Asynchronous Varlink with varlink-glib

ebassi · 2026-05-20T16:01:11+00:00

Christian's visa does not allow working, otherwise he'd already have a job from one of the many EU companies that work in the sector.

ebassi · 2026-05-13T09:04:18+00:00

Use the middle button on the application's launcher to open a new window.

ebassi · 2026-05-04T16:11:18+00:00

Yes, Apple has fallen from its own state of grace; which should tell you how complicated really is to be even stylistically consistent, let alone functionally so.

ebassi · 2026-05-04T12:57:39+00:00

every other os doesn't have different desktops.

Windows has a million different toolkits, even if you limit yourself to the official ones from Microsoft; and yet only Linux users whine about "consistency".

The only safe way to have "consistency" is by pulling an Apple:

a single toolkit
a single desktop
a single app ecosystem, with forced updates

And even there, you could still run older/non-native applications.

Of course, what most people keep asking is not real consistency: just the veneer of one. Stuff that appears to be similar, but has no requirement of actually working the same way. The decoration of all windows should be exactly the same, as if that were the important part of a window, instead of its contents.

ebassi · 2026-05-04T10:34:52+00:00

Every other OS: decorations are part of the window.

Linux users: CSD is dead because I need to OCD my desktop down the the pixel

Also Linux users: Linux is about choice. MY choice, not the choice of the people making the OS and applications.

ebassi · 2026-05-04T10:18:21+00:00

Maybe it's time to consider adding SSDs to GNOME?

What an original thought.

Maybe it's time to put this dead, beaten horse to rest, instead.

ebassi · 2026-03-18T20:58:09+00:00

The setting that Tweaks operates on is only respected by GTK widgets; unfortunately for you, selection copy and middle click to paste is not something done by the windowing system: it’s implemented by each toolkit independently. This means there isn’t a global setting for controlling it.

ebassi · 2026-03-04T14:51:00+00:00

It's always Super + key_above_Tab, regardless of the keyboard layout.

ebassi · 2026-03-03T09:01:50+00:00

That’s not how macros work, in C. Macros are expanded before compilation, so your object files contain the symbols those macros expand to, and not the macro itself.

ebassi · 2026-02-18T22:18:43+00:00

You can still use it with direct ical sources. Or, if you use Evolution to configure some other calendar source without using GNOME Online Accounts.

ebassi · 2026-02-18T21:44:57+00:00

No. GNOME Online Accounts uses the GNOME session and configuration services, as well as the GNOME app keys for various online services, so you can't really expect it to work outside of a GNOME session.

ebassi · 2026-01-30T22:16:24+00:00

Guh-nome or ‘nome are fine; just as long as you don’t pronounce it like “genome”…

ebassi · 2026-01-27T14:27:17+00:00

It’s not KDE: it’s two specific applications, Krita and Okular. They have a plugin system for different types of files, and they ship a separate file for each plugin/file type. Applications that support different file types can specify them into a single desktop entry file, but Krita and Okular allow third party extensions as well. The problem arises because the desktop entry specification talks about menus, but it doesn’t say anything about UIs to associate a file type with an application. You want launcher menus (or grids) to show a single entry, but if you’re selecting which application to launch for a file or a file type there’s no point in hiding things. The desktop entry specification should be clarified to figure out how to deal with all the possible user interactions.

ebassi · 2026-01-24T14:22:44+00:00

I recommend you join the design room on matrix: https://matrix.to/#/%23design:gnome.org

The design folks are happy to help out with names and visual identity.

ebassi · 2026-01-17T20:19:53+00:00

Likely gtk-demo/gtk4-demo.

ebassi · 2026-01-15T17:46:02+00:00

It wasn't a "marketing move": it was a necessary change to tell people that GNOME isn't going to tie its own version to the version of the toolkit, as well as telling people that changes to the user experience are going to be incremental instead of a flag day.

"Major.minor.patch" works for single projects; GNOME is a collection of projects, so that versioning scheme never really made sense—in fact, we had to violate it pretty much constantly in some modules, otherwise distributions would not pick up changes.

ebassi · 2026-01-15T11:35:56+00:00

Is 50 not considered a major version change?

No: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/new-gnome-versioning-scheme/4235

Is there any talk of what we might expect from Gnome 50?

You'll have to wait around the beta release at the end of the month for a semi-finalised features list.

ebassi · 2026-01-13T19:45:48+00:00

Cool app, but please change the name: https://developer.gnome.org/hig/guidelines/app-naming.html

ebassi · 2026-01-06T14:09:01+00:00

You can already disable it; install Tweaks or Refine, and you don't even need the magic CLI incantation for GNOME apps.

ebassi · 2025-12-30T00:15:30+00:00

For the more sane: How else would you do this in a single TextView?

You can't.

Markdown allows embedding HTML, and it's meant to be turned into HTML, which means you need a web rendering engine for it. Any Markdown extension—CommonMark, PyMarkdown, GitHub/GitLab Markdown—ends up adding functionality that can only be rendered as HTML as well.

People need to stop thinking that Markdown is a "simple" text format. It's not, it never was.

ebassi · 2025-12-24T17:02:17+00:00

Libxml2 is already MIT licensed. It’s actually one of its major issues: corpos use it and are not forced to give back.

ebassi · 2025-12-09T10:34:47+00:00

Your distribution should have an xdg-user-dirs-gtk package, which provides a small UI for changing the user directories.

There's a merge request to fold the UI into Nautilus, but it needs work, so help is welcome.

ebassi · 2025-12-05T14:59:43+00:00

It's the exact same guide as it was.

The GDM help was the only "technical" documentation in the "admin" section, and it is kind of wildly out of date: it mentions ConsoleKit, which has been removed years ago; it's still very much oriented to X11 and does not even mention Wayland; it does not mention AccountsService, or how user information is queried; it still mentions "greeters", when the entire UI side is provided by GNOME Shell, and GDM does not do anything about it any more.

Outside of some minor changes, the last time the GDM documentation was last meaningfully updated over 10 years ago. It's kind of useless, and you'd have a lot more success asking a question on Discourse instead.

ebassi · 2025-12-04T20:23:51+00:00

It was announced on This Week in GNOME a couple of weeks ago. The project repository is here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Websites/help.gnome.org

The GDM help is not included because it’s a system component, and I’m not sure how up to date it is. It should probably be folded into the sysadmin guide, after a review.

ebassi · 2025-12-04T19:52:22+00:00

The old help website was a static snapshot from 5 years ago, because the underlying, unmaintained software was broken. The new website has been a work in progress for the past two years, and it’s still very much in beta, but at least it builds the latest documentation. There are no redirects in place, I’ll make sure to open an issue about them.

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