I've been quiet for the past few weeks, with no live streams nor blog posts. Sorry! This was the reason: That's right: rich and engaging Stream Deck integration on Linux. Boatswain is a new app I've been working on for the past month that allows controlling Stream Deck devices. It can assign icons and actions … Continue reading Boatswain, your Stream Deck app for Linux
It took a long time, and massive amounts of energy and sweat and blood, but as of last week, Settings is finally ported to GTK4 and uses libadwaita for platform integration. This was by far the biggest application I've ported to GTK4. In total, around 330 files needed to be either rewritten or at least … Continue reading GTK4ifying Settings
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Georges Stavracas 