Hi!

This month has been pretty hectic, with FOSDEM and all. I’ve really enjoyed meeting face-to-face all of these folks I work online with the rest of the year! My talk about modern IRC has been published on the FOSDEM website (unfortunately the audio quality isn’t great).

In Wayland news, the color management protocol has finally been merged! I haven’t done much apart cheering from the sidelines: huge thanks to everyone involved for carrying this over the finish line, especially Pekka Paalanen, Sebastian Wick and Xaver Hugl! I’ve started a wlroots implementation, which was enough with some hacks to get MPV to display a HDR video on Sway. I’ve also posted a patch to convert to BT2020 and encode to PQ, but I still need to figure out why red shows up as pink (or rebrand it as lipstick-filter in the Sway config file).

I’ve released sway 1.10.1 with a bunch of bugfixes, as well as wlr-randr 0.5.0 which adds relative positioning options (e.g. --left-of) and a man page. I’ve rewritten makoctl in C (the shell script approach has been showing its limitations for a while), and merged support for icon border radius, per-corner radius settings, and a new signal in the mako-specific D-Bus API to notify when the current modes are changed.

delthas has contributed support for showing redacted messages as such in gamja. goguma’s compact mode now displays an unread and date delimiter, just like the default mode (thanks Eigil Skjæveland!). I’ve added a basic UI to my WebDAV server, sogogi, to display directory listings and easily upload files from the browser.

That’s all, see you next month!