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Why I think the GNOME designers are incompetent

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 27th of June 2022 08:41:01 AM Filed under
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But GNOME folk didn't know how to do this. They don't know how to do window management properly at all. So they take away the title bar buttons, then they say nobody needs title bars, so they took away title bars and replaced them with pathetic "CSD" which means that action buttons are now above the text to which they are responses. Good move, lads. By the way, every written language ever goes from top to bottom, not the reverse. Some to L to R, some go R to L, some do both (boustrophedon) but they all go top to bottom.

The guys at Xerox PARC and Apple who invented the GUI knew this. The clowns at Red Hat don't.

There are a thousand little examples of this. They are trying to rework the desktop GUI without understanding how it works, and for those of us who do know how it works, and also know of alternative designs these fools have never seen, such as RISC OS, which are far more efficient and linear and effective, it's extremely annoying.

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GNOME Devs Bring New List View to Nautilus File Manager

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 27th of June 2022 01:41:50 AM Filed under
Development
GNOME

Switching from GtkTreeView (which remains available in GTK4) to this new version is said to offer a number of advantages, and offer ‘full feature parity’ with two (temporary) exceptions (that are being worked on in separate branches).

But putting that to one side, what benefits does this switch provide (besides a codebase that’s more malleable and modern)?

Well, say hello to rubber banding — at long last you can now select multiple files/folders in list view simply by dragging out with your mouse, just like you can in the icon view...

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New Version of ArcMenu GNOME Extension Released

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 27th of June 2022 01:39:28 AM Filed under
GNOME

If you’re not familiar with this GNOME extension — it’s one of the best GNOME extensions around — it offers a traditional app menu experience for GNOME Shell. All sort of layouts are available, ranging from simple setups styled like the Start Menu in Windows through to more exotic arrangements evocative of more niche operating systems.

The latest version of Arc Menu includes updated styling of the search entry box used by many of the extension’s most popular layouts, along with a new setting to modify the border radius of the input field where it shows. A bug fix: it’s now possible to paste content into the search field using ctrl + v.

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This Tool Allows to Customize Ubuntu 22.04 GNOME Desktop with Advanced Settings

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 25th of June 2022 06:12:45 PM Filed under
GNOME

Want to configure the top-bar, dock, overview and other Gnome shell components with more settings? Shell Configurator is now updated with GNOME 41 & 42 support.

It’s an extension for add, remove, configure, and customize GNOME Shell with advanced settings.

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Builder GTK 4 Porting, Part VII

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 25th of June 2022 06:06:09 AM Filed under
Development
GNOME

It’s been another couple weeks of porting, along with various distractions.

The big work this time around has been deep surgery to Builder’s “Foundry”. This is the sub-system that is responsible for build-systems, pipelines, external-devices, SDKs, toolchains, deployments-strategies and more. The sub-system was starting to show it’s age as it was one of the first bits of Builder to organically emerge.

One of the things that become so difficult over the years is dealing with all the container layers we have to poke holes through. Running a command is never just running a command. We have to setup PTYs (and make sure the TTY setup ioctl()s happen in the right place), pass environment variables (but to only the right descendant process), and generally a lot more headaches.

What kicked off this work was my desire to remove a bunch of poorly abstracted bits and we’re almost there. What has helped considerably is creating a couple new objects to help manage the process.

The first is an IdeRunContext. It is sort of like a GSubprocessLauncher but allows you to create layers. At the end you can convert those layers into a subprocess launcher but only after each layer is allowed to rewrite the state as you pop back to the root. In practice this has been working quite well. I finally have control without crazy amounts of argument rewriting and guesswork.

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This Week in GNOME: #49 New Views

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 24th of June 2022 08:15:58 PM Filed under
Development
GNOME

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from June 17 to June 24.

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Clapper GTK Video App Bags Performance Boost in Latest Update

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 24th of June 2022 07:24:34 PM Filed under
GNOME

I’ve written about this GStreamer-based GTK media player before, but it was a while ago and I haven’t mentioned it since. It’s actually added quite a few new features since then, including experimental and entirely opt-in Pipewire support.

The latest version of Clapper, version 0.5, introduces a ‘new and improved GSrreamer video sink’. This switch introduces performance improvements and lays groundwork for future performance in the future, and handles overlay of subtitles.

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Pango 1.90

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 23rd of June 2022 08:00:08 AM Filed under
GNOME

I’ve finally convinced myself that I need to make a Pango 2.0 release to clean up the API, and introduce some new APIs without breaking users that expect Pango to be very stable.

So, here it is… well not quite. What I am presenting today is not Pango 2.0 yet, but 1.90 – an unstable preview of the coming changes, to gather feedback and give some heads-up about whats coming.

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Giving up on GNOME To Do

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 22nd of June 2022 03:35:56 AM Filed under
Software
GNOME

Seven years ago, back when I was a university student living with my parents and with lots of free time in my hands, I created GNOME To Do to help me organize my Google Summer of Code tasks. It was a fantastic time of my life, and I had the privilege of having time to procrastinate on writing productivity tools without earning a single coin on it.

Over the years, however, things changes. I married, moved to a new home with my partner, adopted a lovely dogga. Had to deal with the sucky parts of life like paying bills, planning meals, doing groceries, therapy, relearning how to live and operate under ADHD, taking care of myself and people around me.

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This Tool Enables Live Clock on Wallpaper of Ubuntu 22.04 GNOME 42

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 21st of June 2022 08:27:10 PM Filed under
Software
GNOME

Would like to display digital clock and date in your desktop? Desktop Clock is a new extension to do the job in GNOME 42.

It’s an extension that so far works on Ubuntu 22.04, Fedora 36, Arch and Manjaro Linux. With it, you have the date and time display on desktop with customisable appearance.

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