Notices by Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online), page 8

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

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

Working on our background portal implementation with @leolost

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

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

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

Two standard URIs we need in [current year]:

1. Music. I should be able to share a platform agnostic link to a song that your music service can match and open correctly

2. Maps. This one should be like especially straightforward. Why can’t I send you a link from Apple Maps that opens in Google Maps or Open Street Map or whatever.

Let’s go standards body people. I know y’all are on Fedi

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