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Bad news: I’m not attending GUADEC
… not this year. A few minutes before finishing my sponsorship email, I received a very annoying and sad news: my University appearently decided – without even asking my schedule – that I’ll make a presentation between August 14-18, otherwise they’ll kick me out. I was already looking for paçocas (if you’re not aware, they…
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An update on the Control Center
Following my previous post about the GNOME Control Center, here’s a quick n’ dirty update on the current status: As many of you requested, it now uses symbolic icons (and looks very neat!) The panels are now grouped, following the discussion we had and based on Allan’s mockup The old UI still works just as…
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The Future of GNOME Control Center
Hello, GNOMErs! As some of you may be aware, I’m working on porting our beloved GNOME Control Center to match the latest mockups. Not alone, however; we’re a Team. The Porting Team We’re short on human resources here, but we’re doing our best to make the new Control Center for 3.22 release. Meet the Team:…
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GNOME Calendar and Drag n’ Drop
One of the most intuitive ways to interact with an application is reproducing what we do in real life. Applications try to shorten the learning curve by using metaphores of real world objects. We all know what GNOME Calendar is: a virtual calendar application. As such, using real-life calendars as a reference for it’s UI…
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Writing a plugin for GNOME To Do – Introduction
I’m starting a small series of posts describing a general how-to on writing plugins for GNOME To Do. The good news: GNOME To Do has a very small API and it’s very easy to build plugins. Note: I’ll show examples in Python 3, since this might lower the barrier for contributors and it’s a language…
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The GNOME 3.20 release
Time has passed and we finally made it: GNOME 3.20 just got released. I’m writing this post in a full GNOME 3.20 + Wayland session (thanks Arch folks, [gnome-unstable] is amazing). I’d like to take some time to reflect about this release, what happened and what didn’t happen. Calendar While this certainly wasn’t the biggest…