#freedesktop — Public Fediverse posts

I'm often amused by people in forums and social media (especially Reddit) ranting that their disappointment in #GNOME is immeasurable and the Linux desktop is ruined, while wondering why "inexplicably" the vast majority of Linux distros choose GNOME… "How can this be?! Surely the mainstream distros must be corrupt fools!"

I have therefore made this image to clarify the situation.

#lean #sustainability #SixSigma #kaizen #QA #minimalism #robustness #programming #Linux #FreeDesktop #FOSS #FLOSS

Oulalaaa

Ces logiciels qui en big 2026 mettent leur scories excrémentielles dans ~/.
Aucune tentative de les cacher derrière un ., un .cache ou .config.

#freeDesktop en PLS.

Oh wow. Someone found a way to speed up image rendering by ~32x (or more?) in the Poppler PDF library, and their solution sat in this comment thread because they're unable to fork the repository 😬

That's quite unfortunate. I wonder what prevents guest users from forking on the #FreeDesktop GitLab instance?

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/work_items/507#note_3486476

#PDF #performance #Poppler

Does anyone know someone at freedesktop.org? The certificate on https://xorg.freedesktop.org has expired.

#freedesktop #freedesktop_org #xorg

RE: https://burningboard.net/@Larvitz/116986340147079545

You know what would be cool?! Jellyfin server of #freedesktop content and then turn it into a tv channel! Free Software TV channels, maybe? It's like bringing old school to ..uh.. now school? Watch it on my #postmarketos tv ;)

Episode 27 of Dark Blue Weekly released

https://darkblueproject.com/sites/news/dbw-e27.php

#darkblueproject #darkblueweekly #ubuntutouch #ubuntu #cosmicdesktop #system76 #networkmanager #gnome #freedesktop #opensource #freesoftware

Episode 26 of Dark Blue Weekly released

https://darkblueproject.com/sites/news/dbw-e26.php

#darkblueproject #darkblueweekly #linux #bsd #opnsense #freebsd #wayland #cosmicdesktop #system76 #freedesktop #linuxdesktop #opensource #freesoftware

My colleague Abderrahim is giving an update on the State of #GNOMEOS at #GUADEC2026 right now.

An interesting insight is that this #freedesktop-sdk based OS is implementing bleeding-edge upstream features first ( not just @gnome stuff ) and testing them here. #systemd, #bootc, #oo7 ... Etc are some examples. Also you can install it in some phones! Give it a try!
Details: https://events.gnome.org/event/306/contributions/1637/

A bit later than expected but finally here! Ready for a great #GUADEC in A Coruña!! Looking forward to talk about #freedesktop-sdk, #buildstream, #GNOMEOS, GNOME on mobile and everything in between !! Thanks @codethink for sponsoring the trip (and the conference) :) #GUADEC2026

Episode 25 of Dark Blue Weekly released, with a slightly changed appearance

https://darkblueproject.com/sites/news/dbw-e25.php

#darkblueweekly #darkblueproject #tuxedoos #tuxedocomputers #debian #ubuntu #proton #steam #cinnamon #linuxmint #linux #opensource #freesoftware #linuxdesktop #linuxgaming #wayland #freedesktop

I just tagged version 2.8.2 of Geoclue, the freedesktop.org D-bus location service.

This release not only fixes a bug introduced in the last point release (ahem), but also enables translations for the 22 strings in Geoclue server, demo agent and client. Included are translations for Georgian and Occitan.

#geoclue #freedesktop #geolocation

It's long since overdue that I post an introductory post, especially given life changes and the like.

I'm Oro. Or Dallas. Or Yves. I use Dallas for most purposes, or Yves with friends; all are correct.

I (don't) like to program. When I'm not screaming at my laptop, I'm doing schoolwork (currently working on an AAS in Computer #Programming), or other (modern?) housewife shenanigans, or working on cars and my truck.

I like to use and contribute to the #GNOME ecosystem, which includes some custom pointer acceleration patches (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/4296 and https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/-/merge_requests/99) and testing and debugging for whatever problems I come across. Lately, I've also expanded to container native systems, and it gives me more of an insight on the systems I use daily such as #Bazzite and #Fedora Silverblue, and I've been #Linux-only for years now.

There's more, but that just about covers the big stuff. I'll post more in a reply.

I also fiddle with #Wayland, #Rust, and other stuff #FreeDesktop, #Flatpak, and #FOSS.

It's so nice to see more and more sites and apps support the system-wide dark style preference out of the box.

#gnome #freedesktop

Am I getting this right that #dbus considers installing two desktop environments that ship their own separate conflicting implementations for basic user session services such as org.freedesktop.Notifications to be entirely undefined behaviour with no way to specify which desktop session should use which implementation?

#freedesktop

The interesting part of GNOME OS switching to oo7 by default (This Week in GNOME #254, June 20) is portability: the oo7-daemon supports both GNOME and KDE mechanisms for unlocking keyrings, and oo7-portal implements the shared XDG Secrets portal. That points toward one credential store working across desktops rather than per-environment keyrings. Do you want your secrets tied to a desktop or to the session?
#Linux #freedesktop

Al terminar de jugar ya llegó la revisión de #freedesktop.

En el git ya salió el #Freedesktop 25.08.13, pero en @flathub suele tardar en llegar un par de días.

https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.freedesktop.Platform

Esta madrugada salió nueva versión de #freedesktop 25.08. La decimotercera revisión.

Aquí, en mi caso, es relevante por traer #Mesa3D 26.0.8 que viene con correcciones para #ForzaHorizon6. No lo voy a comprar. Pero bueno, por si alguien quiere. Es buen momento.

https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/-/releases/freedesktop-sdk-25.08.13

Los pichiquitas de #freedesktop se podrían plantear estar más al día en ciertos componentes como #Mesa3D. Tener que esperar unas tres o seis semanas tiene cojones.

Flatpak "deduplica" y da igual si sacan una actualización que solo modifica Mesa. Además, ya mismo, Mesa va a tener como una rama con correcciones / arreglos para juegos específicos.

Tim Sweeney arremete contra Gabe Newell tras la subida de precio de Steam Deck: "Graves trastornos en la cadena de suministro de componentes para megayates" https://www.hobbyconsolas.com/videojuegos/tim-sweeney-arremete-contra-gabe-newell-tras-subida-precio-steam-deck-graves-trastornos-cadena-suministro-componentes-para-megayates_6976752_0.html

Todas las consolas han subido de precio. Los WC* consolizados los que más, como Lenovo y MSI. No sé, puestos a criticar yo me metería más con quienes firman contratos de suministro jodiendo a todo el mundo.

A #Wine nunca le sobran fondos ni mano de obra, ni a #Mesa #freedesktop, #Linux, #GCC, #Glibc …

*Windows Computer.

Hey! The #freedesktop-sdk team have spent some time improving their docs; team is looking for feedback, specially from downstreams that use it as a junction (like #gnomeos ) please check: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/freedesktop-sdk/2026-May/000081.html

Actualizó el #freedesktop 25.08 a #Mesa 26.0.6. Se quedó fuera la última revisión. Bueno, je je, ellos sabrán. A mí me la suda.

For anyone interested in #Linux security, a good explanation of a way to escape from the #Flatpak sandbox has been posted to the oss-security mailing list today: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/19/1

You might also want to read this article from last year: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/when-flatpaks-sandbox-cracks-real-life-security-issues-beyond-ideal

cc @Seg

#sandboxing #dbus #xdg #freedesktop #wine

@ryan
"app is ready" notifications are due to the window manager's focus-stealing prevention system. I do find it useful when clicking multiple links one after another so that Firefox doesn't raise/interrupt everytime.

If you have apps that trigger this in #GNOME when emitting notifications, then they're likely using the APIs incorrectly; see https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/18445#issuecomment-1963256166 for a technical explanation. AFAIK Electron still does it wrong to this day?

#FreeDesktop #Electron #Mutter

@wwarner
Believing the shop managers blaming delivery truck drivers, the supermarket's customers order chips delivered by a "Large Lorry Model" :psyduck:

Meanwhile, a group of anarcho-syndicalist farmers are building entire farmers' markets to replace the established supermarkets' management by Very Small Shell Scripts™ just to prove a point, filling immutable shelves with flat-packed goods and a JIT fast-moving inventory.

#GNOMEOS #KDELinux #Linux #distros #Flatpak #automation #FreeDesktop

The social experience of upstream #FLOSS desktop software maintainers:

You're a potato farmer calling out the shop managers who keep moldy potato bags on shelves years past the expiry date, with your farm's brand prominently on the potato bag, and you get yelled at by the janitor for sternly asking the supermarket's management to comply with food safety regulations.

Wait… I just ruined #FreeDesktop devs' fantasy of becoming farmers, did I? 🤔

#Linux #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #GNOME #KDE

Now I know you may have me on mute, @BrodieOnLinux ...

But let me repeat again: #Snap packages rely on a centralized repository. Let me repeat:

#Cannonical is trying to do a #VendorLockin situation with snaps, whereby they become the gatekeeper to your software.

Juxtapose that with #flatpak, which is designed from the get go to be repo agnostic. Sure, you need the #FreeDesktop runtimes for most flatpak repos, but it isn't actually a hard dependency.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQSXJjVYan0