The GNOME Project is proud to announce the release of GNOME , Denver’. This release brings support for customizable Accent Colors, improved support for small screens, persistent remote sessions, and new style dialog windows. Like many other core apps, Files has received improvements and now...

   Greetings, gentle readers. Today, an update on recent progress in the Whippet embeddable garbage collection library.feature completenessWhen I started working on Whippet, two and a half years ago already, I was aiming to make a new garbage collector for Guile. In the beginning I was just...

   I mentioned in my last status update post that I had just received a Fairphone . Here are my thoughts on it after a month of use. The predecessor For the last years I’ve been using this as my main phone, the Oukitel WP : The WP was quite a device in : for the retail price of...

   Recently there have been a number of reports bug , bug , bug , bug about the plymouth boot splash not showing properly on PCs using AMD GPUs.The problem without plymouth and AMD GPUs is that the amdgpu driver is a really really big driver, which easily takes up to ...

   I am pleased to introduce the first stable release of Casilda A simple Wayland compositor widget for Gtk which can be used to embed other processes windows in your Gtk application. It was originally created for Cambalache s workspace using wlroots, a modular library to create Wayland...

   Well, it’s time for another release. Last cycle wasn’t particularly exciting, only featuring the new dialogs and a few smaller changes, but this one should be more interesting. So let’s look at what’s new. Bottom sheet Last cycle libadwaita got new dialogs, which can be presented as bottom sheets...

   The GNOME Foundation is excited to announce that we have officially opened the search for a new Executive Director. This is an exciting time for our organization as we seek a dynamic leader to guide us into the future, continuing our mission to foster the growth of GNOME and the wider free software...

   Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from September to September . Sovereign Tech Fund Thib says This post is a digest of what happened in August in the STF team a little late . You might have seen some updates from the team members directly earlier in TWIG They say...

   A couple of weeks ago, I went to see Alien: Romulus. While many of my friends were disappointed, I actually enjoyed it. In fact, it exceeded my expectations mainly because I didn’t expect much : Fede Alvarez delivered exactly what producer Ridley Scott asked of him, leaning heavily on the...

   I wrote a post about so called M type and S type processes in software development. Unfortunately it discusses the concept of human sexuality. Now, just to be sure, it does not have any of the good stuff as the kids might say. Nonetheless this blog is syndicated in places where such topics...

   The Usability Study Report for Loup, Showtime, and Decibels, conducted during the May to August Outreachy internship round, is now available s Check it out here: https: lnkd.in gRZs VR

   It’s been a while since I’ve annoyed you by mentioning drones, but here we are with DJI’s latest creation the Neo. DJI is a giant, soulless corporation, but they’ve made some clever design decisions with this drone. It’s a flying camera that works without a phone or remote, and for about half the...

   As it’s now aproaching mid September and the autumn release of GNOME, so is there also a new release of Maps approaching for GNOME . Switch to Vector based MapThe biggest change since last release is that we now use the vector based map by default and the old raster map has also been retired...

   Should your garbage collector be precise or conservative The prevailing wisdom is that precise is always better. Conservative GC can retain more objects than strictly necessary, making GC slow: GC has to more frequently, and it has to trace a larger heap on each collection. However the calculus...

   Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from August to September . Philip Withnall says Thank you to the translation teams for all the translation updates which happen in GNOME, particularly just before a release, like just now. It is really appreciated Third Party...

   The WebRTC nerds among us will remember the first thing we learn about WebRTC, which is that it is a specification for peer to peer communication of media and data, but it does not specify how signalling is done. Or put more simply, if you want call someone on the web, WebRTC tells you how you can...

   GNOME is interested in participating in the Outreachy December March cohort, and while we already have a few great projects, we are looking for experienced mentors with a couple more project ideas. Hurry up, we have until September to conclude our list of ideas. Please, submit project ideas on...

   As of today, Mutter will style legacy titlebars i.e. of X Xwayland apps that don’t use client side decorations using Adwaita on GNOME. Shadows match the Adwaita style as well, including shadows of unfocused windows. These titlebars continue to follow the system dark and light mode,...

   We have finally reached the final week of GSoC. It has been an amazing journey Let’s summarize what was done, the current state of the project and what’s next. Introduction This summer, I had the opportunity to work as a student developer under the Google Summer of Code program with the...

   GSoC : Final Project Report ValaProject TitleAdd support for the latest GIR attributes and GI Docgen formatting to Valadoc.OverviewGSoC has come to an end, so it’s time to wrap up. I got the opportunity to contribute to the Vala Project which consists of an awesome programming language...

   TLDR: GSoC is ending soon and I’ve definitely learned a lot from my time here, if you’re interested in the code I’ve written for my GSoC project feel free to go straight to the end where I’ve linked all the MRs I’ve been involved Hello GNOME community Time flies and my time with GSoC working...

   As my Outreachy internship comes to a close, I find myself reflecting on the journey with a sense of gratitude. What began with a mix of excitement and fear has turned into a rewarding experience that has shaped my skills, confidence, and passion for open source contributions.Overcoming Initial...

   Hey everybody, this is another iteration of my previous posts. It’s been a while since I published any updates about my project.Before I begin with the updates I’d like to thank all of the people who helped me get this far into the project, it wouldn’t have been as engaging and enjoyable of a ride...

   I am pleased to announce a new development release of Cambalache, version . . , getting us one step closer to the stable release for GNOME . What’s new: Support rd party libraries Improved Drag amp;Drop support Streamline headerbar Ported treeview to column view Several bug fixes rd...

   Short version: Secure Boot Advanced Targeting and if that’s enough for you you can skip the rest you’re welcome.Long version: When UEFI Secure Boot was specified, everyone involved was, well, a touch naive. The basic security model of Secure Boot is that all the code that ends up running in a...

   The post AI Infra amp; Releng Hackfest Fedora Flock appeared first on home jwf . home jwf Free amp; Open Source, technology, travel, and life reflections This blog post summarizes the discussions and action items from the Infrastructure and Release Engineering workshop held at...

   The problemMeson has had togglable options from almost the very beginning. These split into two camps. The first one is common options like optimizations, warning level, language standard version and so on. The second one is per project options that are specific to each project, such as which...

   This blog post has been floating around as a draft for several years. It eventually split off into a presentation at GUADEC , titled Offline learning with GNOME and Kolibri YouTube . In that presentation, Manuel Qui ones and I explained how Endless OS reaches a unique audience by providing...

   This is going to be a bit of a sporadic blog post covering XDG Intents, GSoC and few other updates from GNOME goings on. XDG Intents Most end user platforms have something they call an intent system or something approximating the idea. Implementations vary somewhat, but these often amount to a...

   The issues described in this post have been fixed, I have not exhaustively researched whether any other issues exist Feeld is a dating app aimed largely at alternative relationship communities think classier Fetlife for the most part , so unsurprisingly it’s fairly popular in San Francisco....

   After many months, I finally found the time to finish the GNOME desktop application settings migration in the Linux Desktop Migration Tool and made another release. It basically involves exporting the dconf keys on the source machine and importing writable keys on the destination machine. I’ve also...

   Blogging on the Fediverse WordPress.com has recently allowed blogs to Enter the Fediverse, so you can now follow my writings on Mastodon and other places. Click the new Follow’ button in the sidebar, or paste this succinct Fediverse address: samthursfield.wordpress.com samthursfield...

   I attended GUADEC last month in Denver, Colorado. I thought I’d write about some of the highlights for me. It was definitely the smallest GUADEC I’ve been to, and it was unusual in some other ways too, such as having several hybrid presentations, with remote and in person presenters sharing...

   It’s been a busy year, and our platform and developer community building efforts are paying off. Let’s take a look at what we’ve been up to over the last six months, and measure its effect. At the beginning of the year we announced an incredible milestone for Flathub: over one million active users....

   Everything is better in color. Even better if it is HDR. Seven color and twelve color color circles from , attributed to Claude Boutet In this post, we’ll provide an overview of what is happening with color in GTK, without diving too deeply into the weeds of colorimetry and color science. The...

   Last I mentioned I was doing an ABI cleanup of libspelling as it was really just a couple hour hack that got used by people. Part of that was to make way for performing spellchecking off the GTK thread. That just landed in today’s libspelling . . release. In one contrived benchmark, spellchecking...

   Mail chew with newly migrated mail servers; hmm. Amused that an unusual job description from LinkedIn generates more interesting spam: Michael, as the Christian amp; Hacker at Collabora Ltd you know how hard choosing the right global employment and work payment partner can be. presumably...

   We all think we’re smart enough to not be tricked by a phishing attempt, right Unfortunately, I know for certain that I’m not, because I entered my GitHub password into a lookalike phishing website a year or two ago. Oops Fortunately, I noticed right away, so I simply changed my unique, never...

   As part of my effort to reduce Mutter dependencies, I finally found some time to focus on removing Cairo now that we can have a Wayland only build. Since the majority of the remaining usages are related to fonts, we would need to move CoglPango to be part of GNOME Shell’s libst. Merging Cally...

   Up early; All Saints played Guitar, H. on Piano; Rick drumming good, David S’s run a family service. Back for a Pizza lunch; slugged and read stories with the babes. Checked tent amp; packed with N. Out to see James, Kate amp; Penelope, lovely to catch up with them in the...