Tag: gnome
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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…
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Crowdfunding Elgato Key Lights
Since I created Boatswain, earlier this year, a lot has happened. Recently it was accepted as part of the GNOME Circle! As the app gets more popular, people are asking for more useful features that I cannot implement without having access to the actual hardware they depend on. Specifically, I’ve received multiple requests to integrate…
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Boatswain, your Stream Deck app for Linux
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…
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GTK4ifying Settings
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…
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On Building Bridges
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…