Felix Häcker @haeckerfelix@mastodon.social
Joined Nov 2017
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The third alpha release of ashpd 0.2 is out. I have spent a bit of time finishing up the ashpd demo, you can now try/test most of the portals pretty easily
The flatpak bundle is available from https://github.com/bilelmoussaoui/ashpd/actions/runs/1086151868
On crates.io: https://crates.io/crates/ashpd/0.2.0-alpha-3
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The third issue of This Week in @gnome is out!
Check out what our great community has been up to 🚀
Today is Friday! What does that mean? A new issue of This-Week-in-GNOME is available!
👉 #2 Power-Up!
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2021/07/twig-2/
It's full of awesome news! Make sure to check it out!
This Week in GNOME - Post #1 "Scrolling in the Dark" is online now. Get news about GNOME Shell, WebKitGTK, Libadwaita and more here:
You want to know what happens in #GNOME?
Weekly updates are now available here:
👉 http://thisweek.gnome.org
Introducing “This Week in GNOME” 📣
https://blogs.gnome.org/haeckerfelix/2021/07/16/introducing-this-week-in-gnome/
I’m going to launch something later today - and this time it’s not an app! 👀
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The new gtk-rs release is out! New bindings for GTK4 and a lot of other great improvements. More information here: https://gtk-rs.org/blog/2021/06/22/new-release.html
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so it happened and i updated ashpd to the latest zbus features!
you can enjoy it/test it already with the alpha release
More exciting details coming soon! If you want to follow the development (WIP!), you can check out this MR:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Fragments/-/merge_requests/85
Thanks to Maximiliano who did the initial port to Rust/GTK4!
It works completely different than Fragments V1.
For example the new architecture allows connecting to remote sessions. You can run Fragments / Transmission on a headless server to download stuff and use Fragments running on your computer to control the remote session.
Fragments will get a big V2 update soon! 😎
Completely rewritten from scratch to make use of GTK4, libadwaita - and of course Rust!
A small sneak peek...
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Can open sometimes be too open? Here's a post about what the @gnome community wish it didn't do when deploying its @matrix instance, and how it's going to fix it.
https://blog.ergaster.org/post/20210610-sovereignty-federated-system-gnome/
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Do you understand e-mail? Have you ever been in an e-mail conversation with several people?
Then you already understand how @matrix works!
I explain it all in details in this blog post.
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Libadwaita 1.0.0-alpha.1 is out!
Start porting your application from GTK 3 and Libhandy to GTK 4 and Libadwaita now with our migration guide: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libadwaita/doc/1.0.0-alpha.1/migrating-libhandy-1-4-to-libadwaita.html
Be aware that the API is bound to change until the first beta, planned for mid-August.
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Few days after I managed to get gi-docgen to work properly with the docs generated by gir, the rust utility to generate rust bindings for glib based libs and because I don't like half backed work, I fixed the broken doc links that were too magical before. They are not anymore. Most importantly, we now either don't link to an item(instead of a broken link) for whatever reasons or a properly working one.
so + to very nice gtk4 rust bindings, the docs should be in a very nice shape as well :)
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Nostalgia 0.7 is live on Flathub, mostly thanks to work by @exalm and @foreverxml.
https://flathub.org/apps/details/im.bernard.Nostalgia
No huge user-facing changes, but it uses the wallpaper portal API now instead of the deprecated gsettings method (so we need even fewer permissions) and comes with the 40 wallpaper.
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Builder types, global functions, constants, statics are now automatically documented from introspection data! 🎉
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The @gnome community faced some IRC spam yesterday which impacted the @matrix side of our community as well.
It would be easy to just say "IRC bad!" and call it a day. Reality is a bit more complex.
Here's my view about what happened, where we failed and how we can try to make IRC spam less of a problem all while keeping a premium experience on Matrix.
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/irc-matrix-and-thanks-for-all-the-kicks/6482/8
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Joined Nov 2017
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