Tag: gnome

  • In celebration of accessibility

    In celebration of accessibility

    Accessibility in the free and open source world is somewhat of a sensitive topic. Given the principles of free software, one would think it would be the best possible place to advocate for accessibility. After all, there’s a collection of ideologically motivated individuals trying to craft desktops to themselves and other fellow humans. And yet,…

  • Fancy Titlebars

    Fancy Titlebars

    As of today, Mutter will style legacy titlebars (i.e. of X11 / Xwayland apps that don’t use client-side decorations) using Adwaita on GNOME. Shadows match the Adwaita style as well, including shadows of unfocused windows. These titlebars continue to follow the system dark and light mode, even when apps don’t. Should make using legacy apps…

  • 2023 in retrospect

    2023 in retrospect

    2023 was a crushing year. It just slipped away, I barely managed to process all that happened. After going full offline for a very short 4-day break last week, I noticed I simply couldn’t remember most of the events that happened last year. We’re in 2024 now, and to start the year afresh, I think…

  • Extending the month to infinity

    Extending the month to infinity

    Greetings! It’s been a long time since my last article. I’d like to share some recent developments in GNOME Calendar that got some people really excited about: the infinitely scrolling month view. The Now Before GNOME 45, Calendar offers two views – week and month – as well as a sidebar with a list of…

  • Profiling & optimizing GNOME Software

    Profiling & optimizing GNOME Software

    Over the past few months, the Endless OS Foundation has been putting focus on improving GNOME Software’s reliability and performance. Endless OS is an OSTree-based immutable OS, and applications are entirely distributed as Flatpaks. GNOME Software is the frontend to that, and since our target userbase is definitely not going to use a terminal, we…

  • Maintainership of GNOME Settings

    Maintainership of GNOME Settings

    This article has been posted on GNOME’s Discourse. Please use this Discourse thread to discuss the subject. GNOME Settings is one of the largest modules of the GNOME desktop. It sits comfortable as one of the bigger repositories out there. Not only that, but feature-wise, Settings is a pretty big hub of the desktop, connecting…