TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️

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Queer Indian developer from Montréal, Canada :3

I'm a @gnome Foundation member who maintains Upscaler and Refine, develops GNOME Calendar, and actively works on accessibility throughout GNOME.

Please consider donating if it is not too much trouble: https://tesk.page/#donate

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TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️3d ago
Show threadzyxhere💭3d ago

@lizzy I would rather download an exe and run it under wine running under flatpak

#linux #GNOME #KDE

TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️3d ago
Christian Hergert4d ago
Over the past 50 years asset ownership, particularly housing, concentrated at the top and everyone else lost leverage. AI is now repeating that pattern by concentrating ownership of computing in the hands of a few. Protect yourself by owning what you can: your skills, equity, local tools, your operating system, and your own data.
TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️4d ago
Christian Hergert5d ago

I’m no longer employed by Red Hat.

As a result, any projects I maintained there as part of that employment should no longer be considered maintained by me, whether in that former capacity or otherwise.

Because those projects were solely maintained by me, they may now fall into an unmaintained state unless other community members step in. I am not available to maintain, review, or support them in any capacity for the foreseeable future.

For context read https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2026/02/06/mid-life-transitions/

Mid-life transitions

The past few months have been heavy for many people in the United States, especially families navigating uncertainty about safety, stability, and belonging. My own mixed family has been working through some of those questions, and it has led us to make a significant change. Over the course of last year, my request to relocate...

Happenings in GNOME
TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️5d ago
Fun fact: 0.0001% of 4 trillion is 4 million. Apple is worth $4 trillion USD. Let that sync in
TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️5d ago
highvoltage5d ago
I don't know what GNOME 50 did with animations, but it just feels *so* right. I usually disable animations on both my android and linux machines because I'd rather just have it feel snappy. But in GNOME 50, the animations are very subtle and fast enough that I barely notice it's there. It just feels great all-round. Good job to whomever has been working on this!
TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️5d ago
Sjoerd Stendahl6d ago

After two years of development, we're happy to announce Graphs 2.0. It's by far our biggest update yet. We're targeting stable next month, with an official beta period in the meantime.

Highlights include proper equation support with an infinite canvas, a redesigned style editor with live preview, error bars, SQLite & spreadsheet support and much more.

Any feedback is welcome :)

For more information on the changes or how to get the beta, see: https://blogs.gnome.org/sstendahl/2026/04/14/announcing-the-upcoming-graphs-2-0/

#GNOME #Linux #FOSS

Announcing the upcoming Graphs 2.0

It's been a while since we last shared a major update of Graphs. We've had a few minor releases, but the last time we had a substantial feature update was over two years ago. This does not mean that development has stalled, to the contrary. But we've been working hard on some major changes that...

Sjoerd Stendahl
TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️Apr 10
Olivia VesperaApr 9

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116375694963358260

I appreciate that EFF has left X. it certainly took them a lot longer to do that than some other organisations. And they did not because of CSAM, but because they weren't getting as much engagement as they used to.

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago."

There are other reasons for why @eff stays on a platform that they elaborate. And it's... fair. But we need to push and direct folks to more ethical platforms.

TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️Apr 10
Akseli ​ Apr 9
Very technical post, feel free to ignore if you're not working on KDE stuff. (https://akselmo.dev/notes/flatpak-kdeplatform-ci/)
Testing org.kde.Platform flatpak built in CI

Akseli's various rambles and posts about gaming, gamedev, FOSS, programming and other things.

TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️Apr 9
Nathan DyerApr 9
GNOME Calendar has gotten *so good*, it just handles ICS files, multi-day events, multiple calendars, and mismatched timezones so well now. Hands down my favorite calendar app on any platform. If there's a "most improved app award", surely it must be a contender.
TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️Apr 6
Show threadTheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 5

Everyone, rejoice 🙌

Georges livestreamed himself reviewing and merging accessibility contributions in GNOME Calendar again, specifically the entirety of merge request !564, which introduces keyboard-navigable month cells. This means, as of GNOME 50, GNOME Calendar's month view will be fully navigable with a keyboard for the first time in its history! The only high-level goal that needs work now is conveying these information with assistive technologies properly.

Do note that the screen recording attached won't have any alt text, to avoid redundancy. Everything written below is a detailed explanation of the experience, and the recording is essentially a visual demonstration:

- When tabbing between events, focus moves chronologically. This means that focus continues to move down until there are no event widgets overlaying the current cell. Then, focus moves to the topmost event widget in the next cell or row. Tabbing backwards with Shift+Tab moves in the opposite direction.
- On the last event widget, pressing Tab moves the focus to the adjacent month cell. Conversely, pressing Ctrl+Tab on any event widget has the same effect.
- Pressing an activation button (such as Enter or Space) displays the popover for creating an event. Additionally, pressing and holding the Shift key while pressing the arrow keys selects every cell between the start and end positions until the Shift key is released, which displays the popover with the selected range.

Both merge requests !564 and !598 took us almost an entire year to explore various approaches and finally settle on the best one for our use case. Everything was done voluntarily, relying solely on support from donors and those who share these posts, without any financial backing from other entities. In contrast, most, if not all, calendar apps backed by trillion-dollar companies still don't offer proper keyboard navigation across their views. In many cases, they haven't even reached feature parity. If it is not too much trouble, please consider funding my accessibility work on GNOME. Thank you! ♥️

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #Calendar #GTK #libadwaita #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OSS #Linux