractive

@gamingonlinux oh that’s super interesting to see “freedesktop SDK”. I’m guessing that’s where we show up haha

One last gay thought for pride month: if you’re someone who has never experienced discrimination you may not understand why we need pride and rainbows everywhere. When I see a pride flag, it tells me that I am okay to be here. I look for pride flags to know if a neighborhood is safe. I look for pride flags to know if a business will treat me with decency. It’s the bare minimum and the least effort and isn’t real activism and all the other things, but it’s something better than being openly hated

@thibaultamartin @killyourfm Yeah my favorite shots are often of inanimate objects so I love using my little 50mm lens and getting lots of that depth of field. Especially for food photography or flowers etc.

I still need to really learn how to edit properly 😅

@killyourfm I love my older Canon Rebel. I need to shoot with it more. Phone cameras just can’t compete with proper sized lenses imo. Not sure how new you are to DSLR photography but I personally love shooting in aperture priority mode because like you said capturing the right feeling of depth is so important and satisfying. Can’t wait to see more photos!

Besides that this looks like an app for controlling your vibrator, the glass version of this icon is imo way nicer compared to some of the other ones
https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/114763002832532877

Don’t forget to spend some time telling yourself some hot girl shit. You are that bitch. You get the things you want. You are fine as fuck. Your haters are just mad they can’t have you 🩷

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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™

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

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 😊

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

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