Notices by Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo) (nekohayo@mastodon.social)

@OrionKidder so this sounds like your storage hardware is dying and you might need to replace it ASAP, not actually a bug in Pika? Though it could be worth checking if it's error messages were unclear and could be improved. @Photor

Wishing good luck to #LinuxMint maintainers to weather the incoming storm of user complaints after replacing "type-ahead find" by "filtering-as-you-type search" in the upcoming Nemo release: https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/commit/11df68ccb3ca1

We've done that 14 years ago in #GNOME in Nautilus and we still see complaints about it to this day, along with "There's no split view anymore!" Folks don't realize #GNOMEFiles devs being able to eliminate ⅓ of the codebase makes it actually maintainable & optimizable :blobsweats:

@cwebber Thanks! Pretty big surprise indeed, what a great start of the week! :blobcat:

Just discovered the existence of Hiromi Uehara as a Grammy Award winning Japanese #jazz composer and musician, and wow this particular performance of hers is A+ top-tier musical trolling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpc1lEJ-SRc

Very happy about the new @gnome release, and I'm proud about what my fellow contributors have accomplished together in this cycle. Tons and tons of bugfixes and new features! The release notes at https://release.gnome.org/50/ cover a small portion of the most user-visible changes, but there's a lot more to discover.

Meanwhile, in the #GNOME hashtag…

(after 40 minutes of reading through https://fedi.absturztau.be/notice/B4O8ucxRQoQyBxrrpg, I cannot imagine a more insane thread in the #fediverse)

#FLOSS #OpenSource #gratefulness

After 1.5 years in the making, @gnome Papers 50 will let you create freestanding text & ink annotations on PDFs (using a Wacom tablet stylus, for example), i.e. drawing & handwriting (to circle things or sign documents the old-fashioned way, or highlighting on scanned documents): https://lbaudin.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/blog/posts/drawing-writing-with-papers/

Used it in practice today. I've been hoping for this for about 20 years.
Papers nightly is such a massive improvement!

Thank you @lbaudin for implementing it :owi:

#GNOMEPapers #PDF #Poppler

@forteller It's already been requested:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/5052
and https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/412

@forteller Other than https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/2913 and https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/1688, what remains slow for you in Software?

For years I have been hoping for a FLOSS alternative to "Adobe Scan", the Android app to scan receipts (essentially) with automatic cropping + deskewing + cleanups + OCR, and there was nothing… until three months ago, where #FairScan just materialized out of the blue, and I discovered it today: https://www.fairscan.org

Your turn, #LinuxMobile, time to make #GNOME's "Simple Scan" application "camera-ready" 😉 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan/-/issues/344

#Mozilla choosing to kill embeddable Gecko (make it a #Firefox only engine, essentially) over a decade ago was such a tragic mistake.

Alternative browsers & desktop apps had no choice but to go with WebKit or Blink/Electron.

As a result, Mozilla have nobody to blame but themselves for their minuscule marketshare and nil developer mindshare today.

Further readings:
* https://lwn.net/Articles/436412/ (circa 2011)
* https://www.chrislord.net/2016/02/24/the-case-for-an-embeddable-gecko/ from @Cwiiis
* https://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/the-gecko-monoculture/ from @Yoric

#OpenWeb

Another notable feature merged in the GNOME Calendar live coding session today: the ability to export an entire calendar as an .ics file.

This was originally added to the wishlist 10 years ago: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/31

Thanks to @FineFindus's dedication towards implementing this (alongside the individual event .ics export feature) this year, you will be able to use this feature in #GNOME 50 (or the nightly flatpak version of Calendar today): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/615

#GNOMECalendar #calendaring

This week, Georges "feaneron" Stavracas will be doing livestreams between 11h to 14h Brasília Time (14-17h UTC) while working on merge requests reviews in #GNOMECalendar!

The first session is planned this Tuesday here: https://youtube.com/live/CpgrEcG_KCE

Don't miss it if you want to learn practical @gnome GObject C #programming from a wizard :blobwizard:

#GNOME

Let's make GNOME's biggest keyboard-centric workflow easter egg a bit easier to discover: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/whiteboards/-/issues/351

#GNOMEShell #GNOME #windowmanagement #productivity

GNOME is finally dropping ancient X11 / Xorg code from the "Mutter" compositor & window manager: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/4505

All those 27,000+ lines of ancient C code across 183 files will finally be lost in time, like tears in the rain 😌

I'm looking forward to the benefits of a more maintainable codebase, QA, and bug tracker. In 2026, I think we'll need help to clean up hundreds of old X11-specific bug reports.

#lean #GNOME #sustainability #programming #Wayland #Linux #FreeDesktop

Found why the #Bluetooth behavior in #GNOME was so confusing to me over the years: while my computer (and the gnome-bluetooth backend) supports connecting & pairing multiple devices at once, it turns out that #BlueZ sometimes reports some devices as disconnected when reactivating Bluetooth… so I end up accidentally disconnecting a device when I think it is not already connected :blobpats:

…as discovered in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/8692, it turns out to be a BlueZ issue… but BlueZ has no bug tracker 🫠

A CPU / power savings idea for "GNOME Settings": I'd like the WiFi networks, Bluetooth devices and sound levels to stop doing measurements and animations when the user interface is hidden or not focused. Pretty sure that would save some significant amounts of battery life when you leave gnome-control-center open in the background.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/3263

#GNOME #energyefficiency

@joojmachine
Oh my god, Pied JUST WORKS!
I can't believe my ears! :psyduck:

I just installed Pied's flatpak package, let it install Piper, then downloaded the best English voice I could find ("Lessac", the basis for most other voices), and told Pied to set it as the Speech Dispatcher voice…

Now Orca sounds natural, and I can stand using it, for the first time in 20 years. :blobmiou:

Video below demonstrates reading this post.

#Orca #SpeechDispatcher #accessibility #Pied #Linux #texttospeech

My eyes are so itchy and watery (presumably due to seasonal allergies) that I haven't been able to get much work done in the past few days. I'm writing this toot with my eyes closed most of the time. 😑

Dear #accessibility hivemind, is there an easy way to have #Orca working with a natural-sounding text-to-speech voice, that is not eSpeak, but rather something like #MyCroft's Mimic3 ?

What's the state of the art for screenreader TTS voices on #Linux and how do I get it in #Fedora?

#a11y

Thanks to @s3phy again for helping me understand another area where IPv6 is broken in Linux desktop networking configuration tools: connecting to a SSH server to create a SOCKS proxy using the NetworkManager SSH plugin. That thing only checks if the gateway address is a valid IPv4 address :blobpats:

I reported the issue here: https://github.com/danfruehauf/NetworkManager-ssh/issues/130

#IPv6 #networking #sysadmin #réseau #réseautique #UX #SSH #proxy #VPN #GNOME #Linux #NetworkManager

In case some of you #FreeDesktop + #Flatpak security/permissions sandboxing enthusiasts have particular areas of interests within the #GNOME portals, I have now created GitLab issue triaging labels for what seem to be the most prominent ones, that you can use or subscribe to for selective notifications :blobcatcoffee:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/-/labels?search=portal