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 … Continue reading On Building Bridges
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Dark & light style selector in To Do
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 … Continue reading Dark & light style selector in To Do
Focusrite is hostile to Linux, avoid if possible
Last year, I acquired a Focusrite Scarlett 4i4. The main purpose was to improve the quality of my live coding sessions, and also to allow me experiment with recording my own songs. It was a pain from the moment I plugged this card into my laptop, until now. As of today, I'm happy that I'm … Continue reading Focusrite is hostile to Linux, avoid if possible
OBS Studio on Wayland
As of today, I'm happy to announce that all of the pull requests to make OBS Studio able to run as a native Wayland application, and capture monitors and windows on Wayland compositors, landed. I've been blogging sparsely about my quest to make screencasting on Wayland a fluid and seamless experience for about a couple … Continue reading OBS Studio on Wayland
Switching to PipeWire
I just realized that, once again, I've spent half of a year without publishing. Oh no! To me, the frequency of blogging is an indicator of the work/life balance - if I have time to blog, that's good and healthy. The past months have indeed been intense, and in addition to that, I've been burning … Continue reading Switching to PipeWire
Timelines on Calendar
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 … Continue reading Timelines on Calendar
Even better screencast with GNOME on Wayland
With last week's release of PipeWire 3, and Mutter's subsequent adaptation to depend on it, I decided to revive something I have started to work on a few months ago. The results can be found in this merge request. PipeWire 0.3 brings one very interesting and important feature to the game: it can import DMA-Buf … Continue reading Even better screencast with GNOME on Wayland
Welcome 2020
Disclaimer: this article represents my own personal opinions and thoughts. Not my employer's, nor GNOME's, but my own. This is coming a bit late, and I was not convinced it would be a good idea to publish, but ultimately concluded it was important enough. Bear with me, this is an chaotic set of written ideas. … Continue reading Welcome 2020
Screencasting with OBS Studio on Wayland
For the past few months, I've been doing live coding sessions on YouTube showing how GNOME development goes. Usually it's a pair of sessions per week, one in Brazilian Portuguese so that my beloved community can enjoy GNOME in their native language; and one in English, to give other people at least a chance to … Continue reading Screencasting with OBS Studio on Wayland
Sprint 6: new Calendar icon, Flatpak portals in To Do, Privacy panel
The Sprint series comes out every 3 weeks or so. Focus will be on the apps I maintain (Calendar, To Do, Settings, and Mutter), but it may also include other applications that I contribute to. This report is one Sprint late, since last Sprint was dominated by the GNOME Shell Hackfest. More on that below. Calendar Calendar … Continue reading Sprint 6: new Calendar icon, Flatpak portals in To Do, Privacy panel
