@theodric@social.linux.pizza2026-01-09 23:31:59
Obvious 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.
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2026-01-09 23:31:59
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizza2026-02-10 07:27:19
Repository 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.
@Davey@social.linux.pizza2026-01-03 17:48:32
LFS101
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'…