LibreOffice design, UX and UI updates – TDF’s Annual Report 2023 - The Document Foundation Blog
LibreOffice design, UX and UI updates – TDF’s Annual Report 2023 - The Document Foundation Blog
Design has been one of the major focus points of LibreOffice in the last few years, and the Design community has produced new icon sets, new MIME type icons, a hugely improved dark mode, and improvements to the NotebookBar (This is part of The Docume…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
New release Thunderbird 128 "Nebula"
Welcome to Thunderbird 128 "Nebula"
Thunderbird 128 "Nebula" ushers in significant improvements to our code, stability, and overall user experience. Find out what's new inside!Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)
Sound Blaster Recon3Di S/PDIF No Output
Greetings,
I've installed Fedora Linux (with pipewire) on my friend's Alienware M17xR4 (linux-hardware probe).
This incredible laptop got a Sound Blaster Recon3Di with a S/PDIF Digital Output which unfortunally does not work out of the box. I can see the vu meter moving inside gnome-control-center but no audio comes out and the port's red light (which on Windows lights up) does not turn on at all.
By lookin up I've found this thread on Linux Mint Forums but I had no luck with it.
Has anyone else got issues with similar hardware? Thanks in advance.
HW probe of Alienware M17xR4 #32183f94dc
A database of all the hardware that works under linuxlinux-hardware.org
By selecting "HDA Intel PCH" card with F6, this is what I see:
The S/PDIF isn't muted but its level isn't shown (like is shown for Master and PCM). Could this because of profile in use from pavucontrol or is it something related to alsamixer?
By unmuting "HP/Speaker" the light turns on finally.
By unmuting "HP/Speaker Auto Detect" too, the light turns off again.
As soon as I can, I will try to play something thru it and will report.
Ty!
::: spoiler Screenshot
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Edit:
While the light is on, audio still does not come out.
Maybe I should try now to change profile on pavucontrol.
I'll take a look.
Just tried PopOS live and it works out of the box, but I would like to understand why and fix it on Fedora.
Take a look at my other comment for screenshots.
what does this mean for Flatpak?
should i be worried installing these two? what does it mean though?
(these are captured from Pop! OS software manager)
Thank you so much for this detailed explanation! It's very clear and you're so good expressing yourself! And don't worry for your post accidentally being posted half-way, it happened to me too, in fact there's a deleted comment in this thread, for your same reason 😂
Anyway, I definitely must try this tablet. I am skeptical as you were, but I must give it a shot since you've had such a nice and productive experience. I might find out a store where I can try it or, alternatively, I might ask a friend of mine, who likes to draw, because she maybe has a tablet like this (that you connect to the computer).
Thank you again for your suggestions!
In order to avoid to spam too much here, may I contact you privately?
Make sure to check the return policy for Wacom or whichever reseller you end up going with. Some allow you to return electronic devices (if in good state, of course) up to 30 days or so after the purchase. If that isn't possible, you can always try to resell it in the second-hand market and make most of your money back, there are plenty of websites for that (from global ones like ebay to regional platforms; I tend to prefer the latter). But if your friend has one of these (or similar) give it a try!
And yeah, feel free to reach out to me via Matrix or e-mail! You can also try other platforms listed in my website, but I don't check those as often.
KDE on Debian 12 randomly gets frozen / stuck
P2P Messaging and State Management: Todo List Demo.
a decentralized P2P todo list app to to demo the P2P framework used in the chat app.
github.com/positive-intentions…
a wrapper around peerjs. peerjs is good, but it can become complicated to use on complicated projects. This implementation is an attempt to create something like a framework/guideline for decentralized messaging and state management.
positive-intentions.github.io/…
how it works:
1. crypto-random ids are generated and used to connect to peerjs-server (to broker a webrtc connection)
2. peer1 shares this ID to another browser/tab/person (use the storybook props)
3. peers are then automatically connected.
4. add todo item
5. edit todo item
There are several things here to improve like:
- general cleanup throughout (its early stage for this project and missing all the nice things like good-code and unit-tests)
- adding extra encryption keys for messages comming in and going out (webrtc mandates encryption already)
- handling message callbacks
- key rotation
GitHub - positive-intentions/p2p: P2P framework
P2P framework. Contribute to positive-intentions/p2p development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I'm sure various factors affect any projects maturity.
I work on the project because I have a curiosity and the ability to try. Compared to other project, a webapp is pretty easy to get started on as a developer.
the growth rate of windows steam users is larger than on linux
antennapod fork?
FocusPodcast looks and feels very much like an AntennaPod fork but there's no mention of it anywhere (?)
f-droid.org/packages/allen.tow… or github.com/allentown521/FocusP…
is it written from scratch?
FocusPodcast | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
FocusPodcast is a quality podcast management and playback applicationf-droid.org
Games on Whales - Stream multiple desktops and games from a single host
GitHub - games-on-whales/wolf: Stream virtual desktops and games running in Docker
Stream virtual desktops and games running in Docker - games-on-whales/wolfGitHub
like this
Canvas 2024 Simplex Chat room
LibreOffice 24.2.4 Community available for download - The Document Foundation Blog
LibreOffice 24.2.4 Community available for download - The Document Foundation Blog
Berlin, 6 June 2024 – LibreOffice 24.2.4 Community, the fourth minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for personal productivity in office environments, is now available at https://www.libreoffice.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
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The link goes to the wrong article. I think OP meant to post blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… .
P.S. Torrents ~~aren't available yet~~ are now available.
Announcement of LibreOffice 24.2.5 Community, optimized for the privacy-conscious user - The Document Foundation Blog
Berlin, 11 July 2024 – LibreOffice 24.2.5 Community, the fifth minor release of the free, volunteer-supported office productivity suite for office environments and individuals, the best choice for privacy-conscious users and digital sovereignty, is a…Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
Games on Whales - Stream multiple desktops and games from a single host
GitHub - games-on-whales/wolf: Stream virtual desktops and games running in Docker
Stream virtual desktops and games running in Docker - games-on-whales/wolfGitHub
PureOS Optional Subscription Added to Advance Development
PureOS Optional Subscription Added to Advance Development – Purism
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
PureOS Optional Subscription Added to Advance Development
PureOS Optional Subscription Added to Advance Development – Purism
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
Signal Technology Foundation - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from over 1.8 million nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as well as download tax filings going back as f…ProPublica
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My point is that the funding is optional and you can track all of Purism's efforts via their Gitlab instance.
I agree that you don't have fine-tuned control on what they should focus on. But I'm also not convinced users need to have this control.
Obviously it's more transparent when you donate to individual developers manually instead of going through a company. I don't disagree with that.
But in my terms it's still an improvement.
I sincerely hope that this goes to the moon and back. Both for selfish reasons (I love my L5 but I really want Crimson) but also just for the Linux phone ecosystem.
Mobian and PostmarketOS are doing wonderful work, though.
Home assistant thermostat
Hi. Thermostats are expensive. I currently have this one, at my apartment.
I would like to replace it with one that connects to HA.
First, is this a good idea since I'm in an apartment? I'll obviously keep the current one, and put it back before leaving.
Second, what's a good one that is either open source or at least non internet based (but still works on HA)?
Thanks!
Honeywell - Programmable Thermostat - T6 PRO Series
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Games on Whales - Stream multiple desktops and games from a single host
GitHub - games-on-whales/wolf: Stream virtual desktops and games running in Docker
Stream virtual desktops and games running in Docker - games-on-whales/wolfGitHub
It's fairly simple actually, the basic idea is to create multiple desktops from a single host; fully HW accelerated and isolated from each other. So for example I could stream a game to my couch TV whilst someone else is playing a different game on the very same computer.
Personally I use this on my homelab: the same machine that has got Jellyfin (and other containers) installed can share the GPU with Wolf so that I can both transcode with HW acceleration when needed and play a game or open up a remote desktop all from one single machine.
State of Text Rendering 2024
[The author assumes] a high-level understanding of how text rendering works, for example, what shaping is. If that does not sound familiar to you, you might want to review State of Text Rendering (2009), and Modern text rendering with Linux: Overview (2019).
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llama.ttf
llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model.fuglede.github.io
Here are a couple of links that should be good starting points:
superuser.com/questions/120255…
security.stackexchange.com/que…
Can TrueType Fonts contain malicious code?
I was looking around for information on this and couldn't really find anything that solid. I used the TTX tool in the fonttools library to decompile the font into XML format but couldn't garner any...Super User
That is interesting. WASM seems like it's just a replacement for the TrueType hinting language (which is already a VM). So I guess it's benefiting from a more standardised and audited virtual machine.
It's also fairly limited to what it can do (source):
you can influence the process of mapping a string of characters into an array of glyphs, you can determine how those glyphs are positioned and their advance widths, but you cannot manipulate outlines, variations, line breaks, or affect text layout between texts of different font, variation, language, script or OpenType feature selection
I don't see how the mentioned future drawing API will fit into that though.
harfbuzz/docs/wasm-shaper.md at main · harfbuzz/harfbuzz
HarfBuzz text shaping engine. Contribute to harfbuzz/harfbuzz development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
MonkderDritte
in reply to petsoi • • •leopold
in reply to MonkderDritte • • •LibreOffice uses its own widget toolkit. It works similarly to wxWidgets, basically just maps to whatever toolkit is native on the current platform. It uses Win32 on Windows, Cocoa on macOS, Qt on KDE, GTK on GNOME and a few others.
That said, their current approach to dark themes is pretty bad. It can very easily conflict with the dark theme from the host toolkit and cause issues if misconfigured, which has caused a lot of people to think it just doesn't work. It does work, but it can be confusing as hell to configure correctly.
For instance, LibreOffice has a setting you can use to change the application colors. It barely works and you should never touch it. Just let it get the colors from your toolkit.
There's also the fact that LibreOffice doesn't use FDO icons and has its own icon setting which doesn't automatically follow dark/light theme. If you're using a dark theme, you have to manually switch the icon set to one that isn't impossible to see on a dark background.
Oh and if you want your documents to use a dark palette that's also a separate setting. Like I said, confusing.
MonkderDritte
in reply to leopold • • •Thanks for the view behind the curtains!
And yeah, dark in the document is another pain point, especially in IDE's/editors and if you switch between dark and light for day/night. They should just all have color/icon settings for dark/light separately.
What is FDO icons?