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 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 154 comments
Working on the first OS 8 blog post update. And also, https://github.com/elementary/builds/pull/109 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 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 😈 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 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 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 😅 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 Tada, Web 45.1 is published! With the new tab overview widget. Enjoy :) Shoutouts to @alice and @mcatanzaro for making this great browser. I have some new patches to upstream when I get back 😊 Okay I did one more work thing since I was already in a work mood: https://github.com/elementary/dock/pull/193 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! 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 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 Alright here's another iteration that improves the styles of the workspace switcher 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! 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 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 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! Dock badges support was merged, new branch up for progress bars! Also way better drag and drop behavior thanks to @leolost 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 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 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 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 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 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? 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 Some cool features coming to the new dock thanks to @leolost 👀 https://github.com/elementary/gala/pull/1833 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 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. 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 Proposed a couple of improvements for the new update mechanism already: A branch to alter notifications when the package bundle includes security updates: https://github.com/elementary/settings-daemon/pull/121 A branch to add an automatic updates option: https://github.com/elementary/settings-daemon/pull/118 Finally proposed this app icon redesign as well https://github.com/elementary/switchboard/pull/253 Getting places with revamping the SettingsPage widget. Floating headers, adding window controls is next. Might bump down the icon size on these? Maybe we should just go sidebar? This would give us search all the time. And it would be much easier/more predictable to implement window controls and we could just add back/forward buttons to the sidebar area maybe? Optional automatic system updates were merged! Automatic app updates will now be opt-out instead of opt-in. Plus system update notifications now mention if they contain security updates. Really happy with how the updates story has come together over the last couple years A couple branches got merged to fix permissions issues on greeter with network and host name setting. And @lenemter has a bunch of branches to bring better support for things like dark mode and accent colors on the greeter I opened the issue report about changing notifications when they contain security updates back in 2016 and finally implemented it myself last week. Feels good to close such an old feature request 💪🏼 It is still quite broken, but the latest build can be installed and logged into! https://builds.elementary.io/ Also also! The multitasking view redesign with the blurred background was merged. Very excited about that. Dark mode on the greeter should land this week. Yesterday I added session actions (shutdown, logout, etc) to the quick settings indicator. Gonna try to propose replacing the existing session indicator as a transition path here 🤞 https://github.com/elementary/quick-settings I’m also thinking about code names for the new release and happy to hear suggestions! Some constraints: Hopefully make this search not trash anymore https://github.com/elementary/switchboard/pull/288 Get into cleaning up these power settings a bit. This code is pretty wild 😬 https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-power/pull/246 I know this layout is still pretty funky but trust the process 😅 also shoutouts to @allanday et al. I have been referencing this great GNOME design page to think about how to present options: https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/Power We're getting places, we're learning about UPower, we're having fun, we're searching for AAs under the couch https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-power/pull/253 Could use some feedback about which #A11y -related settings folks expect to be able to reach in quick settings https://github.com/elementary/quick-settings/discussions/21 Proposed a branch to move these toggles to the front page and get rid of the sub page. Also cleaned up these icons a bit and I’m trying something with button shapes, let me know if you guess what the difference between circle and rounded square buttons is 👀 |
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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