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

Every once in a while I see reviews for elementary OS that are like, “This is not for beginners. I figured it out because I’m super smart, but a normal person would have a hard time rsyncing files to their NAS”

Your idea of what normal people want to do with their computers is fucking wild dude

Gen Z and Alpha are basically tech illiterate as a population. It’s only millennials and Xers that do any kind of file management at all. It was a fad. The way you use computers was a fad

OS 8.0.1 blog post being published right fucking meow https://blog.elementary.io

“Ugh can we just ignore all the social issues and focus on the technology?”

No. Lmao. Absolutely the fuck not

OS 8.0.1 RC2 is now available for sponsors at https://builds.elementary.io

This build contains a number of new releases with bug fixes, including a fix for Flatpak runtime updates. Enjoy testing that over the weekend. Hoping to release to general public next week :)

Let's go 🚀

https://github.com/danirabbit/notes/pull/9

Little weekend project shaping up here https://github.com/danirabbit/notes/pull/7

elementary OS 8.0.1 RC is available right now from https://builds.elementary.io for GitHub Sponsors. Expecting to release to the general public next week with a new blog post etc. Tons of bug fixes. A few new creature comforts. Linux 6.11 etc

I’m sidequesting on AppCenter a bit here. Having fun. I submitted a branch to show a label when apps have in-app purchases—very common in game launchers—and a branch to switch category views to using ListModels, a first step in porting to Grk.GridView which should improve performance and resource usage

Fell down a rabbit hole playing with showing screenshots in search results. Performance is awful, but very fun proof of concept https://github.com/elementary/appcenter/pull/2272

And merged in super fast search in AppCenter, shoutouts @leolost 🚀

Quick Settings update is out! Enjoy the new user switcher. Excited to get feedback and iterate on its design 🎉

oh I'm so excited for this! It's gonna be so dope https://github.com/elementary/dock/pull/361

Got approves from each team and then some! Excited to adopt contributor covenant as our new community code of conduct! https://github.com/elementary/website/pull/3721

Just merged some AppCenter branches from @glitchypixel. We now properly filter screenshots based on environment! So if developers provide Pantheon screenshots for their app, we show those instead of GNOME/KDE ones. And if they provide light/dark mode screenshots we show the right ones. Plus a couple bug fixes for release notes. Gonna see if there’s any other low hanging fruit here and prepare a release

“Why did the design change?” “How come no more minimize?” “Why can’t I reposition the dock?”

Did a branch to fix a bug in the new user list in quick settings. Once that’s merged I think we can release new quick settings.

I also have an AppCenter release proposed with a number of fixes and the new filtered screenshots

After that I think we can spin an iso build and make sure it has the new HWE and get this 8.0.1 release out

Also working on WebDAV for online accounts: https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-onlineaccounts/pull/301

Just merged a branch into desktop settings to also set the `enable-animations` key that is respected by GTK and Adw.Animation, so for folks that use the Reduce Motion setting, this is a huge win and will disabled a ton more UI animations

By popular demand I’ve also submitted a few branches today to take steps towards porting the Bluetooth daemon to GTK 4. I have tabs open to check where we’re at with various other ports.

I’m still having trouble sitting for extended periods, so I’m definitely less productive than usual but we’re still getting stuff done :)