Me complace promocionar un nuevo audio de Mancomún Podcast. que lleva por título «Steam Deck y novedades en los videojuegos libres, con Leillo» un episodio imprescindible para estar al tanto tanto del mundo de los videojuegos en GNU/Linux como de la revolucionaria consola de Valve. ¿Qué no sabes lo que es? Estupendo, sigue leyendo y no te pierdas el audio.

Steam Deck y novedades en los videojuegos libres, con Leillo en Mancomún Podcast

Uno de los podcast que más me gustan y que suelen durar poco tiempo en mi lista de reproducción es Mancomún Podcast. Sus audios presentados habitualmente por Jorge Lama y Brais Arias (miembro de KDE España) suelen ir directos y al grano, con lo que casi nunca superan la hora de duración: ideal para conocer nuevos proyectos, iniciativa y personas.

Y el episodio de esta semana, o mejor dicho, el último que he escuchado me ha gustado de forma especial… ya que como he comentado muchas veces, me encantan los videojuegos aunque apenas pueda jugar con ellos, tengo otras obligaciones que son más importantes. No obstante reconozco su arte, su poder de adicción y las horas de diversión que se pueden obtener con ellos.

El mundo GNU/Linux ha sido durante muchos años un terreno complicado para ellos pero eso está cambiando, como oirás en el podcast, poco a poco ya que compañías de peso como Valve, que tiene la tienda de videojuegos más importante de videojuegos del mundo, ha decidido basar su consola portátil, Steam Deck (de la que hemos hablado ya en el blog), que es más que una consola es una ordenador de sobremesa portátil y que, además, viene con Software GNU/Linux como sistema operativo, concretamente ArchLinux y el escritorio Plasma de la Comunidad KDE.

Es el caso que comparto hoy, ya que una buena forma de de intentar soportar el calor del verano es con videojuegos relajados a la sombra… ya habrá tiempo al atardecer de realizar ejercicio físico. No obstante, mejor que los presentadores nos hagan la introducción:

Como cada verano, llega agosto y con él las vacaciones de mucha gente. Vamos a aprovechar para hacer un repaso de las novedades en el mundo de los videojuegos libres que nos trae nuestro invitado Leo, también conocido como Leillo, del portal y comunidad JugandoEnLinux.

Leo ya es conocido por los oyentes de Mancomún, porque se pasó en varias ocasiones para darnos a conocer el mundo de los juegos libres desarrollados con software libre o código abierto, juegos que podemos disfrutar en sistemas GNU/Linux.

No os entretengo más y os animo a escuchar el podcast, así como también os animo a probar estos juegos comentados en vuestro tiempo libre.

Aprovecho también para compartir enlaces de interés tanto de las Oficinas del Software Libre como de Mancomún

Web: https://www.mancomun.gal/es/documento/mancomun-podcast-repositorio-dos-programas/

Canal de Archive: https://archive.org/details/Mancomun_Podcast

Más información: Mancomún Podcast

Sigo pensando que en muchas ocasiones nos olvidamos que los cursores son una parte de esa personalización extrema a la que podemos llegar con nuestro Plasma. Hoy quiero toca hablar de un tema de cursores llamado Fuchsia que destaca por sus colores llamativos y su estilo redondeados que le confieren mucha personalidad.

Fuchsia, cursores monocromos para tu plasma

Cada vez aprendo más sobre personalización de Plasma. Y es que no al ser tan modular, las opciones y los componentes a configurar son casi infinitos. Por suerte, los creadores de temas cada vez afinan más y más, y ofrecen dicha personalización a todos los niveles.

Nacidos de la mano y de la mente de Kaiz nos llega Fuchsia, pack de cursores estilo redondeado, de líneas gruesos y en dos colores llamativos: rojos y naranjas (Pop!)

Y como siempre digo, si os gusta este conjunto de cursores LyraR podéis “pagarlo” de muchas formas en la página de KDE Store, que estoy seguro que el desarrollador lo agradecerá: puntúale positivamente, hazle un comentario en la página o realiza una donación. Ayudar al desarrollo del Software Libre también se hace simplemente dando las gracias, ayuda mucho más de lo que os podéis imaginar, recordad la campaña I love Free Software Day 2017 de la Free Software Foundation donde se nos recordaba esta forma tan sencilla de colaborar con el gran proyecto del Software Libre y que en el blog dedicamos un artículo.

Más información: KDE Store

Cómo cambiar el tema de los cursores en Plasma

Al igual que con los iconos hay varias formas de cambiar el tema de cursores en Plasma, hoy quiero explicar la de instalación «a mano»:

• Descargar el archivo Fuchsia o Fuchsia-popi desde la pestaña Files de KDE Store de Fuchsia.
• Abrir las Preferencias del Sistema.
• Ir a la sección Apariencia.
• Ir a la subsección Cursores.
• En esta ventana pinchar en “Instalar desde un fichero”
• Buscar el archivo descargado, y dar a instalar.
• Seleccionar el tema y aplicar.

Si tenéis dificultad, simplemente se debe descargar y extraer el tema en «/usr/share/icons» o «~/.icons».

Rápido, sencillo y efectivo, como la mayoría de cosas en en el escritorio Plasma de la Comunidad KDE.

I love listening to music. And while I am lazy (which is the popular term for considering if something is worth the effort before doing it), I still prefer listening to it in a realistic sound quality. Which sounds like a contradiction, isn’t it? Well, yes, but only if you are not ready for compromises. In this blog, I focus on technologies and software problems, and the compromises I made to keep listening to music simple but still enjoy it. On the audio device side, I won’t mention any brands.

Digital audio

My number one compromise is that I listen to digital audio. I am often told that a true audiophile listens only to analog sound sources. For them, listening to music actually starts days earlier: doing all kinds of cleaning rituals on vinyls.

I have multiple problems with the vinyl approach. First of all: I have no idea what I will want to listen to in a few days. I do not even know what I want to listen to in a few hours. I only know what I want to listen to right now. This need is easy to meet with digital sources, but not so convenient with analog ones, especially not with vinyl. The other problem is that there is no vinyl without some extra noise. When I bring this up, I’m reminded of concerts, namely that there are extra noises in the concert room as well. That is right. And I do not like that either :-).

Bluetooth headphones

Whenever I mention that next to my regular headphones, I also use a pair of Bluetooth headphones, people swear at me, claiming that it substantially degrades sound quality. Yes, that is right. And to add insult to injury, I even use active noise canceling, which changes the original sound even more. But who cares when it is just background music, so I can concentrate on my work when people are talking around me? It does its job: keeps the noise out. Of course I switch to my studio headphones as soon as I want to focus on the music itself. But when it comes to background music, Bluetooth is a lot more comfortable.

Music sources

I have tons of CDs, but no CD player anymore. I have a USB CD drive instead, which I use to grab CDs into FLAC files. I play those lossless files whenever I want to play my collection. Of course you might ask why do I still buy CDs. There are many reasons for that. First of all: I want to own the music I like in physical format. I also like the booklets. Many CDs are never published to TIDAL or to online services. Finally, music could be removed from online services or could become region limited. So, it could happen that the music I like suddenly disappears. What I have in a physical format and grabbed into FLAC files is already my own. It just cannot disappear suddenly.

I also buy digital music files. Once I was a Society of Sound member, but as you can see, this service is no longer available. They published one, later two albums each month. Even if I did not like the music on each and every album, the quality of their recordings is fantastic, and a joy to listen to.

Currently, I am a TIDAL subscriber. When you use their player, they have all albums available at least in CD quality, some even at a higher quality. Originally, they had a very limited repertoire, but now it is quite good.

Linux

For many years, I listened to music on Linux. First of all, because it is my primary operating system. But also because it sounded the best. There were no additional layers between the sound card and music player applications, making the sound very clean. Unfortunately, pulseaudio became popular later, and now you cannot use a GUI without using pulseaudio. And while it adds some extra flexibility, it really degrades sound quality. With some tuning, the situation can be improved, but it is far from perfect.

There are still some Linux-based music appliances without pulseaudio, providing excellent sound quality. But unless it is just background music, the Linux desktop is not really good to listen to music anymore.

Another pain point on Linux is TIDAL. You can only use it from a browser, where only the lowest sound quality is available.

Windows

I am a Linux guy, so I avoid Windows as much as possible. But of course sometimes I still use it, for example for photo editing, when playing with my MIDI keyboard, and for some minimal gaming. On Windows, I have Foobar2000 as music player. And of course I also have TIDAL. Recently I learned some extra settings: using the sound card directly (without sharing it with other applications), and turning off normalization. These two settings eliminate all degradation I could hear. Of course some people say that even this is not enough, but for me, additional complex tweaks just do not worth the time, money or effort.

MacOS

Not my favorite OS either. Neither of my DACs work perfectly with music player applications trying to use the sound directly. The only exception here is TIDAL, which works just perfectly and can use the sound card directly, just like on Windows. So, I often use my MacBook Pro when I want to listen to TIDAL. It is an Intel-based one though, but hopefully it will be supported for another few years.

A surprising choice: Android

Android is not famous for its multimedia capabilities. The TIDAL Android app cannot use the sound output directly, so sound quality is degraded, only good for some background music. Previously I used a music player application, which could play my FLAC and DSD files from my NAS accessing the USB port of my Android device directly. First they broke DSD support, which was not a problem though, as I only had a few sample files. My own collection is purely FLAC. But then they also broke network support, which proved to be a bigger problem, as my music collection sits on a NAS, because it is a lot larger than it could fit the storage of my Android devices.

Luckily, I heard about USB Audio Player Pro in one of the Facebook discussion groups I am a member of. It can directly access the USB port, making “bit perfect” audio possible. And best of all, it can play back not just my FLAC collection, but also TIDAL - in better sound quality than the official TIDAL application on Android itself! Of course, there are some limitations: discovering new music is not so easy as it is in the official app. As a workaround, I use TIDAL on my MacBook Pro to discover new music, but I use my Google Pixel C tablet with USB Audio Player Pro whenever I listen to music or composers I already know. There, I can easily combine music from my NAS with music from TIDAL. A few weeks ago, I complained that the keyboard of my Google Pixel C tablet died. Luckily the tablet itself still works just fine, so I can use it to listen to music.

A bit of fun

And just to prove that analog vs. digital is more of a religious question than audio quality. One of my favorite recordings is John Metcalfe – Kites And Echoes (The Vinyl Experience). It was one of the albums from Society of Sound. And, as its note states:

A special exclusive edition called The Vinyl Experience. This is to provide listeners with a high resolution 96kHz recording of the actual vinyl LP.

Someone was listening to music at my place, and loudly complained that digital music does not have a soul, as it’s missing important details, and all the usual arguments. So, I proposed that we listen to an LP instead of digital. Of course I do not have a record player, but I started the above recording on my Pixel C. The mood quickly changed, and my guest was all smiles once the familiar sound of an LP started coming out from the speakers. However, the smile turned into laughter, once I explained how I cheated :-)

Sigo aprovechándome de una publicación de Valencia Tech en la que se realizaba un listado completo de juegos que ofrece GCompris he empezado una serie donde se describen con más detalles las actividades. Seguimos la serie con la subsección de «Palabras» en GCompris, la cual pertenece a la parte de lenguaje de esta suite ofimática y que, como es evidente, la continuación de «Letras«.

Palabras en GCompris – A fondo @g_compris (13)

Para poder tener claro lo que hacen las aplicaciones de GCompris he pensado hacer una revisión a su enorme colección de juegos y actividades, realizando una simple captura de pantalla y una breve descripción.

Ya hemos descrito la secciones de:

• Descubre la computadora
• Juegos de lógica
• Bellas Artes
• Música
• Historia y Geografía
• Juegos
• Matemáticas: Numeración
• Matemáticas: Aritmética
• Matemáticas: Medidas
• Puzzles
• Lenguaje: Letras

Y ya es hora de hablar de la actividades de la sección «Palabras» de GCompris donde nos encontramos casi con un buen número de miniaplicaciones pensadas para que los más pequeños aprendan los principios de la creación de frases y párrafos. Empecemos el repaso.

Letra en cada palabra: un avión nos presenta una letra y debemos seleccionar qué palabra la contiene.

La letra que falta: en esta ocasión nos falta una letra y debemos ponerla según el dibujo que nos muestran.

Ejercicio de lectura horizontal y vertical: se nos muestra una palabra en azul y debemos contestar si aparece en la lista de palabras que nos mostrarán tanto en horizontal o en vertical.

Palabras que caen: el título es explícito, una serie de palabras caen desde el cielo y debemos escribirlas antes de que caigan al suelo.

Nombre de la imagen: en la parte izquierda de la pantalla tenemos unas imágenes, en el centro de la pantalla unas palabras y, evidentemente, lo que debemos hacer es asociarlas.

El juego del ahorcado clásico: para finalizar el módulo tenemos el juego al que todos hemos jugado en algún momento de nuestra vida.

Como estoy comentando estos días, estamos ante un nuevo lanzamiento masivo de actualizaciones de las aplicaciones KDE, en esta ocasión en pleno mes de agosto, con el que los desarrolladores de la Comunidad KDE siguen mostrando al mundo que tienen claro que su objetivo es ofrecer los mejor del Software Libre para todos de forma continua, constante y sin cambios revolucionarios. Finalizo la serie con el mix de novedades de KDE Gear 21.08, siguiendo la estela de las novedades de Dolphin, de Okular , de Konsole o de Gwenview de días anteriores.

Mix de novedades de KDE Gear 21.08

Son decenas, sino más de una centenar, las aplicaciones del ecosistema KDE, siempre en continua evolución, buscando adaptarse a los usuarios.

Muchas de estas aplicaciones tienen actualizaciones menores en cada cambio de numeración, otras tienen grandes novedades, de las cuales ya hemos hablado, y otras, como las que nos ocupan en la entrada de hoy, simplemente incorporan una mejora que merezca la pena destacar, como vamos a hacer en esta entrada:

• Elisa, un reproductor de audio de KDE, recuerda ahora la pista y el momento exacto de reproducción al reanudar una lista de ídem.
• Spectacle ahora permite ahora hacer capturas de la ventana que esté debajo del cursor pulsando la combinación de teclas Meta (Windows) + Ctrl + Imprimir. Spectacle también es más rápido y más fiable en Wayland y las opciones sobre qué copiar tras hacer una captura se han simplificado.
• Kate adquiere una nueva funcionalidad: Fragmentos. Los fragmentos son útiles plantillas de porciones de código que puede soltar en sus proyectos cuando mientras esté programando.
• Kdenlive, el software multipropósito de edición de vídeo de KDE, ha migrado a MLT 7. Esto significa que puede esperar nuevas funcionalidades en las funciones existentes, como cambiar la velocidad de un clip, que ahora es un efecto de los fotogramas clave.
• KDE Connect permite que dos o más dispositivos (como el teléfono y el portátil) se comuniquen fácilmente entre sí y puedan compartir archivos y recursos.
• Yakuake , un emulador de terminal (como Konsole) que reside en la parte superior de la pantalla, ahora permite cambiar de un panel al siguiente usando [Ctrl] + [Tabulador].
• Ark ahora muestra una pantalla de bienvenida cuando se abre sin un archivo comprimido y puede descomprimir archivos ZIP con barras inversas al estilo de Windows que se usan como separadores de rutas.

Y con esto finalizamos el resumen de KDE Gear 21.08 espero que os haya gustado.. y ahora a actualizar, probar y esperar a las novedades de septiembre.

Más información: KDE Gear 21.08

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GNOME Desktop

First, make sure you have installed the GNOME Shell Extension: Customize IBus https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4112/customize-ibus/

Installation

You can refer to here: https://itsfoss.com/gnome-shell-extensions/ to install the GNOME Shell Extension from a web browser.

or

• Linux:

git clone https://github.com/openSUSE/Customize-IBus.git
cd Customize-IBus && make install

• FreeBSD:

git clone https://github.com/openSUSE/Customize-IBus.git
cd Customize-IBus && gmake install

If you want to install Customize IBus as a system extension for all users:

• For Arch based:

yay -S gnome-shell-extension-customize-ibus

• For Fedora:

wget https://github.com/openSUSE/Customize-IBus/raw/package-repo/customize-ibus-rpm.repo
sudo mv customize-ibus-rpm.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/
sudo dnf update
sudo dnf install gnome-shell-extension-customize-ibus

• For OpenSUSE:

wget https://github.com/openSUSE/Customize-IBus/raw/package-repo/customize-ibus-rpm.repo
sudo mv customize-ibus-rpm.repo /etc/zypp/repos.d/
sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper install gnome-shell-extension-customize-ibus

Or install directly through the ymp file.

• For Debian based (Ubuntu):

echo "deb http://opensuse.github.io/Customize-IBus/deb/ /" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/customize-ibus-deb.list > /dev/null
wget -q -O - http://opensuse.github.io/Customize-IBus/hollowman.pgp | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-customize-ibus

PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hollowman86/customize-ibus
sudo apt-get update

You can download the majority of your Linux distributions related packages through OpenSUSE OBS and then install.

• Gentoo:

git clone https://github.com/openSUSE/Customize-IBus.git
cd Customize-IBus && make emerge

• NixOS:

sudo nix-env -i gnomeExtensions.customize-ibus

• Guix:

guix install gnome-shell-extension-customize-ibus

• FreeBSD:

wget https://github.com/openSUSE/Customize-IBus/raw/package-repo/customize_ibus.conf
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/
sudo mv customize_ibus.conf /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/
sudo pkg update
sudo pkg install gnome-shell-extension-customize-ibus

After installation, you will find that there is an additional entry Customize IBus in the IBus input source indicator menu. Click it, and you will open the Customize IBus preferences. If there is no such menu entry, you can press Alt+F2 to restart the GNOME shell, or log out and log in again. If that still doesn’t work, please make sure you have installed the latest version of the extension and have enabled the extension.

You can also click the configuration icon of the Customize IBus extension in https://extensions.gnome.org/local/ to open the preferences.

General

At item Candidates orientation, select the check box on the left to enable the configuration of the IBus candidate box direction. Click on the right side to select, it can be set to vertical or horizontal.

At item Candidates popup animation, select the check box on the left to enable the configuration of the IBus animation. Click on the right side to select, support setting to no animation, slide, fade, and both.

Example to turn on the sliding animation:

At item Candidate box right click, select the check box on the left to enable the configuration of right-click the candidate box to perform related operations when using the IBus. Click on the right to make a selection, and you can set to open the tray menu or switch the input source.

At item Candidates scroll, select the check box on the left to enable the configuration of actions performed when scrolling using the IBus. Click on the right to select, and you can set to switch the current candidate word or page.

At item Fix candidate box, select the check box on the left to enable a fixed candidate box. Click on the right to select. You can set the candidate box position with 9 options. Recommend to enable Drag to reposition candidate box at the same time so that you can rearrange the position at any time. Will remember candidate position forever after reposition if you set to Remember last position, and restore at next login.

At item Use custom font, select the check box on the left to enable configuration of the font and size of the text in the IBus candidate box. Click on the right to open the font selector. In the pop-up dialog box, you can select the font you want in the upper part and the font size in the lower part. Click Select to confirm the modification.

At item Auto switch ASCII mode, select the check box on the left to enable configuration of switching ASCII mode when switching windows, Click on the far right to select. It supports setting to make ASCII mode on and off, or just keep to remain current mode. You can also set to remember input state or not on the near right. If you have set to Remember Input State, every opened APP’s input mode will be remembered if you have switched the input source manually in the APP’s window, and the newly-opened APP will follow the configuration. APP’s Input State will be remembered forever.

At item Candidate box opacity, select the check box on the left to enable configuration of the opacity in the IBus candidate box. Slide the right button to configure opacity ranging from 0 to 255 step 1.

At item Fix IME list order, click the switch on the right to turn this feature on or off.

If you use multiple input methods in your system, when you use the keyboard shortcut to switch input methods (usually Win + Space), the input method displayed by default on the screen will be sorted by the most recently used input method. Turn on this feature to modify the order of input methods as fixed.

When off:

When on:

At item Enable drag to reposition candidate box, click the switch on the right to turn this feature on or off.

Example of turning on drag to reposition candidate box:

At item Candidate box page buttons, click the switch on the right to show or hide the candidate page buttons.

Tray

Here you can set to show IBus tray icon, enable directly switch source with click, add additional menu entries to IBus input source indicator menu at system tray to restore the feelings on Non-GNOME desktop environment.

All menus are enabled:

You can also start or restart IBus by pressing the top button:

Indicator

Here you can set to Use input source indicator, default is to show indicator every time you type, move caret or switch input source. You can set to Indicate only when switching input source by clicking the switch on the right. You can also set to Indicate only when using ASCII mode (for multi-mode IME), Don't indicate when using single mode IME, Right click to close indicator, Scroll to switch input source, Indicator popup animation supporting None, Slide, Fade, All. Also support to Use custom font, Enable indicator left click to switch input source or drag to move indicator, set Indicator opacity supporting range of 0 to 255, and the setting step is 1, Enable indicator show delay (unit: seconds), Enable indicator auto-hide timeout (unit: seconds) and auto-hide timeout (in ” “seconds) supporting to set the hidden delay in the range of 1 second to 5 seconds, and the setting step is 1.

Note: If you choose to enable the show delay, there won’t be a show delay when you switch input source or window.

Example animation:

Theme

Same as the general part, select the check box on the left to enable the configuration, and click on the right to select the IBus theme style sheet.

If you have selected a style sheet, click the icon on the far right to directly open it to view the style sheet. You can also click the clear icon to make it follow system theme.

Supports importing style sheets generated by the IBus Theme Tools or provided by the IBus Theme Hub.

When light theme and dark theme are turned on at the same time, the IBus theme will automatically follow GNOME Night Light mode, use light theme when off, and use dark theme when on. When only the light theme or dark theme is turned on, the IBus theme will always use the theme that is turned on.

If not for debugging, please DO NOT add any classes that’s not started with .candidate-* into IBus stylesheet to prevent from corrupting system themes.

If your IBus style sheet has changed after application, please close and reopen the corresponding custom IME theme to make it effective. Starting from v69, now this extension support stylesheets hot reload, CSS changes will reflect in real-time.

You can download more GNOME Shell themes from this website: https://www.pling.com/s/Gnome/browse/cat/134/order/latest/, then put it under the $HOME/.themes/ directory to complete the installation.

The IBus theme tool style sheet generation uses the GNOME Shell theme that has been installed on the computer to extract the IBus style. The extraction steps are as follows:

1. Refer to the following part: Non-GNOME Desktop -> Customize IBus Theme steps 1-2 to run the program.
2. Enter the number of the IBus-related GNOME Shell theme style you want to export, and press Enter.
3. Enter the location of the GNOME Shell theme style sheet exported related to IBus that you want to store, and press Enter. Empty selection will be the default, that is in the current directory exportedIBusTheme.css file. If there is no error message, it will be successfully exported to the specified location.

Example export file:

/*
 Generated by IBus Theme Tools
 Tool Author: Hollow Man <hollowman@hollowman.ml>
 Tool Source Code: https://github.com/openSUSE/IBus-Theme-Tools
 Tool Licence: GPLv3
 CSS Source File: /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-classic-high-contrast.css

 Recommend to use Customize IBus GNOME Shell Extension:
 https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4112/customize-ibus/
 to change IBus theme by selecting this file.

 If you make any changes to this content after applying this file in above extension,
 for Customize IBus Extension before v68, please disable and then enable 'custom IME theme'
 again to make the changes take effect.

 Starting from v69, support stylesheets hot reload, CSS changes reflecting in real-time.
*/

/*
 Imported from CSS Source File: /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-classic.css
*/

.candidate-page-button:focus {
  color: #2e3436;
  text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3);
  icon-shadow: 0 1px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3);
  box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px rgba(53, 132, 228, 0.6);
}

.candidate-page-button:hover {
  color: #2e3436;
  background-color: white;
  border-color: #d6d1cd;
  box-shadow: 0 1px 1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
  text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3);
  icon-shadow: 0 1px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3);
}

.candidate-page-button:insensitive {
  color: #929595;
  border-color: #e1ddda;
  background-color: #faf9f8;
  box-shadow: none;
  text-shadow: none;
  icon-shadow: none;
}

.candidate-page-button:active {
  color: #2e3436;
  background-color: #efedec;
  border-color: #cdc7c2;
  text-shadow: none;
  icon-shadow: none;
  box-shadow: none;
}

.candidate-index {
  padding: 0 0.5em 0 0;
  color: #17191a;
}

.candidate-box:selected,
.candidate-box:hover {
  background-color: #3584e4;
  color: #fff;
}

.candidate-page-button-box {
  height: 2em;
}

.vertical .candidate-page-button-box {
  padding-top: 0.5em;
}

.horizontal .candidate-page-button-box {
  padding-left: 0.5em;
}

.candidate-page-button-previous {
  border-radius: 5px 0px 0px 5px;
  border-right-width: 0;
}

.candidate-page-button-next {
  border-radius: 0px 5px 5px 0px;
}

.candidate-page-button-icon {
  icon-size: 1em;
}

.candidate-box {
  padding: 0.3em 0.5em 0.3em 0.5em;
  border-radius: 5px; /* Fix candidate color */
  color: #2e3436;
}

.candidate-popup-content {
  padding: 0.5em;
  spacing: 0.3em; /* Fix system IBus theme background inherited in replaced theme */
  background: transparent;
  /* Fix system IBus theme candidate window border inherited in replaced theme */
  border: transparent;
  /* Fix system IBus theme candidate box shadow inherited in replaced theme */
  box-shadow: none;
  /* Fix candidate color */
  color: #2e3436;
}

.candidate-popup-boxpointer {
  -arrow-border-radius: 9px;
  -arrow-background-color: #f6f5f4;
  -arrow-border-width: 1px;
  -arrow-border-color: #cdc7c2;
  -arrow-base: 24px;
  -arrow-rise: 12px;
  -arrow-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); /* Fix black border at pointer when system theme is black */
  border-image: none;
}

/* Unify system page button and IBus style page button */
.candidate-page-button {
  border-style: solid;
  border-width: 1px;
  min-height: 22px;
  padding: 3px 24px;
  color: #2e3436;
  background-color: #fdfdfc;
  border-color: #cdc7c2;
  box-shadow: 0 1px 1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
  text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3);
  icon-shadow: 0 1px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); /* IBus style page button */
  padding: 4px;
}

/* EOF */

You can also go directly to the IBus Theme Hub and download specialized made IBus theme style sheet file. Here are the IBus theme style sheet files with Microsoft IME style: https://github.com/openSUSE/IBus-Theme-Hub/tree/main/%E4%BB%BF%E5%BE%AE%E8%BD%AFMicrosoft

Background

Support customizing your IBus Input window background with a picture. It has a higher priority than the theme-defined background.

If you have selected a picture, click the icon on the far right to directly open and view the picture. You can also click the clear icon to make it follow theme background.

When light background and dark background are turned on at the same time, the IBus background will automatically follow GNOME Night Light mode, use light background when off, and use dark background when on. When only the light background or dark background is turned on, the IBus background will always use the background that is turned on.

Please make sure your background picture can always be visited. If your pictures are stored in the removable device and the system doesn’t mount it by default, please disable and then enable the corresponding Use custom background again to make it effective after manually mounting.

Same as the general part, select the check box on the left to enable the configuration, and click on the right to select the background image of the IBus input candidate box.

You can also set the background picture display mode, you can set whether the background picture is displayed repeatedly, or the display mode Centered, Full or Zoom.

Examples of various picture display modes (using 128×128 compressed pictures: https://github.com/openSUSE/Customize-IBus/blob/main/customize-ibus%40hollowman.ml/img/logo.png ):

• Centered + No repeat:
• 
• Centered + Repeat:
• 
• Full + No repeat:
• 
• Full + Repeat:
• 
• Zoom + No Repeat/Repeat (equivalent):
• 

Settings

Here you can reset the settings of this extension to default. You can also export current settings to an ini file for backup, and then import it when you need restore. For your information, you may also open the official IBus customization settings for customizations you can’t find in this extension.

Click Restore Default Settings, after confirming, you can re-initialize the extension.

Click Export Current Settings, you can choose to export the current settings as a *.inifile. The default file name is Customize_IBus_Settings_[Current Time].ini:

Example settings export file content:

[/]
candidate-box-position={'x': uint32 0, 'y': 0}
candidate-opacity=uint32 210
candidate-orientation=uint32 0
candidate-scroll-mode=uint32 0
custom-bg='/home/hollowman/图片/light.jpg'
custom-bg-dark='/home/hollowman/图片/dark.jpg'
custom-bg-mode=uint32 2
custom-bg-repeat-mode=uint32 1
custom-font='Sans 16'
custom-theme='/home/hollowman/stylesheet.css'
custom-theme-dark='/home/hollowman/stylesheet-dark.css'
enable-custom-theme=true
enable-custom-theme-dark=true
enable-orientation=true
fix-ime-list=true
ibus-restart-time='1625063857427'
indicator-custom-font='Sans Bold 16'
indicator-left-click-func=uint32 0
indicator-opacity=uint32 210
input-indicator-hide-time=uint32 2
input-indicator-not-on-single-ime=true
input-indicator-right-close=true
input-indicator-show-time=uint32 1
input-indicator-use-scroll=true
input-mode-list={'undefined': true, '': false, 'gjs': false, 'org.gnome.nautilus': false, 'google-chrome-beta': false, 'gedit': false, 'gnome-terminal': true, 'code': false, 'org.gnome.shell.extensions': true}
input-mode-remember=uint32 0
menu-ibus-emoji=true
menu-ibus-exit=true
menu-ibus-preference=true
menu-ibus-restart=true
menu-ibus-version=true
use-candidate-box-right-click=true
use-candidate-buttons=false
use-candidate-opacity=true
use-candidate-reposition=true
use-candidate-scroll=true
use-candidate-still=false
use-custom-bg=true
use-custom-bg-dark=true
use-custom-font=true
use-indicator-auto-hide=true
use-indicator-custom-font=true
use-indicator-left-click=true
use-indicator-opacity=true
use-indicator-reposition=true
use-indicator-show-delay=true
use-input-indicator=true
use-popup-animation=true
use-tray=true
use-tray-click-source-switch=true

Click Import Settings from File, you can choose to import the settings file you just saved:

About

At any time, you can click on the icon in the upper left corner to open this guide:

Non-GNOME desktop

Customize IBus theme

In non-GNOME Shell desktop environment, the display effect of IBus is determined by the current GTK theme.

You can download more GTK3/4 themes from this website: https://www.gnome-look.org/browse/cat/135/, then put them in the $HOME/.themes/ directory to complete the installation.

The following steps can change the GTK theme of IBus:

1. First, Install ibus-theme-tools:

Recommend to use pip to install:

pip install ibus-theme-tools

You can also install manually:

git clone https://github.com/openSUSE/IBus-Theme-Tools.git
cd IBus-Theme-Tools && python3 setup.py install

For install using package manager:

• Arch Linux:

You can use AUR to install:

yay -S ibus-theme-tools

• Ubuntu:

You can use PPA to install:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hollowman86/ibus-theme-tools
sudo apt-get update

• openSUSE:

You can install directly through the ymp file.

You can download the majority of your Linux distributions related packages through OpenSUSE OBS and then install.

• Gentoo:

git clone https://github.com/openSUSE/IBus-Theme-Tools.git
cd IBus-Theme-Tools && make emerge

• NixOS:

sudo nix-env -i ibus-theme-tools

• Guix:

guix install ibus-theme-tools

2. Then run ibus-theme-tools in the terminal.
3. Enter 1, choose to extract an IBus-related GTK theme, and press Enter.
4. Enter the IBus GTK theme you want to extract, and then press Enter. (Note that the theme name ends with :dark is the dark mode of the theme)
5. Enter the system GTK you want to mix, and then press Enter.
6. Select whether to add a customized background image for IBus panel, if you need press 2 and then press Enter.
7. Enter the picture address：
8. Then choose repeat and sizing modes, and set background border radius (unit: px).
9. If there is no error message, the setting action should be successful. Then you can choose the GTK theme that just generated in the system theme settings to apply the previous choices.

Customize IBus font size

Recommend to directly change the font and font size settings in the IBus preferences (ibus-setup).

Or:

$HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini defines the current GTK3 theme and font size.

Example of the content of the file is as follows:

[Settings]
gtk-theme-name=Materia-light
gtk-font-name=更纱黑体 SC 12

In the above content, gtk-theme-name specifies that the current GTK theme is material-light, gtk-font-name specifies that the current font is 更纱黑体 SC and the font size is 12.

The IBus font and font size can be changed by modifying the above documents.

Customize IBus colors (Create a GTK theme)

Create a GTK3 theme called ibus-custom-theme by running:

mkdir -p $HOME/.themes/ibus-custom-theme/gtk-3.0
$EDITOR $HOME/.themes/ibus-custom-theme/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

then edit the file content. An example can be:

* {
  color: #0b141a; /* Font Color */
  background-color: #ffffff; /* Background Color */
  -gtk-secondary-caret-color: #d4d4d4; /* Highlight Background Color */
}

After that, referring to the actions of the Customize IBus theme part, please select the theme ibus-custom-theme which you just created.

Blog Posted on openSUSE News about the Project

Project Introduction

IBus Customize @openSUSE by Songlin Jiang (@HollowMan6)

Before GSoC 2021, the IBus theme follows the global GNOME-Shell theme in GNOME and the global GTK theme in other desktop environments, and IBus lacks customization for users in GNOME.

Main Focus

This project aims to make IBus themes separate from the current GNOME-Shell theme and GTK theme so that users can customize it with other GNOME-Shell themes and GTK themes.

Other Goals

Improve the UI usability for IBus in GNOME. That is, to add more features, including customization of orientation, animation, font, opacity. Support right-click to switch the input source or open the tray menu, scroll to switch among pages or candidates, fix candidate box and IME switch list order, ASCII mode auto-switch, reposition, show or hide candidate box page buttons, set system tray settings, input source indicator with settings. Theme and background picture follow GNOME Night Light Mode, and so on. These customizations will make users find IBus in GNOME familiar if they have just switched from another platform. Eventually, an extension providing full customization of appearance, behavior, system tray, input source indicator for IBus will be available.

Archived Codebase

Contribution in Details

Blog Posts both in Chinese and English of the Documentations Related to the Project User Guide

Customize IBus Extension (All the commits and releases submitted by @HollowMan6 are my contributions)

Functionalities

• Candidate Box Orientation (imported from ibus-tweaker, refer to ibus-font-setting for settings sync with ibus-setup)
• Candidate Box Animation (thanks for the help from Florian Müllner)
• Right-click Candidate Box to Switch the Input Mode or Open the Tray Menu
• Scroll on Candidate Box to Switch among Pages or Candidates
• Fix Candidate Box to Not Follow the Caret and Set Fixed Position
• Candidate Box Font (imported from ibus-tweaker and ibus-font-setting)
• Input Mode Remember and Auto-switch by APP (imported from ibus-tweaker, refactor to enable configuring input mode remember)
• Change Candidate Box Opacity
• Fix IME List Order (imported from fixed-ime-list)
• Drag Candidate Box to Reposition
• Show or Hide Candidate Box Page Buttons
• Restart or Start IBus from Preferences
• System Tray Menus and Interaction Settings
  • Show or Hide Tray Icon
  • Directly Click Tray Icon to Switch Input Mode
  • Add Additional Menu
• Input Source Indicator Appearance and Interaction Settings
  • Enable Indicator
  • Only Indicate when Switching Input Mode
  • Only Indicate when Using ASCII Input Mode
  • Right-click Indicator to Hide
  • Scroll on Indicator to Switch Input Mode
  • Indicator Animation
  • Customize Font
  • Left-click Indicator to Drag to Move Indicator or Switch Input Mode
  • Change Opacity
  • Enable Auto-hide Indicator and Configure Auto-hide Timeout
• Configure Theme (Stylesheet Provided by IBus Theme Hub or Extracted from IBus Theme Tools GNOME Shell Themes)
• Add a Candidate Box Background Picture and Configure its Displaying Style
• Theme and Background Picture Follow GNOME Night Light Mode (partly referred to ibus-tweaker for this feature)
• Multi GNOME Version Support ranging from GNOME 3.34 to GNOME 40 Simultaneously
• Hot Reload Support for Theme
• Reset to Default Settings
• Export Current Settings to File
• Import Current Settings from File
• Open Official Settings from Preferences
• Multi-Linguistic Support (Chinese and English)
• Packages Definition Files that can Pack it in Arch, RPM Based, Debian Based
• Logo Design
• Eslint and Prettier Check Support
• Workflow for Auto-Generating Extension Upload Zip file
• Distribution Repos
• Makefile for Build, Release, Package, Translate

(Credits for the GJS Documentation and GNOME Shell Codebase!)

Issues and PRs Opened and Resolved

• #1
• #2
• #3
• #4
• #6
• #7

Submitted to Open Build Service

Source Repository (Before revision 87)

Upstream Repository (Before revision 4)

Submit Request #903392

Submit Request #906096

Submit Request #911881

IBus Theme Tools (All the commits and releases submitted by @HollowMan6 are my contributions)

Functionalities

• Non-GNOME Desktop Change IBus GTK Theme, Add Theme Settings to Startup (Before v3). Generate an IBus Mixed GTK theme, Supporting to Select a Background Picture and Configure Border Radius (After v4)
• GNOME Desktop Extract IBus Style from GNOME Shell Theme
• Pack into Module Using Python Package Setup
• Multi-Linguistic Support (Chinese and English)
• Workflow for Python Package Check
• Packages Definition Files that can Pack it in Arch
• Makefile for Build, Release, Package, Translate

Issues and PRs Opened and Resolved

• #1
• #2

Submitted to Open Build Service

Source Repository (Before revision 17)

Upstream Repository (Before revision 3)

Submit Request #906099

Submit Request #912456

IBus Theme Hub (All the commits and releases submitted by @HollowMan6 are my contributions)

Functionalities

• Microsoft IME Theme (imported from ibus-tweaker Stylesheet, Page buttons added by Me)
• Nord Theme (contributed by @stonegate, I did some fixes)
• PR template

Issues, Discussions, and PRs Opened and Resolved

• #1
• #2
• #3
• #4

IBus (All the commits and releases submitted by @HollowMan6 are my contributions)

Como estoy comentando estos días, estamos ante un nuevo lanzamiento masivo de actualizaciones de las aplicaciones KDE, en esta ocasión en pleno mes de agosto, con el que los desarrolladores de la Comunidad KDE siguen mostrando al mundo que tienen claro que su objetivo es ofrecer los mejor del Software Libre para todos de forma continua, constante y sin cambios revolucionarios. Y como siempre voy a dedicar algunos artículos a repasar las buenas nuevas, así que hoy toca hablar de las novedades de Gwenview para KDE Gear 21.08, siguiendo la estela de las novedades de Dolphin, de Okular y de Konsole de días anteriores.

Novedades de Gwenview para KDE Gear 21.08

El ecosistema de aplicaciones de la Comunidad KDE está bien surtido. Tenemos de todo tipo: ligeras, potentes, rápidas, profesionales, etc.

No obstante, una de las más utilizadas es Gwnview ya que combina rapidez con funcionalidades de forma muy efectiva.

Y, como no puede ser de otra manera, Gwenview no para de mejorar gracias al trabajo constante de los desarrolladores de la Comunidad KDE. De esta forma en este KDE Gear 21,08, esta aplicación nos ofrece las siguientes novedades:

• Cambio de diseño y apariencia que le confiere más rapidez y velocidad.
• Nuevos controles compactos en la esquina inferior derecha de la aplicación. Concretamente:
  • Selector de ampliación/tamaño que usa un menú emergente
  • Selector de colores para el área de visualización de Gwenview
• Adoptado completamente el KHamburger del mismo modo que Dolphin: ahora se puede acceder a todas las opciones de Gwenview desde el menú desplegable situado en la esquina superior derecha de la aplicación.
• Mejoras en el manejo de imágenes mediante teclado tanto para las vistas previas como en el control de vídeos.
• Posibilidad de mostrar imágenes con color de 16 bits y puede leer información de perfiles de color de JPEG y PNG.

Más información: KDE Gear 21.08 | Gwenview

Tumbleweed es una distribución “Rolling Release” de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades.

openSUSE Tumbleweed es la versión “rolling release” o de actualización continua de la distribución de GNU/Linux openSUSE.

Hagamos un repaso a las novedades que han llegado hasta los repositorios esta semana.

El anuncio original lo puedes leer en el blog de Dominique Leuenberger, publicado bajo licencia CC-by-sa, en este enlace:

• https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2021/08/opensuse-tumbleweed-review-of-weeks-2021-32-33/

En estas dos semanas solo se han publicado 3 snapshots released, las 0807, 0810 y 0817. Las snapshots 0811, 0812, 0816 y 0818 produjeron diferentes fallos durante el proceso de testeo:

• DVD ISO creció de tamaño descontroladamente
• Un fallo aleatorio en la compilación de Vim hací que todo fallase

Entre las actualizaciones que han traído estas snapshots podemos destacar:

• kernel 5.13.8
• KDE Gear 21.08
• apparmor 3.0.3
• vim 8.2.3318

Y en próximas llegarán entre otras estas:

• kernel 5.13.12
• systemd v249.2
• nodejs 16.6.2
• glibc 2.34
• podman & crio con crun habilitado por defecto

Si quieres estar a la última con software actualizado y probado utiliza openSUSE Tumbleweed la opción rolling release de la distribución de GNU/Linux openSUSE.

Mantente actualizado y ya sabes: Have a lot of fun!!

Enlaces de interés

• • • ¿Por qué deberías utilizar openSUSE Tumbleweed?
    • zypper dup en Tumbleweed hace todo el trabajo al actualizar
    • ¿Cual es el mejor comando para actualizar Tumbleweed?
    • Comprueba la valoración de las “snapshots” de Tumbleweed
    • ¿Qué es el test openQA?
    • http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/iso/
    • https://es.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed

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