@gnome congrats and thanks for being the trailblazer here! We’re looking forward to being right behind you! 🚀

@glyph this is one of the problems solved by flatpak. We now have both multiple flatpak platforms and multiple flatpak-based app stores that developers can target while the apps themselves can be used on any Linux desktop. Portals provide a predictable and cross desktop set of APIs and are defined collaboratively in freedesktop.org

@isagalaev

New year, new elementary OS! We've got a great new minor release for you including a bunch of fixes you reported over the winter break and the latest hardware enablement from Ubuntu 🚀

https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-1-1-available-now/

@omgubuntu oh hey welcome to the club Ubuntu!

@thomholwerda it’s because the newer GNOME runtime relies on the cursor shape protocol which doesn’t exist in the LTS version of Mutter provided by Ubuntu. So good news is it’ll automatically go away in OS 9! Bad news is that it will just be like this in OS 8 for now 😅

But glad to hear this is the biggest issue you’ve faced!

@quinze XDG Portals are indeed already a cross-desktop standard: https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/

Portal interfaces are built-in to Flatpak so app developers who use portals don’t have to add any additional sandbox holes to their Flatpak manifest to use them 🎉

@moxes_bitch

I’ve proposed the release code name for OS 9 as Tanit!

Tanit is the goddess of wisdom, civilization, and craft, mainly worshipped in the Phoenician city of Carthage. Precursor to Minerva and Athena. She is referred to as the “defender of homes and families”. That seems like a goddess we could use the protection of in these times.

Bonus fun fact, when her name was first discovered, it was written in Punic which has no vowels, so it roughly translates written as “TNT” 💥

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanit

@thomholwerda @osnews The OS 8.1.1 release would be a perfect time 😊

Your reminder that we do not accept code contributions that have been generated by LLMs. If you submit LLM-generated code we will simply close the pull request

https://docs.elementary.io/contributor-guide/development/generative-ai-policy

@elfenlaid @bomberstudios thanks for your support! 🥰

A nice plan for Valentine’s Day:

- go to https://elementary.io
- click “Purchase elementary OS” to help fund the @elementary project (a beautiful, privacy-focused Linux distro, with sane defaults!)
- (optional) install Elementary on one of your computers

With the recent events in Minneapolis, we would like to encourage anyone who has the disposable income, to please consider donating to these organisations who are giving free legal aid to Minnesotans. www.aclu-mn.org/ways-give/ nlgmn.org monarcamn.org

Some of my favorite things:
* Some cute animations for the Dock, way more tooltips, and uninstall and view in appcenter actions in the context menu
* A refined appearance for the new screen blocking dialogs—of which lock and log out is now one
* Remebering your last screenshot choice
* Less intrusive driver notifications
* A fix for remembering Bluetooth state

And a ton more! These updates are all coming soon, so keep an eye out!

Another minor release with a handful of bug fixes, new features, and the latest hardware enablement from @ubuntu is right around the corner! Check out this project board to follow along with what we’re working on 👀

https://github.com/orgs/elementary/projects/171/views/1

People added to a calendar event are:

Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results

https://voteyesornoai.com

Imagine you could upgrade our Byte (our little Linux mini-PC with coreboot).
What would you tweak or add to make it even better?
We’re considering a gaming version :)
Share your ideas, we’re all ears!

I want to collect examples of usability improvements in open source projects for opensourcedesign.net: improvements in labels/microcopy, better layouts of dialogs or new features which improved usability.

Do you know of good examples that are small and easy to understand?

(It is not hard to find examples in general, but they often need depper domain knowledge, are focussed on new functionality more than on improvement of usability) //jd

#opensource #design #documentation

Any thoughts about not having System Settings as a default dock item? You can get there both from Quick Settings and from secondary-clicking the wallpaper these days.

See the reply here for a poll

https://github.com/elementary/dock/pull/562

When we did our desktop survey, 98% of you said you change at least a few of the items on the dock. So, what’s pinned to your dock? Feel free to share screenshots :)