Author: Georges Stavracas

  • Adventures with portals

    Adventures with portals

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    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…

  • On Building Bridges

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    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…

  • Dark & light style selector in To Do

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    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…

  • OBS Studio on Wayland

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    As of today, I’m happy to announce that all of the pull requests to make OBS Studio able to run as a native Wayland application, and capture monitors and windows on Wayland compositors, landed. I’ve been blogging sparsely about my quest to make screencasting on Wayland a fluid and seamless experience for about a couple…

  • Switching to PipeWire

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    I just realized that, once again, I’ve spent half of a year without publishing. Oh no! To me, the frequency of blogging is an indicator of the work/life balance – if I have time to blog, that’s good and healthy. The past months have indeed been intense, and in addition to that, I’ve been burning…

  • Timelines on Calendar

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    It’s been a long time since I last wrong a blog post about GNOME Calendar only. That doesn’t mean work has stalled! Since pretty much its inception, Calendar used copy-pasted code from Evolution to retrieve events from Evolution Data Server (EDS). It was a pair of classes called ECalDataModelSubscriber, and ECalDataModel. The first is an…