Category: GNOME
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Fancy Titlebars
As of today, Mutter will style legacy titlebars (i.e. of X11 / Xwayland apps that don’t use client-side decorations) using Adwaita on GNOME. Shadows match the Adwaita style as well, including shadows of unfocused windows. These titlebars continue to follow the system dark and light mode, even when apps don’t. Should make using legacy apps…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Crowdfunding Elgato Key Lights
Since I created Boatswain, earlier this year, a lot has happened. Recently it was accepted as part of the GNOME Circle! As the app gets more popular, people are asking for more useful features that I cannot implement without having access to the actual hardware they depend on. Specifically, I’ve received multiple requests to integrate…
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