GNOME, OpenBSD, and More

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 08, 2023

• Felix Häcker: #102 Contextual Back Buttons

  Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from June 23 to June 30.

  AdwNavigationView back buttons now support a context menu allowing to pop multiple pages at once. This works with nested navigation views and even with structures like AdwNavigationSplitView containing navigation views in both content and sidebar. Additionally, back button tooltips are now more reliable - they previously didn’t work in this situation and required the app to manually sync the sidebar page’s title with its navigation view’s visible page.

• Implementing a system call for OpenBSD

  TL;DR: I found a printed copy of an assignment I had to do in 2005 back when I was a student to implement a system call for OpenBSD and Linux. I lost the original LaTeX file so I decided to rewrite it so I have a digital copy. The article originally covered loadable kernel modules (LKM) which is no longer a thing in OpenBSD, I trimmed that part. I also trimmed the Linux part because I didn’t care about it back then and did the minimum to pass ;-) This article is translated from French.

• Improvements for the sq commandline utility

  With recent work on Sequoia sq I have focused on improving the user experience (UX) of the commandline interface (CLI) and adding new features for increased feature parity with gpg. These changes are available starting with version 0.31.0.

  The effort has been accompanied by a few code refactorings which touch on the subject of making the CLI more composable and safe to use in the future.

  This article provides an overview of the new features and improvements.

• MariaDB’s Stock Exchange Woes For Dummies

  It looks as if the Fed’s attempt to wrangle inflation under control by raising interest rates, which has made the folks on Wall Street a little less bullish these days, is causing some trouble for the open-source database company MariaDB Plc, the main driver behind development of MariaDB and related software.

• TUXEDO’s 5th generation Stellaris 17 is a hardcore Linux laptop

  Today, TUXEDO launches the 5th generation of the Stellaris 17 -- a hardcore gaming and workstation notebook. The laptop is everything a cutting-edge, upper-tier gaming desktop PC should be, but in a compact, portable, and robust package.

  The Linux laptop is a high-end desktop replacement encased in a premium chassis. The machine's remarkable power is made possible by NVIDIA RTX 40 graphics cards (with the option of up to the GeForce RTX 4090) and the top-tier Intel Core i9-13900HX CPU.