Also, I’ve been thinking about renaming the app from...

Also, I’ve been thinking about renaming the app from System Settings to just Settings. Like does it need the “System” part? Seems weird. Especially like “Open System Settings → System” feels weird to write. Rename it?

Anonymous poll

Poll

Keep “System Settings”

17.7%

Rename to “Settings”

162

68.4%

I’m indifferent

13.9%

237 people voted.
Voting ended 13 Oct 2023 at 4:21.

Like 12 Oct 2023 at 4:21 | Open on mastodon.online

169 comments

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Apparently I never posted these prototypes on Mastodon, but here’s where I’d like to go with Settings for OS 8 as far as a design direction

A redesigned Settings app with a much flatter appearance and bolder typography

A redesigned Settings app with a much flatter appearance and bolder typography in the dark style

12 Oct 2023 at 16:00 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Just merged GTK 4 online accounts settings. Did some packaging work. Now I gotta get ready for doctor’s appointment so we’ll see how productive I am in the 2nd half of the day, but things are moving and happening!

12 Oct 2023 at 18:34 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Okay so GTK 4 ports are in main for the following settings panes:
* Mouse & Touchpad
* Power
* Bluetooth
* Online Accounts
* Date & Time

With pull requests near completion for:
* Applications
* Sound

Several other panes have less complete draft pull requests. So I’m really confident about getting this fully ported soonish

13 Oct 2023 at 5:14 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Turns out Language & Region and Notifications already had ports as well! So those are set up and building correctly etc.

So currently 9/20 panes building in daily!

13 Oct 2023 at 16:59 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Love a branch that removes a ton of code: https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-sharing/pull/66

13 Oct 2023 at 18:52 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Landed the previously linked sharing branch and submitted another branch to migrate away from Gtk.FileChooserButton. After that Sharing is basically ported.

And finished and proposed a branch for Sound settings!

14 Oct 2023 at 23:58 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Sharing settings now ported to GTK 4 and building in daily! CapNet is ready for review 🚀

15 Oct 2023 at 19:43 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

CapNet and sound settings both merged in and building in daily 🎉

16 Oct 2023 at 17:34 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Migrated a bunch of repos over to the new Gettext action that @tintou wrote! Very cool. Always good to not be dependent on distro packages and hopefully this is useful to a lot of other folks maintaining Flatpak apps.

Getting into some settings ports that are less straightforward. Some depend on newer libraries, some have custom widgets that need a big rewrite. Gonna keep trying to plow through any low hanging fruit to get as much done as possible before surgery next month and then holidays etc

17 Oct 2023 at 16:53 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Did just a bunch of different branches all over the place for misc gtk4 porting prep. Printer settings is actually pretty close since someone started in on it previously but it’s one massive, kinda hard to review branch. So I started breaking it up into reviewable chunks and then fixing things in those little chunks. I think as long as those get reviewed I could have that ported this week.

17 Oct 2023 at 23:33 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Been working through keyboard settings and did a bunch of branches there. Started in on desktop settings a bit. Still mostly focusing on trying to finish the settings gtk4 port currently

20 Oct 2023 at 3:56 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

All my keyboard branches were merged and so I have a much clearer picture of what’s needed to finish the port here. I have a draft branch but it doesn’t build yet. I might need to do a couple smaller branches still. It might have to wait for next week because I just got back from electro and I’m gonna ice my face and probably play Genshin 😬😅

20 Oct 2023 at 21:13 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Printers is almost ported. I have one branch separate from the main port branch. I started in on user accounts. Got a branch merged into Granite to fix some screen reader stuff with header labels.

I’m considering taking the rest of the day off. I have GitHub activity for the last 16 days and I’m feeling fatigued. I have branches waiting for review, so I’m not technically blocked but maybe blocked enough to be tired? lol

24 Oct 2023 at 19:37 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

This definitely won't build yet because recipes still need to be updated, but LET'S FUCKING GO 🚀

https://github.com/elementary/os/pull/695

25 Oct 2023 at 18:22 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Lots of things are in motion for building OS 8 images based on Ubuntu Noble. Filling out the daily repo etc. Metapackages. Not sure how long it’ll take to get installable builds but it’s in progress.

Reviewed a number of branches for Gala, I think we’ll get a bug fix release for OS 7 there soon.

More settings branches merged and kept going on user settings. While here also working on improving how the screen reader sees things, using latest design patterns, fixing anything obviously weird, etc

28 Oct 2023 at 0:49 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Shoutouts to @davidmhewitt for really thoroughly documenting here btw: https://github.com/elementary/os/wiki/Preparing-a-new-release-based-on-a-new-Ubuntu-codename

28 Oct 2023 at 17:14 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Working on the first OS 8 blog post update. And also, https://github.com/elementary/builds/pull/109

3 Nov 2023 at 19:57 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Went through and kicked off builds for packages missing in OS 8 dailies. Followed up on some build failures. Installer is blocked by distinst but David sent a patch upstream already. I’d really like to see something bootable before I go on medical leave so just under 2 weeks basically

6 Nov 2023 at 20:16 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Did some dock stuff today! Cleaned out GitHub from old plank issues and PRs. @leolost has a couple PRs for drag and drop and menus in the new dock. I added one for autostart. Also did PRs to pull in the new dock to seeds and remove plank. Excited to test that more in daily.

Reviewed gala branches that are blocking a bug fix release there. Some good multimonitor fixes in shoutouts @lenemter. Once that’s released we can make some bigger breaking changes in Gala 😈

7 Nov 2023 at 22:26 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Published that Gala release with like a dozen bug fixes! And then started merging in some of the new breaking changes for OS 8 🚀 Made some more progress on porting user account settings to GTK 4. Merged the secondary click menu into the new dock.

Meanwhile @meisenzahl submitted a couple of branches to add Anaconda as a backend for Installer which could be used for a Fedora-based spin 👀 https://github.com/elementary/installer/pull/738

10 Nov 2023 at 1:03 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Made a granite branch to gresource some of our non-fd.o named icons. This improves cross-platform compatibility for granite-using apps and avoids breakage https://github.com/elementary/granite/pull/667

13 Nov 2023 at 22:39 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

OS 8 dailies can now boot into an installer and demo session! Installation is failing currently, but this is a major milestone regardless.https://builds.elementary.io

Also, working on Platform 7.3 which will be able to support Web 45 with newest Adwaita etc. I will do my best to get that out over the weekend or maybe monday or maybe tuesday morning but if it doesn't happen by then it's out of my hands for another couple weeks until I get back 😅

17 Nov 2023 at 16:46 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Alright we got new style sheet and granite out with support for Adwaita’s new tab overview widget and granite init now includes those fallback icons. Platform 7.3 is also published! Getting docker containers updated now and then once CI passes etc should be able to publish Web 45.1. And I think this will be my last act before medical leave haha

18 Nov 2023 at 23:11 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Tada, Web 45.1 is published! With the new tab overview widget. Enjoy :)

A screenshot of GNOME Web showing the new tab overview with three open tabs

19 Nov 2023 at 18:09 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Shoutouts to @alice and @mcatanzaro for making this great browser. I have some new patches to upstream when I get back 😊

19 Nov 2023 at 18:13 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Okay I did one more work thing since I was already in a work mood: https://github.com/elementary/dock/pull/193

19 Nov 2023 at 20:05 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

I ended up taking almost 2 full weeks off from work and started easing back into things this week, catching up etc. couple of the things landed in Early Access this week are horizontal swipe gestures for switching windows (shoutouts @lenemter) and the GTK 4 port of the Polkit Agent (thanks Gustavo for reviewing my branches!). Hopefully much more next week!

9 Dec 2023 at 19:08 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Fixed builds for Applications Menu in Early Access OS 8 builds. New Files release published thanks to Jeremy. Working on Screenshot portal with @davidmhewitt

https://github.com/elementary/portals/pull/94
https://github.com/elementary/portals/pull/95

13 Dec 2023 at 20:55 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Gotta do something with that new workspace button, but what do we think about some more color in the multitasking view? :) https://github.com/elementary/gala/pull/1811

18 Dec 2023 at 19:57 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Alright here's another iteration that improves the styles of the workspace switcher

18 Dec 2023 at 21:35 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Just merged GTK 4 port of Settings → System. Did a branch earlier this week to hopefully fix an issue preventing a merge for Printers. Can’t wait to finish this port!

24 Dec 2023 at 16:28 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

What do we think about temporarily showing confirmations—like volume change notifications—inline in the panel instead of as notifications?

https://github.com/elementary/wingpanel-indicator-sound/pull/267

A screenshot of the panel in elementary OS with a levelbar next to the volume icon

29 Dec 2023 at 20:53 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

GTK 4 porting has made me confront a lot of code written by college age kids a decade ago. I can’t emphasize enough how much better the port has made this old code. It really forces you to not do stupid things

30 Dec 2023 at 19:23 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Not sure if this is a great way to show progress, but there's only a few panes that don't have at least some progress of porting. Getting much closer and then I can look at bigger design changes again.

Also, there's a branch about to land to rewrite launcher positioning in the dock so we can do more/better animations. RTL notification positioning was merged. And a branch we need for handling sound confirmations in the indicator. Things are happening!

3 January at 22:22 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Somehow hosed my system. Guess it’s fresh install day 😅

4 January at 18:56 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Dock badges support was merged, new branch up for progress bars! Also way better drag and drop behavior thanks to @leolost

4 January at 22:57 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

It is so freaking cool that when I got started you had to do all kinds of complicated Cairo stuff to draw UI like a dock with animations and now you can just do everything with GTK and get to use regular toolkit widgets and style with CSS. It’s so much faster and simpler

4 January at 23:12 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

I installed FirewallD and then opened up D-Spy and created a new dbus object file in security privacy settings and then I remembered it’s fucking Saturday and I need to be intentional about avoiding burnout

6 January at 21:32 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

I saw a TikTok where a girl said tech products aren't "cunty" anymore. Gotta remember to have fun and not only do Serious Software Engineering™. Anyways, hope this makes your experience slightly more cunt, young people

https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-pantheon-shell/pull/384

9 January at 20:51 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Feeling really good about the current pace of settings porting. I think I could be done this month at this rate 🤞

Also, OS 8 dailies are now installable! But initial setup fails to set the host name and bails out lol. At least it was enough I could file a couple issue reports etc. Hopefully can get that working soon

10 January at 1:03 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Since I last posted about overall porting status, Security & Privacy, Desktop, and Screen Time & Limits are all ported and building in daily. I have network building in a branch but there’s still work to do before it’s ready to merge. Displays I’m worried I’ll have to rewrite this display position widget thing but we’ll see more next week. Wacom I’m blocked because I don’t have a drawing tablet. The StarLite I ordered with the pen so I’m not sure if that can work? Keyboard I have yet to open up

13 January at 18:00 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

I’m kind of wondering if in general Wacom settings should just be a sub pane of mouse & touchpad? Like is there a good reason for this to be separated from other pointing devices? Thoughts pen input users?

13 January at 18:04 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

I proposed keyboard today. Network is blocked until I can set up a dev environment where I have access to libnma-gtk4 but otherwise it’s done. I think it just needs a new VAPI file. Wacom I don’t have the hardware to work on. Displays is my next target. Then it’s done! I have 19/20 panes at least building. This has been a huge task

17 January at 23:54 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Some cool features coming to the new dock thanks to @leolost 👀 https://github.com/elementary/gala/pull/1833

21 January at 6:18 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

Another thing from @leolost , revamping system updates. Trying to trim down AppCenter to only do apps and Settings to handle system administration https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-about/pull/281 https://github.com/elementary/settings-daemon/pull/88

22 January at 22:38 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

I'm so happy with this. It's so easy and fast and smooth. You can see a list of packages if you really care about that, otherwise it just downloads and prepares the updates and then whenever you decide to restart they get installed. Let me emphasize again how fast it is. Checking for updates is fast, downloading them is fast, installing them is fast. It just works.

23 January at 21:10 | Open on mastodon.online

Danielle Foré replied to Danielle

We merged it! So the new system update mechanism is in daily. Can’t wait for more people to test it and send feedback etc.

Also, SettingsPage and SettingsSidebar widgets were moved to LibSwitchboard and deprecated from Granite since they’re only used in Settings. I have a branch to move styles into a resource in Settings instead of the system stylesheet. Then I can do some of the bigger redesign changes. I’m so excited. I hope you love it

24 January at 23:20 | Open on mastodon.online