Category: GNOME

  • Profiling GNOME Shell

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    Georges Stavracas
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    As of today, Mutter and GNOME Shell support Sysprof-based profiling. Christian wrote a fantastic piece exposing what happened to Sysprof during this cycle already, and how does it look like now, so I’ll skip that. Instead, let me focus on what I contributed the most: integrating Mutter/GNOME Shell to Sysprof. Let’s start with a video:…

  • Rewarding our Friends of GNOME

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    Georges Stavracas
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    After my somewhat dark post about being a Free Software maintainer, a very significant number of people got in touch and asked how can they help me, and GNOME, more actively than saying “keep up the good work, we love y’all”. And so I thought that maybe we are not advertising well enough the various…

  • GNOME 3.32 and other ramblings

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    Georges Stavracas
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    GNOME 3.32 was released this week. For all intents and purposes, it is a fantastic release, and I am already using the packages provided by Arch Linux’s gnome-unstable repository. Congratulations for everyone involved (including the Arch team for the super quick packaging!) I have a few highlights, comments and thoughts I would like to share about this…

  • GNOME Settings: more GNOME, more settings

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    Georges Stavracas
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    Before deep diving into the more extensive architectural changes that I’ve been working on GNOME Shell and Mutter, let’s take a moment to highlight the latest changes to GNOME Settings. Being the (co)maintainer of Settings for a full year now, the development pace has been great so far. I would go as far as to…

  • GNOME Shell and Mutter: better, faster, cleaner

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    Georges Stavracas
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    The very first update in the series is about GNOME Shell and Mutter. I’ve been increasingly involved with the development of those two core components of GNOME, and recently this has been the focus of my development time. Fortunately, Endless allows me to use part of my work time to improve it. Naturally, I prioritize…

  • Sorry for the silence

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    Georges Stavracas
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    It’s been more than 6 months that I do not write in this space. Honestly, that’s the longest period of silence I’ve ever had. There are various factors that, combined, ended up causing this period of seclusion. Learning about new, massive projects (GNOME Shell, Mutter and GNOME Settings) is one of them. Moving to a…