Category: GNOME

  • Updates on Boatswain

    Updates on Boatswain

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    Georges Stavracas
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    Since I wrote the announcement of Boatswain, things have progressed quite a lot. As I prepare for the 1.0 release, more features and bugfixes get in, and it’s getting dangerously close to achieving all features I personally want from it. Stream Deck Mini & Original (v1) Thanks to a generous Stream Deck Mini donation, I…

  • Boatswain, your Stream Deck app for Linux

    Boatswain, your Stream Deck app for Linux

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    Georges Stavracas
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    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…

  • GTK4ifying Settings

    GTK4ifying Settings

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    Georges Stavracas
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    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…

  • On Building Bridges

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    Georges Stavracas
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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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    Georges Stavracas
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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…

  • Timelines on Calendar

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    Georges Stavracas
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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…