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danie10@squeet.me
Danie

KDE is Making its Own Distro, and So is GNOME

The image shows a computer screen displaying the system settings of what seems to be a KDE Plasma desktop environment. In the foreground, various system settings options are visible, including input & output, display & monitor, and connected devices. The background features a cartoonish landscape with soft, pastel colors. The main focus is on the system settings menus, with file manager windows showing in the center. There is also a small 'Apply' button at the bottom, which suggests some configuration changes have been made.
KDE’s distro won’t be the same as their KDE Neon (which is Ubuntu based) but it is uncertain whether the new one will replace KDE Neon (I think not because of the differences).

What is known about KDE’s new distro is the following:

  • Be the recommended KDE operating system with stability and user experience as priority
  • Offering a secure experience
  • A focus on modern technologies (kind of like Fedora)
  • Immutable core
  • Wayland by default
  • Close to rolling release schedule

The immutable core is pretty interesting, as that is a newer approach that I’ve not gone for yet. So we’ll only know for sure once there are versions out for testing.

It does look like they are trying to marry the benefits of a rolling release with stability, through the immutable core, good testing, and probably built-in rollbacks etc.

And it looks like GNOME is going for a very similar approach too.

See news.itsfoss.com/kde-gnome-off…
#Blog, #gnome, #KDE, #linux, #technology

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gehrke_test@libranet.de
Paula Gentle on Friendica

Vor 2 Wochen habe ich den #Schreibtisch im frisch renovierten #Arbeitszimmer wieder aufgestellt. Nun ist auch ein vernünftiger #Arbeitsstuhl da und ich erarbeite mir stückchenweise die ergonomischste und energiesparendste Arbeitsumgebung. 1 PC, zwei Notebooks mit Dockingstation, 4 externe Monitore, eine Tastatur und Maus - aber bitte nicht alle gleichzeitig immer an. Und die primär genutzten Systeme ergonomisch optimal positioniert.

Das ist ganz schön tricky und man muss viel probieren - final verkabelt wird erst zum Schluss. Und was ich erst jetzt nach Jahren kapiert habe: Die #Monitorsteuerung von #Gnome kann man an die physischen Gegegenheiten anpassen. Wenn die Monitore über Eck angeordnet sind, dann kann man das so auch modellieren. Und wenn man dann ein Fenster vom Monitor oben auf den unten rechts verschieben will, dann ist das auch der Weg mit der #Maus.

Das ist sehr hilfreich - und das habe ich jahrelang nicht kapiert. Autsch!

#EinmalMitProfis #Monitor #HomeOffice #Bandscheibe

Screenshot Monitorsteuerung Gnome - 3 Monitore in L-Form angeordnet

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mkwadee@diasp.eu
Khurram Wadee

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

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gehrke_test@libranet.de
Paula Gentle on Friendica

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

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prplcdclnw@diasp.eu
David

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

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fla@diaspora-fr.org
Fla

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.

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