#Design #Approaches
Mobile and desktop recognizability · How much design variation is acceptable? https://ilo.im/165v3r
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#Layout #Content #Website #Mobile #Desktop #ResponsiveDesign #ProductDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign
#KDE #Plasma 6.5 bringt automatische #Tag / #Nacht #Designs - #fosstopia:
Die kommende Version von #KDE #Plasma6.5 erhält ein oft gewünschtes Feature. Der #Desktop kann jetzt automatisch zwischen hellen und dunklen Designs wechseln. Diese Umschaltung erfolgt je nach Tageszeit und spart manuelles Eingreifen.
Zudem lässt sich das globale Design nun direkt in den Schnelleinstellungen ändern. Anwender finden diese Funktion übersichtlich in den Systemeinstellungen.
GNOME 49 Beta released!
Two days ago, GNOME 49 Beta was released to the public, and it brought more stability improvements to different areas of the desktop environment and its applications that are developed independently. The two most important areas that were updated are GNOME Shell and GNOME Mutter, both of which are the most important elements of the GNOME desktop.
In contrast with the alpha version, the beta version brings more bug fixes and general improvements, including the following changes that were done to Mutter:
Whereas the GNOME Shell 49 Beta got the following changes:
According to Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka release schedule, GNOME 49 Beta will land to the daily builds of the upcoming version of the Linux-based operating system later this week.
The final release of GNOME 49 is expected to be done by September 13th, and the official announcement will be done on the 17th.
4MLinux 49.0 released 
◉Mini Linux distribution
◉Light; using ~400MB / RAM
◉Independent & versatile
◉Focus of 4 M's: Maintenance (rescue live-CD) / Multimedia (play yer olden DVDs) / Miniserver / Mystery (e.g. small Linux games)
◉Fire up fast via live-USB and do much
◉ ...or a permanent install to a retro PC
https://4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com https://sourceforge.net/projects/linux4m/files/49.0/livecd
"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that Plasma 6.5 will have automatic day/night theme switching, that you can choose which Global Themes to show on the Quick Settings page, and that you can set dynamic wallpaper coloration to be based on the background color scheme or the time of day, or always light, or always dark.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/08/02/this-week-in-plasma-day/night-theme-switching/
@johnmacintosh so much #desktop space…
#LoDPI was good for that!
Recelently IL about the existence of
about:about
in firefox.
Normally I enter my about field directly, but about a week or two ago I learned of about:about
Quite handy to see all about fields the browser reacts to
Design Milk : Desktop Wallpaper: August 2025 With Valentin Pavageau https://design-milk.com/desktop-wallpaper-august-2025-with-valentin-pavageau/ #desktopwallpapers #DesignerDesktops #desktopwallpaper #ValentinPavageau #DesignerDesktop #Technology #desktops #desktop #Main #Art
Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
Jellyfin is the volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached. Your media, your server, your way.
https://jellyfin.org
@jellyfin@mastodon.online
@jellyfin@lemmy.ml
Classic CDE (Common Desktop Environment) coming to OpenBSD https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250730080301 #openbsd #cde #commondesktopenvironment #x #xwindows #desktop #retrocomputing #freesoftware #libresoftware #ports #packages
My reservations and criticism re: #Signal are not just valid, but the reality is even worse than I thought:
Seriously, do they expect folks to deal with that shit?
It's already worse in terms of #UX than #telgram and #discord and that too makes #XMPP+#OMEMO clients like @monocles / #monoclesChat & @gajim / #gajim easier and faster to onboard #TechIlliterates onto.
Whichever asshole decided that a replacement for #SMS should mandate #PII like a #PhoneNumber & not be natively cross-platform should be banned from doing any #tech in their life. Trying to circumvent this shit and helping folks with it makes me so fucking angry that I'm now explicitly refusing to support it!
FIX THAT SHIT, @Mer__edith, and if it means you need to kick some devs in their crouch then consider this a necessary "investment"…
It looks like I have some difficulties choosing a #FreeBSD #desktop :)
#XFCE4 is kind of light, and has some lovely perks (use scroll wheel to reduce any window to its title bar, and to change virtual desktops). Thunar needs less tuning than Dolphin to match my preferences. And it’s easy to get rid of unwanted buttons in session menus (sleep/restart/shutdown… that I don’t need, for it’s an always on PC).
#Plasma6 is instantly gorgeous and is very appealing, I want to use it. But it looks like many bits are tuned for Linux out of the box and don’t work well / as intended on FreeBSD. For a start, there is a complete and detailed sound control panel that just won’t work, event though my sound is just working. And don’t let me start about the taskbar widgets. Also, it’s "heavier" than XFCE4.
I don’t understand its Keyboard control panel, by the way. I’ve lost a week to that thing trying to configure my KB layout before giving up and moving to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
I feel more at home with XFCE4 but Plasma 6 in wearing a red dress!
Looking for a new laptop and want an easy way to compare features?
Check out this chart so you can make the best choice for your new
system! 
See it here: kfocus.org/spec
Warum Linux den Desktop nun doch erobert – zumindest ein bisschen - Linux-Unix - derStandard.at › Web
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000280847/warum-linux-den-desktop-nun-doch-erobert-zumindest-ein-bisschen #Betriebssystem #Linux #Desktop
@zandbelt@mastodon.n lLangzamerhand wordt het toch iets om rekening mee te houden: https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-desktop-usage-usa/L@marcellinusme @odd
@web So sehen übrigens #Deutschland und die #EU aus:
https://www.draketo.de/politik/gnu-linux-desktop-share#eu-de
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