Gregory's ServerGot some of our taxes paid and tagged a new Granite release today to unblock the GNOME Web 44 work and I think that’s what I’m capable of today. Still recovering from surgery. There are several other juicy releases queued including over a dozen bug fixes for Gala, the new app menu in Files, all that network indicator work, Gtk 4 port of Portals, and more! Like seriously gonna be a great updates month. So hang tight :)
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 I’m so bored right now, I made a draft of a thing. So much room for activities https://github.com/elementary/wingpanel-indicator-session/pull/174 Fixed a couple reported errors with new network menu. Update should go out imminently. Thanks for filing issue reports ❤️🎉 Shoutouts to @alexm GNOME Web 44 will now use elementary styles on elementary OS. Now it’s my turn to give it lots of love, but the path is paved! Fixing these issues will mean much better support for LibAdwaida widgets in general so it’s a huge win for anyone writing GTK apps who wants to make them look good on elementary OS :) https://github.com/elementary/browser/discussions/82#discussioncomment-5196435 I think taxes are all paid. It looks like our mastodon cross poster is no longer working so I hooked up Buffer and queued up some posts there. Gonna try to get the social media marketing machine turning more. Non-product tasks are not my favorite but they need doing. Made some good progress on supporting Adw.PreferencesWindow in the style sheet. Still a lot to go but the basics are there :) https://github.com/elementary/stylesheet/pull/1245 Did a thing to make sideloading more obvious during onboarding. I really want to get away from this “curated” term https://github.com/elementary/onboarding/pull/190 Shoutouts to leolost2605 for figuring out the fix for this elusive issue! Goes to show the hardest part of bug fixing is often figuring out what’s going wrong, writing the fix can be just a single line! https://github.com/elementary/mail/pull/825 Started the process of moving Granite-specific styles into Granite. This should make things easier to maintain and improve and ensure styles are loaded correctly for Granite apps https://github.com/elementary/granite/pull/639 Working on some documentation updates. Updated the Notifications section and added a code sample: https://docs.elementary.io/develop/apis/notifications I complained last week about non-development tasks and then got slapped in the face this week haha. Shoutouts to @davidmhewitt for switching our docker containers to use GitHub container registry and updating CI for >100 repos Cleaned up our documentation for Glib.Action including screenshots and added a new Popovers section! https://docs.elementary.io/develop/writing-apps/popovers It's a rainy day so I decided to have some fun today and work on Onboarding a bit. Here, I'm using Gtk.CSS to build this icon with the system's default wallpaper and logo etc. So if a distribution supplies its own icon, that will be used etc. All very adaptive to make Pantheon usable on other distros Several improved screens in the next version of Onboarding. This early access screen in particular is just way cleaner now. Sidenote: I also think I am really in favor of bumping up window corner radius from 6px to 9px. Thoughts? Needs some cleanup and stuff, but this is functional yay Also, color blindness filters soon?? https://github.com/elementary/gala/pull/1595 Writing documentation is so rewarding for me because it’s like taking years of picking up little tricks and distilling that into something that can fast forward someone else and I just love that. Anyways, small updates to the section on including custom icons: https://docs.elementary.io/develop/apis/gresource Lots of great work happening in Gala lately. Bug fixes, performance improvements, and the team is working on updates for Mutter 44 that includes future support for mixed DPI and fractional scaling 👀 https://github.com/elementary/gala/commits/master Planning to publish March updates post tomorrow, meanwhile more work in Onboarding to make a fat release next month. This time, replacing the guest session’s warning dialog https://github.com/elementary/onboarding/pull/205 This month’s updates looking good for new designs and new features. On top of all the recent work in Onboarding, several branches landed in Desktop Settings including new hot corner actions and a setting to dim the wallpaper in dark mode. Lots of improvements for Code. The team is still really hammering away on Gala. Plus Web 44 landed, and there’s been a number of fixes and improvements to Mail. Really impressed with the momentum going on right now Getting excited for this next Mail release. Landed a branch to bring back lots of keyboard shortcuts in the composer. Leonhard is working on better offline support. Making lots of progress towards Gtk 4 porting. Lots of good stuff happening! Some of my granite styles stuff got merged 🎉 I also spent some time reviving my little weather app and submitted it to AppCenter. Worked on some location portal related things, but hit a snag. Updates are coming down the pipe! Mail with some good fixes and new keyboard shortcuts. Onboarding looking fresh with improved explanation of sideloading and now handling the guest account. Desktop settings with new hotcorner actions and an option to dim wallpapers in dark mode. Gala with a ton more bug fixes and improved keyboard shortcuts. Gonna be a good month! Proposed some tweaks to AppInfo pages to tighten up some of this padding and get things lined up a bit nicer https://github.com/elementary/appcenter/pull/2024 Okay, I think this is neat. Handling conversations with changing subjects etc: https://github.com/elementary/mail/pull/893 😫🫸 Pixel perfect mockups https://github.com/elementary/mail/issues/616#issuecomment-1557577602 Expanding sandbox hole warnings here. Want to get to a place where these are comprehensive enough that the “uncurated” warning is redundant and unnecessary https://github.com/elementary/appcenter/pull/2040 https://github.com/elementary/appcenter/pull/2039 I think I might also do something with the Kudos tag maybe. Wanna make AppCenter the best store for informed consent More sandbox hole warnings! Shame for everyone! Dishonor on your cow! Went through all the Flatpak manifests of all the apps in AppCenter and compiled a list of dubious sandbox holes: https://github.com/elementary/appcenter/discussions/2045 Led to me opening a few specific issue reports so far and I have another branch here for warning about dconf access Putting together releases for this month and there’s a lot of like little maintenance releases, and I haven’t quite gotten through everything but I think some more of the big platform/feature releases are probably gonna be next month. Like AppCenter Flatpak warning stuff not sure if it’s worth releasing this month half finished or waiting until next month. Location and background portal I think can go out this month, but apps won’t use it until probably next month. Might be a short blog I dunno Proposed the UI for colorblindness correction filters! https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-display/pull/350 Would really appreciate any feedback from folks with color sensitivity issues, especially regarding terminology and if there's anything that can be done to make things more accessible for you! One thing I’d really like feedback on is if the way colors are represented here is useful. My intention was to put colors that are the most effected next to the filter that would help most with them. I originally just had a single strip of swatches off to the side, but I’m hoping this better contextualizes the options Haha, I just realized that the filters aren’t reflected in screenshots so this is four screenshots of the same image lmao. Removing the redundant screenshots now 😅 Also, is “Color blindness correction” the best label here? I’ve heard that the word “blind” throws off some people. Would “Color sensitivity” be better? I’ve also seen “Color deficiency” used. Also how to we feel about the word “correction”? Would something like “assistance” be better? I’d really like to get the language right I took some photos of my screen to see if maybe I can show a bit how things are affected 😅 Sorry it’s probably not great quality and maybe not very useful Another big win for making sure you're fully in control of your computer: we've now implemented the Background Portal in Pantheon and our default apps make use of it. So by default our office apps will only run in the background if you use them and with your permission Shoutouts to @lenemter we have a working Wayland session! Besides window positioning code being broken basically everywhere, it’s surprisingly usable and normal. It’s so fast and smooth though omg. Should be able to easily test it in Early Access very very soon! Follow along with known issues etc here: https://github.com/orgs/elementary/projects/118/views/1 I think all of the relevant branches were merged so if you’re in Early Access you should be able to run/test a Wayland session by just selecting it from the gear menu on the login screen :) I was playing with this levelbar for sound input and trying to make its feedback more useful. I’m not sure about this interaction, but I have a branch drafted here to kind of emphasize peaks. Would love some feedback https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-sound/pull/246 This branch will complete our project to make settings that were previously hidden in a separate #a11y section more broadly available. Some of the explanation text was previously not great so hopefully this is much clearer! https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-keyboard/pull/446 I want to also re-evaluate how complicated some of the old behavior settings are. Like does anybody seriously change the curser blink speed or duration? Here’s a fun Saturday morning idea: https://github.com/elementary/onboarding/pull/212 This month’s updates are going out starting today! Color assistance filters, background/autostart portal, and application settings all queued. More to come soon :) Today we have updated Display settings (with filters and redesigned nightlight settings), Bluetooth indicator (with Bluetooth file sharing), AppCenter (with sandbox warnings), and nightlight indicator (just minor icon updates). And I think we’re gonna have even more this week! Indicators didn’t go out yesterday because we found a last minute issue with icon resources—shoutouts to @bobby285271 downstream in NixOS. But they’re going out today! Also Files with Bulk Rename and a new Online Accounts with better special folder detection for IMAP Literally no one: Designers: MESH GRADIENTS BOOYEEEE COMING STRAIGHT AT YOU LETS GOOOO Switched gears today because it’s Friday and worked on some Files Gtk4 porting stuff. Gonna be a lot of work but this is our oldest code base so it’s going to really benefit from all the cleanup. For example: https://github.com/elementary/files/pull/2231 It’s #DisabilityPrideMonth and through sheer coincidence we’re releasing some cool new #a11y features this month and have more currently in preview for next month. Special shoutouts to @lenemter here for working on color assistance filters, fixing the screen reader shortcut on the greeter, and more. Can’t wait to write up everything we’ve been doing to make @elementary OS more inclusive and accessible! You won't be able to tell from this screenshot, but I'm working on using Hdy.TabBar in Files in preparation for the Gtk4 port (which will use Adw.TabBar). Also, I just installed the latest daily build on my laptop and screen reader shortcuts are working in the Installer yay. Also some design cleanups for the new Mail message move menu. This next release of Mail is really big. So many features and goodies https://github.com/elementary/mail/pull/921 |
Happy Tuesday! Releases are building. I’ll get a blogpost up soonish. Still recovering and sitting in an office chair too long hurts 😅