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We asked why you love Firefox. Here’s what you said.

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We asked why you love Firefox. Here’s what you said.

For two decades, Firefox has been at the heart of an open, user-centered web. From the early days of tabbed browsing and pop-up blocking to today’s privacy protections and customization options, Firefox has empowered users like you with control and freedom to explore the internet on your own terms. So, to mark our 20th anniversary, […]

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Upgrade your email client, maybe

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This Week in F-Droid

TWIF curated on Thursday, 07 Nov 2024, Week 45

Community News

Fennec F-Droid and Mull were updated to 132.0.0, after a two months hiatus where everyone was holding their breath, while we didn’t have time to catch our breath. Lost dependencies, home movements, angry forum posts, rebuilt dependencies, angry toots, added NDKs, stopped cycles (twice!), changed built dependencies, explainer toots, timeouts, closed forum threads, it was a non-stop roller coaster, yet compressed in a slit of time and only for two apps.

In other news, Fennec has Translations activated by default. This enables users to read any (supported) language text without leaving the current page.

While we didn’t expect any drama, Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox, A 100% open source, privacy focused email app, (yes the one of Desktop fame!), and its companion Thunderbird Beta for Testers were newly included. They are based on K-9 Mail, also updated to 8.0, but with some cosmetic and branding differences. A little bit of backstory, back in 2022 it was announced that K-9 Mail joins the Thunderbird family, so it was just a matter of time for it to become the new app.

And the time has come, the app is ready, albeit most K-9 users got notified about this launch because of a Mozilla source code repo mistake, as the metadata (icon, pics, text) of K-9 were mixed up with Thunderbird and F-Droid said it will update Thunderbird Beta for Testers instead of K-9. Fediverse and our Forum users got up in arms at this bit of info, only visible in F-Droid, that felt like an app takeover, and unfortunately many jumped to conclusions and uninstalled K-9 instead of looking in their launchers to see that there’s no new app and K-9 is still fine. All is well now, and many took this opportunity to switch to Thunderbird following the import steps.

What about K-9’s future? Well, Mozilla says they “plan to continue maintaining and releasing K-9 Mail for approximately one year after the release of Thunderbird for Android”.

Ghost Commander was updated to 1.64.1b1 and we took the opportunity to note that on newer Android versions SFTP connections that use Kerberos authentication might not work as a dependency is missing.

Removed Apps

3 apps were removed
  • MTA Fare Buster: Calculate NYC MTA metrocard prices
  • Offline Puzzle Solver: Solves various kinds of puzzle (Sudoku, N-Queens)
  • pretixdroid: Validates tickets generated by pretix (Superseded by pretixSCAN which was also updated to 2.10.0)

Newly Added Apps

8 more apps were newly added

Updated Apps

106 more apps were updated

(expand for the full list)

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LXQt 2.1.0 released with optional Wayland session

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LXQt, the desktop environment that is to KDE what Xfce is to GNOME, has released version 2.1.0, and while the version number change seems average, it’s got a big ace up its sleeve: you can now run LXQt in a Wayland session, and they claim it works quite well, too, and it supports a wide variety of compositors. Through its new component lxqt-wayland-session, LXQt 2.1.0 supports 7 Wayland sessions (with Labwc, KWin, Wayfire, Hyprland, Sway, River and Niri), has two Wayland back-ends in lxqt-panel (one for kwin_wayland and the other general), and will add more later. All LXQt components that are not limited to X11 — i.e., most components — work fine on Wayland. The sessions are available in the new section Wayland Settings inside LXQt Session Settings. At least one supported Wayland compositor should be installed in addition to lxqt-wayland-session for it to be used. There is still hard work to do, but all of the current LXQt Wayland sessions are quite usable; their differences are about what the supported Wayland compositors provide. ↫ LXQt 2.1.0 release announcement This is great news for LXQt, as it ensures the desktop environment is ready to keep up with what modern Linux distributions provide. Crucially and in line with what we’ve come to expect from LXQt, X11 support is a core part of the project, and they even go so far as to say “the X11 session will be supported indefinitely”, which should set people preferring to stay on X11 at ease. I personally may have gleefully left X11 in the dustbin of history, but many among us haven’t, and it’s welcome to see LXQt’s clear promise here. Many of the other improvements in this release are tied to Wayland, making sure the various components work and Wayland settings can be adjusted. On top of that, there’s the usual list of bug fixes and smaller changes, too.

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Join us for the Moodle Academy webinar “Moodle Tool Guide” on Wednesday 20th November, 09:00 UTC

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Join us for the Moodle Academy webinar “Moodle Tool Guide” on Wednesday 20th November, 09:00 UTC
by Sandra Matz.  

We invite you to register for the Moodle Academy free webinar “Moodle Tool Guide” on Wednesday 20th November at 09:00-10:00 UTC.

The Moodle Tool Guide, first created by Joyce Seitzinger (@catspyjamas) in 2010 for Moodle (version 1.9) has had an update and refresh for subsequent Moodle versions, including Gavin Henrick for Moodle 2.

Richard Oelmann and Tish Kirkland have each built on Seitzinger’s initial work to create 2 further versions. In this webinar, they will each discuss their respective versions of the Tool Guide.

This webinar is part of the course ‘Moodle Academy webinars‘. You have to be enrolled in the course to register and join the webinar.

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Join us for the Moodle Academy webinar “Moodle Tool Guide” on Wednesday 20th November, 09:00 UTC