Mostly #wayland stuff around #gnomeshell, #gstreamer, #Firefox, #Pipewire, #libcamera, #linuxmobile - @collabora
Generally thing that make the Linux desktop use graphics hardware features. And sometimes random boosts.
Based in Berlin.
Member of the German green party.
| Gnome Gitlab | https://gitlab.gnome.org/rmader |
| FDO Gitlab | https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/rmader |
| Github | https://github.com/rmader |
| Mozzila Bugzilla | https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/user_profile?user_id=588045 |
The GNOME Foundation Board election ends on the 11th at 23:59 UTC, which is less than 48 hours away!
If you're a Foundation member and haven't voted yet, please don't forget to vote!
Efforts like the STF grant (made possible by @sonny and @tbernard) show that, with active leadership and direct community involvement, the board can become a powerful vehicle for positive change throughout the whole project. So let's make sure we all vote!
Final results:
CDU/CSU 30%
AfD 15.9%
SPD 13.9%
Green 11.9%
Sahra Wagenknecht 6.2%
FDP 5.2%
Die Linke 2.7%
FW 2.7%
Volt 2.6%
Die Partei 1.9%
Tierschutzpartei 1.4%
Honestly, relative to polls, it's not even that bad; Volt and Die Partei voters at the EU level mostly vote Green or maaaybe SPD at the federal level. There isn't much of a story here beyond "the economy in Germany was bad in 2022-3 due to unusual exposure to Russia and is only starting to recover."
What a great time for the #pinephonepro camera system. Imx258 driver is getting a major upgrade and megi just dropped the most important commit related to it this morning. Fixed the suspend issue so now the rear camera works after you suspend!!!!
https://megous.com/git/linux/commit/?h=orange-pi-6.9&id=ed7992f668a1e529719ee6847ca114f9b67efacb
Showtime, the video player I'm developing for #GNOME has entered Incubator and is available on the GNOME Nightly repo for testing 
I'm hoping for it to replace Totem (Videos) in GNOME 48 and I will publish it on Flathub soon.
Setting up GNOME Nightly: https://nightly.gnome.org/
The repository for the app: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Incubator/showtime
I voted in my first ever GNOME Foundation Board election today. If you're a foundation member who haven't done so, I strongly encourage you to read the candidate statements and vote, vote, vote!
https://discourse.gnome.org/c/community/elections-and-referendums/336
https://vote.gnome.org/2024
This one is important for some #LinuxMobile devices like the #Librem5 and #PinePhone and once the update lands in #postmarketOS they should finally work ootb there \o/
(See my previous thread at https://floss.social/@rmader/112480805811558449 )
#postmarketOS just landed the last MR needed to make the #libcamera + #PipeWire camera stack work on the #Librem5 and #PinePhone by default, using the new software ISP shipped in libcamera 0.3. So if you have such a device: just update and go install apps like Snapshot, Warp, Decoder etc. You can even use it with Firefox and - very soon - Chromium. Note that this does *not* replace #megapixels or #millipixels - those continue to be the default camera apps.
#wireplumber 0.5.3 has been released \o/
As a reminder: #wireplumber is the session manager and therefore the "brain" of #PipeWire. The later is intentionally kept simple, not handling anything policy related.
The version has one fix I'm particular happy about:
Fixed camera device deduplication logic when the same device is available
through both V4L2 and libcamera, and the libcamera one groups multiple V4L2
devices together.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/wireplumber/-/releases/0.5.3
Signal strongly opposes the newest #ChatControl proposal in Europe.
Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees.
This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice.
It's surveillance wine in safety bottles.
See more: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-possible-users-who-refuse-scanning-to-be-prevented-from-sharing-photos-and-links/ @echo_pbreyer
I’m hereby announcing my candidacy for the board election. Name: Julian Sparber Email: jsparber@gnome.org Corporate affiliation: GNOME Foundation (STF contractor) I’ve been a contributor for about 8 years, working on a wide variety of things across the project. This includes core apps such as Settings and Contacts and platform components like Libadwaita, but also Circle and third party apps like Fractal or design tools. Most recently I’ve been working on GNOME Shell as part of the STF projec...
The Pipewire Camera Portal support for Chromium has finally landed!
Huge Kudos to Michael Olbrich @ Pengutronix for pushing this through!
This is great news, and means we'll soon start seeing real integration for cameras which are supported by libcamera through pipewire!
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/3308882
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