Free & #OpenSource contributor (#Linux + #GNOME + #GStreamer) since 2004. Now co-maintaining the most magical desktop productivity apps combo (@GettingThingsGNOME & GNOME Calendar) as their benevolent lean engineering manager + occasional User Interaction & UX designer.
Waging war on mediocrity & unsustainability in business.
Founder of @ideemarque + @atypica, and Managing Partner at @regento.
Ex-Collabora, ex-psy, ex-Shinra.
I don't roleplay but I wear a cloak. ❄️
#fedi22
| Personal website | https://fortintam.com |
| Company website | https://idmark.ca |
| Languages | 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🐍 (#Python) |
| Geographic natural habitat | #Montréal (#Montreal) #Québec #Canada |
Big news! Today we’re launching the GNOME Fellowship: funded positions for contributors to work on the GNOME project’s long-term sustainability. 🎉
We are starting with one 12-month fellowship; applications are open through April 20.
Find out more: https://fellowship.gnome.org/
I heartily recommend testing your apps with various accessibility settings enabled.
You can find so many odd issues with those. "Always Show Scrollbars", for example:
* I found a performance bug with vertical tabs in #Firefox that completely flew under the radar: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2016616#c14
* Noticed the awkward look of scrollbars in the middle of Meld: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/-/issues/956
* Discovered misalignment in GNOME Calendar's week view: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/621
Stumbled upon another good example of a simple WordPress website theme causing scrolling performance problems in the latest version of GNOME Web (Epiphany), so I profiled the heck out of it with about 3.6 gigabytes of @WebKitGTK debug symbols installed: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310814
#QA #Sysprof #performance #profiling #GNOMEWeb #Epiphany #GNOME #WebKitGTK #WebKit
Started implementing support for public transit delays in Maps
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/issues/917
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/merge_requests/619
#gnomemaps #transitous #mapstodon #PublicTransport #PublicTransit #realtimedata #motis #GtfsRT
I am happy to inform you that GNOME Files now properly supports the Dullahan's workflow. With this commit, any dúlachán can now properly peek around, without crashing due to incorrect head removal: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/commit/cd1b54d03
Today's #GNOMEShell performance finding on my desktop computer: the strange ~3-4 seconds delay I was experiencing between pressing "Enter" on the unlock screen and the time the screen locking shield disappears (when you can see the desktop) had nothing to do with my GPU… It was caused mainly by these two extensions:
* "Panel World Clock Lite" causing a 1.9 seconds delay: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Nei/gnome-shell-extension-panel-world-clock-lite/-/issues/12
* "Astra Monitor" causing a 1 second delay: https://github.com/AstraExt/astra-monitor/issues/39#issuecomment-4107553146
As you can see below, in addition to my home timezone, I have 20 additional world clocks configured in GNOME Clocks (and therefore, GNOME Shell): ...
Made two small keyboard shortcuts enhancement merge requests today, in Epiphany and Nautilus:
* For Epiphany's tabs overview toggle: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/merge_requests/2066
* For Nautilus' global search: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/merge_requests/1988
Those merge requests could also be nicknamed, "Tell me you're a Dvorak typist without telling me you're a Dvorak typist." 
#accessibility #a11y #GNOMEWeb #GNOMEFiles #Epiphany #Nautilus #Dvorak #GNOME #UX
If you're a #linux desktop user then you should be happy that both #kde and #gnome have reference artifacts, aka an operating system.
It raises the bar for everyone who thinks that they can deliver a better experience than upstream. And given the current state of the market share situation it is clear that the existing gatekeepers need the gut check.
The old school distribution model needs to prove it can do a better job than the people who write the software. We're about to find out. Best infrastructure wins.
The new document annotation feature might win the prize for most useful feature in #GNOME 50. We love the design on this one.
Check out the release notes to learn more: https://release.gnome.org/50
Instead of taking any part in the monthly wayland bashing bullshit, you could just read about how electron, one of the last X11 bastions, has adjusted to wayland. Super important work!
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