I have now three different video players. Sometimes something glitches and doesn't play anything - no audio or black screen! Then I try another player, and voilà, it works. Maybe it's my Fedora fault? But I don't think so because every app I use is a Flatpak package. For now, the best of all is VLC; it works 99.9% of the time. Showtime looks very clean, similar to Clapper, but what matters most is whether it actually works or not. I don't need another video player that has problems with playing videos. Ideally, I just want only one player.
I had MPV, Celluloid and VLC. After using showtime and trying a bunch of formats, I uninstalled MPV and Celluloid. I also set it as default too (loves the adwaita UI ). VLC is just there as a backup.
Yeah, it looks nice, but as I supposed it's completely garbage right now. It can't open subtitles correctly and I don't understand English or Japanese vocals ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). And also, there is some hesitation when jumping from place to place. I'll come back when it exits alpha or even beta.
Of course Apostrophe is on top of the list, especially with 3.0. The new preview mode is awesome for actual markdown work, but for me Apostrophe is just the best non-distractive text editor for the GNOME desktop - if not for the entire Linux desktop.
On a side note, since GDPR was established, services have arrived in Europe later than it would in the US or some other places. But I'm guessing the coming regulation will just be more of the same, like local hosting, only for GPU and NPU processing this time around, but who knows.
Hello World! - Tamnjong Larry Tabeh - Medium
Tamnjong Larry Tabeh
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My name is Tamnjong Larry, and I live in a moderately sized town in Cameroon called Bamenda. My primary experience in the tech field has been in backend development using .NET and Java. Despite my focus on backend development, I believe the true magic in software happens when users interact with the interface — clicking buttons, scrolling bars, switching tabs, and more.
Seeing users interact with systems and how intuitive designs make their lives easier, I found a deeper fulfillment.
I have always been interested in open source. My new passion for design and understanding user behavior gave me an added boost to get involved in open source, which is the best place to learn from actual experts building interfaces that millions of people use. I applied to the Outreachy May to August 2024 cohort. I found the GNOME project, “Conduct a series of short user research exercises, using a mix of research methods,” to be the best match for my goal of learning about the UI/UX design process. I love interacting with people, asking questions, and understanding them.
I believe in:
Adventure: I should try out new things.
Contribution: I should be able to give back to the world something of value, no matter how small it is.
Optimism: Tomorrow is always better than today as long as I don’t give up today.
I am happy to be part of the amazing GNOME community. Over the next few months, I will share my journey here.
I am excited to be working with amazing mentors, Allan Day and Aryan Kaushik.
This is exciting news indeed. Reading last weeks TWIG left me worrying, but this is a releif. Hope the usual accessibility & performance improvement news can be seen from the next TWIG issue onwards.
Cool. I love GNOME. I hope one day it will be stable like Windows, the Software Center will be working, there will be only a Wayland session, better Flatpak integration (theming, etc.), accent colors, smooth animations, better performance.
The animations and performance are already very smooth. In fact I feel the performance is better than what you get with windows and the animations are smoother as well
Hmm. Maybe gnome is not correctly using hardware acceleration in your machine¿? In my experience, gnome is perhaps the smoothest DE though it is heavier in resource usage than XFCE, MATE, etc. It does stutter and drop frames when the system is seeing very heavy resource usage.
Edit : when I am using the powersaver settings given by power-profiles-daemon, gnome does stutter a little. This corresponds to amd-pstate being active with the scaling governor set to powersave and the energy vs performance hint set to save power.
It is definitely using hardware acceleration. Most of the time it is smoth, but first opening of the app menu after not opening it for a while gives a lag and frame drop. Nonetheless gnome 40 is much faster than 3. But still waiting for more. Everything on the performance settings. If I use power saving it is not smooth at alll.
Indeed, it is working now, at least on fedora (my current distro). But it was broken a few updates ago. It froze when searchinging, when installing and so on. I tried using it for years on different distributions and it was almost always broken. Best working version I used was on manjaro, but that was 4 years ago, don't know how now. I also tested it on debian few months. ago and it was garbage. One time I was so frustrated I rated it 1/5 in gnome software. I mostly make updates through terminal, because I do not want to get angry anymore.
It was broken almost everywhere a while ago in the way you are describing, it's now pretty solid, but Canonical seriously screwed it up on 24.04 by breaking its dependencies so almost nothing works. Wouldn't be surprised if it's broken on Debian too, especially since that's likely an ancient version by now.
Oof Manjaro loves to add some... tasteless additions. The shell theme is definitely your problem.
IMO the only non-stock shell theme that's acceptable is Ubuntu's Yaru as it has been tested for accessibility and contrast, and is 100% supported by Canonical.
It is nice to see improvements to the file chooser, but why do buttons look so different from all other buttons in Gnome? What was wrong with the less rounded buttons?
I have learned about the existence of system services with this post, it seems pretty great. However my question is: would this allow flatpak apps that require a systemd service to run to be installed by 1 package? I am thinking of VPN apps for example
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