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@neal @icculus Wouldn't that thing have its own desktop file and Electron-ish wrapper then, sidestepping the issue? I doubt it is a multiwindow app now that wants its windows to have different icons :-P

But I know nothing about modern Anaconda, it's been a while that I got lost in the UI maze that it had for its partitioning wizard ^^
(I have Fedora VMs that I perpetually clone... Maybe it's time to install it fresh actually)

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Matthias Klumpp Jun 1

@neal @icculus I know places where this (cosmetic!) thing was actually important. They are enjoying KWin and Labwc now (both support the protocol well).

GNOME said they likely won't support it in Mutter because it doesn't fit their design, which tbh, is alright with me.

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Matthias Klumpp May 31

@icculus @neal
Thank you! 😊 - And sorry you had to read that whole thing, I can imagine more fun things to do than that ^^

Maybe we will have proper Multiwindow-App-Support with positioning in Wayland too at some point...

The icon protocol is supported by all clients, including GTK. Compositor support is (very) slowly rolling out too :-)

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Matthias Klumpp May 26

The library works to abstract away platform differences by basically making Windows/MacOS/X11 emulate the zones concept from Wayland's xx-zones. That way, the same API works everywhere as long as only libwinpos is used (no mixing of coordinate spaces).

For a complex cross-platform multiwindow app, that was all that was needed for a pleasant experience on all platforms (unless you don't have xx-zones, unfortunately those users get a warning now and are directed at Xwayland as stop-gap solution).

Matthias Klumpp May 26

I just made the first release of the now open-sourced LibWinpos today!
This #Qt library allows clients to set window positions on Mac/Windows/X11 and Wayland. It works for the latter if the #Wayland compositor implements the experimental `xx-zones` protocol or the kwin-zones plugin is used on #KWin.

The lib provides a single API for all platforms, graceful fallbacks, and is used in one internal proprietary project, as well as in one FOSS project now.

Find it at:
https://github.com/ximion/libwinpos

GitHub - ximion/libwinpos: Client window positioning hint support on Wayland

Client window positioning hint support on Wayland. Contribute to ximion/libwinpos development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Matthias Klumpp May 26

Steven Deobald May 26

hello #gnome folks! foundation elections have started:

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-foundation-board-of-directors-elections-2026/34884

1) make sure you have your membership!
2) please research your candidates!
3) run for elections!

GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Elections 2026

The GNOME Foundation Membership and Elections Committee are pleased to announce the upcoming elections for the Board of Directors in Spring 2026. The most important deadlines (UTC) in the timeline are the following: *GNOME Board Elections 2026* 2026-05-25: Announcements and list of candidates opens. 2026-06-08: Last day to announce candidacies, submit summary statements. 2026-06-08: Final list of candidates. 2026-06-15: Instructions mailed to eligible voters, voting begins. 2026-06-22: Vo...

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Matthias Klumpp May 24

To port existing projects, all changes have been summarized (with examples, when possible!) in a small porting guide: https://syntalos.org/docs/porting-2to3/

Binaries are already available for Debian/Ubuntu in our APT repository (thanks to Cloudsmith for providing hosting services!).

Changes in this release are many and some deep refactoring has been done, with significant improvements in stability, speed and memory usage. Please test thoroughly anyway and report any bugs! :-)

Syntalos 2.x → 3.0 Porting

Syntalos 3.0 contains a small number of breaking changes that affect projects authored against the 2.x series. This page summarizes what changed and how to migrate existing setups. At a glance Stream types are now protocol-agnostic: LineCommand / LineReading replace FirmataControl / FirmataData. Hardware addressing in Line* is ID-based only: line_id replaces pin_id + pin_name. Python port helper APIs for Line* are redesigned as syl.HwOutputLine / syl.HwInputLine. Python modules declare their ports in code via register_input_port() / register_output_port(); the [ports] table in module.toml is gone. Signal block types are renamed to include their precision, and SignalBlockF32 is now a 32-bit float. The “Firmata User Control” (firmata-userctl) module has been renamed to “Manual Line Control” (hwline-userctl). Public C/C++ APIs (libsyntalos-mlink, -datactl) no longer depend on Qt. Out-of-tree C++ modules need to be ported and rebuilt against the new headers. 1. Porting Python modules & PyScript scripts Port types Anywhere your Python module’s port editor had FirmataControl or FirmataData selected, switch to LineCommand / LineReading.

Matthias Klumpp May 24

#Syntalos 3.0.0 is out, for all of your scientific data acquisition needs!
This version drops Qt from all public interfaces (allowing wider use of its API), has a rewritten Python interface, rewritten IPC (using #iceoryx2), support for more scientific hardware, and a new network interface to manage a fleet of machines running one experiment.

This release has breaking changes, existing projects may need adjustments!

Get it at: https://syntalos.org/
Changes: https://syntalos.org/get/changes/

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Matthias Klumpp May 15

@karolherbst That and RMS fumbling his emails... https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00594.html

It stuns me to this day.

Re: Contributing LLVM.org patches to gud.el

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Matthias Klumpp May 15

@karolherbst It's actually a really nice thing, and easy to use! But yeah, really, really late, maybe too late.

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