@johl@mastodon.xyz"This project is unmaintained and has known security issues. It is foolish to use this software to process untrusted data“,
says the README of libxml2, a library that many other Open Source projects depend on.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2
@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
@stefan@gardenstate.social
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaThe hidden gem. Another one.
Did you know Alpine Linux has a vibrant community, delivering the latest desktop environments?
KDE Plasma 6.5.4, of course. But also Gnome 49.2.2? And, since y'day afternoon already, Cosmic 1.0?
That's the one I'm gonna go for.
Unexpected, but really amazing. Don't tell too many people 😂
#alpine
@UP8@mastodon.social
@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
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.socialHeute vor 64 Jahren: Am 13.12.1961 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 8. Atombombe "Mad". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 61/62 insgesamt 44 Bomben im Testgebiet in #Nevada
@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.
@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.
@fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.de
@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/
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgRE: https://mastodon.xyz/@garrett/115862350560186190
Exactly.
I use "focus follows mouse pointer" with Gnome which is kind of an uncommon setup but it's not "removed" but just requires tweaking one setting. Middle Click Paste co…
@vyskocilm@witter.cz
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeIs it important to know that FreeBSD 15 does not include GNOME Web?
Yes and no.
Epiphany doesn't work with YouTube.
Oops!
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnLRVb8xdT0>
FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE is release engineered. The ports collection, which includes GNOME We…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk'xmllint' is a general XML utility; I mostly use it for pretty-printing huge machine generated, single line XML files into an indented hierarchy that's almost readable so I can figure out what's wrong with them.
It can also do schema validation etc.
It's part of Gnome's libxml2.
https://
@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.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»Open Source — Linux-Desktop GNOME verbietet mit KI entwickelte Erweiterungen:
Immer mehr Vibe gecodete Extensions erhöhen die Last für die Projektverantwortlichen durch schlechte Codequalität«
Wenn das die Vertraulichkeit so wie deren tech Sicherheit von @… vertraulich verstärkt? Ich pers bin kein GNOME Fan aber das ist somit ein Zeichen von der Vertraulichk…
@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.
@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
<…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI literally booted Debian for the first time in weeks, to only have two updates waiting, Brave and Signal Desktop.
#DebianTrixie #Debian13 #Debian
@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 10.12.1961 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation #Nougat die 7. #Atombombe "Gnome" in New Mexico. Ziel war die Erforschung der Nutzung nuklearer Explosionen für Energi…
@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"???????
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone
Ronnie Hilton:
🎵 The Laughing Gnome
#RonnieHilton
@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…
@fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.deNobody asked for my opinion but here it is: I used middle-click when I was still using Windows to scroll in browsers. When I switched to Ubuntu I was surprised to learn that middle-click did something completely different but totally useful nonetheless. For almost twenty years I now use middle-click pasting across several Linux distributions. I love having kind of a second clipboard.
That being said, I completely agree that this behaviour is unexpected for new or inexperienced users, a…
@janneke@todon.nl
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Debian running on Rust coreutils.
https://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2021/03/09/debian-running-on-rust-coreutils
saved 2021-03-09
@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.
@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
@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
@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 @…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
mr. Gnome:
🎵 Psychonaut
#mrGnome
https://mrgnome.bandcamp.com/track/psychonaut
https://open.spotify.com/track/7qZMZ8cOZYGNCpzfIe8xtt
@cdamian@rls.social@…
The difference with Linux is that you can choose between hundreds of desktop environments to hate.
I'm kidding. I'm back on Gnome after a long time on Cinnamon.
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… I carelessly think of MATE as maintained, in the sense that it looks better than GNOME 🙂
I am horribly prejudiced. I cringe at the possibility of people wrongly assuming that I use GNOME when the truth is, Ubuntu was nothing more than my passport to KDE Plasma – Kubuntu.
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaProtip: if you decide to fuck around with COSMIC on openSUSE, it will swap out kwallet for gnome-keychain, and you'll thereafter get moaning on Plasma session start about your login keyring not being unlocked. Nuke COSMIC gnome-keychain and reinstall the kwallet PAM stack to get things back to normal.
@usul@piaille.fr @fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.deIt seems like GNOME Shell on Wayland doesn't like it if a GPU gets removed during runtime. At least on Bazzite, it threw me back into Gaming Mode and I had to switch to the desktop again, losing all my open windows.
Well, I expected worse, so I had saved my work before. 😄
But that does set some limits on what I can do using some scripts I found on GitHub. In case a Mutter or GNOME dev reads this here: Are there any plans to gracefully switch between GPUs during runtime?
@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
@luana@wetdry.worldGnome was a fucking disaster for design
@vyskocilm@witter.cz @grahamperrin@bsd.cafe @tante@tldr.nettime.orgRE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/115719147481715249
Good decision by the GNOME project
Edit: It's not fully true. You can use AI but you will get your extension rejected if it does the usual AI generated code shenanigans.
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaTrying to daily drive Epiphany (Gnome Web) as my browser for a while. It's handling all of the sites that I need it to, including everything school-related, but for whatever reason I can't create or edit any bookmarks.
I'm trying to resist the temptation to start something WebkitGTK based. Epiphany's interface is, well, ok. But I'd really love something more flexible. In particular, I'm missing the vertical tabs from recent Firefox releases - it's a real sp…
@fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.deIch gebe AI ja immer mal wieder eine Chance. Vor zwei, drei Jahren experimentierte ich mit verschiedenen Bildgeneratoren und fand sie höchst enttäuschend. Um denen meine Vorstellungen zu entlocken, müsste ich so viel Aufwand betreiben, dass ich besser selbst zeichnen und malen lerne. Einfacher ist es, eine*n Künstler*in zu bezahlen, wo mir der Stil gefällt.
Vor ein paar Monaten habe ich es mit Coding probiert. Ich wollte eine GNOME Shell Extension schreiben. Die Ansätze der AI … griffe…
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaI'd be great if KDE changes to a twice a year update schedule, more like Gnome.
My N150 is churning away for over 2 hours each and every time there's a version bump 😆
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza📌 Pinned Post
I'm an anarcho-syndicalist non-binary person who uses they/them pronouns, is bisexual, from Bergen, Norway, and whose posts automatically delete after seven days regardless of likes or boosts, because I have autism and say random shit sometimes.
I talk allot about free software, and I use Secureblue, GrapheneOS and Debian as part of my software setup. I also spend a lot of time experimenting with Linux, especially Debian Testing/Sid, GNOME, and KDE.
As an …
@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'…
@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
…
@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 …
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.socialHeute vor 64 Jahren: Am 03.12.1961 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 6. Atombombe "Fisher". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 61/62 insgesamt 44 Bomben im Testgebiet in #Nevada
@vyskocilm@witter.czI recently debugged sound staying mute. Yet the speakers, bluetooth, pipewire, gnome all claimed everything is fine and connected.
That day I learned you can mute a tab group in a Sideberry.
via @…
https…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza @grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… @…
SDDM, GNOME, X.Org.
Initially: a black screen on the display to the left.
For the screen to appear on the primary display: it was necessary to use settings on the secondary display, to temporarily make the sec…
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.socialHeute vor 64 Jahren: Am 22.12.1961 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Nougat die 10. Atombombe "Feather". Nougat war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 61/62 insgesamt 44 Bomben im Testgebiet in
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
