These kinds of little details and putting love into every corner of the experience are what makes working on @elementary OS so rewarding for me. Also, welcome back to Marius!
https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-about/pull/253
https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-printers/issues/182
Spent some time today working on some options for a new Files icon https://github.com/elementary/icons/pull/1147
Really grateful for the feedback on this! I’m going to move forward with scaling the bottom left one (background tab with magnifying glass)
I was looking at seeing if we could ship Font Viewer as Flatpak in 7, but it looks like it hardcodes Adwaita so it would need a distro patch and I don’t want to get into that today 😅
Okay finished scaling that and started on a calculator icon. Not exactly the most inspired thing ever, but fits the format and style: https://github.com/elementary/icons/pull/1148
If you’re looking for a non-coding way to get involved, I just created a project for improving the metadata we show for our apps in AppCenter. Check it out: https://github.com/orgs/elementary/projects/112
There's still room for improvement, but pretty happy with how much more uniform app icons are looking while still keeping their own personality
Looking at new wallpapers today. Send me https://unsplash.com or https://pexels.com links please :)
You can see what we’re looking for in a good wallpaper at https://GitHub.com/elementary/wallpapers/contribute
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
Just merged in offline PackageKit updates in AppCenter, let’s gooo 🚀 This closes a bunch of issues with updates and lays the foundations for designing towards an immutable future. Shoutouts to @meisenzahl for working on this feature
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.
There’s been a ton of bug fixes and performance improvements in Gala over the holiday thanks to @GranPC and a branch from @meisenzahl makes AppCenter just blazing past to startup. Last minute performance improvements let’s goooo 🚀
Kind of a silly thing and late for this cycle but I submitted a branch to bring back the purpleprint wallpaper for Early Access
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
Really starting to dial in this release blog post btw 😉 I think I have the major themes established so the narrative is starting to fall into place a little smoother. I think this will hopefully set the tone a bit for future conversations about elementary as a company, our direction and priorities, etc. Definitely a release I’m looking forward to getting out there
The new color schemes for Code that @micahilbery made are so good. I need to port them to Terminal. The colors are richer while also being less eye-punchy and yet higher contrast. It feels really good. Especially that dark theme is so much better omg
I haven't done high fidelity mockups in a while, and I kind of want to start doing some again so on this rainy day I started messing with a mockup for a flatter Files design. Kind of tweaking sidebar styles, spacing, border radius, etc. Nothing too exciting here yet but kind of fun to get back into these kind of mockups
Been working with Jeremy quite a bit on improvements for Code, especially related to being able to tile it on small displays. Also finished up the Gtk 4 port of our Portals thanks to Gustavo!
New releases proposed for AppCenter and Code. This release of AppCenter includes offline updates and huge performance improvements, shout-outs to @meisenzahl. Code release has new color schemes, tiles on tiny displays, lots of bug fixes 🎉
@danirabbit Very hyped! No idea about SEO, but I have 2 Thinkpads here biting their nails, nervously waiting for the lucky 7! 🎰
