Quoting: Purple Library GuyI don't think there's an English world "libre". There's a French word, but in the context of open source software it's almost always the Spanish that's being invoked. Don't know why--either there's more Latin American involvement in open source than French involvement, or US Americans sometimes speak Spanish but rarely speak French.

AFAICT, the usage of 'libre' stuck after a suggestion by Stallman to differentiate between the 'gratis' (free as in beer) and the 'rights and responsibilities' (free as in speech) conceptions of freedom: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html [External Link]

Though somewhat ironically, the latinate 'liber' doesn't quite capture the sense RMS has in mind either; because it designates freedom from constraint in both its Latin origin, and how it's been taken up in the Anglophone world in notions of 'liberty', 'liberalism', and so on: Being 'freeborn', as opposed to a slave; freedom to trade, travel, etc., without being tied to some 'lord', 'king', whatever. -- whereas RMS's conception is more 'contentful', so to speak, in that it involves being part of a system of mutual constraints among equals, that is, having rights as well as responsibilities.

So, 'libre' software would better describe MIT & BSD licensed software if we were being more pedantic with our terminology.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismIt would have been nice if the naming schema could have followed the other Libre names.

Libre Chat

Libre Office

Libre Worlf

Libre tro ;P

But in all seriousness in my opinion LibreVoxe is way better than VoxeLibre and easier to remember and rolls off the tongue better IRL speech.

There's a free (public domain recordings, by volunteers, of public domain books) audiobook site called 'LibriVox' https://librivox.org/ [External Link] -- they may have wanted to avoid the names getting conflated.

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In all fairness, though, nft syntax is quite a bit more readable compared to iptables.

The documentation is also helpful: https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Netfilter_hooks [External Link]



... unless ... oh, never mind.

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Quoting: SalvatosI don’t know what Sui, Web3 or Playtron are, but I like how the shoulder buttons seem to be labelled to be readable by people not using the device.

Just like the tops of seemingly all laptops in the world - to my never-ending irritation.

Ah, that one makes sense to me since you can't be looking at the top of a laptop while using it (plus there's no need to since it's just a brand logo).

I'm using a laptop for some years now (not too many though), and I still expect it to open for me when the logo is turned correctly, not when it's on it's head... :)

For me it doesn't normally matter, but if I buy a cool laptop, like say one from System76 or something, I want passersby to see the logo right way up so they can bask in the coolness. :grin:

Apple tried the 'user-facing' logo for a while in the late 90s, & were universally ridiculed for it:


https://web.archive.org/web/20170803142512/http://kensegall.com:80/2011/12/apples-upside-down-thinking/ [External Link]

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyOn the plus side, I have to admit that picture does kind of look like a spaceship from Star Trek. That's something, right?

Yeah, it'll activate its cloaking device ... and won't be seen ever again.

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Oddly reminiscent of 'Tri-Optimum'.

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Yeah OK, I'm reinstalling it after a *very* long time.

I had enjoyed it even in its barren initial launch state; & in the meantime I got a taste of Minecraft as well -- which I like a lot. Now that NMS is a lot more 'minecrafty', I'm curious how the base building aspect works. Though I suppose there's no analogue to 'redstone' in NMS now, is there?

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I recently built a barebones pdf viewer (with libmupdf as engine) on SDL3; native wayland works perfectly well in my testing, and libdecor takes care of the CSD on the windows just fine.

Not that my opinion is worth anything as a silly amateur, but one thing that *was* pretty frustrating with SDL is the formatting of the documentation in their wiki; and that the site index would take you to SDL2 functions if you weren't careful. I'm hoping that the documentation gets a better website after the SDL3 release.

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Quoting: MershlI've been using Inter on both desktop and notebook for 4 weeks now and I quite like it. I agree it would be a great successor to Cantarell. If you wanna give it a try and are on Fedora there's an package called `rsms-inter-fonts` (`inter-font` on Arch), afterwards set Interface, Document and Legacy Window Titles to `Inter Regular` in gnome-tweaks (size 11 is default).

Thanks; I should use the packaged version indeed, I currently have it installed manually.

One question: is there a way to set opentype features for Inter as UI font? I'd like to turn on the disambiguation set for 'I' & 'l' (ss02); though neither on gnome-tweaks, nor on dconf-editor, can I find a setting. I hope it's not like a compile-time parameter to Pango.

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Quoting: wvstolzingSpeaking of GNOME (which I've gone back to using), I recently found out about this issue on the official gitlab: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/-/issues/52 [External Link] — there seems to be a serious initiative to replace Cantarell as the UI font, with Inter. I really hope this gets carried through.

I pay little attention to fonts. What's the difference between the two?

On gitlab they mention missing glyphs in Cantarell; though that isn't its worst shortcoming, IMHO. The kerning just seems off, and in various combinations, the 'a's, 'e's, and 'l's look as though they're slightly shifted to the left or right; which all result in a jarring, uneven look. There are no italics; and I believe the bold version is missing even more glyphs. Overall it looks amateurish; which isn't surprising, as it was originally designed for a university course assignment, and later fixed up a little to become GNOME's ui font.

Inter's glyphs look a bit too square-ish, I think; but at least they're perfectly consistent; so you don't get the occasional lumpy look. I think elementary os uses it for their UI; it's also becoming popular on webpages -- see, e.g., https://forgejo.org/ [External Link]

Either Noto Sans or Inter would make a better ui font for GNOME, I think -- or even IBM Plex Sans.

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