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In celebration of accessibility
Accessibility in the free and open source world is somewhat of a sensitive topic. Given the principles of free software, one would think it would be the best possible place to advocate for accessibility. After all, there’s a collection of ideologically motivated individuals trying to craft desktops to themselves and other fellow humans. And yet,…
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Boatswain 5.0
After more than an year after, Boatswain 5.0 is finally out. It took me a long time to push it to the finish line, but I’m relatively happy with how it turned out, and it brings some nice features. Let’s take a quick look at what’s new in this release! New Devices Boatswain 5.0 comes…
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A Sysprof enhancement
I’ve blogged in the past about how WebKit on Linux integrates with Sysprof, and provides a number of marks on various metrics. At the time that was a pretty big leap in WebKit development since it gave use a number of new insights, and enabled various performance optimizations to land. But over time we started…
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Flatpak 1.16 is out!
Last week I published the Flatpak 1.16.0 release This marks the beginning of the 1.16 stable series. This release comes after more than two years since Flatpak 1.14, so it’s pretty packed with new features, bug fixes, and improvements. Let’s have a look at some of the highlights! USB & Input Devices Two new features…
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Fancy Titlebars
As of today, Mutter will style legacy titlebars (i.e. of X11 / 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, even when apps don’t. Should make using legacy apps…
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Profiling a web engine
One topic that interests me endlessly is profiling. I’ve covered this topic many times in this blog, but not enough to risk sounding like a broken record yet. So here we are again! Not everyone may know this but GNOME has its own browser, Web (a.k.a. Epiphany, or Ephy for the intimates). It’s a fairly…