#gnome

mkwadee@diasp.eu

I can finally say I've upgraded successfully to #Fedora40. It was not without hassle this time and it started with what seemed to be a system that did not even give me a prompt after #rebooting, although the update process had seemed to go smoothly and quickly. Luckily, the virtual screens were working and so I could #login to a #shell. Although #sddm didn't seem to be working, #kdm was and so I was able to open a desktop session, but only in #Gnome. There were still problems running #kde #programs such as #konsole and #korganizer as some #qt #libraries were missing. Installing those allowed the programs to run. Also, no #audio devices were being detected and so I couldn't play any clips, etc.

Today I found that #kwin was also lacking a library (#qtsensors) and so after that was installed and I rebooted the machine, I found that sddm was working again and so I could log in to the #kde session that I usually do. Also, the #sound issue was solved by removing the directory #wireplumber from ~/.local/state.

#GNU #Linux #Fedora #F40 #FreeSoftware

gehrke_test@libranet.de

Ich habe den Eindruck, dass die Standardsoftware von #Gnome mit der Zeit immer unbrauchbarer wird. Mit dem aktuellen #Fedora ist der Viewer für Bilder 'Eye of gnome'. Damit kann man Bilder nicht mehr auf die Schnelle um 90° drehen.
Alternativ gibt es noch den 'Bildbetrachter' - der kann drehen, aber dem fehlt die Möglichkeit, das Bild dann zu speichern.

Soll man jetzt für diesen Standardjob Gimp starten? Das ging doch ein Jahrzehnt lang out-of-the-box.

Nicht gut...

#WTF

prplcdclnw@diasp.eu

GNOME Is Malicious

So says the MPV (the media player) man page.

I agree. I hate GNOME 3. They also ignore XDG (freedesktop.org) standards.

GNOME is one of the worst offenders, and ignores even the now widely supported idle-inhibit protocol. (This is either due to a combination of malice and incompetence, but since implementing this protocol would only take a few lines of code, it is most likely the former. You will also notice how GNOME advocates react offended whenever their sabotage is pointed out, which indicates either hypocrisy, or even worse ignorance.)\
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Such incompatible desktop environments (i.e. which ignore standards) typically require using a DBus API. This is ridiculous in several ways. The immediate practical problem is that it would require adding a quite unwieldy dependency for a DBus library, somehow integrating its mainloop into mpv, and other generally unacceptable things.\
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However, since mpv does not officially support GNOME, this is not much of a problem. If you are one of those miserable users who want to use mpv on GNOME, report a bug on the GNOME issue tracker: https://gitlab.gnome.org/groups/GNOME/-/issues

#gnome #gnome3 #standards #malice #ignorance #screensavers #idle-inhibit #bug #mpv #de #desktop-environment #hypocrisy #sabotage

fla@diaspora-fr.org

So, the #GNOME Foundation has a new executive director.

Official announcement: https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/10/17/foundation-welcomes-new-executive-director/
Article on Phoronix: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Foundation-New-Director

She's defining herself as a shaman: https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1415943-gnome-foundation-names-a-new-executive-director?p=1415977#post1415977

And they are apparently not comfortable with that, as the website has been removed. But it's archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20231017185521/https://www.hollytheshamanartist.com/about

I hope the best for the project. She is supposed to be skilled in other domain, like fund raising. But probably that was probably not a good pick.

tekaevl@diasp.org

If all goes to plan, Nautilus’ new two-panel look will roll out to all when GNOME 45 is released in September.

The new design extends Nautilus’ sidebar to the full height of the window, gains the title “Places”, and becomes the new home for the file manager’s hamburger menu:
https://www.omglinux.com/nautilus-split-pane-gnome-45/
#gnome #linux #nautilus
#update
#exposed #aEvl_us