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

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

@cwebber It starts as a simple social gathering meeting time coordination problem, and ends up with a squad of catgirls fixing your whole infrastructure and bugfixing your scheduling tools with laptops in a cafeteria near an abandoned warehouse kitted up as if for a rave :BlobhajfBlobbyHug:

@deadsuperhero @paige
It would be good for this fediverse event to be added to https://agendadulibre.qc.ca (anyone can do so, IIRC) so that it shows up in local flossies' calendars; if someone didn't point me to some random forum post about it, I wouldn't have known about the event…

While I'm here, I am summoning a wild @cwebber because that is probably Relevant to Her Interests™ :blobwizard:

@faoluin @cwebber "Montreal, UwU"? No need honey, I was told we already have an UwU in Montreal: https://allevents.in/montreal/uwu-fest/200027854151957

@cwebber I believe we last saw each other... In 2009 here? I'm still around and would be happy to see you again. Hit me up / call me maybe? :BlobhajfBlobbyHug:

As we are making good progress on #accessibility for GNOME Calendar lately (big thanks to @TheEvilSkeleton there) I have now rewritten and updated the description of this meta ticket to reflect the current status: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1036

15 of 28 checklist items completed as of May 22nd, 2025, based on what issues I've been able to find so far.

#a11y #GNOMECalendar #GNOME #keyboardnavigation #screenreaders #Linux

@forteller Where would you use it other than in Nautilus? I can't think of any place where this would be used cross-apps, considering that Nautilus is also the file chooser.

@serge I have good news for you: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5072/one-thing/

I would also want integration in https://github.com/getting-things-gnome/gtg/issues/948

After GNOME 48's dynamic double/triple buffering, what I'm really looking forward to see, eventually, is #Mutter being able to recover from GPU state resets: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/3305

On Linux, the open source AMDGPU graphics drivers in #Mesa are infamous for making everything lock up in your face like that.

I'm just crossing my fingers and hoping this will happen by the time distros collectively ditch X11 in favor of #Wayland.

#FreeDesktop #Linux #AMDgpu #GNOMEShell

Wait a minute, the "Extension Manager" app from https://flathub.org/apps/com.mattjakeman.ExtensionManager has an "Upgrade Assistant" feature to batch-check all your #GNOMEShell extensions for compatibility with the next #GNOME version, and nobody among you has told me about it?!

And it's not even mentioned as a bullet point in the app's features list?! :psyduck:

This "Upgrade Assistant" hamburger menu item deserves to be more widely known.

I'd want Nautilus (and thus the #GNOME file picker UI) to stop trying to search multiple times per second while I am not nearly done typing the search query, as I consider that to be extremely wasteful, conceptually. Pounding the CPU+GPU "faster than I can think & type" is counterproductive.
If you don't "feel the jank" like I do, then think about the wasted energy (especially on battery power):
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/3452#note_2382115

#performance #EnergyEfficiency #PowerManagement #LinuxMobile #GNOMEFiles

It's a bit unfortunate that the @omgubuntu article about #GNOME 48 summarizes #GNOMECalendar 48's whole release as one line that says, "Calendar offers various Event Editor dialog improvements"
…when the Calendar app landed one of the most fundamental productivity (and format compliance) features of the last 12 years (after many, many months of design & development work): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/2

Found a new image converter GUI app that can do batch #JPEGXL lossless conversion (rarest thing on earth, seriously?), but it's not on Flathub, it only provides Ubuntu and appimage packages, and the README says, "The recommended way of using XL Converter is through the official binary releases. The building process is time-consuming and tedious."

I don't expect it to be packaged for Fedora, so yeah, I guess I'm making a wish for an official #flatpak version here: https://github.com/JacobDev1/xl-converter/issues/95

#JXL

@pnutzh4x0r For what it's worth, playing YouTube video kinda works here on Epiphany 47.2 on Fedora, and on the "Epiphany technology preview" flatpak version, but you might be encountering https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289194, or https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245852

@forteller GUI toolkits deal with widgets.
The backgrounded app status is not a widget.