Gregory's ServerThe current GTK 4 style we use was meant to be a pretty straightforward port of the GTK 3 style to smooth out the transition. So it is based around the same GTK 3 limitations. It’s fun to go back now and see what’s possible in GTK 4. I’m not sure I’ll finish a shippable new stylesheet in just a couple months here, but I would like to at least make some progress towards it
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 Here we go friends! First step: replacing some of this old events stuff with EventControllers https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-wacom/pull/38 GTK 4 port of display settings was merged! Building in daily now. Also ported Settings to Adw.Navigation view and made significant progress on porting AppCenter there as well. Finally getting to the big payoff phase. Months of refactoring and porting and updating and rewriting. Really excited to realize this design direction more I love tearing through old lasagna. Removing code is my favorite thing to do https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-wacom/pull/50/files Last week spent some time cleaning up Language & Region settings. Ported to Gtk.DropDown so those dropdowns have search now. Added a link to Date & Time settings since there was some confusion about how to change clock location and formats. Fixed deprecation warnings and some other under the hood stuff. Started in on porting Login & Lockscreen to GTK 4. Getting my Wacom branches merged has been a bit slow so working my way through other areas Made an executive decision and just kind powered through the Wacom GTK 4 port by reviewing my own branches (shame shame). But now System Settings is fully and completely ported to GTK 4. It's over. I'm gonna go cry/celebrate I haven’t been keeping up on posting what I’m working on 😅 I have branches proposed for all the settings plugins to handle their own window controls so we can finally land the dual pane design and save some vertical pixels. Waiting for reviews there Been working on the new Granite stylesheet. Today I proposed a branch so that Granite apps will load accent color over the settings portal, which helps our cross-desktop app story a lot https://github.com/elementary/granite/pull/704 Shoutouts to @leolost for reviewing my branches, the big System Settings redesign has landed! I'm so excited about this. There is still a lot of room to improve individual settings but I'm really happy with this overall If you're someone who wants scrollbars to always be shown, presumably you want them to always be expanded as well right? Still just kind of "sketching" but playing with some ideas for StackSwitcher. Contrast is obviously not good here, but mostly looking at shapes and mixing flat and raised styles to emphasize selection/activation. Trying to modernize things without losing too much fidelity. Most of all I want interactive elements to feel touchable and respond in satisfying ways to changes in state Working my way through here. Lots to clean up but getting places conceptually https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-applications/pull/219 Haven’t submitted a pull request to a freedesktop.org project in a while 😅 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/default-icon-theme/-/merge_requests/4 We're fucking getting places dude! That's looking a whole lot more like a thing to meeee https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-applications/pull/216 Shoutouts to @lenemter for reviewing my Flatpak PermissionStore branches, we now have settings for several of those. Still working through this sidebar design branch. I need to make some icons! We’re making such good progress on cleaning up our app launching story in the dock. Thanks to @leolost the dock will now focus apps which already have a window open instead of launching new windows. We have a window spread when apps have multiple windows. And I have a branch for reading the SingleMainWindow hint from the launcher entry so that we can more predictably launch new windows on middle click (solves a 3 year old bug): https://github.com/elementary/dock/pull/227 Oh I forgot to mention that @leolost also implemented the scroll to switch windows behavior, so if that was a feature you loved from plank you get to keep it 😉 And all this is done in a Wayland-compatible way! Speaking of which he’s also working on positioning for panels and docks https://github.com/elementary/gala/pull/1887 lol accidentally nuked my installation because of the 64bit time migration. Otherwise trying to get out monthly blog post today So in addition to 64bit time transition there’s also now Mutter 46. Dailies look like they’re failing right now because of Mutter 46. I submitted a branch to fix Gala builds for 46 and make sure we’re using 46 in our CI. Greeter and Panel are the other packages affected here, so hang tight. We’ll get it sorted :) Until then there are older OS 8 builds but trying to upgrade them will almost certainly nuke your shit currently Gala build is fixed. Greeter should theoretically be fixed for mutter 46 already but some dependency seems to be pulling in something with conflicts maybe? I think that’s a 64bit time migration issue. Not sure what’s up with panel. New day new mysteries 🔎 Fixed panel. Still not sure what is happening with Greeter. Maybe some lib needs to be rebuilt still. I ended up fixing libgala and rebuilding Granite 6. We’ll figure it out Packages are all fixed, dailies are building again. They don’t seem to be able to make it to the installer session though 😅 So new problem to solve Working on a new cursor design, trying to bring in more color, and wondering how flat I want to go: Funnily enough, while I have other contributors to thank for bringing attention to the cursor design, it seems like the current crash in daily OS 8 builds is due to Mutter 46’s expectations around cursor names. So I got those cleaned up and hopefully we’ll have bootable dailies again. And I’m excited to refresh the design here as well. So yeah form follows function etc Seems like generally folks like the flatter variants more. What about some versions that are flatter but keeping the color all the way to the edge? mhmm mhmm this is kind of matching my thoughts as well. So here's one last set of variants going from flatter to a little bit more dimensional Just confirmed that latest icons with the updated cursor names no longer crash Mutter 14, so 🤞OS 8 dailies should be bootable again tomorrow. Unless there’s some new problem 😂 New base cursor design was merged in. Shoutouts to new contributor William for getting the ball rolling, helping refine these styles, and coming up with these great color wheel design for the waiting cursor https://github.com/wpkelso I have several branches out that will result in basically a completely redrawn cursor theme, so excited waiting on reviews for those. Merged in @davidmhewitt’s branch for the screenshot and color picker portals! So that’s exciting Submitted a branch for Files to use the wallpaper portal and for multi-GPU support in the Dock 🚀 Really whittling down the OS 8 project board. I’m really still not sure why dailies aren’t booting, but doing what I can until we can figure it out Dailies are booting again thanks to @davidmhewitt! Meanwhile I’m working on patches, the OS 8 Flatpak runtime, getting things into a releasable state, etc. Blog post likely coming at you tomorrow? Got a fresh install of OS 8 daily on my main machine and I am excitedly cranking out some stuff today! Pushed a couple branches to fix regressions in Desktop settings. And added a few things to the OS 8 project board Releasing Granite 7.5.0 today (that’s right because no major API break), likely Stylesheet 8, and preparing release notes for Icons 8. We actually did a ton for Icons 8! The release notes and list of fixed issues is fat. And then Platform 8 release will follow soon after that. Granite, Stylesheet, and Icons are all released. Platform 8 is also released. The Sdk and Runtime are both built. Now building docker containers. I have branches staged for updating all our flatpaks to the new platform Also I have a branch out for adding FlatHub by default in OS 8 Haha docker build failed so maybe I’m too early lol. Once the platform is for sure published in our remote I’ll re-trigger that Platform 8 docker containers are built and we’re getting all our flatpaks updated, including GNOME Web 46! While working on Installer GTK4 porting, might as well make this view more responsive :) This is a daunting task 😬 https://github.com/orgs/elementary/projects/128/views/1?pane=issue&itemId=62308779 Looking for new wallpapers for the new default. Proposed a couple. Feel free to add 👍 👎 reactions :) https://github.com/elementary/wallpapers/pull/184 If you had to pick one of the three wallpapers above for OS 8 default which would it be? (see previous post) I love that @micah asked for this edit. Spot the difference! https://github.com/elementary/wallpapers/pull/185/commits/5159b0f3f9f84d0dda3dd44bd7bddce4480a10c8 Not an actual greeter screenshot because that takes more effort, but I proposed a branch for big, thick clock 🥵 My fun thing for today was revisiting drawing wallpaper previews in appearance settings. It's resizable, works with RTL, can handle if you use a solid color background, and can handle when you have a different wallpaper preference for dark and light mode (currently only way to set that is in dconf) I think that looks quite a bit nicer and more modern, don't you? https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-pantheon-shell/pull/400 Yeah I think that makes a lot more sense and there's some nice visual feedback https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-pantheon-shell/pull/401 Ignore all my fucking cables please. Lock Screen looking so good for OS 8! |
GTK 4 branch of displays is proposed and had one round of review so far. Could definitely still get that in this month!
I also proposed Wallpaper Portal. Trying to work towards more wallpaper options like Lock Screen and dark style options.
Plus! I got a Wacom tablet thanks to @micah so I’ll be able to port Wacom settings! Look at the cute note he left me too 🥰