Author: Georges Stavracas

  • How I became a GNOME contributor

    How I became a GNOME contributor

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    Recently, I was asked by my fellow GNOME friends to write how did I transitioned from nothing to a GNOME contributor. The intention is to motivate people to engage. I don’t think my story is that exciting, but, well, why not? If someone gets motivated and start contributing, goal achieved. But beware: there ain’t any…

  • The new Online Accounts & Printer panels (and other related news!)

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    Greetings, GNOMErs! If you’re watching closely the GNOME Control Center iterations, you probably noticed it already has a bunch of new panels: Keyboard, Mouse & Touchpad, and other panels like Sharing, Privacy and Search that don’t need to be ported. I’m pleased to announce that the Online Accounts panel joined this family. Check this out:…

  • Meet the new Week view

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    This morning, I had some free hours to spend on my baby Calendar, and of course I’d spend on what matters the most: the Week view. I’ve been working on and off in this feature for quite a while, and the last missing piece was proper drag n’ drop support. Fear no more!, and say…

  • A history about Gtk+, Vulkan and Wayland

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    A few weeks ago, I was curious to test Gtk+ 4. I know it has some awsome features like OpenGL rendering, major cleanups and other hot stuff, but didn’t have the chance to check it out until then. I was mostly excited about Vulkan. I know both of my laptop’s graphic cards support Vulkan. It’s…

  • The future of GNOME Music

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    GNOME Music is an app that I particularly fell in love. Not because it worked perfectly (it didn’t, at all), nor because it’s fast to the last bit (it isn’t, at all), neither because it’s written in a programming language that I love (i.e. C. And no, it isn’t). So why the hell did I…

  • Core Apps Hackfest afterthoughts

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    During last weekend, I was very happy to attend the Core Apps Hackfest in Berlin. This is effectively the first hackfest I’ve ever been! Thanks Carlos for organizing that, thanks Kinvolk folks for hosting the event, and Collabora for sponsoring the dinner. This event was a great chance to meet the maintainers in person and…