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Creator Of PS1 Emulator DuckStation Threatens To "Shut The Whole Thing Down" Following License Change
  • Kinda insane how many people in a nominally open source community are defending this guy for switching to a proprietary license. If DuckStation gets shut down then I say good riddance. It is not the only PS1 emulator in town and I will not miss the endless flow of Stenzek-related drama.

  • Proton 9.0-3 released
  • What problems do you anticipate? Wine, which Proton is just a modified version of, implements file dialogs. If it didn't, just about every application that isn't a game would be broken. Needing to open files is pretty ubiquitous, after all. You need file dialogs for that.

  • Wine 9.18 Released
  • It isn't significant. Wine already supports the vast majority of MediaFoundation codecs with GStreamer. This is just an alternative backend that uses FFmpeg instead of GStreamer. GStreamer already has an FFmpeg plugin, so this doesn't add any new codecs to the table. It seems there's just a long term plan to move away from GStreamer for whatever reason.

    Wine's MF support used to be much worse, which is why Valve had to do their workaround shader hack. Not sure what exactly the current status on that is, but I do know things like mf-install or Proton-GE are rarely if ever necessary anymore, even with non-Steam games (which I have plenty of).

  • Valve is working on a version of proton for ARM devices
  • Well, Steam and Proton both already run on top of FEX or Box64 on ARM Linux, but it's nice to see an official effort from Valve.

    Also, does ARM still have better battery life when all of the machine code has to be translated from x86? That adds a not insubstantial amount of CPU overhead, which does hurt battery life.

    And perhaps most importantly, is there any ARM chipset out there that can deliver performance on par with the Steam Deck's CPU (even after factoring in the overhead of the x86 JIT) at a viable price for a Steam Deck successor?

  • Palworld maker vows to fight Nintendo lawsuit on behalf of fans and indie developers
  • Dunno, I think I prefer patents. Unlike copyright, patents usually last a flat twenty years. Copyright expires either after 95 years or 70 years after the death of the author, which is ludicrous. Both are constantly abused, but at least patents expire in a reasonable amount of time.

  • Warning to mobile Fediverse commenters
  • Unless they changed it, mobile Firefox is locked to a limited set of extensions unless you:

    1. Use Nightly.
    2. Create a Mozilla account.
    3. Log in to that account on the Add-Ons site and create an add-on collection with all the extensions you want to install.
    4. Set that collection as your source of add-ons in the Firefox settings.

    You're also unable to use about:config unless you're using Nightly (or maybe Beta). So Nightly is really the only version worth using since it doesn't have nearly as many artificial restrictions as the stable version does. This is also true to a lesser extent on desktop where you have to use Nightly to install unsigned extensions.

    You also can't open any offline HTML files for whatever reason and on devices with very little RAM (like 2GB) Firefox isn't viable, but Chrome-based browsers work mostly fine. Firefox is still the best mobile browser though, mostly because it supports extensions at all.

  • Corel Linux 1.1.2, 1999
  • Qt1 came with two default themes. One of them mimicked Win95 and the other mimicked Motif. KDE1 defaulted to the former in order to look more familiar. To this day, the "Windows 9x" theme still ships with Qt and can be selected on any Plasma 6 install. Starting with KDE2 they started using their own custom themes for everything, tho.

    GNOME 1 actually looked very similar, which isn't surprising because its main goal at that point was to offer a replacement for KDE that didn't depend on then-proprietary Qt. GNOME 2 and KDE 2 is when they really started building a distinct identity.

  • Okteta got “Best Application” 2024 Akademy Award
    frinring.wordpress.com Okteta got “Best Application” 2024 Akademy Award

    The jury of this year’s KDE Akademy Awards, being by tradition representatives of last year’s winners, has selected the hex editor Okteta in the category “Best Application”.…

    Okteta got “Best Application” 2024 Akademy Award
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    Chromium Adds Support For FreeDesktop Secret Service & Better Wayland Window Dragging
  • Yeah, I mean Google caring about Linux isn't exactly breaking news. We knew that already. Android and ChromeOS both exist and as web company they kinda have to care about the OS that by and large runs the web. But this is Phoronix and they'll make articles about anything as long as they think as it'll get engagement. "Chromium" and "Wayland" are pretty good buzzwords as far as that goes, thus this article. My point is more so that maybe it isn't productive to have every acknowledgment of Chromium's continued existence be overwhelmingly negative regardless of context.

  • Chromium Adds Support For FreeDesktop Secret Service & Better Wayland Window Dragging
  • This isn't something to complain about, IMO. Chromium is a popular app and it is a good thing to see work on supporting FDO protocols and improving Wayland support. I prefer Firefox myself, but it's nice that Linux support isn't just an afterthought for Google either and more importantly it trickles down to the countless apps on Linux that depend on Chromium in some form (usually through Electron). I personally use several, including but not limited to Slack, Discord, r2modman and VSCodium.

  • AI Artefacting
  • I see. Will avoid, then. I don't like lucid dreaming, always wake up right away. Whenever I notice I'm dreaming it becomes hard not to notice that I'm in my bed and that I can feel my covers and by that point it's all over, so whenever I notice I'm dreaming I just cut the crap and open my eyes for a couple of seconds to wake myself up and then close them again so I can get back to proper sleep.

  • AI Artefacting
  • Is this really useful? Like, is this something people ever need to do? I don't do lucid dreams very often, but the rare times a dream has lead me to the thought of "hold on, am I dreaming?" were basically immediately answered by just, uh, vibes, I guess? Like, it's always just been instantly obvious that I'm dreaming the moment I'd start questioning it, no tests necessary. At worst I might have to try to remember what I did the day before and what I was supposed to be doing that day and see if that is at all compatible with the scenario I'm dreaming about, which it usually isn't.

  • Elasticsearch is Open Source, Again
  • Do you... not know how multi-licensing works? You can use the project's code under the terms of whichever license you prefer, you don't use all three at once. Simply putting the AGPLv3 does remove unfair restrictions, because it means you don't have to use either of the proprietary licenses the project was previously only available under.

  • Elasticsearch is Open Source, Again
  • I don't follow. ElasticSearch was only available under proprietary source-available licenses. Now, it's also available under the AGPL, which is open source, meaning ElasticSearch is now open source software. What part of this is deceptive or contradictory?

  • KStars 3.7.2 Released
    knro.blogspot.com KStars 3.7.2 Released

    KStars v3.7.2 is released on 2024.08.03 for Windows, MacOS & Linux . It's a bi-monthly bug-fix release with a couple of exciting features. A...

    KStars 3.7.2 Released
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    Amarok 3.1 "Tricks of the Light" released!
    blogs.kde.org Amarok 3.1 "Tricks of the Light" released!

    The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.1 "Tricks of the Light"! Coming three months after 3.0.0 and two months after the first bugfix release 3.

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    Breeze Icon Updates for April 2024 – with a Little Heart for You!
    anditosan.wordpress.com Breeze Icon Updates for April 2024 – with a Little Heart for You!

    Hey everyone! Here is a new video explanation of the changes we have done. This time we tackled Labplot, maps, and media icons! Can you believe it? We are now officially past the mid-way for the ic…

    Breeze Icon Updates for April 2024 – with a Little Heart for You!
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    Amarok 3.0 beta (2.9.82) out now!
    discuss.kde.org Amarok 3.0 beta (2.9.82) out now!

    Hi everyone, long time user, first time releaser here. I am happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.0 beta (2.9.82)! This is the next step towards a proper KF5 based release. Although there have been some functionalities lost during porting or due to changes in external network s...

    Amarok 3.0 beta (2.9.82) out now!
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    Amarok might be coming back in 2024

    Amarok was KDE's flagship music player during the KDE3 and Plasma 4 days. For Plasma 5, a new music player called Elisa was created with Kirigami which is the current KDE flagship music player. The last full release of Amarok was 2.9.0 in 2018, still targeting Qt4. A Plasma 5 port was started with the intention of being released as Amarok 3.0, but despite a usable alpha 2.9.71 release in 2021, the full 3.0 release was never completed. Outside of the occasional odd pull request, the project was essentially dead and was listed as unmaintained by apps.kde.org.

    Two weeks ago, occasional contributor Tuomas Nurmi, author of over a third of these pull requests, made a push to become an Amarok maintainer, starting this thread in the mailing list: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/amarok-devel/2024-March/014748.html

    In the thread, Tuomas expresses his desire to revive Amarok. He believes a second alpha for 3.0 can be released in mid-April and a full Plasma 6 port could be completed within 2024 after the release of 3.0. Tuomas has since created a fair amount of merges and fixes in preparation for 3.0 and has shown no sign of stopping.

    This is very exciting news. For many, Elisa isn't a satisfying replacement for Amarok. It simply doesn't come close to matching Amarok's power and features. It also has the drawback of being a convergent application, meaning compromises have to be made to make the interface work well on smartphones.

    It's also victim to the many drawbacks of Kirigami. Theming is worse since Plasma has to convert QtWidget themes to QtQuick themes, which works great for Breeze, but meh for everything else. There is no good equivalent for KStandardAction/QAction, KHamburgerMenu or KStandardShortcut. Any Kirigami app that wants customizable toolbars and shortcuts need to go out of their way to implement them, while QtWidgets apps just get them for free. You also don't have a good QDockWidget equivalent that I know of. Apps that do bother to reimplement some of these features (Haruna is the only one I know of) still don't have toolbar customization to nearly the same extent QtWidgets apps do. Most Kirigami apps don't bother with this at all and lose a lot of customizability in the process. Elisa is not Haruna, tho. There is no shortcut customization, there is no toolbar to customize and that hamburger menu can't be turned into a menubar.

    For years, the solution was Strawberry, a fork of Amarok still under active development. Thing is, Strawberry is a fork of Clementine, itself a fork of Amarok 1.4. That's old. That's 2008 Amarok, not 2018 Amarok. Clementine had its first release in 2010, when Amarok was still going strong. It was for good reason, Amarok 2.0 introduced a very divisive redesign of the interface, which prompted a fork. But this means 2.0+ Amarok and Strawberry are actually very different beasts. For those who were using Amarok 2.9, switching to Strawberry meant switching to a new music player, making it far from an ideal successor. So I'm very much excited for the return of Amarok, the best music player KDE has had.

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    Breeze Icon Update March 16, 2024
    anditosan.wordpress.com Breeze Icon Update March 16, 2024

    Hi all, I am back with another update for adapting icons to the 24px grid and doing some larger edits. This week, I worked on 3 rows, which is great, and was able to hit just past the 50% mark, it …

    Breeze Icon Update March 16, 2024
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    Icon Updates for March, 2024
    anditosan.wordpress.com Icon Updates for March, 2024

    Hey all, I have been away for a minute but wanted to give you an update on the work so far in updating and adapting Breeze icons to the 24px grid. Check out the video below.

    Icon Updates for March, 2024
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    MOTIS support in KPublicTransport
    www.volkerkrause.eu MOTIS support in KPublicTransport

    Two weeks ago I showed a screenshot of initial support for the MOTIS routing engine in KTrip in my FOSDEM 2024 report. Driven by the Transitous work this is ...

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