Noctalia is an existing open source desktop shell, meaning it overrides the default statusbar/taskbar, notification system, overall system UI, etc and makes replaces them with a much better looking one. These are some contributions I made to the project.
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Noctalia v5 Contributions
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Just finished my second contribution, sorry for not documenting it in more detail if you like that. Basically what I’ve done now is added for iCalendar files (*.ics) to be added to the calendar widget that is builtin.
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iCalendar files are a pretty universal way to add event to different calendars, heck the “big 3” (Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, and Microsoft Outlook) of calendar apps all support it. So, it is a fairly important thing to have.
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I was motivated to add this because I wanted to add my own *.ics files to the Noctalia calendar, but couldn’t due to this limitation. But not anymore! (that is if they merge my PR)
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What’s crazy is that while I was writing my PR, someone else literally made another PR that was also editing the calendar code, what a coincidence! I don’t think that our 2 PR’s will conflict with each other since we were editing different parts of it as well!
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Ok the pull request got merged into the main source code, after just a small fixup! But I’m not done just yet, I still need to add to the documentation of the project.
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So I did that. Now that was my first contribution to an open source project where I typed real code! It wasn’t a huge change, but you have to start somewhere!
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So after browsing through the source code of Noctalia for a while, I found out where the internal monitor brightness code was and I made the necessary changes so that the monitor brightness is automatically synced!
I somehow managed to wreck my local git history! Luckily this wasn’t a huge problem, and I was able to delete the local folder and clone my fork from github again. Still, it was a reminder of how it’s probably best to leave your local git clone alone.
Now I will make a PR on the Github and hopefully it gets merged!
Edit: the Github PR is here now
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So the first thing I am going to do is add a setting where you can make it so that when you can sync all of your monitors to the same brightness percent.
I have completed the first step of this by adding an option to the settings page (it even syncs with the config file and everything!) although it doesn’t do anything… yet!
