@Akzel You can also choose to move maximized windows to a new workspace if you’d like in System Settings → Desktop → Multitasking
Global Accessibility Awareness day (#gaad) is this Thursday! So, how are y'all doing with using your screen readers? :)
@antolius They have to make trade offs between different kinds of expectations. Folks also expect their browser to be secure and work with the latest web standards. In our case, we were able to ship GNOME Web 42 on elementary OS 6 because of Flatpak. It’s not feasible to do in a traditional package. Ubuntu can support the latest Firefox across all the LTS distros they release in this way as well. To them, and to us, that’s worth command line package management being slightly more complicated
@antolius We don’t sneak it, we just do it :) As an example: https://github.com/elementary/capnet-assist/blob/deb-packaging/debian/postinst
Ubuntu doesn’t sneak either, they have made it very clear that they do this. It’s understandable if you don’t agree with this decision, but it’s not fair to say it’s malicious or sneaking or anything like that. It’s a purely technical decision
@antolius @Suzie97 We don’t do anything at all with Snap. If you install the Firefox package from the Ubuntu repos it will still pull in the snap package.
Ubuntu has solid technical reasons for using Deb packaging to pull in snaps to the distribution, especially when it comes to supporting release upgrades. We do the same thing with Flatpak packages. Using containerized packages enables us to support old releases in a way we couldn’t before. It’s not a dark pattern
@selea mission accomplished? 😅
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When you find out you can easily sideload apps from alt stores like http://FlatHub.org out of the box on elementary OS
If you’ve been waiting for an updates blog, here it is! Updates for OS 6.1 this month, plus more info about the release of OS 7 https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-april-2022/
There are two Flathub talks to look forward to on Friday at LAS: "Flathub: now and next" by Jorge Castro and Rob McQueen, and "Status of Flathub payments/donations support" by Daniel Silverstone
Linux App Summit can be attended either remotely or in Italy; check out https://linuxappsummit.org/
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If you’re in Early Access and have experienced a regression not on this project board, please report it. Let’s work together and make this happen ASAP 💪 https://github.com/orgs/elementary/projects/94
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