I highly recommend list-inhibitors. Not sure if this is the one I mean, the command line seems to match to the one I use: https://pypi.org/project/list-session-inhibitors/

This command gives a way nicer output.

For me Firefox often prevents the system from going to idle. If some page has a video it often seems to inhibit going to idle. Firefox strangely does that even if the video is paused.

For me and Firefox I’m often intend to do something about it. And then I don’t for various reasons 😂

Then implement polkit perhaps? https://polkit.pages.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit-apps.html

Basically the root using bit is handled via polkit. Three unprivileged bit calls the privileged bit via polkit.

An appimage should run where, normally you’d put that in your home directory. The immutable bit is outside of your homedir.

If you’re THE leading DE project at least try to accommodate those DE’s that depend on your code or meet with them to inform them well in advance and discuss the best options for those DE’s.

It’s always easy to say that other people should do more work to benefit others. Libawaita isn’t anything new. It was announced loads of times.

In other words, work together for the good of all users

That the current status isn’t what you want isn’t the same as not working together. Further, there’s usually a limited amount of time and attention.

Within Linux there’s loads and loads of opinions. Loads of different desktop environments. That complexity cost development time. Time that isn’t infinite. Again, it seems to easy to direct how others should spend their time and/or to argue that they aren’t doing enough for your liking.

“Fake News!” /s

I don’t really know how to do that

• Install rust
• Create a directory somewhere
• Change to that directory
• Run: cargo init
• Open a text editor and do stuff in there
• Save the file(s)
• Run cargo build
• Run the executable

Hope it helps!

• Background I was using got removed, got a better one anyway

I had that happen a few times. This time I downloaded those backgrounds again (from gnome-backgrounds repository). Still, it’s pretty annoying to have this happen.

I upgraded just before the beta. Discovered a mutter crash, reported it, it was fixed in a day or so.

Everything just feels slow, clunky and some basic things are quite complecated to archive

It’s been that way for much longer than a few years unfortunately. I don’t understand how people can tolerate it. Some projects switched to it because it seemed more beginner friendly than IRC, but to me it’s not focussed on making things easy.

Never heard about this. They’re website is awesome, they have a extensive list of changes they made. Don’t agree with removing SELinux though. It stops enough security issues and it doesn’t seem good to have such a change while likely (didn’t check) rely on Fedora for package updates.

Kind of wonder how old certain changes are, e.g. Fedora did change the vm.max_map_count.

Edit: forgot to say that I do like it. I like opinionated software/projects even if I might not use it myself.

Those hacked together system-specific bash scripts were removed.

With a different feature set per script as well. The systemd service files have often been pushed upstream.

Pretty sure people liking those scripts never really tried dealing with them across distributions. Though this just rehashes things that were said when distributions decided if to switch to systemd. Still the same strange claim that those scripts are somehow easier. It wasn’t, it is also way easier to package a systemd file from upstream than to maintain that stuff within a distribution.

I wonder if this is still true, now that he no longer works for RedHat, but Microsoft.

Why wouldn’t Fedora do that? Decisions are decided by multiple people, they are not forced through or just decided unilaterally by one person.

Enough people in Fedora try to improve the low level stuff. I’m looking forward to that homedir systemd stuff. Don’t care about this sudo alternative.

Systemd isn’t just an init system. It is a project with low level building blocks for a distribution. Most of the complaints are that it isn’t just an init system, while it’s not meant to be just an init system.

until you are only left with managing the differences between DEs

Maybe they’ll add a DE as well?

Just kidding!

Are you reading what you wrote? It’s full of contradictions.

It seems you think that people should be free from consequences until a certain level is surpassed? That’s rather arbitrary.

What I saw is that an active developer got actually banned just for arguing against an affirmative action.

It’s often not as simple as how you summarize this. Above is awfully similar to the incorrect claim of “cancel culture”. While often that meant that people think someone should be able to do as they please without any consequences. Except for things they dislike, then there should be consequences.

While this is true to an extent, from experience this line of thinking has its limits and is very easy to misapply.

If the majority of contributions come from one person, then yeah, maybe that person should dictate everything. Else you’d miss out on all of those contributions, no?

I use Home Assistant. If reported a few bugs. Every single time I get a really friendly response. Often things are fixed quickly. Things are discussed, different opinions seem to be appreciated and considered. This doesn’t mean that they’ll do whatever someone suggests.

What I find funny about the one contributor who does the majority of the work situation is that it can also be seen in a different way.

Home Assistant as a project has grown like crazy. I’m unable to say exactly why that it, I must see it a great accomplishment.

At one point Home Assistant was just one person doing the majority of the work. Nowadays it is far from that. Pointing towards just one person doing most of the work ignores how it maybe could be. Meaning, maybe with “magic” the project would be crazily bigger. With a crazy amount of contributors. With maybe people paid for by companies to contribute.

That’s what I find lacking in the logic as said by some comments (not by you). It’s a comparison of the current status, not of different outcomes. And those outcomes could be worse, or better.

where the committee perform worse because the “forced” member

Ah, the common strawman. A committee where everyone thinks pretty much the same is somehow better than one where a few have a different opinion?

Such discussions took place decades ago when pretty much every manager was only male. And they often honestly thought they did the right thing. When there were more women forced to be managers the group as a whole got better insights into different opinions. Which helped to see that certain things could be done a different way.

That to me is history, plus rather logical.

Having a few people with different opinions is further usually good for a committee. Though some like every single person to think the same, more efficient or something. If most think the same it’s way easier to overlook something.

pride parade in Iran.

I suggest to look at the history of Iran.

Your argument is a bit weird. People are suggesting for more diversity. Then you seem to say that’s bad because they should wait until an opportunity that people fight for more diversity? I’m not following.

They often talk about accessibility plans and changes on Planet GNOME. No idea what is coming though.

It’s better but still annoying. But after reading the blog, seems I’ll be happy with notifications in GNOME 47.

I haven’t tested dnf5 yet though so can’t comment on it.

It is significantly faster than dnf. I’m looking forward to it becoming the default.