@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… I'll make this point:
― if a person likes GNOME without systemd, then the person does not really like GNOME.
Need to be realistic about the paths chosen by developers; about consensus.
When Apple took paths that I could not tolerate, I stopped using Mac OS X. And so on.
@…
@denis@det.socialZumindest vom USB-Stick startet Ubuntu (ich sollte erstmal aufgrund des Touchscreens ein Linux mit Gnome verwenden und ich gehe erstmal keine Frickel-Risiken ein…). Nun erstmal Frühstück, später dann Installation.
@JSkier@social.linux.pizza
@heiseonline@social.heise.deGnome 50: mach’s gut, X-Server!
Das Jubiläumsrelease des Linux-Desktops Gnome befreit sich endgültig von uraltem X-Server-Code, bietet sonst aber vor allem graduelle Verbesserungen.
https://www.heise.de/news/Gnom…
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaOk, something other than politics for a minute. Browsers.
I started daily driving Gnome Web around the time the new Mozilla CEO announced the AI-heavy focus for the company going forward. I'm not having any problems with WebKit as a rendering engine, but I think the interface leaves a bit to be desired for my uses. Here's my complaints.
- The interface takes up too much screen real estate on small laptop screens
- Bookmarks are currently not even working for me
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@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.socialHeute vor 64 Jahren: Am 31.03.1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 26. Atombombe "Chinchilla II". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 61/62 insgesamt 45 Bomben im Testgebiet in
@niklaskorz@rheinneckar.social
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialwhat a mess lol
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/3987
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizzaI just donated to the GNOME foundation as a thanks for giving me a nice desktop. I usually give once a year to show appreciation for their work and to contribute to the continuing work on the DE. I think KDE did the right thing asking for donations, so if you are on GNOME and have the means - make a donation
https://donate.gnome.org/
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… interop is great. Other factors are great.
The 'What’s changing?' section of Adrian Vovk's June 2025 blog post also touched upon why change was appropriate. This was eyebrow-raising:
＂… code was initially implemented for GNOME 2.24, and is starting to show its age. It has received very minimal attention in the 17 years since it was first …
@Tuxramus@social.linux.pizzaI de-ubuntified Ubuntu and have it on Vanilla GNOME. It's working much better now. The 2015 MacBook pro will work great. #linux
@eichkat3r@hessen.socialmich nervt es wenn programme eine plugin schnittstelle haben aber keine möglichkeit damit alle funktionalitäten des programms zu erweitern
zb kann man wohl in gimp keine zusätzlichen tools zur toolbox hinzufügen sodass man sich immer durch menüs klicken muss
es lohnt also nicht wirklich für wiederkehrende tasks ein plugin zu entwickeln
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@niklaskorz@rheinneckar.social
@UP8@mastodon.social
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
mr. Gnome:
🎵 Psychonaut
#mrGnome
https://mrgnome.bandcamp.com/track/psychonaut
https://open.spotify.com/track/7qZMZ8cOZYGNCpzfIe8xtt
@stefan@gardenstate.social
@knurd42@social.linux.pizzaThings I somewhat dislike about #Fedora Linux:
Its inconsistent approach to shipping new major versions upstream released as regular updates.
New major versions of kernel, firefox, thunderbird, and kde are regularly shipped as regular updates, mesa often as well (except when it's not 🙄) – gnome, libreoffice and a few other things otoh are never updated.
This "neithe…
@fell@ma.fellr.net
@publicvoit@graz.socialRE: #GNOME test run after a couple of months and switched to KDE.
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialTroubling signs that the Linux demographic at the Register is now made up of people yelling at the clouds.
https://linuxmom.net/@vkc/115867723149851024
@vyskocilm@witter.cz
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI feel like desktop GNU/Linux nowadays (especially around #GNOME) is a lot like: "Do you recall this thing #Android does that you really hate? Good news, everyone, we just copied it to our application, and you can't switch back!"
#FreeSoftware
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… for convenience, and anchored:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/blob/main/CONT…
@lil5@social.linux.pizzaGnome is a ___ desktop environment
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.socialHeute vor 64 Jahren: Am 28.03.1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 25. Atombombe "Hoosic". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1961/62 insgesamt 45 Bomben im Testgebiet in
@LorenAmelang@vivaldi.net@… I wish there was. System76 support moved me to Gnome and still can't get me connected - at least from my iPad...
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.orgSomething on my #NixOS is starting `ssh-agent -s` (PID1) and it drives me mad because I can't find what it is. I use programs.ssh.startAgent=true, which sets the SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/ssh-agent, which I want. In the dumb tty (CTRL ALT F2) I get that value. Interactively in XFCE I get SSH_AUTH_SOCK=~/.ssh/agent/*bla*, which I don't want. Gnome keyring is disabled, that gcr ssh thing…
@teledyn@mstdn.cathis is exceedingly strange and the only obvious symptom is gtk-keystores failing to open, and a search on those can only suggest creating fresh accounts and copying over from all previous, which is far more work than blowing away #Ubuntu and starting over with #Debian13, but this SHOULDN"T be so mysterious and require such drastic measures! All that happened was perhaps an auto-update, but gdm3 rejects the first login then accepts none further, and gnome-shell --wayland will run, but highly crippled, hotkeys disabled, and many programs will not run.
Today's tech puzzle I did not ask for 😞
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaObvious inflammatory rhetoric.
Also, "because X11 did it that way" is the single stupidest reason possible for deleting a feature that has been standard on *nix platforms since the 1980s.
@chrysn@chaos.socialStarting the year with a drive-by contribution to the hamster time tracker.
I find that noteworthy because I'm going back to the time tracker I enjoyed using until 2018, when due to the project announcing EoL (IIRC) I switched to charmtimetracker.
Now that too is EoL since 2023, but hamster development did continue after 2018, so hey, could have saved myself a lot of annoyance by sticking with the software I like and patching it up where needed.
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaI don't really care about memory tbh. But these funky quickshells use around up to 1.4Gb on clean startup. That's Gnome territory. No one complaining?
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizzaDoes KDE or GNOME have hardware requirements?
Like minimum amount of ram or CPU architecture? GPU as well, might need a minimum of something.
I mean technically they do, I wonder if they have been formalized.
@vyskocilm@witter.cz @knurd42@social.linux.pizzaI use middle-click-to-paste in #Gnome a lot.
I nevertheless think it's wise that developers want to turn it off by default.
@mrysav@social.linux.pizzaI've been a GNOME user primarily for... probably over a decade at this point, occasionally trying #KDEPlasma. Nothing particularly bad about GNOME but recently been having some issues with scaling and theming so decided to try Plasma 6 and I think it might stick this time!
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.socialHeute vor 64 Jahren: Am 23.02.1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 19. Atombombe "Cimarron". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1961/62 insgesamt 45 Bomben im Testgebiet in
@janneke@todon.nl
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza @teledyn@mstdn.casomething I didn't need for a Sunday morning: my #Ubuntu 25.10 media machine will no longer login via gdm3 since the last upgrade, I can use a console to run gnome-shell -wayland without issue, but the gdm3 (even re-installed) just returns to the list of users and after the first attempt will no longer offer to enter passwords and hangs.
I did inadvertently leave my keyboard unlocked and two cats in the house left unattended, but it was logged into the guest account, so I doubt they did this 😅
Curiously their snap-edition "firefox -kiosk <url>" now also hangs.
I don't want to spend too much on this: as soon as no.4 son drops by to unlock the broken Win10 and fetch his stuff, I will wipe the thing to install Debian 13 anyway.
@stargazer@woof.tech
@luana@wetdry.worldTuba is one of the few gtk/gnome design app that manages to make a mostly good desktop app, having a sidebar and stuff, but then you'll see them doing stuff like you need to click on the pfp in order to see a profile preview instead of just hover, and in order to actually open the profile you need to click the preview's pfp???? Who tf thought this was a good idea??? And not adding cross-account actions bc the dumb gnome awful design guidelines say "right click bad"???????
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaRepository is now public. Right now this is just called Swb, or Simple Web Browser. Open to naming suggestions.
Swb is being written in Vala using WebKitGtk. I've been daily driving Gnome Web since Mozilla's new CEO decided that Mozilla should be an AI company, but I'm cheap (actually quite poor) and have a crappy laptop with a small, low-resolution screen and I hate that there's no way to reduce the size of the interface. That was the original motivation, anyway.
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.socialHeute vor 64 Jahren: Am 19.02.1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 17./18. Atombombe "Chinchilla I" & "Codsaw". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1961/62 insgesamt 45 Bomben im Testgebiet in
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaYep, like this I'm getting nowhere. Another splendid rabbithole. I need to focus!
Did you know PostmarketOS has a desktop image as well? Not just for a phone, but a full-fledged DE? Neither did I. It's based on Alpine, and one image lets you choose between the likes of Gnome, KDE, Xfce, Cosmic. And that KDE is very sleek and up to date!
Gonna give that a longer go. Thanks @…
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaI mentioned a little while back that I was considering starting a new browser project using WebKitGtk. The result, written in Vala, is nearing minimum viability. Right now it's nothing special, just a simple tabbed browser that's missing a lot of features, but the skeleton is good and you already get some goodies that Gnome Web doesn't give you:
- Ability to hide the tab bar
- Ability to hide the address bar and other controls
- When the tab bar is hidden, am overv…
@LorenAmelang@vivaldi.net@… I've since found if I VNC into my RasPi5 and run Remmina there, it can RDP into Gnome on Pop. The same login credentials fail in every iPad app.
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.socialHeute vor 64 Jahren: Am 15.02.1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 16. Atombombe "Hardhat". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1961/62 insgesamt 45 Bomben im Testgebiet in
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone
Ronnie Hilton:
🎵 The Laughing Gnome
#RonnieHilton
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe @luana@wetdry.worldGnome was a fucking disaster for design
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.socialHeute vor 64 Jahren: Am 09.02.1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 15. Atombombe "Armadillo". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1961/62 insgesamt 45 Bomben im Testgebiet in
@Davey@social.linux.pizzaLFS101
A kind soul on mindly.social pointed me to the Linux Foundation's free Intro to Linux course. I'm slogging through it, learning bits. I'm in the fifth module, and have just learned a bit that I can use I loaded gnome-tweaks, and it may have allowed me to ease a nuisance. I'm patient enough to work my way through this intro, and hopeful.
One nice feature for me is that the presenters are more fluent in English than some of the W3 creators whose modules I'…
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.socialHeute vor 64 Jahren: Am 08.02.1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 14. Atombombe "Stillwater". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1961/62 insgesamt 45 Bomben im Testgebiet in
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.socialHeute vor 64 Jahren: Am 06.03.1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 22. Atombombe "Ermine". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1961/62 insgesamt 45 Bomben im Testgebiet in
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.socialHeute vor 64 Jahren: Am 05.03.1962 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 21. Atombombe "Danny Boy". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1961/62 insgesamt 45 Bomben im Testgebiet in
