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In the experimental branch of the Xfce 4.15 desktop currently in development, which will form the basis for the stable release 4.16, the interface has been translated to use the GtkHeaderBar widget, enabling client-side decoration (CSD), where the title and window frames are rendered by the application itself rather than the window manager. The use of CSD has drawn parallels with GNOME […]
Isn't it remarkable that in a world steeped in baseless hatred threatening civilization itself, men and women, young and old, partially or fully detach from the malicious flow of everyday life to dedicate themselves to cultivating beauty, spreading knowledge, healing the sick, and alleviating suffering, as if at the same time there are no fanatics multiplying pain, ugliness, and torment? […]
Snowfall in central Russia has been scarce this winter. While some snow has fallen, January has seen a lack of the colder, snowier weather one might expect. The dull grayness and unpleasant slush detract from the joy of usual winter pastimes. Therefore, Cloud4Y suggests adding a bit of snow to our lives by talking about… snowflakes. It is believed that snowflakes come in only two […]
An update to the Solaris 11.4 operating system, SRU 17 (Support Repository Update), has been released, which offers a series of new fixes and enhancements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the proposed fixes included in the update, simply run the command ‘pkg update’. In this release: Issues in sudo, python 3.7, OpenSSH, and sstored have been resolved; versions of Mesa 18.1.9, accountsservice 0.6.43, and xkeyboard-config 2.24 have been updated; […]
The maintainer of the Mercurial version control system has summarized the work on porting the project from Python 2 to Python 3. Although the first porting attempts were made back in 2008, and the rushed adaptation for Python 3 began in 2015, full support for Python 3 was only realized in the latest branch […]
Valve has released a new version of the Proton project 4.11-12, which is based on the Wine project and aims to enable the launch of Windows-based games on Linux that are available in the Steam catalog. The project is distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows for the direct launching of games that are provided only for Windows in the Steam Linux client. The package includes […]
In the article about Spain, I mentioned the electronic navigation equipment for my yacht for sea passages. One of the readers commented, "It's very interesting how this is all done seriously for sailing on the sea." I will try to describe what electronic equipment was on my yacht and how it was connected. In my opinion, the main idea of a yacht is to maximize modern technologies essential for survival […]
On December 12, the release of QtCreator version 4.11 was announced. Since QtCreator has a modular architecture, all functionality is provided through plugins (the Core plugin is mandatory). Below are the new features in the plugins. Projects tested support for Qt on WebAssembly and microcontrollers. Multiple improvements have been made in the project configuration and build subsystems. The file API from CMake 3.14 is used for configuration and launch […]
JetBrains has released its own font: JetBrains Mono. The font is aimed at developers and coding, supporting 138 specific ligatures, 143 (human) languages, 4 levels of thickness and italics, and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 open license. JetBrains Mono is already set as the default in the latest releases of the company's products. >>> Source code repository (GitHub) Source: linux.org.ru
The teams of developers and designers from Canonical, responsible for the visual style and desktop in Ubuntu, plan to implement a new default theme in Ubuntu 20.04, which will continue the development of the current Yaru theme, introduced since Ubuntu 18.10. In the current version of Yaru, two styling options are available — dark (with dark headers, dark background, and dark elements […]
Google has announced its intention to completely discontinue support for third-party cookies in Chrome over the next two years, which are set when visiting sites different from the current page's domain. Such cookies are used to track user movements between websites in the code of advertising networks, social media widgets, and web analytics systems. Just like the intention announced yesterday to unify the User-Agent header, the refusal […]
The search engine has long been an integral part of the entire Microsoft operating systems lineup, particularly Windows 10. It makes it easy to find documents, images, or applications. However, search issues in "the ten" occur regularly and quite often. That's why Microsoft is currently working on a new application, Indexer Diagnostics, which is already available in the Microsoft Store. According to the developers, […]
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