Notices by Jeff Fortin T. (nekohayo@mastodon.social)

Just merged a newcomer's contribution to enhance GNOME Calendar's ability to fit on medium-sized window widths, by rounding the approximate weather forecasts' temperature values to integers: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/982 (fractions of degrees didn't make sense in this context)

Yahoo! :blobmiou:

Now can we get some additional eyeballs to collectively review this related bugfix? https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/523

That way more of you can have working forecasts again.

#GNOMECalendar #weather #UX #GNOME

@forteller The new system does a whole lot more than an icon on a panel. And it is likely to do even more in the future: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/whiteboards/-/issues/272

Sorry that we don't want to stick to Windows 95's limitations, but this is no different than apps being expected to respect the modern light/dark mode standard, the XDG user directories standard, the screensharing/webcam/microphone portals, the power management inhibition API, etc.
They need to get on with the programme. File tickets on those apps.

@forteller I doubt they ever implemented the FreeDesktop background portal, nobody even made the request: https://github.com/search?q=repo:qbittorrent/qBittorrent+background+portal

In comparison, people have made such requests for other apps, from what I can see:
* https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/5484
* https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Fragments/-/issues/30#note_1909051

After many more hours of testing and investigation on Saturday night, then three more hours last night to analyze and summarize that discussion's insights, here are my latest findings on the @gnome file manager's "slow cold-loading of the view's contents for folders with many files" performance issue :blobsweats:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/3374#note_2353755
I has the potential to be as fast as Thunar.

I bet it would speed up all views, even search.

#Nautilus #GNOMEFiles #Sysprof #performance #GNOME #Linux #Thunar

It looks like an independent contributor has built on top of Martin Stránský's patch over the past few months, and reached the "It works!" stage of porting #Firefox from @GTK 3 to 4 today: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1701123

My first-ever real-world "mission-critical" calendar event scheduled in a foreign time zone using the new #timezones GUI from the nightly version of #GNOMECalendar (coming in @Gnome 48)… it JUST WORKS™!

Upon creation, the event got synchronized to my Google calendar, and Google's web interface had no trouble recognizing the timezone I have set in the event. No incompatibility that I can see. Fabulous.

I've waited so many years for this moment :blobmiou:
Thank you @titouan_real !

#GNOME #Linux

Today @kabushawarib landed a sixteen-hits performance enhancements combo in Nautilus / #GNOMEFiles "nightly"! These should help various parts of the app feel a bit faster in #GNOME 48. The improvements are listed here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/merge_requests/1626#note_2330546

@thomholwerda The accurate take is rather:
experienced user interaction designers understand that software is a LOT more robust and maintainable when you reduce the exponential support matrix and bugs vector that superfluous options represent.

This video summarizes the core struggle in very concrete statistical terms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRvmS0mABC0

Ever wondered why websites and web applications keep consuming CPU/power in the background with #GNOMEWeb?

This is the #WebKitGTK enhancement request I have filed to allow stopping the animations frame clock and telling websites that the window is not in focus (so that they can throttle themselves): https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285167

Not sure how widespread power throttling is among #web apps, but this provides a path for pretty significant power savings in #GNOME, #LinuxMobile & #embedded with #Wayland.

"Switcheroo" by @adhami is a fantastic batch image conversion utility for #GNOME, and it is one of the few ones that actually uses #MozJPEG for encoding #JPEG images. I use it to optimize my photographic images for the web (until #JXL takes over the web someday) emails, or other lightweight image purposes.

Much faster than the Yoga image optimizer (which uses an excruciatingly slow JPEG encoder at the moment) or than encoding images only one at a time with Squoosh!

https://flathub.org/apps/io.gitlab.adhami3310.Converter

Wow, #GNOMEPapers Nightly now has luminosity-based colour inversion for its night mode, preserving the general hue of colours!

Now comes the tricky part: having the ability to not invert images at all, particularly for photographic content: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Incubator/papers/-/issues/319

#GNOME #PDF #darkmode

Oyez, je vous présente… le sélecteur de titres de #transportcollectif de #ARTM pour la grande région de #Montréal, zones A+B+C.
La stupidité absolue d'avoir une technologie comme la carte Opus, le futur de demain de l'an 2008, et maintenir l'incompatibilité entre les régions avec… 5 types de cartes Opus. On ne peut mettre des billets "zone C" sur une carte Opus standard montréalaise.

Le #Québec n'a jamais rattrapé son retard face à la carte Octopus de Hong Kong de 1997.

#publictransit

Testing large file uploads through Nautilus' GVFS, some #WebDAV servers (like #NextCloud) be like, "Bro, there's no way this will fit 😳"… but the web interfaces have no such problem.

If someone would like to implement "chunked stream" uploads (and maybe some sort of checking for "Request Entity Too Large"?) in #GNOME's virtual filesystem library to solve this problem, here's the opportunity: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/-/issues/775

One of the oldest #GNOMECalendar core feature requests might become possible in #GNOME 48: basic timezones editing for events (brought to you by @titouan_real)!

If you would like to help, grab the flatpak artifacts (or build yourself using GNOME Builder) from this branch/MR, and test it thoroughly, so that it can hopefully land bug-free into nightly: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/516

As this is experimental for now, we recommend you back up your data and test using only spare/throwaway calendars.

@augustocc
Hi Augusto!
I don't disagree with your message here, but you are using a photograph that I made, and that I did not license for public reuse. It is only meant for use on my personal website and on the @ideemarque case study here: https://idmark.ca/project/gnome-foundation-annual-reports/

Please edit your post to not use photos from that page; either not have a photo at all (your post's topic doesn't seem to need one, IMHO) or use one that is actually public domain or CC licensed.

"I left the Settings app running" shouldn't be a laptop battery killer.

Anyone interested in significantly lowering power consumption of the #GNOME Settings (control center) app when idling on the WiFi, Bluetooth or Sound panels? My suggestion is to throttle the hell out of it when the window is not in focus: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/3263
This is not an unheard of idea, it's been done in the gaming industry (I saw #PathOfExile doing exactly that, when I last played… a long time ago) :blobcatcoffee:

Another #GNOMEShell workspaces UX papercut that would be easy for a #GNOME newcomer contributor to implement: showing the workspace switcher on-screen-display indicator when you have workspaces on all monitors and you are switching between them.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/8105

@forteller @kdwk
I think help is wanted here:
* https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/1688
* https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/2370

Finally, an explanation for #GNOMESoftware's slow scrolling when browsing apps! Thanks to @kdwk for finding out that it only happens when the mouse is over the items instead of "in the margin on the side"…

The fact that it is hundreds of times slower, however, was a rather unexpected finding :blobsweats:

I added some #Sysprof performance profiles to this ticket: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/2172

I wonder whether it's #GTK, the pixbufs, or something else in the #GNOME graphics stack 🤔

@forteller GNOME apps are reasonably consistent across the board, at least for shortcuts found in https://developer.gnome.org/hig/reference/keyboard.html