Nostr notes by TheEvilSkeleton

if you want discoverability, your best option is to put them on ...

2024-09-01T13:37:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…rjec
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if you want discoverability, your best option is to put them on the first row like you see in Firefox's context menu and GTK Widget Factory, and tons of mobile apps.

Volpeon :wvrnFlight: (npub1xmg…2fc2)

they're right, though. You can only convey so much with ...

2024-09-01T11:56:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…dczg
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they're right, though. You can only convey so much with icons. Eventually the icons can become misleading because they fail to convey their intended meaning.

Some of these icons are completely wrong like the "Unpin" icon: The icon is just a pin and thus unintentionally implies that it's for pinning rather than unpinning.

Another example is the "Move Tab" and "Change Tab(s) To Workspace" icon: It looks just like a "data transfer"-esque icon, so that icon already lost its intended meaning. Furthermore, they share the exact same icon, so that alone disqualifies what it stands for.

to be honest, I'd go with none of the above. The rows' ...

2024-08-22T00:25:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…48wv
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to be honest, I'd go with none of the above. The rows' color (or lack thereof) stand out too much, and the small non-bold green text and "x" button lack contrast.

I'd only keep the accent colors in links, titles, and large icons, as it improves accessibility without degrading the app's personality/identity.

I'd also suggest putting a bullet (•) between "aspect ratio DPI resolution", i.e. "aspect ratio • DPI • resolution".

> > You can fork Apache licensed software and decide that ...

2024-08-20T12:36:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…flc0
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> > You can fork Apache licensed software and decide that new contributions will be under a proprietary license. You can decide that on a fork you already run. That's what they did.

That's sublicensing (which Apache 2.0 allows), not relicensing.

Permissive licenses generally require to credit the authors/project or anything similar. Even if you make a proprietary fork, you must follow that clause. For example, Chrome has chrome://credits. iOS and Android derivatives should have an equivalent somewhere in Settings, etc. However, in Sourcegraph's case, they don't have to (anymore).

I don't think I can give any "official" source, but I ...

2024-08-20T12:03:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…jlf3
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I don't think I can give any "official" source, but I think this post explains it fairly well:

> > The copyright holder (or, more commonly, holders) can release a version of the software that uses a totally different license. Everyone who uses earlier versions of the software can continue to use it under the terms and conditions of the previous license, but from that new version forward the new license applies to anyone who uses the software.
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> > It requires getting the copyright holders to agree that their contributions can be released under the new license, and for some projects that can mean tracking down hundreds or thousands of individuals. However for other projects—especially projects with a primary corporate sponsor or those with a Contributor License Agreement that includes copyright assignment—there typically are considerably fewer copyright holders, making the overall relicensing process much easier.

https://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2022/10/27/open-source-relicensing-business-risk

They name several examples, all of which are relicensed from permissive licenses.

I looked at that person's [resume](https://www.vmbrasseur.com/resume.pdf ), which states that they were previously a member of SPDX Legal Project

permissive licenses don't allow relicensing without explicit ...

2024-08-20T11:09:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…ygc0
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permissive licenses don't allow relicensing without explicit consent, but a CLA 'circumvents' that by asking the contributors to transfer their rights from the beginning. That's what Sourcegraph did

Wow, Sourcegraph made their repository private, when it was ...

2024-08-20T09:39:33Z

Wow, Sourcegraph made their repository private, when it was previously source-available (code publicly available, but proprietary) and before that open-source.

https://eric-fritz.com/articles/sourcegraph-went-dark/

Once again, this is why Contributor's License Agreements (CLAs) are bad. They allow owners of the project to abuse the terms of the CLA. You are very much giving your rights to them.

Don't contribute to software with a CLA.

(Credit to re:fi.64 :bisexual: (npub1y88…4h27) for letting me know)

#OpenSource #FOSS #CLA #Sourcegraph

pretty sure the email exchange was private. Also, he wasn't ...

2024-08-17T12:11:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…ld4n
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pretty sure the email exchange was private.

Also, he wasn't banned solely for that reason. I encourage you to read https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-inclusiveActivists and I think you'll find more reasons why it led to a ban.

And, well, the freedesktop blog post he wrote initially had the person's credentials, so I think the CoC team had all the rights to ban him at the time.

Hector Martin (npub1qk9…azpx)

I don't know the entire context of the exchange, but I ...

2024-08-17T10:47:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…762p
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I don't know the entire context of the exchange, but I *think* the implication was that if you (royal you) lived in a place where there is a lot of propaganda and brainwashing, you could easily be convinced to support genocide.

From the looks of it, he did say "sway my opinion towards genocide". It seems to me that he doesn't support it, but could be convinced if he's brainwashed.

But then again, the writing is off. He definitely could've worded it better without putting much effort.

CountZero (npub132j…h73l)

Quite fascinating how GNOME went from having the objectively ...

2024-08-13T12:16:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…cwvx
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Quite fascinating how GNOME went from having the objectively worst file chooser to the absolute best

I just updated my Fedora Silverblue (Rawhide) system, and was ...

2024-08-11T12:56:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…u4c6
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I just updated my Fedora Silverblue (Rawhide) system, and was greeted by the beautiful Nautilus FileChooser implementation 👀

I have a question for postmarketOS. Why is it so good??

2024-08-11T03:10:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…9nkc
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I have a question for postmarketOS. Why is it so good??

there is an open issue for a recoloring API in libadwaita. ...

2024-08-10T12:48:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…dkfu
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there is an open issue for a recoloring API in libadwaita. Perhaps you could share your ideas there? https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libadwaita/-/issues/53

Cassidy James :rr: :gg: :fh: (npub1lvc…cedh)

Question for you high-contrast theme users. I recently started an ...

2024-08-07T03:26:18Z

Question for you high-contrast theme users.

I recently started an initiative in GNOME (npub1dug…kxeq) Design to standardize drag & drop overlays in entire windows and predominant views. I would really appreciate it if you could criticize / give feedback on the high-contrast variants of the overlay:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/initiatives/-/issues/158

(Boost appreciated)

#Accessibility #a11y #HighContrast #Contrast #GNOME

Holy crap they did it! Nautilus FileChooser implementation has ...

2024-08-05T21:49:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…p403
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Holy crap they did it! Nautilus FileChooser implementation has been merged!

Nautilus is getting a new file chooser dialog for the GNOME desktop, replacing the current GTK4 file picker, which will also be mobile-friendly.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/merge_requests/1560#note_2f40addfb0ad1052b420879f35b0f76f3de51857

So apparently the admin of Fosstodon considers Fosstodon and ...

2024-08-05T11:01:21Z

So apparently the admin of Fosstodon considers Fosstodon and Linux Rocks "similar". I have no words

https://fosstodon.org/@kev/112896911480256410

Yes Aral, please switch operating systems. You're nothing but ...

2024-08-02T18:19:15Z

Yes Aral, please switch operating systems. You're nothing but a nuisance and block anybody who's Jewish or criticizes your trashy behavior. Your absence will make the Linux desktop a safer place for Jewish people and people with disabilities.

Respectfully,
Skelly

that's exactly my point. Instead of making maintainers do ...

2024-08-02T10:48:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…yt27
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that's exactly my point. Instead of making maintainers do more work, you could simply not do that :)

(Just to be clear, I don't have a problem with COSMIC's method, because it's opt-in with a warning from what they told me: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1bkemfq/comment/kvz90a1/)

Gloopsies :fedora: (npub1xhs…wtuq)

sure it's ok to auto close issues, but there are consequences ...

2024-08-02T10:37:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…hnuw
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sure it's ok to auto close issues, but there are consequences that we simply don't want to deal with. One of them is providing a worse experience to our users.

Gloopsies :fedora: (npub1xhs…wtuq)

then in that case, I'll refer you to my article from 2022: ...

2024-08-02T10:28:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…f4fd
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then in that case, I'll refer you to my article from 2022: https://tesk.page/2022/07/28/libadwaita-fixing-usability-problems-on-the-linux-desktop/#warn-the-user

Gloopsies :fedora: (npub1xhs…wtuq)

that's much easier said than done. So no, we can't ...

2024-08-02T10:22:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…wv8n
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that's much easier said than done. So no, we can't "just" do that.

And seeing how you also said "probably", it's a good indicator to yourself that you don't even know what you'd do in our situation, yet are still acting like it's an easy task.

Gloopsies :fedora: (npub1xhs…wtuq)

Part five of the file chooser implementation was merged! ...

2024-07-17T16:54:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…vdmu
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Part five of the file chooser implementation was merged!

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/merge_requests/1532#note_d7060d0abdcb983afcd36db8c938cac9f15f84a4

#GNOME #GTK #FOSS #OpenSource #GNOMEFiles #libadwaita

"Keep politics out of FOSS" is an interesting political ...

2024-07-02T18:44:35Z

"Keep politics out of FOSS" is an interesting political statement

Part four of the file chooser implementation was merged! ...

2024-06-18T23:59:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…06tv
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Part four of the file chooser implementation was merged!

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/merge_requests/1530#note_a889088dfe7e1ac43f2654d7313e50c7b4c046f8

#GNOME #GTK #Nautilus #FOSS #OpenSource #GNOMEFiles #libadwaita

Part three of the file chooser implementation was merged! ...

2024-06-15T12:30:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…kr5u
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Part three of the file chooser implementation was merged!

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/merge_requests/1527#note_39f73c9ce9b44730d8bb8d41a5eb0bfd82635601

#GNOME #GTK #Nautilus #FOSS #GTK4 #OpenSource #GNOMEFiles #libadwaita

And now the second part of the file chooser implementation was ...

2024-06-10T19:22:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…2mqs
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And now the second part of the file chooser implementation was merged :)

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/merge_requests/1526#note_aa4a254237ef77a3ca531555e811c9e8188853ee

#GNOME #GTK #Nautilus #FOSS #OpenSource #GNOMEFiles #libadwaita

First part of the Nautilus file chooser implementation by ...

2024-06-05T14:40:46Z

First part of the Nautilus file chooser implementation by António Fernandes (npub1dn3…unct) was merged!!!

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/merge_requests/1502#note_90ae76f971433a1c045706a1bb7f634730acef82

#GNOME #GTK #Nautilus #GNOMEFiles #libadwaita