today's leftovers
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LibreArts Weekly recap — 7 August 2023
Highlights of the last few weeks: new releases of Inkscape, FreeCAD, LSP plugins, MuseScore, first beta of Krita 5.2, CMYK PDFs are coming in Inkscape v1.4, and more.
The patch by mr.fantastic adding support for on-canvas alignment and even distribution has finally been merged to the main development branch.
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 799
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 799 for the week of July 30 – August 5, 2023. The full version of this issue is available here.
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 799
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Jumpstart Kubernetes Success with New Service Offerings
According to the Gartner report, The CTO’s Guide to Containers and Kubernetes, by 2027 more than 90% of companies will have made the decision to run containerized applications in production.
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Cybersecurity Threats to SAP Systems
Businesses today are in a constant state of digital transformation. SAP software plays a key role in driving this transformation by offering comprehensive solutions that boost efficiency, scalability, and innovation throughout the entire enterprise.
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Philip Withnall: GUADEC 2023
I attended GUADEC 2023 this year in-person in Rīga. It was nice to be able to see more people in person than last year’s mini-GUADEC in Berlin, and nice to be able to travel overland/oversea to Rīga, avoiding flights and the associated huge carbon emissions. Thank you to the GNOME Foundation and my employer, Endless, for covering the travel.
And a big thank you to the local event organising team, the AV team, the volunteers and the Foundation staff for making it all happen.The quality of the talks this year was really high. I don’t think there was a single talk slot I skipped. As a result, I didn’t get much hacking done! But there were good hallway conversations and catch ups.
I gave two talks, one on some simple improvements people can make to their apps to reduce internet data use and power use when doing so would be beneficial to the user (when on a metered network or in power-saver mode).
The aim was to remind people how easy it is to do this, and provide some examples of how different apps present these states/events in the UI, since the best way to do that can differ between apps. -
Feedback from ELCE 2023: selection of talks #2
As we reported in previous blog post, almost the entire Bootlin engineering team was at the Embedded Linux Conference Europe in Prague in June.
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Dragging Docks and Tugging Toolbars on Wayland
Most of our desktop applications have a toolbar, sometimes they even have multiple toolbars next to or stacked on top of each other. More complex desktop applications such as Krita, Kdenlive or LabPlot often consist of multiple sub-windows, docks, tabbed views, etc. Docks and toolbars can be undocked, moved around and arranged freely and when dragged over a part of a window snap back into the window. This allows the user to customize their work environment to their liking and needs. This worked fine on X because it lets you do anything, this post explores the situation on Wayland.