Stuart Langridge @sil@mastodon.social

@ted yo, Ted! Inkscape question :) Is there some way to get it to apply transforms on a parent element to the children? So <g transform="matrix(...)"><rect /></g> becomes <g><rect/></g> with the content of the transform changing the rect/circle/path's cx/cy/r/x/y/d attrs? (I'm OK with not minding that you can't skew a rectangle, etc.)

Well, that's interesting.
Alexa, what's your favourite operating system?
"My favourite would be Ubuntu."

Some people seem to get told it likes Windows, though :-)

hm, there doesn't seem to be a way that I can send a message of some kind to a Python Gtk app if all I know is that it's the foreground window. _NET_WM_PID isn't reliable; gdk_window_add_filter() isn't in GI (and ::xevent is Gtk 4) so I can't send an X ClientMessage.

this, but also Ubuntu. And all this stuff actually exists for Ubuntu already too; could ship it by default? In Ubuntu MATE maybe? https://mastodon.social/@scottjenson/102611745071987912

@gamingonlinux did you get a chance to look at https://github.com/stuartlangridge/sorttable/issues/25 ?

Anybody know what I have to do to have GSettings launch a particular app when a GSettings key changes? Apparently when the screen-magnifier-enabled key changes, gsettings launches your configured desktop magnifier. What I don't know is: how does gsettings know what your configured desktop magnifier _is_? how does a magnifier app register itself to be the one that's invoked when that gsettings key changes?

Gtk, stop trying to be clever and resizing my window after I've told you a size to make it. There seems to be no way of saying "make a window this size and don't alter it, regardless of how close it is to the edge of the screen or if I move a widget outside that size". Grrr.

@nolan in completely other news, big kiss for you for making it much easier to switch instances now :)

Stuff that's fun can't be scaled.
Stuff made for scale can't be fun.

So if you want to keep the fun, don't get big. If you want to get big, don't try to be fun.

First two puzzles done in https://adventofcode.com/2018

Massively annoyed at apps that go "beep" so I know _something_ is alerting me, but I have no idea what it is or what the alert was for. Use the damn system notification system!

Well, now I have two accounts. So I'm likely to be talking about roleplaying stuff more as https://tabletop.social/@sil, I imagine, unless I get really annoyed with this two-accounts thing and abandon that.