Lyon GNOME Bug day #1

Last Friday, both a GNOME bug day and a bank holiday, a few of us got together to squash some bugs, and discuss GNOME and GNOME technologies.

Guillaume, a new comer in our group, tested the captive portal support for NetworkManager and GNOME in Gentoo, and added instructions on how to enable it to their Wiki. He also tested a gateway related configuration problem, the patch for which I merged after a code review. Near the end of the session, he also rebuilt WebKitGTK+ to test why Google Docs was not working for him anymore in Web. And nobody believed that he could build it that quickly. Looks like opinions based on past experiences are quite hard to change.

Mathieu worked on removing jhbuild's .desktop file as nobody seems to use it, and it was creating the Sundry category for him, in gnome-shell. He also spent time looking into the tracker blocker that is Mozilla's Focus, based on disconnectme's block lists. It's not as effective as uBlock when it comes to blocking adverts, but the memory and performance improvements, and the slow churn rate, could make it a good default blocker to have in Web.

Haïkel looked into using Emeus, potentially the new GTK+ 4.0 layout manager, to implement the series properties page for Videos.

Finally, I added Bolso to jhbuild, and struggled to get gnome-online-accounts/gnome-keyring to behave correctly in my installation, as the application just did not want to log in properly to the service. I also discussed Fedora's privacy policy (inappropriate for Fedora Workstation, as it doesn't cover the services used in the default installation), a potential design for Flatpak support of joypads and removable devices in general, as well as the future design of the Network panel.

On fêtera la sortie de GNOME 3.14 mardi soir à Lyon

In French, for a change :)

Mardi soir, le 23 septembre, quelques-uns d'entre nous se retrouveront vers 18h30 au Smoking Dog pour quelques boissons, et poursuivront avec un dîner indien prés du métro St-Jean.

N'hésitez pas à vous inscrire sur le Wiki, que vous soyez utilisateurs de GNOME, développeurs ou simplement des amis du logiciel libre.

À mardi!

Jobs change

Seeing as everyone is making job-related posts, I thought I'd join in the fun.

After 10 years of service, I've left Red Hat UK on the 31st of October to join Red Hat France on the 1st of November.

I now live in the birthplace of cinema and of French gastronomy, so poke me if you want to talk GNOME or Linux over beers. I've already found the English pub.