GNOME Shell is the cornerstone of the GNOME experience. It is the part of the system where the vast majority of user interactions takes place. Windows are managed by it. Launching and closing applications as well. Workspaces, running commands, seeing the status of your system — GNOME Shell covers pretty much everything. One interesting aspect … Continue reading App Grid in GNOME Shell
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Sprint 4: tons of code reviews, improved web calendar discoverer
The Sprint series comes out every 3 weeks or so. Focus will be on the apps I maintain (Calendar, To Do, and Settings), but it may also include other applications that I contribute to. GNOME Calendar: a new web calendar discoverer & optimizations After a fairly big push to reimplement the web calendar discoverer code, it landed … Continue reading Sprint 4: tons of code reviews, improved web calendar discoverer
Sprint 3: Calendar management dialog, cleanups and bugfixes
The Sprint series comes out every 3 weeks or so. Focus will be on the apps I maintain (Calendar, To Do, and Settings), but it may also include other applications that I contribute to. GNOME Calendar: the new calendar management dialog landed It's landed! The massive rewrite of the calendar management dialog reached a good enough shape … Continue reading Sprint 3: Calendar management dialog, cleanups and bugfixes
Calendar management dialog, archiving task lists, Every Detail Matters on Settings (Sprint 2)
During the Sprint #2, a new feature landed in GNOME To Do, GNOME Settings went through an Every Detail Matters session, and Calendar advanced in the calendar management dialog rewrite.
Profiling GNOME Shell
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: … Continue reading Profiling GNOME Shell
New Background panel, Calendar search engine, GTK4 shortcut engine (Sprint 1)
This is a new series, coming out every 3 weeks or so, with various updates. My focus will be on the apps I maintain (Calendar, To Do, and Settings), but in the future it may also include other applications that I contribute to. GNOME Settings: Redesigned Background panel So let's start with one of the … Continue reading New Background panel, Calendar search engine, GTK4 shortcut engine (Sprint 1)
Restricting users
Using a computer is mostly about executing apps, reading, writing and doing. But it can also be about not doing. Confusing? Bear with me. Imagine for a second that you are in an elementary school. The leadership is optimistic on exposing students to technology. They have set up big rooms with rows and rows of … Continue reading Restricting users
