Tobias Bernard

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2026-04-07 16:06:27 UTC

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that error looks weird, what version/distro/setup is that?
but yes, in general it's always good to file issues. in this case you can probably file it against nautilus, and worst case people can move it to whatever lower level component makes sense.

2026-03-10 18:57:24 UTC

The @npub1ncg…xyj5 podcast interview about @npub1k6e…gqwv featuring yours truly is out!
Thanks @npub1rt5…d6vp for the invite and for editing our sprawling conversation into something coherent 💚
https://solarcast.cc/@solarcast/episodes/modal

2026-01-31 12:50:27 UTC

Reflection in action at the FOSDEM GNOME booth 🔥
#localfirst #gnome #dope
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2026-01-06 23:31:32 UTC

If anyone's looking for a fun illustration project or an opportunity to get into the GNOME artwork style: Crosswords needs some illustrations for the "How to Play" instructions :)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/jrb/crosswords/-/issues/361
Example from Sudoku:
#gnome #icons #illustrations
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2025-12-21 16:14:51 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.design/@modal/115758438737995374
Save the date!
#note1l80…5mst

2025-12-17 18:17:39 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jsparber/115736077309831181
Kudos to @npub14p7…9le4 and everyone else who worked on making @npub1avt…pehd on macOS better in recent years ❤️
#note1c97…ktsu

2025-12-11 20:40:57 UTC

I always find it odd when people talking about high level policy stuff like EuroStack completely ignore end-user devices - Like, if you have fully sovereign EU AI cloud apps, where are you going to access them from? Your iPhone?
https://ecfr.eu/publication/get-over-your-x-a-european-plan-to-escape-american-technology

2025-12-03 15:52:58 UTC

This past weekend we had #BoilingTheOcean 8 at Cultivation Space in Berlin! Topics included Reflection, a local-first system sync service, Flatpak, the GNOME governance proposal, focus stealing prevention, TeamType, Dino on Android, GNOME Circle, and much more!
Some notes from the event here: https://pad.gnome.org/SkiIvfFxTUiTW-ppZNR3Tw#
Thanks to Cultivation Space for hosting us, and everyone for joining. See you at the next edition in the new year 🎇
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2025-11-28 13:31:32 UTC

@npub17p7…npt6 on stage at @npub1y8k…05lv Demo Day as part of the panel on Local First, talking about Reflection and @npub1a2z…v48a ✨
#localfirst #prototypefund
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2025-11-04 13:36:55 UTC

Presented without comment
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2025-10-29 18:49:46 UTC

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it's adaptive now, modulo some minor things :)

2025-10-08 20:54:29 UTC

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And here's a video from @npub1u9f…yhqn's show on Saturday:
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2025-10-08 20:51:43 UTC

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Among other things we had extensive discussions about the future of Flatpak, Portals, GNOME OS and the various systemd components it uses, the Reflection text editor app, and hardware enablement for the Fairphone 5.
We also touched on a surprising number of interesting but more unusual topics, such as software preservation, permacomputing, payment infrastructure, reproducible builds, and more.
We also have much nicer photos than usual thanks to @npub16ge…q8qs, so here are a few more:
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2025-10-08 20:37:05 UTC

Last weekend we had #BoilingTheOcean 7 in Berlin, the latest in our event series on long-term problems in emancipatory computing. This was the biggest edition yet with ~30 attendees! The energy and excitement were awesome, even more so than in previous editions.
Huge thanks to @npub15ny…m047 for hosting us, @npub1d5u…zus9 for handling shirts and drinks logistics, @npub1u9f…yhqn for playing a show for us on Saturday, and everyone who joined for helping make the event a success ❤️
#gnome #flatpak #localfirst
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2025-10-01 15:39:31 UTC

Boiling The Ocean 7 is happening THIS WEEKEND 😎🌊🎉
We have an all-star list of special guests from out of town, and a packed agenda. If you want to help build the future of image-based OSes, mainline Linux phones, local-first, and more then ~~get your tickets now~~ add yourself to the pad: https://pad.gnome.org/1EIXiLe8Ri2St_ayB8uRHg
Like last time, we also have some lightning talk slots, and on Saturday night there's live music by the one and only @npub1u9f…yhqn! The hype is real 🔥
#gnome #linux #berlin #systemd #dope
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2025-09-17 12:14:37 UTC

Mahjongg was accepted into Circle! 🀄🀄🀄
It's one the historical GNOME games, but thanks to Mat's modernization work over the past few cycles it looks very fresh and clean nowadays. Welcome :)
https://apps.gnome.org/Mahjongg
#gnome #circle #libadwaita
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2025-09-12 18:59:57 UTC

Congratulations to the winners of our Summer of GNOME OS challenge 🎉🎉
1. Ada Magicat (40 points)
2. Ignacy Kuchciński (37 points)
3. Forteller (26 points)
This was very much an experiment, but everyone I talked to said it was surprisingly smooth, and they'll continue to daily drive GNOME OS.
Thanks to everyone who participated, it was a lot of fun! And thanks even more to the GNOME OS team for getting us this far, especially @npub1uta…5dp4, Abderrahim, @npub1hyt…9fqs, @npub1qeh…ye8a, and @npub1l7a…c98n!
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2025-09-11 09:54:30 UTC

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the screenshots above are not Android though

2025-09-11 09:38:20 UTC

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Graphene isn't known for UX polish, but the off-center text seems very hard to fuck up in this particular way

2025-09-11 09:29:19 UTC

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Gotta love how fucked the title alignment and OK button are on Android (let alone the flashing red background). I didn't know the Android dialog APIs even allowed for this...

2025-09-02 21:35:38 UTC

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Thanks! This is a good time to file issues around this, since the developers are actively looking at it and fixing regressions :)

2025-09-02 21:16:39 UTC

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Did you file an issue for the second one? There were big changes to thumbnailing this cycle, but most of the fallout from that is fixed for me on the latest GNOME OS.

2025-08-28 18:31:26 UTC

Part 3 of the GNOME Shell gestures work by @npub16ge…q8qs has landed in Mutter/GNOME Shell main. This is one of the main dependencies for upstreaming the rest of GNOME Shell mobile 🙌
Huge thanks to everyone involved in review, especially @npub167y…52er, Carlos Garnacho, @npub1zkw…fgkj, Bilal Elmoussaoui, @npub1fx9…z4hg, and [@swick](https://hachyderm.io/@swick )!
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/2857
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2853

2025-08-20 11:07:01 UTC

Save the date! We'll have another edition of #BoilingTheOcean in Berlin on October 3-5, right after All Systems Go. More details to follow 😎
#gnome #localfirst #linuxmobile #systemd #berlin
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2025-06-22 11:39:51 UTC

WIP new Tuba post editor looking hot 🔥
Kudos to @npub1aae…m2zn for making it happen!
https://github.com/GeopJr/Tuba/pull/623
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2025-06-05 10:57:41 UTC

The redesigned annotation workflow has landed in Papers Nightly!
There are a few minor things left (such as recoloring the icons), but what has already landed is a huuuge improvement to the workflow. Thanks so much to [@pabloyoyoista](https://social.treehouse.systems/@pabloyoyoista ), @npub1fnk…ctc6, lbaudin and the rest of the team for reviving this app ❤️
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Incubator/papers/-/merge_requests/470
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2025-05-29 11:46:29 UTC

Pretty cool that the same people who told us 2 years ago that native apps are dead, let's do everything via the web are now telling us actually the web is dead too, let's do everything via an LLM
https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-2025

2025-05-26 11:13:54 UTC

Thanks for joining this weekend for #BoilingTheOcean, it was so much fun!
There was too much going on for me to have an overview/be able to recap, but some of my highlights:
- More Aardvark testing 🐼
- More GNOME OS/TPM debugging, feat. [@pid_eins](https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins ) and @npub1qg5…lvuw
- MNT Pocket Reform GNOME integration with @npub1xse…lgk3
Thanks @npub1590…w8pl and @npub1qql…cz7f for hosting us [@xHain_hackspace](https://chaos.social/@xHain_hackspace ) ✨
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2025-05-25 12:23:51 UTC

Today is day two of #BoilingTheOcean 5! Yesterday we were at @npub15ny…m047 in Kreuzberg, hacking on (among other things):
- Tested Aardvark and fixed some p2panda bugs
- Tested GNOME OS on real hardware
- Played with systemd TPM tooling
- Designed a network inspector dev tool for p2panda apps
- Experiments towards a new/modernized Waydroid
- pmbootstrap cleanup
- And more!
Today we're at X-Hain in Friedrichshain! Join us: https://pad.gnome.org/enwydsh2RO2Dv4oOXBz4CQ
#gnome #berlin #p2panda
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2025-04-23 21:06:57 UTC

Here's the blog post I've been trying not to write for the past year.
We need to start discussing the events surrounding @npub133l…pfxe's ban last year with the entire community, and unfortunately the only way to do that is in public. Here's hoping this is the first step towards that wider discussion, and an eventual resolution.
https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/04/23/the-elephant-in-the-room

2025-04-13 14:41:25 UTC

📆 Save the Date 📆
We're having another edition of #BoilingTheOcean on May 24th and 25th!
Join us for two days of hacking on low-level emancipatory tech in Berlin. Agenda, location, etc. TBA :)
#gnome #gtk #linuxmobile #p2p #p2panda #berlin
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2025-04-12 16:25:09 UTC

The summary blogpost about the 2023/2024 GNOME STF Project @npub1qeh…ye8a and I have been working on for quite a while is finally out 🤓📖
It's looooong, but that's a good thing, there's *so* much good stuff that was done as part of this over the past year.
Shoutout to @npub133l…pfxe, thanks to whom all of this was possible!
https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/04/11/gnome-stf-2024
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2025-03-31 09:38:57 UTC

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I can also recommend the two other talks from the design track, by
@npub19q0…wl35 and @npub1spj…50ul:
https://youtu.be/12TJ-zTgiH0
https://youtu.be/A2OwHpjULK0

2025-03-31 09:38:39 UTC

The recording of my @npub1y3n…0j80 talk from last month is up!
https://youtu.be/-aJm05Cj7hs

2025-03-20 11:33:43 UTC

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Not sure I buy that it's because of physics anymore, when Google just shipped the same camera for 5 years and nobody complained, because it's all software anyway...
My completely unscientific hot take is that the huge camera bumps are mostly a camera quality placebo and a way to upsell people on the more expensive phones.

2025-03-20 08:45:40 UTC

Wait the camera bumps were optional this whole time?? https://www.theverge.com/news/631826/google-pixel-9a-specs-price-availability
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2025-03-17 22:46:28 UTC

If the future is that we need to wait 5s every time a GNOME Gitlab page loads, maybe we should at least show something interesting - how about random tips or excerpts from the HIG?
"Never use the label 'OK' on a button"
"Margins should be multiples of 6px, e.g. 12, 18, 24"
"Button labels should use Title Case"
"Don't ask for confirmation when you could have undo instead"
and so on :)

2025-03-15 13:33:44 UTC

Last week Exercise Timer by Lőrinc Serfőző was accepted into Circle! It's a cute little app to create timers for high-intensity interval training 🏋️⏲️
https://apps.gnome.org/Hiit
#gnome #circle #libadwaita
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2025-03-04 22:47:53 UTC

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Hold on, there's another even better one https://www.theverge.com/news/623765/xiaomi-realme-camera-concepts-modular-lens-mwc-2025
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2025-03-04 22:38:07 UTC

Called it 5 years ago: The future of phones is all-screen front, all-camera back, ugly all around 🌈
https://www.theverge.com/phone-review/621670/xiaomi-15-ultra-review-camera-periscope-price-specs-price
My 2019 posts:
https://mastodon.social/@tbernard/102773247780949242
https://mastodon.social/@tbernard/102774177475616519
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2025-03-04 17:34:26 UTC

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So in theory someone could sue over the fact that e.g. Windows was chosen in a specific procurement decision, it's just that nobody has tried?

2025-03-04 15:49:46 UTC

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Programs like @npub1yng…nhrk and @npub1y8k…05lv are a step in the right direction, but that model is mostly reactive (i.e. funding what currently exists in the wild), rather than proactive (e.g. strategically funding medium-term work towards a viable Office alternative).
The government would actually have to document its requirements and commission someone to specifically work on those issues. As far as I know that approach to free software funding has not been tried yet though.

2025-03-04 15:46:49 UTC

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I guess this exposes the limits to this kind of approach to use indirect regulations to enact change, rather than intervening directly.
If you want public administration to use free software you need to actually *invest* in it up-front, and long-term, otherwise it's just extra bureaucracy for every individual agency to justify why they're sticking with the old proprietary thing.

2025-03-04 15:14:52 UTC

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In the section about requirements it says you need to take "cost of data migration, installation, personalization, training staff" etc. into account.
I guess with that you can basically always make a case to just keep the current thing?
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2025-03-04 15:09:39 UTC

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Looking over the guidelines I'd guess the trick is probably in setting the requirements such that only Windows/MS Office/AutoCAD/etc can meet them?
Very interesting document though, they have decision making flow charts and everything:
https://www.agid.gov.it/sites/default/files/repository_files/lg-acquisizione-e-riuso-software-per-pa-docs_pubblicata.pdf
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2025-03-04 15:05:05 UTC

I recently learned that the Italian government is only allowed to buy proprietary software after it has determined that there isn't a free software option. IIUC they're also required to publish any code they write (or commission to be written) under a free license.
https://www.agid.gov.it/it/design-servizi/riuso-open-source/linee-guida-acquisizione-riuso-software-pa
However, at least as far as I know Windows, Office, et al are being used everywhere in public administration, and even e.g. public transport apps are proprietary. What gives?
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2025-02-28 09:32:30 UTC

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Next step: native GTK Rust client? 🙃

2025-02-17 13:05:59 UTC

Keypunch by @npub10ew…chty has been accepted into Circle! Learn touch typing or improve your typing skills with this elegant little typing tutor app ⌨️🔥
https://apps.gnome.org/Keypunch
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2025-02-12 14:51:42 UTC

Cool to see this new effort by @npub1ccl…r0dy! There's way too much misinformation out there as a result of the general disconnect between developers and free software "media". Kudos for seizing the means of communication o/
https://thelibre.news
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2025-02-11 18:09:03 UTC

Kudos to @npub1u9f…yhqn for finally getting the new homepage over the line!
https://www.gnome.org
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2025-02-05 20:09:23 UTC

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Is Penpot being used in the wild? I haven't come across any projects actually using it, but I may just be out of touch :)

2025-02-05 19:28:14 UTC

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isn't this just open core with more steps?
Sounds to me like the plan is to have proprietary enterprise features to limit what you can do with the app, but that that still comes with all the structural downsides of open core.

2025-02-03 14:48:49 UTC

The Disks GTK4/Libadwaita port landed in GNOME OS Nightly, looking fantastic 🙌
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2025-02-02 22:26:15 UTC

In the same way that GNOME Circle is a developer education initiative disguised a verification program, Flathub is a metadata quality initiative disguised as an app store 😏

2025-01-28 14:00:10 UTC

Thanks everyone for coming out for Unboiling The Ocean 3 at @npub1ajs…40ga last night, despite the public transport strike! Unfortunately due to the strike a lot of people couldn't make it, so we'll probably have another similar event in the future.
But we did have a great discussion anyway, focused on use cases and threat models for collaborative text editors like Aardvark. Some highlights below 👇
Full meeting notes (taken in Aardvark during the meeting 😎): https://pad.gnome.org/j9ux_YyPSSK4MF1TOtCHLQ

2025-01-14 00:30:30 UTC

We're starting off the new year with an exciting new edition of Unboiling The Ocean! Join us for a discussion about peer-to-peer UX and threat models.
We have some special guests and questions to discuss, but mostly the plan is to have an open discussion around these topics to inform the design and development of the Aardvark text editor project.
Join us on Monday January 27 at 19:00 at @npub1ajs…40ga in Neukölln!
#p2panda #aardvark #gnome #berlin
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2025-01-08 12:24:01 UTC

PSA: I'm stepping down from putting together an STF application for 2025.
Reflecting on our experiences with the STF project last year, I no longer think the GNOME Foundation is a good venue to organize development collectively. Even if the Foundation's current issues are fixed, we've seen how risky it is to centralize development in a single structure.
My hope is that we'll learn from this and find more sustainable, decentralized ways of organizing going forward.
https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/01/07/re-decentralizing

2024-12-18 17:26:22 UTC

I blogged about our recent Aardvark hackfest with the @npub1a2z…v48a crew!
https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2024/12/18/aardvark
#localfirst #aardvark #gnome #p2panda

2024-12-08 18:00:51 UTC

It (somewhat) works!!!
#aardvark #p2panda
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2024-12-08 11:43:04 UTC

Update from the Aardvark hackfest with @npub1a2z…v48a yesterday and today!
So far we managed to get a GTK Rust test project going with a simple TextView, and we're converting text changes into Automerge CRDT operations. We also have the p2panda local-first sync backend running in a separate thread.
Currently we're working on connecting both worlds to sync data across devices. Hopefully we'll have an actual demo of synced editing by the end of the day (no pressure).
https://github.com/p2panda/aardvark
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2024-11-30 19:19:31 UTC

Doing some software archaeology with @npub1u9f…yhqn today, looking at webOS on the Touchpad and Palm Pre.
It's very cool to see how far ahead of its time this was, and also how many elements from it survived in GNOME in some form! And of course, the multitasking is still unmatched by any more recent mobile platform :)
#webOS #palmPre #gnome
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2024-11-29 14:09:50 UTC

If you're joining the Aardvark hackfest next weekend, you can now sign up here:
https://laub.liebechaos.org/6Npsa2h1Rc6GG7Nie1uEsQ
See you next Saturday 🐼 🎅
#p2panda #gnome #berlin #p2p #gtk
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2024-11-26 19:24:39 UTC

We have a schedule for the @npub1a2z…v48a event next week 🥳
On Saturday December 7th and Sunday 8th we have a hackfest at Weise7 to start working on a new native GTK local-first collaborative text editor!
On Saturday night we also have a release party for the new version of p2panda at @npub1ajs…40ga with some topical talks by special guests Sarah Grant and @npub15vw…85hw.
#berlin #p2p #p2panda #localfirst #gnome
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2024-11-14 13:14:59 UTC

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In my (admittedly somewhat dated) experience the most interesting use cases for VR headsets are 3D maps of mountains/complex terrain (e.g. for planning hikes), or complex 3D models (e.g. for archtiectural plans).
Back in the day, the only worthwhile app on the original Oculus Rift was Google Earth, for this reason - lots of useful 3D content. Oddly, the Maps app on the Apple headset is just a 2D iPad app in a window, not using the 3D properties of the device at all...
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2024-11-14 13:13:39 UTC

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I think it's important to underline how few real life use cases there are for actual 3D content.
In practice, most of what people do on computers is work with text in rectangles. There's not much benefit from 3D for that, but you do want a high resolution and precise input.

2024-11-14 13:12:46 UTC

As someone who worked with VR a bit for university ca. 2017 it's been interesting to see the Apple media ecosystem go through a full cycle of VR productivity discourse in less than a year.
Last year: "Meh, seems like a gamer thing"
This spring: "Woah, what if I could use this instead of a laptop"
Once people bought it: "Actually, turns out the resolution and input precision are still waaaay off"
After it was in a drawer for 3 months: "This is useless for anything except actual 3D content"

2024-11-11 11:47:47 UTC

🎅🐼 Save the date 🐼🎅
We're having a release event for the new @npub1a2z…v48a stack, and a hackfest to start working on a new native GTK local-first collaborative text editor!
Join us December 7-8 in Berlin (location and details TBA)
#p2panda #p2p #localfirst #gnome #gtk #berlin
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2024-10-18 11:25:52 UTC

Playing with the new version of Shortwave by @npub1vx7…7ul6. Looking dope with the new split view layout ✨
https://flathub.org/apps/de.haeckerfelix.Shortwave
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2024-10-05 18:10:55 UTC

I blogged about last week's hackfest!
https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2024/10/05/boiling-the-ocean-hackfest
#boilingTheOcean #gnome #postmarketOS #berlin #localfirst
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2024-10-01 19:21:59 UTC

First time ever that a menu QR code is scanned successfully on a Linux mobile phone?
Huge kudos @npub1fx9…z4hg, Bilal Elmoussaoui, [@maximiliano](https://floss.social/@maximiliano ) and everyone else who made this possible 🙌
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2024-09-29 13:37:22 UTC

A few more hackfest photos from Boiling The Ocean and the GNOME 47 release party.
Thanks to @npub1d5u…zus9 for putting together the quiz, (using fuiz.us by Circle developer Khaleel Al-Adhami)!
#gnome #postmarketOS #berlin #boilingTheOcean
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2024-09-28 16:24:42 UTC

In other news, we have a slightly updated schedule for the few next days!
#boilingTheOcean #gnome #postmarketOS #localfirst #berlin
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2024-09-28 16:19:13 UTC

Some impressions from Boiling The Ocean yesterday and today! Lots of productive planning and hacking including on postmarketOS, GNOME OS, Papers, eSIM settings, local-first plans, and much more :)
#gnome #berlin #postmarketOS #boilingTheOcean
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2024-09-25 20:34:02 UTC

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There's a schedule now: https://mastodon.social/@tbernard/113200097497919643

2024-09-25 20:33:29 UTC

We finally have a schedule for the event this weekend in Berlin!
Come join us if you're interested in mobile Linux, image-based OSes, local-first, GNOME app design, and everything in between 🪴
#gnome #postmarketos #localfirst #berlin
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2024-09-21 13:53:26 UTC

A bit last-minute this time, but we have a hackfest/release event coming up next weekend in Berlin feat. @npub1vnu…8mqn, @npub1a2z…v48a, and more!
More details to follow, but here's a teaser :P
#gnome #postmarketos #localfirst #berlin
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2024-09-18 23:47:58 UTC

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I'd be suprised if anything has changed legally, the patent is valid until 2027 and I haven't heard anything about it being challenged recently. Maybe Mozilla just has a license or something?

2024-09-16 10:04:16 UTC

While we're still not moving as fast as I'd like with Circle reviews, I'm happy that we managed to get 6 new apps accepted during the 47 cycle 🥳
By the way, the Circle committee is always looking for new reviewers. If you're somewhat familiar with GNOME app development practices and design patterns and would like to help, please get in touch :)
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2024-09-09 11:02:43 UTC

Finally took the time to log into Patreon and support @npub13cx…8wv9! I highly recommend doing the same if you'd like to see image editing in Loupe 🖼️✨
https://www.patreon.com/sophieh
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2024-08-21 21:42:29 UTC

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I'd try moving the height x width row to the bottom and unlinking all the rows. That way you can have the x outside the entries. Could also drop the edit icons here maybe, like Railway does 🤔

2024-08-14 09:26:10 UTC

The recording for my talk from Berlin Mini GUADEC about the GNOME STF project is now online! Probably the talk with the least preparation and sleep I've ever given, but hopefully interesting nevertheless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFQjlbsY5uI
I'm very sad that @npub133l…pfxe was not allowed to give the talk with me as planned. He is the heart and soul of the STF project, and none of this would have been possible without him.
#BerlinMiniGUADEC

2024-08-10 16:29:16 UTC

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Update: Here's a quick draft for a pre-review checklist https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Circle/-/merge_requests/116

2024-08-10 13:46:30 UTC

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Do it, that's a great idea! Happy to look over drafts :)
That said, I was thinking maybe we could also just include a few of these things in the actual issue template for applying?

2024-08-10 13:06:27 UTC

I've been trying to do more Circle reviews lately, and I've noticed that a lot of apps have very similar papercuts. Some of the classics are:
- Not using the standard keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Ctrl+, for opening preferences) https://developer.gnome.org/hig/reference/keyboard.html
- Missing a11y labels on buttons
- Longer blocks of text not being screen reader accessible
- Focus borders being weirdly shaped/glitchy
Maybe having a little checklist for app devs to do themselves before applying could catch some of these?

2024-08-01 13:27:06 UTC

You know what they say, can't have recursion without recursion
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