Notices by Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online), page 3

I'm feeling super low on spoons today, but something I looked at this morning was possible responsive solutions for Installer & Initial Setup. This includes a fix for the window being too big in VirtualBox in legacy boot mode:

https://github.com/elementary/installer/pull/661

https://github.com/elementary/initial-setup/pull/152

Has some issues to work out, but it's fun to play with

A lot less interesting, but still important imo is revisiting some dialog copy to try to make it more human-readable, avoiding the word "user" and other jargon etc. Explaining consequences of the error and using more descriptive iconography.

Did some more installer work today including adding a disclaimer to the installer for early access images

I just proposed a branch to screenshot that changes the workflow significantly. I’d love testing and feedback: https://github.com/elementary/screenshot/pull/253

You can download a flatpak bundle to test from the workflow page here: https://github.com/elementary/screenshot/actions/runs/3588339653

Publishing new GNOME 43 flatpaks soon. Web 43 is available. Evince and File Roller are being built currently 🎉

Just built and verified that Evince and FileRoller 43 are working as expected. Was able to drop a couple distro patches for FileRoller which is nice. So just waiting for someone else to double check my work and those should be published in AppCenter soon!

Tada, published! That’s Web 43, FileRoller 43, and Evince 43.1 available in OS 6.1. Our “outdated” OS has the same versions of these apps as the latest Ubuntu release 😉

The rest of our Flatpak apps should be published with the latest runtime soon as well. Calculator with the new icon and flat titlebar is published! Videos with MPRIS support and an updated icon is in the review queue. Testing a fix for an issue with missing GL on the latest daily 7 ISO

Our HIG is a mess and in desperate need of updates, but I went through and condensed the “Design Philosophy” section down to a single page that’s a lot less wordy https://docs.elementary.io/hig/design-philosophy

Poked at Videos from a few different angles today. It’s one of our oldest code bases and it shows. It’s ugly. I really would like to get it ported off of Clutter and then to Gtk4 but there’s a lot of cleanup to do to make a port reasonable

New Videos with MPRIS support released, and then landed a first step in some big refactoring. I think at this point all of our flatpak apps have been updated to the latest runtime. There’s a couple releases with bug fixes that should go out soon to 7 early access, and I gotta test to see if that GL fix worked

GL fix did indeed work. Submitted a branch today to fix the delayed startup time in the Feedback app. Initial setup release is in 7 daily. Having a very low spoon week honestly so it’s been hard to accomplish much.

Been kinda diving into the Feedback app. It should instant launch now. I have a few branches to improve responsiveness, keyboard navigation, to add basic search, and show more components. Plus just general code improvements, best practice, etc

The ability to send feedback directly to developers, see development happen in a transparent manner, and have fixes and new features deployed quickly is one of our greatest strengths over both proprietary platforms and traditional Linux distros. So that’s somewhere I think it’s valuable to prioritize

With AppCenter supporting the issues tag in AppStream I think we can better close the loop in this story and show the real benefits of participating in the feedback process

Made a custom icon for the Installer's "check view". I think this is much improved from the individual views we had in OS 6: https://github.com/elementary/installer/pull/665

If you’re not sure what “Offline Updates” means, basically all PackageKit updates are downloaded at once and then applied when you restart. This is more reliable and means that you won’t see any breakage from updating shell elements like the panel or when services get updates etc.

Kind of a silly thing and late for this cycle but I submitted a branch to bring back the purpleprint wallpaper for Early Access

https://github.com/elementary/wallpapers/pull/178

Releasing some stuff today and working on a very long blog post *wink hint nudge*

Proposed a couple branches for Code today, one which makes the sidebar full height and includes the project chooser which is a design pattern we’ve been moving towards in other apps, and another which puts the find actions in the menu freeing up space in the header bar and making global find more accessible