Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)

@nekohayo
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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 websitehttps://fortintam.com
Company websitehttps://idmark.ca
Languages🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🐍 (#Python)
Geographic natural habitat#Montréal (#Montreal) #Québec #Canada

Filed a UX issue about the fact that Firefox's pinned tabs scroll, one row at a time, when you pin more than a handful of tabs while in vertical tabs sidebar mode. It drives me bonkers, because that divider widget that needs to be manually re-positioned is essentially just giving me "shit work" to do:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2033306

#Firefox #UX #design

2033306 - Newly pinned vertical tabs creating additional rows cause scrolling instead of automatically repositioning the divider

UNCONFIRMED (nobody) in Firefox - Sidebar. Last updated 2026-04-19.

It took 11 years, but @razze and I managed to create a folder on Linux...

https://blog.tenstral.net/2026/04/hello-projects-directory.html

#freedesktop

Hello old new “Projects” directory! – Ximions Blog

As a cat masquerading as a dog, I am very confused by these stickers I saw in Montréal while passing by.

Seems pretty ratcist.

If the local rats could read, they would be very upset!

#Montreal #rats #rodents #discrimination

Little retrospective on helping out app developers with icons directly rather than building icon themes.

https://blog.jimmac.eu/posts/app-icon-requests/

#gnome #icon #design

120+ Icons and Counting | Jakub Steiner

How the GNOME Design Team's app-icon-requests project has boosted app icon quality across the Linux desktop, and how you can help.

120+ Icons and Counting | Jakub Steiner

Jotted down an idea for a small GUI utility app for webmasters and casual sysadmins: a htaccess+htpasswd generator: https://gitlab.gnome.org/bertob/app-ideas/-/issues/306

This is totally a niche usecase, but maybe it's an itch that a someone out there would be interested to scratch with, say, a tiny Python+GTK app…

#sysadmin #security #Apache #Linux #FreeDesktop #GNOME

htaccess + htpasswd (per-folder password protection for webmasters / sysadmins) generator (#306) · Issues · Tobias Bernard / App Ideas · GitLab

The modern web is a security nightmare, and for basic usecases there are many webmasters out there (or self-hosted folks) who may want to protect certain things (ex:...

GitLab

Je constate par la même occasion que @dolibarr se présente comme une plateforme de rencontres romantiques 

#Dolibarr #romance #traductions

Y'a des trucs vraiment louches dans les traductions de #Dolibarr, autant en anglais qu'en français.

Genre, le « téléphone de bus » dans le formulaire de création de nouveaux comptes usagers. WAT.
📞  🚍

#ERP #FrenchConnection #traductions #translations

Today is a "Let's YOLO dist-upgrade 4 LAMP servers from Debian 11/12 to Debian 13 with StarCraft's Terran music themes blasting from the speakers" kind of Sunday 🫡

So far all my battlecruisers are still operational.

#sysadmin #Debian #Linux #StarCraft #YOLO #infrastructure

Good to have things clarified.

@tdforg had to spend a lot of energies in battling conflicting interests which led having to stronger rules to avoid those issues in the future

Once the legal consultations are over and the matters are settled, #Collabora's developers will be able to reapply for full membership

#TDF has developers that constantly improve #LibreOffice and will employ more guaranteeing a bright future for LibreOffice and the community

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/10/qa-about-media-articles-and-forum-comments/

#OpenSource #FOSS

Q&A about Media Articles and Forum Comments - TDF Community Blog

Over the past week, a number of articles have appeared in the media and comments have been posted on forums containing questions – some explicitly stated and others implied – directed at The Document Foundation. We have done our best to gather all these questions and provide a response that clarifies The Document Foundation’s position regarding the claims made in a couple of online posts and the resulting inferences drawn by readers who are only partially informed of the facts. Some of the questions may sound weird such as the one about all developers having left the project, which is not true but is a clear consequence of the intentionally biased framing provided by some people to damage The Document Foundation and LibreOffice. With this Q&A document, we aim to provide clarity, although much of this information has already been provided in the past on this very blog, and all the data cited is available on The Document Foundation’s website (specifically, organisation, governance, ledger and annual report), on TDF dashboard (data relating to development and related activities) and on TDF Matomo site (data relating to downloads). TDF Website: https://www.documentfoundation.org/ TDF Dashboard: https://dashboard.documentfoundation.org/ TDF Matomo Instance: http://matomo.documentfoundation.org/ TDF Annual Reports: https://www.documentfoundation.org/financials-and-reports/

TDF Community Blog
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.