That is my impression as well.

Just for completeness: According to GNOME Human Interface Guidelines app icons are full-color icons: https://developer.gnome.org/hig/guidelines/ui-icons.html My app should be fine! 😊

Haven’t seen it indeed. Afaik, app icons should be fine. In case they are not, I have an idea, what the issue might be. Thank you.

Reading through the bug tracker, the GNOME approach seems to be one I see way to often: “The standard is outdated in our view and does not suit us. Let’s just treat it as obsolete and make our own incompatible thing. If this breaks stuff, its not our problem.” I prefer those that say: “We need an updated standard.” But they seem to be the minority, at least these days.

Still working on my app launcher. Currently working on on user config. Recently I added support for app icons and there freedesktop.org icon themes. Icon themes are more complicated than I expected. Themes can have multiple fallbacks themes which themselves can have multiple fallback themes. Totally makes sense. I just did not think about it too much before implementing it. Allowed me to implement a nice breadth-first search. Most themes have a single fallback theme, so it is not of much use, but hey, I follow the spec. 😅

“Asynchronous programming in Rust” is really good, imho. My colleagues and I read it to get a deeper understanding of async Rust. I was skeptical at first, because it is from Packt, but it turned out to be a decent book. Also enjoyed the recent rustacean station episode with its author.

At work and for hobby projects. At work I am looking at using Rust for safety-critical systems. As a hobby I am building a dmenu alternative. It is a fun project and I have a menu that satisfied my wishlist.

I am working on an alternative to dmenu. My goal for it is to be fully configurable via a toml file. Most importantly it shall be able to toggle between types of entries (desktop entries, /usr/bin) on the fly. As of now, it is a less mature version of j4-dmenu-desktop and progress is slow. But it works as my daily driver on i3wn, both on my work VM and my personal laptop. So I can live with slow progress.