#OpenBSD -current users may soon notice a nice quality of life improvement beginning to show up in section 3 ("Library functions") man pages.

schwarze@ modified src/usr.bin/mandoc/{mandocdb,mdoc_validate}.c: In the SYNOPSIS, support the input syntax ".Lb libname [...]" with multiple arguments, to be printed as "/* -lname [...] */" and to be searched for with the already established syntax "man -k Lb=libname".
Nothing changes outside the SYNOPSIS section.

Output format and database search term format based on ideas from tedu@.

OK deraadt@ and job@, and jmc@ agrees with the direction, too.

Robert Mustacchi of illumos, a system that now also recommends mdoc(7) as their default documentation format,
agrees with the direction, too - actually, they have already done something similar in small numbers of manual pages some years ago, though not yet in a systematic or consistent way.

Nobody objected when the idea and the diff was shown on the groff and portable mandoc mailing lists.

Commits adding these library name annotations to manuals have followed in the last few weeks, already for many base libraries.

You can find an example of what it looks like, in the first line of SYNOPSIS for sio_open(3):

https://man.openbsd.org/sio_open#SYNOPSIS

And as per the commit example, find manuals for e.g: libssl w/

$ man -k Lb=libssl

Very cool. ​

https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2025/06/10/gnome-systemd-dependencies/

I'm so glad I gave up Gnome very early (I consider it a worse MacOS, and MacOS is a worse MacOS X).

KDE creates a safe haven for Windows 10 exiles.

In the context of the @Endof10 campaign, we have created a new "for" page, this time "for Windows 10 exiles":

https://kde.org/for/w10-exiles/

In it we explain how Linux with Plasma can help users escape the deranged cycle of having to buy a new computer every time Microsoft force-upgrades their operating system.

#Windows11 #Microsoft #endOf10

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Given GitHub's hostile push for AI, I desperately want to move Bottles's code to GNOME GitLab and keep the Codeberg mirror up.

I'm legit so fucking tired of it. It makes it hard for me to develop Bottles without Copilot spams demotivating me. Their hostile push has gotten like Discord where everything is Nitro COPILOT THIS Nitro COPILOT THAT. I'm stuck here playing the opposite of Where's Wally: as in "try not to find any mentions of Copilot".

It's been bothering me so much that it has become more and more difficult to contribute to projects hosted on GitHub. I also get uncomfortable when I contribute to software mirrored to GitHub, which includes GNOME apps.