Playing some Counter-Strike 2 and then a GNOME donation notification pops up 😅

    • Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
      68·
      2 months ago

      Whenever I start a game on my KDE desktop, the notifications get muted automatically. I have no idea why, because I really don’t remember setting it up. Maybe it’s a standard feature that was added at some point. It’s honestly pretty great though.

      • Linearity@piefed.auEnglish
        36·
        2 months ago

        KDE turns on do not disturb mode when a program is in full screen mode by default.

        You can test this by binding DnD to a button (preferable Meta key + unused letter like F), opening a program in full screen mode and toggling DnD.

        This feature can be disabled in settings.

          • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            2 months ago

            Only KDE calls it “meta”. Everywhere else it’s either “super” or “mod4”. The left Alt is sometimes called “meta” or “mod1”.

            • felbane@lemmy.worldEnglish
              111·
              2 months ago

              It’s not just kde, for example the backronym for Emacs is “esc meta alt ctrl shift”

          • Linearity@piefed.auEnglish
            4·
            2 months ago

            From what I can see online the key is actually called the super key, but for some reason KDE Plasma calls it Meta on my device
            Might be because I’m on a MacBook

      • passepartout@feddit.orgEnglish
        27·
        2 months ago

        I think it’s a default. It also tells me how many notifications I missed after closing the game.

        • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pubEnglish
          261·
          2 months ago
          I see you stopped playing because your game crashed.

You got 76 notifications in the 20 hours you were playing. Take a shower, drink some water, and get some sleep you slacker.
    • Tuukka R@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      I usually like being notified of messages in certain chats. But even with that I’d like to be able to choose which chats are allowed to disturb me no matter what and which ones should make noise but not that damn much!

  • Cattypat@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    52·
    2 months ago

    I believe the notifications for donation on my KDE laptop (running Bazzite) are yearly so… hopefully you won’t be seeing it often

    • Keegen@lemmy.zipEnglish
      791·
      2 months ago

      Recent versions of KDE also automatically enable Do Not Disturb mode whenever you launch a full-screen window so you won’t get interrupted by a notification anyway! Honestly surprised GNOME doesn’t do that as well.

        • imecth@fedia.io
          13·
          2 months ago

          It’s easy to test with notify-send test, and yeah GNOME does block notifications while fullscreen applications are open. I wonder how that notification went through, maybe gamescope isn’t properly registering the fullscreen application or it’s x11 wine being the problem.

          • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            5·
            2 months ago

            My guess is they are using this:

            https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1610/fullscreen-notifications/

            I was also puzzling over this for a bit… I use Bazzite GNOME on a Deck, and I can’t recall ever getting a GNOME notification while in fullscreen anything, video or videogame, launched in desktop mode, and certainly never in the ‘game mode’ (I believe that is when gamescope is active, right? at least with the Deck variant of Bazzite?).

            But yeah anyway, this is my guess, the user manually installed this extension and is apparently annoyed that it is doing its intended function.

            … Either that, or… maybe they’re using a … somewhat to moderately out of date version of GNOME?

            • imecth@fedia.io
              5·
              2 months ago

              I looked into it and the reason this is happening is because GNOME sets the notification to critical, and here is a design team member requesting that the notification be made urgent, as for why i can only guess.

              • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                2·
                2 months ago

                Well, good work looking into it!

                But uh… oh neat, there’s a critical override behavior… for… effectively an advertisement… great.

                Rather concerning to watch what appear to be a bunch of GNOME devs rationalize opening up a very likely exploitable spear phishing vector because ‘donating to a non profit is good.’

                Welp, if/when that gets rolled out, I am guessing somebody is going to make some kind of extension or script that turns that shit off.

                • imecth@fedia.io
                  2·
                  2 months ago

                  Let’s put things into perspective, it’s a biyearly notification that sustains the entire gnome ecosystem, I’ll remind you that the GNOME foundation pays for the hosting costs, the paperwork and sometimes even development for the GNOME project that includes dozens of apps, libraries and GTK.

                  This is just the first implementation that will get ironed out in the next few years, like making sure it doesn’t pop up in full screen windows and if you read through the issue there will also be an opt out in the settings.

  • Seefra 1@lemmy.zipEnglish
    264·
    2 months ago

    Nevermind the donation pop-up, how can people use gnome? It’s unusable, it interface is literally the worse UI I’ve ever had the displeasure of using only second to macOS.

    I believe that gnome is actually what is keeping many people away from gnu/linux, since it’s default on many distros, people install “linux” and they get gnome and gnome sucks so they hate on linux instead of hating gnome.

      • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        I was into it back when Gnome 3 came out… the problem is that I had to fill too many “holes” (for me, maybe not for everyone) in the functionality with extensions and those were quirky as fuck. You never knew what was going to stop working (or work differently) any day but without them, I could not function properly

        And just to give you an idea of how tolerant I am with risk… my daily driver now is Garuda Linux with Hyprland instead of a desktop that I configured from scratch… my browser of choice is FireDragon which is a fork of Floorp which is a fork of Firefox

        I am certain it is better now than it was back then… but once you are comfortable with an environment, it is a pretty tall order to switch around.

    • yogurtwrong@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Well, I use it, I like it, and I can confidently say it’s not for everyone

      You gotta think the gnome way. Like, for example, I don’t feel the absence of the minimize button because I adopted gnome’s workspace-based flow

      It doesn’t get in my way, I don’t even feel its existence most of the time. Gnome 3 sucked and definitely got in my way but beware that I am talking about gnome 4x here.

    • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Context: I’m an i3 and plasma user depenending on my machine with one exception.

      I find Gnome to be in the way 100% of the time, until I put the mist and konquer down and start using the touchscreen. Its a nice DE for touch oriented devices, but it really sucks to navigate with moist and keybread imho.

      Edit: the one time I don’t fix my spelling someone comes along and says something. I’m gonna make it worse 😈

    • nlgranger@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Gnome also has a few nice things that I miss whenever I try kde or cosmic. It really depends on what you need from your DE.

      • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I do not like cosmic. They remove random features i use a ton.

        Like accessing a file address in the address bar. Why. Why can it not show the file path.

        Also keyboard shortcuts rarely work. If I extract and archive, I have to mouse it all. No alt+e for extract here, nope.

        Also pop shop on popos is horribly optimized.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      it’s particularly baffling since KDE plasma is at this point kiiiiiinda just the best desktop, including windows and mac.
      By default it just works as 90% of people would expect it to, and if you want to you can customize it into something unrecognizable and it’ll outright help you to do so.

      It’s so fucking good that i switched to it just because my mom has it on her laptop and it looked fucking sweet

    • Soup@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43·
      2 months ago

      What’s wrong with the MacOS UI? It works pretty well, and is pretty easy to pick up. Some of the biggest complaining I heard back in the day is that the close/min/max buttons were on the other side and someone who can’t handle that doesn’t have an opinion worth entertaining. Most of it was just a extreme refusal to learn out of spite which is more embarrassing for them than an argument.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    192·
    2 months ago

    GNOME alone is like 60% of the reason why stock Ubuntu and all of its derivatives suck. It’s like a mashup of ChromeOS and MacOS, two of the most god awful UX designs this past decade.

    Compiz by itself kicks GNOME out of the water, despite it being a now legacy compositor from 2007.

    Most annoyingly, even RPM distros like Fedora offer it as default, despite having a fully supported KDE option right there, along with any other DE that you might want like XFCE, LXQt, Cinnamon, MATE, etc.

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      I don’t completely hate MacOS, it’s pretty nice IMO.

      GNOME instantly gets replaced by KDE Plasma though. With Cosmic also installed for some fun alpha testing.

  • BootLoop@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    What distro? I’ve been using GNOME on Ubuntu and Debian for the past five years and I don’t recall ever seeing a donation notification.

    • MyCodeZero@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      That is because it’s new to gnome 49, debian and Ubuntu aren’t bleeding edge to have them

        • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          I use hyprland by default but especially apps running under wine don’t really like tiling window managers, Wayland , or both.

          • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            I mean no judgement, don’t get me wrong. No need to defend yourself in any way. The whole joy of Linux is setting up your system how you want it. That totally checks out though.

            • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              LOL but it also felt “wrong” to me, because I initially felt “it’s too bloated and too dumbed down” - but after installing 20 extensions it matches my tastes

  • Matt@lemmy.mlEnglish
    132·
    2 months ago

    Btw, you can buy M4A1-S for 1.8k in this game.