Author: Georges Stavracas

  • Fundraiser goal reached!

    Fundraiser goal reached!

    Following my announcement a few days ago, in probably what has been record time, the Ko-Fi goal for the Elgato Stream Deck+ has been reached! I’ve acquired the device and it’s already on its way, expected to reach me by the end of January ~ early February due to being an international purchase. Thanks everyone…

  • Mini Fundraiser: Stream Deck Plus

    Mini Fundraiser: Stream Deck Plus

    Following up on my previous blog post, due to popular demand, I started a small fundraiser campaign to acquire an Elgato Stream Deck Plus. The goal is US$ 500, which should cover the costs of acquiring the device, and should pay for a few hours of reverse engineering work Boatswain development. Naturally, I’ll also document…

  • 2023 in retrospect

    2023 in retrospect

    2023 was a crushing year. It just slipped away, I barely managed to process all that happened. After going full offline for a very short 4-day break last week, I noticed I simply couldn’t remember most of the events that happened last year. We’re in 2024 now, and to start the year afresh, I think…

  • Extending the month to infinity

    Extending the month to infinity

    Greetings! It’s been a long time since my last article. I’d like to share some recent developments in GNOME Calendar that got some people really excited about: the infinitely scrolling month view. The Now Before GNOME 45, Calendar offers two views – week and month – as well as a sidebar with a list of…

  • Profiling & optimizing GNOME Software

    Profiling & optimizing GNOME Software

    Over the past few months, the Endless OS Foundation has been putting focus on improving GNOME Software’s reliability and performance. Endless OS is an OSTree-based immutable OS, and applications are entirely distributed as Flatpaks. GNOME Software is the frontend to that, and since our target userbase is definitely not going to use a terminal, we…

  • Maintainership of GNOME Settings

    Maintainership of GNOME Settings

    This article has been posted on GNOME’s Discourse. Please use this Discourse thread to discuss the subject. GNOME Settings is one of the largest modules of the GNOME desktop. It sits comfortable as one of the bigger repositories out there. Not only that, but feature-wise, Settings is a pretty big hub of the desktop, connecting…