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

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 :)

Workspace switcher was just merged into the dock! So folks in Early Access will get it in their updates either later today or tomorrow: https://github.com/sponsors/elementary

Got my laptop set up again for dev so I can hack in bed and ice. I proposed some more GTK4 porting branches for Calendar and Terminal

@davidmhewitt released a new version of our Flatpak platform, so we’ll be updating apps with that soon. Should mean a new version of Web with big performance improvements soon!

Last couple branches here for Quick Settings and AppCenter and then I think we can release OS 8.0.1. So even though I know I haven’t done a blog post in a minute here, I think it’s worth waiting just a little longer 😅

Wake up babe, new GestureController just dropped! https://github.com/elementary/gala/pull/2258

And a branch to open multitasking view if you click a workspace switcher item that you’re already on. Now it’s super easy to get a window spread for your current workspace with just the mouse. I’m so excited for when this ships. This whole thing is just coming together and feels like a massive productivity boost

Been trying to go through and set the new “Type” property for GitHub issues. In most repos, fewer than half of issues are bugs. Most open issues are feature requests. Across the entire org there are 4.9k open issues. So far I have a little over 200 of those confirmed as bugs. In several repos there are 0 open bug reports. Gonna keep categorizing to get a clearer picture of how many bugs there are and where they are and try to squash ‘em 🙂

Oh hell yeah dude https://github.com/elementary/gala/pull/2293

Oh we're fucking cooking dude https://github.com/danirabbit/notes/pull/8

The kind of fascinating thing about doing notes this way is that it’s theoretically a web page so you can kind of do anything, but I’m curious to see what is actually supported in apps

Fastmail’s editor on the web just has basic formatting, size, colors, links, lists, alignment

iOS notes will let you do a lot of wild stuff but I don’t know how much of it is specific to iCloud because they don’t give you anything but plain text if the account is not iCloud. Which I guess is safe, but also lame

Actually found a fix for Flatpak runtime update errors. Turns out it was Ubuntu apparmor shenanigans. Proposed a branch, waiting on review.

Also proposed a few other releases with bug fixes. So maybe a few more days for OS 8.0.1 but I think worth it

Apparmor profile for bubblewrap is in daily now. Waiting on an approval for release to stable. Got a few other releases out in the meantime. Will do another RC build as soon as I get the approve on that release. OS 8.0.1 imminent

Doesn’t work yet but https://github.com/elementary/appcenter/pull/2279

Jubilee’s “Middle Ground” is part of the alt right pipeline. It exists to platform and normalize extremist ideas and rhetoric

The middle ground between anti-racism and racism is still racism.

The middle ground between queer liberation and queerphobia is still queerphobia.

The middle ground between feminism and misogyny is still misogyny.

“We ended woke! No more DEI!”

*planes start crashing*

*economy crashing*

*rockets, believe it or not, also crashing*

@killyourfm gonna go out on a limb here and say @bazzite.gg