New blog, publishing my report for GUADEC 2026, my first GUADEC :)
https://zeldathewitch.page/posts/guadec-2026/
#GUADEC #GUADEC2026 #GNOME
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mastodon 4.6.7+glitch-th🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🇸🇩🇺🇦, from 🇬🇧 and descendent of 🇮🇶, a silly little rat on the internet. Also know as Zelda.
#GNOME Developer, Foundation Member and fan. Mostly hacking on Calendar, Settings and some personal apps.
Scaramona and Monafischl my beloved :3
Banner is the album cover for "The Dissent Of Man" by Bad Religion.
Profile Picture is Mona Megistus by https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/100391220
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Joined November 30, 2024
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Evanescence, Pink Floyd, Paramore, Depeche Mode, Tool, Deftones, System Of A Down, Linkin Park, Alice In Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Pantera, Nine Inch Nails, Emperor, Radiohead, Sweet Trip
Currently Playing:
Deadlock, Devil May Cry
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Going to livestrean in an hour! Collaborating on a new GNOME app for reading music CDs, Laser!
You can watch the stream at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23ck-YVgxNc
True romance is naming your maxxed out diamond hoe in minecraft after your girlfriend I think
After 6 months and many hard rebases, GNOME Shell has taken the first step (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/4013) to make the screenshot selection UI more accessible to disabled users, by implementing keyboard navigation to resizing and moving the screenshot selection rectangle. The navigation works similar to resizing and moving windows in Mutter using the keyboard, including holding Alt to move the selection, and holding Shift or Control moves/resize the selection rectangle more/less than the default, and a new shortcut on the R key to reset the selection area.
This work makes it easy to get the exact area you want to screenshot as easy as possible. Next up (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/4263) is getting the area selection status to be reportable by our screen reader.
This would not have been possible without @TheEvilSkeleton@social.treehouse.systems and @tyrylu@gts.trycht.cz help testing the MR and @fmuellner@mastodon.social reviewing and answering my questions here at GUADEC, and all the people who have sponsored me financially for the past 6 months. Thank you to all of you for helping!
#GNOME #GNOMEShell #accessibility #disabilitypride
Reminder for my timeline
Go clean your glasses.
#GNOMEShow Pilot on #GNOME Show(time) :3
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@jxvvt @swick not swick (thankfully /j) so I am talking on his behalf, but LTS distros often plague upstream projects by shipping out of date software, and by giving the users the false illusion of it this software being "stable" and approved by upstream, report out of date, fixed bugs to upstream wasting peoples time.
An example - #GNOME Calendar gets many of these, @nekohayo has many stories of Ubuntu LTS or mint users complaining about missing features, that were fixes years ago (a lot of these users also then refuse to use the flatpak to test the latest version before complaining, for reasons that are beyond me)
I imagine for security boundaries that can't really be fixed easily by using the an up to date flatpak instead, like XDG portals or flatpak itself, its even more of a nightmare!
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@thomholwerda@exquisite.social This is something that KDE and GNOME have floated around together whenever there's enough of both groups in a room - a portal to abstract this away and make something cross platform would be great, especially as a GNOME calendar dev (and many other Calendar developers are very warm to the idea of abstracting away online accounts to a portal). Same for things like EDS vs Akondi (I think that's the KDE equivalent) for mail and calendar storage
The problem now is like many other problems in FOSS - no one has the time or finances to pursue this and being something this complex to completion, and will require multiple paid people a lot of time to work on.
But developers are aware of the issue and no one finds it ideal. This isn't an NIH problem, it's a resource problem
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gnome 50 implementing antifeatures, angry youthlib rant
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@tragivictoria@mastodon.com.pl oops, should be fixed now!
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@bugaevc@floss.social Very ironic given my conclusion of the post included that software is shaped by all the people behind it, not just one person XD
I have pushed a fix with the correction now
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@TheEvilSkeleton@social.treehouse.systems The cut curb effect strikes again! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curb_cut_effect
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@autumn@cafe.autumn.town @fiore@brain.worm.pink gnome devs love you back to :) 🫶️
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@FineFindus @hbons Ohh, a bit OOTL, but what does the app do?
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@rodolforg @gnome this change has nothing to do with Ubuntu or any other corporation - this was done entirely by the Foundations interns, like (@pwithnall and @ignapk if memory serves me correct) and is an optional setting for parents to enable how they feel comfortable. hope that clears that up :)
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@tragivictoria Lesbian mountain, the original is at https://www.instagram.com/p/DWlbs-7jZqa/
I originally saw it used as the title track for this absolute heater of a song by the same person: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY-KqtFQRZc
Hey, I hate asking for money but I'm kind of in a hard place right now and could use any help I can get.
Hi, I am Zoey. I am an Arab transgender woman living in the UK. I have worked on GTK applications like Upscaler, and my own Tabs.
For context, my first rent payment is due in 4 days and I'll only just about be able to cover it after selling some of my possessions and going into my overdraft.
I came out to my parents as transgender 3 weeks ago, and unfortunately I had to cut them off completely due to how they responded with threats and constant stalking and harassment. I no longer have them for finanical support (or any kind of support lol). I am also not employed yet but I am actively looking for employment as we speak.
On top of going to university and renting a house with 5 other students, I do FOSS development on the side and currently learning to play the bass guitar, and I would like to keep doing those. However, I may need to put them on hold to look for job so I can at least eat and pay rent.
My KoFi is https://ko-fi.com/zoeyahmed. If need be, I can make other accounts for sending donations to, but for now my KoFi is the only place I accept donations on.
Anything will help at this point, and if you can not donate I would appreciate at least boosting this post or sending this message to people who can do the same or who can donate to me. Happy pride 💜💜
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@astrofish @gnome Happy to hear you are interested! I would figure out generally what you want to contribute, whether its make a new app or contribute a feature/bug fix to an existing one. Then give https://welcome.gnome.org/en-GB/ a visit, its a good landing page to get all the information you need to get started.
Finally, have fun, and do pop into our matrix chats if you need more help!
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@sstendahl@floss.social cant wait, cya there!
Started re-watching Doctor Who, starting with the ninth doctor - forgot how autistic (affectionate) the ninth doctor is
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@YaLTeR@mastodon.online I can't wait to watch it!! Hopefully your visa is approved soon, and I see you there :D
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@mirkobrombin@mastodon.social @migratory@jorts.horse migratory has posted the reply-guy thing about libadwaita locking down user choice or something 3 times, everytime it or anything slightly related to it is mentioned, despite the fact that it has been long enough for them to move on and just use something else if they arent interest :p
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@tautropfli great minds think alike :D
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@kde@floss.social Congrats on another awesome release 🥳🎉
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@TheEvilSkeleton@social.treehouse.systems @paulbiggar@hachyderm.io It is funny to me how much @r0se@eepy.moe never liked Zed to begin with when I was still a fan before they took money from child killers. But to be honest, I should have seen it coming given how they always positioned themselves as some AI """"distruptive""" startup or whatever. They are leeches on open source and the community around it
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@luftvaffel@oslo.town @gnome@floss.social Thank you so much, I really appreciate the warm words. Even when I get disparaged thinking any of my work in gnome is for nothing and won't be appreciated, it is important to remember that you and millions of others will care and appreciate!
Also wow rare all light mode user, cool!
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@yurisizov@mastodon.gamedev.place please please please Steam for ARM64 client on Linux please I am begging 🙏🙏🙏😭😭
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@inlovewithpda@chaos.social thanks for donating, do make sure to care for the garden gnome arriving in your post as a reward for donating 😄
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@TheEvilSkeleton@social.treehouse.systems @FlatpakApps@fosstodon.org @flathub@floss.social Im surpised they didnt aleady, hope thunderbird is next
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@TheEvilSkeleton @kde @ardour @mixxx Hmm, this puts the change from GTK4 -> QT (iirc, it might be a different toolkit) in a very different light lol, what an ass
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@nekohayo@mastodon.social @TheEvilSkeleton@social.treehouse.systems do better, or else the rats will be forced to invade Montréal!smh my head
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@chimera@gts.chimera-linux.org Common chimera W tbh