Author: Georges Stavracas
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Boatswain, your Stream Deck app for Linux
I’ve been quiet for the past few weeks, with no live streams nor blog posts. Sorry! This was the reason: That’s right: rich and engaging Stream Deck integration on Linux. Boatswain is a new app I’ve been working on for the past month that allows controlling Stream Deck devices. It can assign icons and actions…
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OBS Studio 27.2 on Flathub, get it while it’s hot!
Today, OBS Studio published its 27.2 release. With this release, besides the always good to have bugfixes and improvements, there’s one change in particular that makes me super excited: this is the first release officially published to Flathub! Flathub joins OBS Studio’s Ubuntu PPA in the list of official builds. On Ubuntu, both can be…
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GTK4ifying Settings
It took a long time, and massive amounts of energy and sweat and blood, but as of last week, Settings is finally ported to GTK4 and uses libadwaita for platform integration. This was by far the biggest application I’ve ported to GTK4. In total, around 330 files needed to be either rewritten or at least…
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Adventures with portals
This week (November 8th – 12th) is the Endless Orange Week, a program where the entire Endless team engages in projects designed to grow our collective learning related to our skills, work and mission. My project for this program was improving XDG portals. I set myself out to work on the following problems: Improve the…
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On Building Bridges
After reading “Community Power Part 4: The GNOME Way“, unlike the other articles of the series, I was left with a bittersweet taste in my mouth. Strangely, reading it triggered some intense negative feelings on me, even if I fundamentally agree with many of the points raised there. In particular, the “The Hows” and “In…
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Dark & light style selector in To Do
We just started the development cycle of GNOME 41 for GNOME To Do, and the first new feature is a dark & light style variant selector: There’s a lot to be done to make To Do actually useful. The inbox view is essentially useless as it is right now. It really needs more system-wide integration…