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
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GNOME Shell Hackfest 2019
This week, I have attended the GNOME Shell Hackfest 2019 held in Leidschendam, The Netherlands. It was a fantastic event, in a fantastic city! The list of attendees was composed of key members of the community, so we managed to get a lot done -- a high amount of achievements for only three days of … Continue reading GNOME Shell Hackfest 2019
Incremental present in GTK4
When working with graphical applications, there are multiple constraints and techniques applied in order to reduce the number of pixels that are being uploaded to the GPU, swapped on screen, or being manipulated. Even with highly optimized GPUs, the massive number of pixels we have to deal with (a 1080p monitor, for example, has 2 … Continue reading Incremental present in GTK4
Sprint 5: stability, stability, stability
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. Calendar GNOME Calendar saw a moderately busy spring, mostly focused on landing a few outstanding 3.32 merge requests (thanks Michael Catanzaro for writing … Continue reading Sprint 5: stability, stability, stability
GUADEC 2019
I am happy to say that every GUADEC that I attended so far was absolutely fantastic. The 2019 edition of the conference, however, will have a special place in my heart for several reasons. Let's start with the fact that it happened in Greece. Being a Greek descendant myself, I was particularly excited with the … Continue reading GUADEC 2019
App Grid in GNOME Shell
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
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
Georges Stavracas 