Category: GNOME

  • A history about Gtk+, Vulkan and Wayland

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    Georges Stavracas
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    A few weeks ago, I was curious to test Gtk+ 4. I know it has some awsome features like OpenGL rendering, major cleanups and other hot stuff, but didn’t have the chance to check it out until then. I was mostly excited about Vulkan. I know both of my laptop’s graphic cards support Vulkan. It’s…

  • The future of GNOME Music

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    Georges Stavracas
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    GNOME Music is an app that I particularly fell in love. Not because it worked perfectly (it didn’t, at all), nor because it’s fast to the last bit (it isn’t, at all), neither because it’s written in a programming language that I love (i.e. C. And no, it isn’t). So why the hell did I…

  • Core Apps Hackfest afterthoughts

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    Georges Stavracas
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    During last weekend, I was very happy to attend the Core Apps Hackfest in Berlin. This is effectively the first hackfest I’ve ever been! Thanks Carlos for organizing that, thanks Kinvolk folks for hosting the event, and Collabora for sponsoring the dinner. This event was a great chance to meet the maintainers in person and…

  • New features in GNOME To Do

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    Georges Stavracas
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    It’s been a while, folks. Some of you might have noticed that GNOME To Do wasn’t released with GNOME 3.22. There is a reason for that: I didn’t have enough time to add new features, or fix any bugs. But that changed, and in fact big things happened. Lets check it out. More extensible than…

  • The future of GNOME Calendar

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    Georges Stavracas
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    Today, the Calendar Team had the first meeting in history. Isaque, Lapo, Renata, Vamsi and I attended it, and the meeting was extremely productive! In fact, we were able to sketch out the general direction that GNOME Calendar will head towards. What’ll be added Lets start talking about the additions that Calendar will have. A…

  • Looking forward GNOME 3.22

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    Georges Stavracas
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    The old GNOME mantra: The best GNOME release is the next GNOME release. is still true! Between backend reworks, Summer of Code projects and spontaneous contributions from awsome random contributors, here are the things that I’m looking forward with GNOME 3.22 release. Nautilus Let’s face it: Nautilus is heading towards a bright future and it’s…