These days we worked a lot on TROMjaro. NExt ISO release will come with some pretty cool features/fixes.

For one, we made it so much better when it comes to theming. We want people to rely on XFCE's default Appearance tool for the job, and now whatever theme or icon set you select form there (or install whatever) it will be automatically applied for GTK, GTK + Libadwaita, XFWM4, QT, QT5 and QT6. This is truly amazing. And it was not super duper easy but so far works great. That's how it should be. Choose a theme and an icon sent and voilla, it is used system-wide across multiple types of apps.

Here's an example with all of those kind of apps:

We had to also add some hooks for pacman to fix some stuff in regards to theming. So far all works great. I know I sound recently like an obsessed creature over theming, but IT IS IMPORTANT. If you select a dark theme and you see dark icons in an app, then you can't use that app. And vice versa. In the Linux world it is either a frankeinstein of theming or the gnome-way (do proper theming for 10% of all apps and be happy with that).

Second, we managed to add the Chaoric AUR. Which means fast access to AUR packages that are precompiled. So you can install them in seconds. UNGoogle Chromium for example, if you are to install it from AUR it takes several hours. From Flatpak can take a few good minutes, since it needs to download a lot of stuff. From Chaotic AUR takes a few seconds. That's the difference.

If you were to select 40 themes to install via AUR, it can take up to an hour to build them all. But only a few minutes via the Chaotic AUR.

There is a slight issue with the keyring, as in if you install TROMjaro you can't install anything from the Chaotic AUR....the keys are not properly updated it seems....we are trying to fix this but for now we added a little "app" called "Chaotic Keyring Fix" - click it, put your password and wait for the keyring to update (a few seconds). And done. We will try to find a better fix for this but in the worst case scenario this is how is gonna be.

We plan to submit hundreds and hundreds of packages to the chaotic AUR!

So very happy with TROMjaro! @Alexio and @Rokosun are super great and help a lot! #tromlive

We are working on improving further our TROMjaro XFCE theming. Trying to make XFCE rock-solid when it comes to theming. We already fixed theming for QT6, so we have expanded the supported apps. But now we do not want to just focus on our Theme Switcher, but on XFCE's default System Theming. Basically we want a simple thing: when you install a system or icon theme, then you go to Appearance, select it, and it applies for: GTK, GTK + LIbadwaita, XFWM4 (XFCE), QT, QT5, QT6, and some flatpaks. We are almost there. An almost complete solution for theming. Proper theming that is.

The Linux community should work on making these things built-into the kernel honestly. It is important for all sorts of apps to have some common ground in regards to how they look. Not just for aesthetics, but usability. Want a dark theme? Different icon set? Different font? Then bloody hell all apps should respect these from the get go.

So yeah, thanks to @Rokosun who is the one responsible for coding all this, we will probably ship the next ISO with a greater theming functionality in TROMjaro, better than anything I've seen on any distro. :)

And anyone can copy it, and implement to their own systems.

I am told by the hosting provide (Contabo) that we have 12h to "fix" that issue with Nitter, else they are going to remove our entire trom.tf server. That is up until 22:00 tonight, 5 hours from now.

We host Nitter at bird.trom.tf/ and the owners of this account it seems bird.trom.tf/BancoPacificoEC contacted the hosting thinking that the nitter URL of their page is phishing. I have explained to them what Nitter is but it seems I am ignored.

I have sent this too, which is an official template response from Nitter:

bird.trom.tf hosts Nitter, a private Twitter front-end, meaning it is simply a proxy to access Twitter assets and user generated content without tracking from Twitter. Thus, all content is proxied from Twitter and is not stored on our servers and if Twitter chooses to remove an asset, it will no longer appear on our site.

Our bird.trom.tf (Nitter) is hosted in the European Union, so the European Union's laws apply. Under the directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonization of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society, "temporary acts of reproduction referred to in Article 2, which are transient or incidental [and] an integral and essential part of a technological process and whose sole purpose is to enable: a transmission in a network between third parties by an intermediary" is allowed, and legal.

As such, all takedown requests must be sent to Twitter, as we don't have any control on the data that they have on their servers.

Now what should I do? For sure I do not want to back away from this...but I am also concerned they will nuke our server in a few hours. I am also busy today and tomorrow with offline stuff so it is the worst time possible. I have contacted them several times today. No response so far.

Such an idiotic world we live in. I swear laws are not to protect any of us, but companies and powerful people in general. You need lawyers and money and time to enforce these laws. We have none of that.