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Applications: Zed, Zephyr, Aviator, and More
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Neowin ☛ Windows slows Zed's development as platform differences bite
The co-founder of Zed code editor has lamented the difficulties in building the native Rust-based application in Windows.
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OMG Ubuntu ☛ Aviator is a Fast, User-Friendly App for AV1 Video Encoding on Linux
Heard of the AV1 (AOMedia Video 1) codec? Chances are you have, as this open source, royalty-free video compression standard is championed by the likes of Google, Netflix, Amazon, and even Apple. All for a very good reason (beyond the anyone-is-free-to-use-it-no-catches aspect). AV1 produces fantastic quality video at often significantly. smaller file sizes. For major video streaming services you can see the appeal: bandwidth means money, and a video codec that delivers decent quality but is data efficient is a no-brainer, costs-wise. But you might be interested in using it too.
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OMG Ubuntu ☛ High Tide (Linux Tidal Client) Adds Gapless Playback, Replay Gain
High Tide, a GTK4/libadawaita app for music streaming service Tidal, has been updated with a bunch of fixes and minor new features. It’s also seen a major version bump, jumping from v0.1.8 to v1.0.0. Given the amount of churn between those two versions, such a leap seems fitting. App responsiveness has been improved in High Tide v1.0 through a variety of cache tweaks, reworked page loading, and assorted code cleanups, unused function removals, improvements to some of the widget Hey Hi (AI) that are used to fetch content.
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Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Change the Color Scheme of GNOME Adwaita Apps & Shell
Modern GNOME apps do NOT support traditional themes, but you may change the look with custom color schemes! As you know, GNOME has moved to use GTK4 + LibAdwaita for its applications and desktop components.
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Hackaday ☛ Web Dashboard For Zephyr
Over time, web browsers have accumulated a ton of features beyond what anyone from the 90s might have imagined, from an application platform to file management and even to hardware access. While this could be concerning from a certain point of view, it makes it much easier to develop a wide range of tools. All a device really needs to use a browser as a platform is an IP address, and this project brings a web UI dashboard to Zephyr to simplify application development.