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

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

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

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 :)

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

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

Happy 6,000 followers to me 😍 Thank you all you lovely people who find my content entertaining. I appreciate you for giving me a platform to spread my extremely homosexual anti-capitalist agenda

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Queer Liberation Now 🏳️🌈 Black Lives Matter ✊🏿 Nazi punks fuck off

I think this is one of the hardest lessons for liberals to learn:

They’re not gonna pick you. You can’t be “one of the good ones”. They’re going to call you a commie anyways. They’re going to say you were violent anyways. When you “go high”, they lie about and nobody will believe you.

Respectability politics does not work

All lesbians should be huge trans advocates. There’s only so many queer women. And they’re trying to ban the technology to create more

I’ve said it before, but my biggest pet peeve and #1 way to make me dismiss your complaints is saying that we—open source software developers—don’t care. I’m not a billion dollar corporation. I’m not even a million dollar corporation. Most years I’m not even a $100k corporation. The *only* reason I do this at all is because I care.

@kara you’re damn right. Have you seen how fat we are? Didn’t get that way from making shitty food, I tell you hwat

@libreleah There’s no charitable way for me to interpret that you know about the project’s leadership and still say you’re “excited” about it. My opinion is pretty much the same as Jess’ who you called arrogant. I hope you reconsider your stance and the harm you do to others by involving your identity in this endorsement

@libreleah its extremely disappointing to see that this is your stance. I feel like you should know better than this. This really changes my opinion of libreboot as a project.

@dalias I think it’s important to note that Wayland is in itself exactly an example of standards, is a freedesktop project adopted across multiple desktops, and has actually pushed the adoption of many more cross-desktop standards like Portals that have even increased toolkit compatibility with macOS and Windows. And also folks working on Wayland compositors absolutely do care about and support accessibility use cases. Let’s please stop this nonsense about idealizing X11

@alwayscurious We’re doing our best with extremely limited resources. If you have the ability, please get involved, even if that just means filing issue reports

@dalias

For any maintainers on GitHub, I found this great free block list https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/issues/40

But again any element where they crank up the opacity looks great. So maybe they will change these values before release 🤞

UI constantly flipping colors to try to maintain contrast. I dunno dude. This doesn’t feel better to me :/

I think in the shell the transparent elements work a lot better. But as soon as you have more complicated UI and any kind of busy background it’s just overwhelming visually. I would really crank up the blur and/or make elements more opaque

The realistic refractions are like a neat tech demo but ultimately I think it’s worse UI design. It reminds me of how in game design there are limits to introducing realism before it stops being fun. Like a realistic city builder that’s all parking lots. Congrats on the realistic simulation I guess

This is rough :(