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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 2mo ago

Linus Torvalds is an important figure for kernel development and the general existence of Linux, but he should not be treated as an authority on everything Linux- or software-adjacent because of that. For example, it has very little to say what desktop environment he prefers, or if he uses LLMs to develop his personal projects. The world could do with less idolization.

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 2mo ago

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Thanks to the coordinated work of skilled event photographers, the videos also have beautiful thumbnails this year. Too good not to share your favorite talks everywhere, eh?

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 2mo ago

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People are saying that free software would be more popular if it had more UI designers involved. But there *are* lots of people trying to work on design in FOSS. They are just often really unappreciated here, because the audience that benefits from their work doesn't exist in our shared spaces. These people are out in the real world and have never heard of an "issue tracker" or "RFC" before.

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 3mo ago

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In a way I'm one of those developers. I was drawn to GNOME ecosystem when I saw how much effort was invested into renewing and modernizing the stack around the turn of the decade, with flatpak, GTK4, libadwaita, the HIG, etc. I definitely wasn't the only one who jumped on the GNOME train back then, because it seems like the effort that has been invested into the platform is really paying off now with all these cool apps appearing.

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 2mo ago

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I think GNOME is one of the very few exceptions to this pattern. And it gets a lot of flak for that, which arguably proves my point

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 2mo ago

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If it looked like the first picture, its window decorations obviously wouldn't match the many GNOME apps I run on my system. But there's no law of the universe stating that it has to. We *can* just let go of the constructed idea that window controls in particular have to match across every single app while nothing else does.

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 3mo ago

Calling all translators: #Keypunch and #Fretboard are getting new releases in 2 weeks! This is a great time to go through their translations in your language and making sure everything is ready and up-to-date. https://discourse.gnome.org/t/upcoming-keypunch-and-fretboard-releases-on-2026-07-17/36017?u=bragefuglseth

Upcoming Keypunch and Fretboard releases on 2026-07-17

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Upcoming Keypunch and Fretboard releases on 2026-07-17

My two apps, Keypunch and Fretboard, will get new releases in 2 weeks, on 2026-07-16T22:00:00Z (UTC). There are not many new strings to translate, so if the apps have existing translations in your language, updating them should only take a few minutes. I’ve already translated both fully into Norwegian myself and didn’t notice any localization issues, but if you find any, please let me know and I’ll notify everyone in this topic. Cheers!

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 3mo ago

Why is Bazaar so much more performant than GNOME Software? Is PackageKit really that much of a strain performance-wise compared to just using the Flathub API? Or are there other reasons? #Bazaar

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 4mo ago

Just handed off my coordinator role for the Norwegian GNOME translation team. During my time as a coordinator, the Norwegian translations have undergone a significant overhaul in the core apps, and a lot of Circle apps have also been translated into Norwegian for the first time.

I'm proud of that, and plan to continue contributing translations now and then, while Kjartan, who has coordinated the Norwegian translation team for the majority of its lifetime, takes on the role as a coordinator again.

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 4mo ago

I know I'm super late to the party here, but I just discovered #Flathub's new Year in Review page. Happy to learn that #Keypunch apparently won:

- "Newcomer of the Year" in the education category in 2024
- "Biggest Growth" and "Most Improved" in the education category in 2025

To be honest this feels like I've missed out on my own Oscar's ceremony.

https://flathub.org/en/year-in-review/2025

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 5mo ago

From r/gnome

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 2mo ago

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Speaking of, would anyone here like to join us in the Circle Committee and become a reviewer? Because you might be able to! Reach out if you'd like to hear more. #GNOME #GNOMECircle

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 2mo ago

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@FineFindus@floss.social Clone a repository, whip up a text-to-speech program and start listening to the source code of your favorite projects while working out

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 2mo ago

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@AdrianVovk@fosstodon.org Or maybe something like "the power user fallacy". "Some people in this particular issue tracker / technical community wants this functionality, so obviously everyone does. Why wouldn’t they?"

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 5mo ago

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Timeline going forward: August - most of my current occupations will be gone and I'll have more time to invest into GNOME and my personal projects again April 2027 - Mandatory conscript service in the Royal Norwegian Air Force (I was drafted). I'll likely vanish almost completely from the web in this period. April 2028 - end of conscription August 2028 - Starting my 5-year integrated masters degree in electronics systems design at NTNU (hopefully)

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 5mo ago

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Now the next step is for Spotify to pull off "proper" CSD through integrated window controls, like they already do on macOS and Windows. Probably won't happen in the near future, but one can dream :D https://fosstodon.org/@bragefuglseth/112553570031725199

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 5mo ago

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Tiny life update for those interested: I'm currently in the final semester of videregående skole (the Norwegian equivalent of high school), which is taking up most of my time at the moment. Combine this with a metric ton of other real-life commitments, and there's not much time left for personal projects.

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 5mo ago

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So, to summarize: Life happens, and I'll have some long chunks of both uptime and downtime during the next 2+ years. I'll try to plan around this so it has the least amount of negative effects possible, and after matriculation in 2028 I hope to be back here more "permanently".

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 5mo ago

Have any of you experienced issues with typing accents in your #GNOME apps recently? Some people are having issues with #Keypunch and numerous other apps using the GNOME 49/50 runtimes, but I can't pinpoint the exact reason.

https://github.com/bragefuglseth/keypunch/issues/168

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 4mo ago

@tbernard@mastodon.social Where are you getting the paintings used in the @modal@mastodon.design branding from? Just wanted to say that I think they work really well as visuals for the articles/slideshows you’re doing 👊

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 2mo ago

RE: https://sunny.garden/@bragefuglseth/116920572163082606 Because of the recent paragraphs that have surfaced from the kernel mailing list, I feel inclined to bring this 2 days old post up again. People need to stop viewing Linus as some kind of figurehead for the Linux desktop / free software. Not because of his recent statements in particular, he's entitled to his own opinions, but because he generally just has never represented the values or mindset everyone seems to think he has. He oversees an important technical component of the desktop stack, but that component is used in so many other places as well, and he probably couldn't care less about the success of Linux on personal devices in particular. He's never coming to save any of you from the technological apocalypse or whatever. #Linux #FOSS

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@bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

Linus Torvalds is an important figure for kernel development and the general existence of Linux, but he should not be treated as an authority on everything Linux- or software-adjacent because of that. For example, it has very little to say what desktop environment he prefers, or if he uses LLMs to develop his personal projects. The world could do with less idolization.

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 3mo ago

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@pasivek@ohai.social I've noted it in the issue tracker, thanks for the suggestion!

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 5mo ago

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@sstendahl This is super cool, good luck on wrapping the release!

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 16mo ago

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In my opinion, this is the most relevant paragraph right now: "People who complain about 'politics' in FOSS projects are obviously not complaining about politics in the general, this we have already established. Neither are they complaining about having norms. What they have a problem with are specific politics and specific norms."

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 5mo ago

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@vtrlx@mastodon.social Thanks for the info! The second reporter uses NixOS with hyprland (🫣), so I think the problem is related to a system/runtime component rather than a specific distribution. But if it's reproducible across Debian systems it should be easier to pinpoint

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 5mo ago

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@vtrlx@mastodon.social Thanks, I think this is the final piece of missing info I needed. Until very recently, GTK would handle compose sequences and dead keys internally if necessary. But since 4.19.2, it expects the compositor to handle this instead (i.e. you need to have ibus installed). This is the relevant GTK commit: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/commit/621b7facc8b098811f659a0cba56d27e6ae39ea2

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Brage Fuglseth @bragefuglseth@sunny.garden

· 5mo ago

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@AlexanderVanhee@mastodon.social Discord uses Electron, which sorted this out a while ago. Spotify uses Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) instead

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