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  • Dose it have tabs? That's my main complain with Evince...

  • Feliz navidad! 🎄🎁
  • Feliz Navidad!!🎄🎄

  • Software for creating music sheets
  • Tuxguitar has a fork with update development (android version included), and for looking up chords (guitar) you can check there is "fretboard" in flathub.

  • Spain to block Maersk ships bound to Israel after pressure from activists
  • The coalition from last two terms is basically the same (left + far left). For example Junqueras (ERC) was pardonned by the current government and Puidgemont (Junts) was part of the global pardon during the second term. Judges are not controlled by the government, that's why there is still some aftermath, but it should be applied within the global pardon.

    Also, the reality is that the global pursue of independence have fallen below majority (polls done by previous ERC government) and with a current Catalan president from socialists (part of spanish left) after the elections ...

  • Spain to block Maersk ships bound to Israel after pressure from activists
  • You realize in 2017 it was a different government right? Right now is a left coalition supported by nationalist parties, including the ones (ERC and a bit by Junts) that declare independence in 2017.

    Actually regarding Israel support, Junts (right catalan nationalist) supports Israel historically, while PSOE and specially IU (left spanish) has supported more Palestine and the two states solution.

  • A Desktop for All (How to turn Gnome OS into a serious OS)
  • Plenty of my family use linux (with gnome) because of me, but with Linux always the biggest issue is they don't know how to install an operative system (1. Create usb,2. boot in it,3. install it) As easy it is, non-tech people are always are afraid of doing it, even partition is not a general concept.

    The second biggest issue with gnome without dash to panel is too alien for them, they need to see what applications are open (me too...), the app menu is ok, they have phones.

  • Framework 2880 x 1920 (new) display review
  • Blurry apps come from xwayland compatibility. Firefox and alacritty (or other terminal like wezterm or kitty) have native wayland, with no blurry check Archwiki for example HiDPI. With Spotify, live with it or use spot (gtk client). Hopefully next gnome release incorporate something like plasma, and then ctrl+ native in spotify increase its size.

  • Good FLOSS casual games
  • Unciv, civilization inspired https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.unciv.app/ Dont blame if you loose now all your day... ;-)

  • Zotero released v.7: Zotero, redesigned
  • Better bibtex is already compatible I think. Zotmov is a good replacement for zotfile. I have yet to find one for zutilo

  • ONLYOFFICE 8.1 released
  • Do you have a link providing clear info on that? Because I have seen only comments, no serious analysis on security whatsoever...

  • Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain
  • Well, basque indepence movement involved several deaths, including "civilians", non politics or police related until 2000s, and people react quite pacific always.

    Whereas catalan movement is basically pacifist with some roadblocks and protests and some riots. In front, the typical anti riot police, not fun... but kind of expected.

    Honestly, I will be not surprised if this case ends in nothing as it is not clear it can hold in court ...

  • Friends don't let friends buy HiDPI displays
  • Legacy apps have problems in windows also, I guess in MacOS now basically you are not able to run them, but 3 years ago I remember same issues with old apps, blurry or pixelated...

    The main issue is gnome not letting apps to scale themselves, whereas kde has just a toggle for that. So in gnome you have consistent size across monitors (cool) but blurry apps when running in xwayland (horrible)

  • Friends don't let friends buy HiDPI displays
  • Xwayland apps (running in legacy xorg) are extremely blurry under fractional scaling, native wayland apps can have worse rendering but not very noticeable.

    The easiest way of checking if you have doubts is install xeyes and launch it. if xeyes follows the cursor inside the app you are tesing is in xwayland, if not is pure wayland.

    Electron apps have to be configured to use wayland, whereas If you are in Debian check Firefox (ESR) is using wayland or install it through the offical deb repo of mozilla the latest. I think in the archwiki are the envronment variables to check.

    And, for 125% maybe is just worth to you to just scale text to 1.20 using gnome-tweaks and leave it at 100% the scaling. It is not fancy, but it works. I have to use 150% so is too obvious/ugly to just scale the fonts....

  • FOSS alternatives to document scanner
  • I guess you are looking for an android app? I use Oss Document Scanner, and I am relatively happy with it https://github.com/Akylas/OSS-DocumentScanner

  • GNOME 46 is Coming in Hot With These 6 Features
  • I think the blurry of XWayland apps won't be solved in this release, there were some news that may be combined with the settings and make Xwayland apps to be able to scale themselves like in KDE, if I understood it correctly

    https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/02/twig-136/

  • #136 New Papers · This Week in GNOME
  • Hopefully Papers develop tabs, evince was always limited on that conpared to Okular...

  • New GNOME Mutter Code Prepares Fractional Scaling For XWayland
  • Basically a good 1:1 , nice overview (three fingers up, three fingers down stop), and yes you can configure in gnome (through extension I know...) the three and four fingers gestures. Also, they are as smooth as a Macbook in my experience.

  • New GNOME Mutter Code Prepares Fractional Scaling For XWayland
  • But then you have bad touchpad gestures... 😅

  • On the search for the ̶b̶e̶s̶t̶ decent presentation making software
  • I combine OnlyOffice with its DrawIO plugin. Drawio is also cool standalone app for diagrams I can recycle) that also has tex typesetting for formulas.

    Onlyoffice Is a bit annoying sometimes with sizes when going back and forward to powerpoint (common computer for presenting) but is more compatible than libreoffice in my experience. Biggest drawback is the lack of master slide mode, but I typically use the standard one.

  • Does pop-os 22.04 have enabled automatic updates?

    Something I have seen lately and I don't know if it's because my install, does pop-os have enabled automated updates? when I just log in I can see the apt-get running update (normal) but also running apt-get upgrade --dry-run? I have gnome-software instead of pop-shop but I have disabled automatic upgrades on the ui. Thanks

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