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Improvements are made to graphics, the Lua API, and the user interface. We present the winners of the 2023 Game Jam along with other cool mods. A new core developer joins the team, and we look forward to FOSDEM 2024!

 

A menu rework and God rays are among the improvements on the road to the 5.8.0 release.

 

This is the first pretest for what will become the 29.2 release of Emacs, which is primarily a bugfix release.

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Emacs 29.1 Released (lists.gnu.org)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Available at your local GNU mirror and, depending on your OS, perhaps soon your favorite package manager repository. A full list of features and changes can be found in the NEWS file.

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It has been almost two years since the last ReactOS newsletter. Despite no new releases, the project is still active. Much work has been done on different parts of the operating system, from improvements on the 64-bit port to protections against registry corruption.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Not me, that's all Prot's work. I am definitely interested in the package, but I will probably wait for it to appear on GNU ELPA before I try it out.

 

From dired, preview different file types in a side window. The user can control the delay before previews appear, the maximum size of previewed files, and which file types should be excluded from preview.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

MeseCraft is a good starting point that provides a much better not-just-minecraft-clone experience than the base game. From there, i3 provides a better inventory, and I haven't really screwed with much else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

bspwm is probably my favorite general-purpose tiling window manager. I have not personally tried this out yet, but River is superficially similar, with the main configuration done through a combination of shell scripting and riverctl commands. I'm not sure how the tiling behaves in comparison though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

This is something that I am sure will be solved eventually, but one of the major weaknesses of Wayland is the lack of lightweight standalone compositors.

For example, if I want a lightweight stacking window manager on X, I can choose between Openbox, Fluxbox, FVWM, IceWM, Pekwm, JWM, Window Maker, hell even twm if I were a masochist. I have tried out all of these at one point or another and they all have something to offer users. But using Wayland, there's, uhh, labwc, and that's it? Maybe I could try using kwin standalone?

The situation for tiling window managers is similar, with Sway being the only one that feels mature.

I plan on migrating from Openbox to labwc at some point in the future, once it's ready. labwc itself is really good, but some of the other programs I need to recreate my setup aren't there yet. Someday...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

lemmit.online is an instance where a bot reposts Reddit content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I think an underappreciated thing about the original LEGO Star Wars games is just how accessible they were. You could give those games to a 5 year old and they could play and enjoy it. I should know; I was one of them. Looking at the Skywalker Saga, you couldn't possibly do the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, those were the days. Hexbear carries some of the culture, but is generally a nicer place to be.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Old account here. I was directed to Hexbear after r/cth was banned from Reddit. Later on, I learned about other instances. Federation wasn't a thing back then; I made an account here to check federation out once it finally released.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I have to shout out Wiby. It is focused on like weird personal websites from the early 2000s, that sort of thing. Absolutely not a general-purpose search engine, but mashing the "surprise me" button will take you to all sorts of fun places.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have not used a desktop environment on a laptop in a very long time. For a long while, I had fluxbox installed and that was good enough. Nowadays, my laptop almost exclusively runs EXWM. I can't really recommend that for general use though.

If I were to install a full DE now, I think I would go for LXQT. I love Openbox, and I would probably end up replacing the panel with tint2. That would be a decent environment, I think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I recently wrote a literate R document where I added features to a plot one at a time and then showed the result. That's a lot of repetitive code. This could have both cut down on copy-pasting and helped to propagate changes in an earlier plot to the later ones. Next time for sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Lemmygrad is a Marxism-focused instance and Hexbear is currently making the migration to mainline Lemmy right now.

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