Zach "earboxer" DeCook @zachdecook@librem.one

We are developers and designers making user-friendly apps. We take pride in our craft and work hard to make sure our applications are a great experience for people.

Unfortunately, there are increasing efforts on the current market to disallow or discourage customization. This worsens user experience for a lot of software.

Kirigami colour sets allow developers to easily make their UI work with any colour schemes.

Icon Themes allow users to have a unified view across different applications.

Application styles allows users to decide how a button is represented, how wide a scroll bar should be, etc.

All these not only give users the freedom to decide how the applications should behave, but also make room for accessibility considerations like larger buttons, more visible focus indication, and more contrastive colours and shades.

This is why we believe application developers should be aware of the possibility to customize its appearance.

If you are an application developer, we kindly ask that you do not hard-code any colour or size, but rather follow the system styles.

On a platform level, we should implement a colour set editor that informs users about what colours might be put where, and advises about how contrastive the foreground and the background are in different places.

If you are a user or distribution maintainer that ships our apps, and you are having issues with our apps on your customized colour set or application style, please do tell us, and we can figure out the cause of the problem.

Signed, tusooa, maintainer of kazv.

This document is inspired by https://stopthemingmy.app/ .

@zachdecook Thank you for your feedback, this is the future plan!

The Case for LineageOS and the #PinePhone

https://jleightcap.srht.site/blog/openphone.html

Anyone interested in the multiplayer FPS game I'm making - we've got a new domain and a simple website now! Thanks to @siina for her awesome work on that!

https://libla.st/

#Liblast #GameDev #indiegame #GodotEngine #Godot

@neauoire http://landley.net/aboriginal/history.html is a fun read about early Linux and GNU.

my second ever blog post is out! titled '5 Steps To FOSS Contributions', it outlines what a beginner needs to get started contributing to a Free software project. it's written from experience, and i hope i can help out other newbies looking where to get started. please give it a read and let me know what you think. also check out my todo page with articles up-and-coming. thanks for your support! https://hamblingreen.gitlab.io

Took a bit of time to write down my opinions on #libadwaita

https://blog.brixit.nl/the-end-of-the-nice-gtk-button/

🎉 ANNOUNCEMENT🎉 : Purism announced key leadership roles to support its growth plans. Chief Security Officer, Kyle Rankin, will step up to hold the responsibilities of Purism as its President. Chief Technology Officer, Nicole Faerber will serve as Vice- President (VP) in addition to her CTO role. Todd Weaver, the Founder and CEO of Purism will maintain his position.

https://puri.sm/posts/as-purism-grows-founder-ceo-todd-weaver-transitions-role-of-president-to-kyle-rankin-vice-president-to-nicole-faerber/

@neauoire
You miss some detail. Jews rest on the 7th day, Christians gather on the 1st, the day of the resurrection. So yes, Sunday is not actually part of the weekend. But it's convenient. 😎

Aaaaaand.... #Prosody 0.12.0 is released!

This is an exciting major release which contains loads of new features, fixes and enhancements to improve your experience as an #XMPP admin.

Read about the highlights of the new release on our blog:
https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.12.0-released/

#PineDA calendar setup and item entry interface.

I'm announcing that my new blog is up now! In it I'll explore ARM Linux development and C programming. For now, this is all from the perspective of a Linux newbie. My first article is also live now, and describes my Pinephone daily driver setup, and why I chose to go minimal. Please visit the site and provide feedback. Thanks for your support! https://hamblingreen.gitlab.io/

Got a chance to talk to Miles Alan about his amazing projects:

* (Early days of) #Sxmo
* framebufferphone: new UI
* Mepo: new map app for Sxmo, fbp, Phosh, possibly PlaMo & more
* Why he likes #zig and #oilshell

#linuxmobile

https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/15-Interview-Miles-Alan-Sxmo-fbp-Mepo/