Notices by Cassidy James :eos: :gg: :fh: (cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family)

As such, the GNOME UI font test repo has been updated based on Inter 4.1. If you’ve been trying Inter/the new font out on GNOME, make sure you update!

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-ui-font

(If you didn’t know, we’re testing a modified version of Inter with one change so far: cv05 or “lower-case L with tail” enabled by default to give it a bit more legibility and familiarity for those coming from Cantarell, the current GNOME default font.)

#GNOME #GNOMEdesign

Inter 4.1 from @rsms is out!

https://github.com/rsms/inter/releases/tag/v4.1

It includes a bunch of little fixes and improvements, but my favorite (and relevant to GNOME!) is that the automatic contextual alternate converting NxN to N×N has been disabled; this was pointed out while testing on GNOME, where it would feel weird seeing e.g. filenames or URLs where the letter “x” would unexpectedly look like the “×” multiplication symbol.

#Inter #GNOME #typography #typefaces #typeface #font #fonts #OpenSource

I wrote up our experience at #GodotCon24 over on the @EndlessOS blog!

We had a good time, and Berlin was a unique experience. :)

https://www.endlessos.org/post/the-endless-tech-team-goes-to-berlin?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=organic_social

#Godot #GodotEngine #GodotCon #OpenSource

The number one thing I miss from elementary OS since switching to Fedora and Endless OS: case-insensitive bash completion. I know I can just configure it myself, but… can we just do that by default, please? 🥺

Edit: yes, I’ve used fish, zsh, etc.—but they were never compelling enough to me to switch, especially when I can just add one line to my bash profile to get case-insensitive tab completion. I’m not looking for recommendations; I’m talking about defaults.

#GNOME #Fedora #EndlessOS #Linux

Also, for someone unfamiliar with the Fedora change proposal processes… how would I go about recommending something like this? It’s a one-line change in the default profile, but I imagine people will have Opinions™ about it.

Do I have to go through like a whole technical change proposal process or something?

#Fedora

Linux-on-mobile folks: I hope you’re paying attention to the new Linux VM stuff in Android 15.

I genuinely think one of the most important approaches to building the Linux mobile ecosystem is to enable people to get (and fall in love with!) our app ecosystem on the phone *and OS* they already use.

It’s critical to build the whole experience (like we see with GNOME and PostmarketOS), but we need to meet people where they are, first.

#Linux #Android #LinuxMobile #OpenSource #GNOME #postmarketOS

Going forward, it looks like we might be able to get actual Linux apps running on modern Android through a built-in VM, similar to what you can do on ChromeOS today.

If you think that’s too nerdy for most people, you’re probably right—but it’s *much* simpler and lower-barrier than flashing an entirely new OS and abandoning the entire ecosystem they’ve been using for the last decade or more all at once for an ecosystem that frankly isn’t ready.

#Linux #Android #LinuxMobile #OpenSource #GNOME

The other direction is getting Android apps to run on Linux phones, which while interesting, seems backwards to me. It’s getting ahead of ourselves—let’s get these awesome modern adaptive apps that we’re building in the hands of more people and show them what an app ecosystem that respects you, your time, and your privacy looks like—then they’ll be clamoring to get the whole OS on their next phone. :)

#Linux #LinuxMobile #GNOME #OpenSource

What kind of app development “platforms,” “technologies,” or “communities” exist for Linux apps, where you might follow certain practices for designing/developing/distributing your app? There can be overlap between them. So far, I have:

• GNOME
• GTK
• Ubuntu
• KDE
• Qt
• Web app
• Electron
• Flutter
• Rust (iced?)
• Chromium-based
• Firefox-based
• Godot Engine
• Other game engine

Are there others I’m missing? Especially apps that are (or should be!) on Flathub.

#Linux #Flathub #LinuxApps

Yesterday I was using a little site I threw together for Endless OS¹ and I nerd-sniped myself into making it better (within the constraints):

https://eos-apps.endlessos.org/

¹Endless OS uses Flathub out of the box, but for legacy licensing reasons, there are a handful of these old apps that can’t really be updated that we continue to host on our own Flatpak remote. They never used to be browsable, which made it hard to determine if any should be included in a custom build of Endless OS!

You may notice it’s based on the similar site I made for elementary OS forever ago:

https://appcenter.elementary.io/

It’s a neat little hacky project that uses GitHub Actions to refresh the metadata used to build static pages.

If anyone wants to upstream improvements from the Endless site back to the elementary one, feel free—I probably can’t justify spending work time on it right now when my last PR to unbreak the site² has been sitting approved but unmerged since August.

²https://github.com/elementary/appcenter-web/pull/96

Oops, it happened again! @cas flashed @postmarketOS onto my old Pixel 3 this time. This is becoming a pattern! 😝

#GNOME #PostmarketOS #Linux #LinuxMobile #Berlin

Is it possible—and relatively easy, I guess—to make an Electron app that doesn’t look and feel like an Electron app on Linux? Specifically I guess I’m thinking: more integrated/client-side window controls and rounded corners/shadows instead of sharp edges.

Alternatively, is there a way to support Widevine in a non-Electron app? 👀 Thinking about the path towards actually-supported streaming apps on Linux.

@mkhl that’s pretty wild! I’d love to see an extension that does it pretty subtly so I could try it out, but I imagine some people would not like the added color that brings to everything.

Don’t directly embed social media posts in your article if you want to be considered a journalist. When you embed a tweet, for example:

• Twitter tracks every visitor to your article
• Those tweets are counted as being viewed, which amplifies them further
• Privacy-conscious, bandwidth-constrained, and other readers get a blank space instead of the context
• The embedded tweet can be edited or removed after publication

Why are you giving that control over your reporting to Twitter?

I kinda hate spreadsheets, but sometimes I need something a little smarter than a plain notes app for tracking things and doing simple calculations.

Is there some sort of in-between that:

• has a good web app or native Linux app

• can be shared (e.g. so my partner and I can collab)

• works well on mobile (Android or PWA)

• is free or reasonably-priced w/out a subscription

White people in ski town: “Dear Native American, please come paint art about the struggle of native peoples.”

Lakota artist: *Paints a piece referencing Palestine, with proceeds supporting the UN Crisis Relief Fund*

White people in ski town: “Stay in your lane!” *Revokes residency program*

https://coloradosun.com/2024/05/10/danielle-seewalker-artist-residency-gaza-vail/

#Colorado #Palestine #Gaza #Israel

TIL Fedora is packaging a web browser app I developed for elementary OS, stopped updating over three years ago, and marked as end-of-life two years ago—yet it happily shows up in Fedora 40 if you search my name. It crashes on launch, so it doesn’t even work…

WHY??

#Fedora #Linux

@bragefuglseth @Baa there’s still the bug last I checked where the directory has to be thumbnailed by Nautilus before new thumbnails will show up; the file picker does not trigger thumbnailing of new files.

This will probably be resolved by switching the file picker to be provided by Nautilus, but idk.

“AI” as currently hyped is giant billion dollar companies blatantly stealing content, disregarding licenses, deceiving about capabilities, and burning the planet in the process.

It is the largest theft of intellectual property in the history of humankind, and these companies are knowingly and willing ignoring the licenses, terms of service, and laws that us lowly individuals are beholden to.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/tech-giants-harvest-data-artificial-intelligence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ik0.Ofja.L21c1wyW-0xj&ugrp=m

#AI #GenAI #LLM #LLMs #OpenAI #ChatGPT #GPT #GPT4 #Sora #Gemini