Pretty cool work from @sophie to see @gnome in numbers

https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/2025/12/27/gnome-in-2025-some-numbers/

#linux #gnome #data

Pretty cool work from @sophie to see @gnome in numbers

https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/2025/12/27/gnome-in-2025-some-numbers/

#linux #gnome #data

The conference scheduling #GNOME app Confy works great on #LinuxMobile and is ready to go for #39C3 🥳

#postmarketOS

Finally finally. 😄 I have some monthly donations (patreon, librepay, etc).

Two I would like to shout out:

Friends of #gnome Started a monthly bit to help them out. I use gnome all the time and it's gotten so great:

https://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2025/12/01/join-friends-of-gnome/

and #techdirt They do a great job reporting on legal / free speach / tech intersections. See https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-democracy-blog-whether-we-like-it-or-not/

Finally finally. 😄 I have some monthly donations (patreon, librepay, etc).

Two I would like to shout out:

Friends of #gnome Started a monthly bit to help them out. I use gnome all the time and it's gotten so great:

https://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2025/12/01/join-friends-of-gnome/

and #techdirt They do a great job reporting on legal / free speach / tech intersections. See https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-democracy-blog-whether-we-like-it-or-not/

For years I have been hoping for a FLOSS alternative to "Adobe Scan", the Android app to scan receipts (essentially) with automatic cropping + deskewing + cleanups + OCR, and there was nothing similar I could find in F-Droid… until three months ago, where #FairScan just materialized out of the blue, and I discovered it today: https://www.fairscan.org

Your turn, #LinuxMobile, time to make #GNOME's "Simple Scan" application "camera-ready" 😉 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan/-/issues/344

Memorado is a really cool new Flashcard app for #GNOME which works well on #LinuxMobile / #postmarketOS too :) https://github.com/wbernard/Memorado

Compared to former memorizing apps this is still in active development.

For years I have been hoping for a FLOSS alternative to "Adobe Scan", the Android app to scan receipts (essentially) with automatic cropping + deskewing + cleanups + OCR, and there was nothing similar I could find in F-Droid… until three months ago, where #FairScan just materialized out of the blue, and I discovered it today: https://www.fairscan.org

Your turn, #LinuxMobile, time to make #GNOME's "Simple Scan" application "camera-ready" 😉 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan/-/issues/344

Replacement laptop power supply still not arrived in the post, which means I can't work from the library. So to try to improve my focus, I've resorted to eliminating my main source of distraction thus:

sudo chmod o-x /usr/games/sol

#DesperateMeasure #GNOME

@felipeborges
Hey, I was wondering, what do you and your colleages in the #gnome development team think about Tcl/Tk?
#tcltk
I heard some people discussing lately about bringing back the Tcl language, it's becoming popular again. Perhaps it would be a good idea make Tcl bindings for GTK?

I think it would be worth considering, or else gnome might be left out when Tcl returns to the throne as the most popular scripting language.

Censor, a new document redaction tool, is there!

It allows to draw black rectangles on PDF documents and to permanently remove the text and images below. Find it on @Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/censor/Censor, get it from @flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/page.codeberg.censor.Censor, or translate it on Codeberg Translate: https://translate.codeberg.org/engage/censor!

It is a free and open-source graphical user interface (GUI) for #Linux and the #GNOME desktop, and uses the #MuPDF library with its #python bindings from the #PyMuPDF module.

#censorship #redaction #PDF #Codeberg #Flatpak #Flathub

Censor, a new document redaction tool, is there!

It allows to draw black rectangles on PDF documents and to permanently remove the text and images below. Find it on @Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/censor/Censor, get it from @flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/page.codeberg.censor.Censor, or translate it on Codeberg Translate: https://translate.codeberg.org/engage/censor!

It is a free and open-source graphical user interface (GUI) for #Linux and the #GNOME desktop, and uses the #MuPDF library with its #python bindings from the #PyMuPDF module.

#censorship #redaction #PDF #Codeberg #Flatpak #Flathub

Since there's CCC and FOSDEM coming up, the next #BoilingTheOcean is happening in February!

The weekend of February 14-15th we'll be hacking as usual, but on the 13th we'll also have an evening of talks and discussions on identity in peer-to-peer systems, with @bumbleblue and @shibacomputer ✨

More details TBA :)

#gnome #localfirst #p2panda #postmarketos #berlin

J'ai installer un Manjaro Gnome (pour retester) je comprend absolument rien, j'ai beau ajouter et changer les thèmes ça change pas, y a tellement de truc pour configurer l'apparence lol c'est juste bien de la merde en fait ​​

#Manjaro #Gnome

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#229 Good Rhythm
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/12/twig-229/

#GNOME #TWIG

Friday sketch scratchings.

#gnome #app #icon #design #sketch #procreate

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#229 Good Rhythm
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/12/twig-229/

#GNOME #TWIG

Friday sketch scratchings.

#gnome #app #icon #design #sketch #procreate

@gnome because I use #GNOME every day, and it's the best Desktop out there.

After my talk at @gnome Asia Summit, I’ve published the source code of Jollpi, a Python-based text editor I’m rewriting with a modern stack.

Built with Python 3, @GTK 4 and GtkSourceView 5, using a modern async architecture and standard Python packaging (pyproject.toml, pip).
It installs cleanly and integrates like a regular Linux desktop app.

Feel free to try it and share feedback.

Source code: https://gitlab.com/zulfian1732/jollpi-text-editor

#GNOMEAsia #GNOME #GTK #Python #OpenSource

Continuing to listen to @djangochat , the topic of AI-generated contributions came up. 🎧

Shortly after, I read a post from the GNOME Extensions team explaining why they had to add a new review rule. They are seeing more and more patches generated with AI, full of unnecessary code, bad patterns, and little real understanding behind them. 🤖

https://blogs.gnome.org/jrahmatzadeh/2025/12/06/ai-and-gnome-shell-extensions/

It feels like a shared Open Source problem. Have you seen similar issues elsewhere? 🐛

#Django #Gnome #AI #VibeCoding #OpenSource

After my talk at @gnome Asia Summit, I’ve published the source code of Jollpi, a Python-based text editor I’m rewriting with a modern stack.

Built with Python 3, @GTK 4 and GtkSourceView 5, using a modern async architecture and standard Python packaging (pyproject.toml, pip).
It installs cleanly and integrates like a regular Linux desktop app.

Feel free to try it and share feedback.

Source code: https://gitlab.com/zulfian1732/jollpi-text-editor

#GNOMEAsia #GNOME #GTK #Python #OpenSource

After my talk at @gnome Asia Summit, I’ve published the source code of Jollpi, a Python-based text editor I’m rewriting with a modern stack.

Built with Python 3, @GTK 4 and GtkSourceView 5, using a modern async architecture and standard Python packaging (pyproject.toml, pip).
It installs cleanly and integrates like a regular Linux desktop app.

Feel free to try it and share feedback.

Source code: https://gitlab.com/zulfian1732/jollpi-text-editor

#GNOMEAsia #GNOME #GTK #Python #OpenSource

Good.

AI slop (AI generated code) will be not allowed in GNOME shell extensions: "At this point, we have to add a new rule to the EGO review guidelines. So the packages with unnecessary code that indicate they are AI-generated will be rejected."

Read blog post: https://blogs.gnome.org/jrahmatzadeh/2025/12/06/ai-and-gnome-shell-extensions/

#linux #gnome #opensource

Non-systemd operating systems like the BSDs, Devuan, etc...

Do we think there will be some kind of work around in place for Gnome 50?

Has KDE articulated a plan either in favour or not for systemd-only in the future similarly to Gnome?

Xfce stated a direction?

I'm going to guess that Cosmic will always be only systemd.

#Linux #RunBSD #FreeBSD #KDE #Plasma #Gnome #Xfce #Cosmic

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#228 Midnight Edition
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/12/twig-228/

#GNOME #TWIG

Unstable Stream Updates: 12th of December 2025

In terms of importance, this is a pretty big one! It's the first Unstable stream update delivered via our newly upgrade infra that supports Versioned Repositories! This is a first MVP version that the team are going to build upon and will lay the groundwork for future development and feature delivery.

Outside of this, this week we are delivering:

Cosmic 1.0.0
Gnome 49.2 updates
KDE Gear 25.12.0

Along with many more important updates including bug fixes.

Check out the GitHub Discussions post for greater detail!

https://github.com/orgs/AerynOS/discussions/119

#AerynOS #Linux #CosmicDE #Gnome #KDE #System76 #Rust

Food Friday. I mean Sketch Friday!

#procreate #app #icon #sketch #gnome

Food Friday. I mean Sketch Friday!

#procreate #app #icon #sketch #gnome

My Ubuntu Summit 25.10 lightning talk is up! See how GNOME is *really* funded. 👀

https://youtu.be/ptltPdcXH0Q

#GNOME #UbuntuSummit #UbuntuSummit2510 #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #FriendsOfGNOME

We're looking for some fine folks who would be willing to host Linux App Summit in April 2026 specifically we are looking for countries in Europe. If you're interested in hosting, please DM me. :)

#Linux #AppEcosystem #GNOME #KDE

Just got push notification on my #Gnome desktop to donate to the project..... Very (NOT!) user friendly @gnome , I do wonder what is next... Ads? AI? 💔

#gnome #spam #notification

We're looking for some fine folks who would be willing to host Linux App Summit in April 2026 specifically we are looking for countries in Europe. If you're interested in hosting, please DM me. :)

#Linux #AppEcosystem #GNOME #KDE

We're looking for some fine folks who would be willing to host Linux App Summit in April 2026 specifically we are looking for countries in Europe. If you're interested in hosting, please DM me. :)

#Linux #AppEcosystem #GNOME #KDE

I've finally have a working "Java-GI application template" with working localization, settings, desktop file, manifest, icons, etc, that can be distributed as a Flatpak. It's available here:

https://github.com/jwharm/java-gi-app-template

The application uses Gradle to build the source code, and Meson to install settings, resources, translations etc. Currently, both build systems are triggered separately from the Flatpak manifest. I will try to improve this, so that meson triggers the gradle build (or vice versa).

The screenshot shows the dutch (nl) translation that demonstrates the gettext integration.

#gnome #java #javagi #flatpak

I've finally have a working "Java-GI application template" with working localization, settings, desktop file, manifest, icons, etc, that can be distributed as a Flatpak. It's available here:

https://github.com/jwharm/java-gi-app-template

The application uses Gradle to build the source code, and Meson to install settings, resources, translations etc. Currently, both build systems are triggered separately from the Flatpak manifest. I will try to improve this, so that meson triggers the gradle build (or vice versa).

The screenshot shows the dutch (nl) translation that demonstrates the gettext integration.

#gnome #java #javagi #flatpak

https://github.com/jwijenbergh/puregotk/pull/34

Aaaand here we go! #puregotk #Go #GNOME binding examples, including subclassing and how to create a GObject library with Go (so you can distribute custom GTK widgets written in Go to C, JS, Vala, Python etc. apps)!

https://github.com/jwijenbergh/puregotk/pull/34

Aaaand here we go! #puregotk #Go #GNOME binding examples, including subclassing and how to create a GObject library with Go (so you can distribute custom GTK widgets written in Go to C, JS, Vala, Python etc. apps)!

Your move, GNOME Friends.

#symbolic #icons #gnome #friends

Your move, GNOME Friends.

#symbolic #icons #gnome #friends

Your move, GNOME Friends.

#symbolic #icons #gnome #friends

Friday app icon sketches.

#gnome #app #icon #design #procreate #sketch

Local storage (or SMB mounted remote) and Music never worked out for me. Glad I can finally listen to my giant local music library conveniently.

https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.m51.Gelly

#gnome #music #app #localfirst

Local storage (or SMB mounted remote) and Music never worked out for me. Glad I can finally listen to my giant local music library conveniently.

https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.m51.Gelly

#gnome #music #app #localfirst

Friday app icon sketches.

#gnome #app #icon #design #procreate #sketch

RE: https://floss.social/@gnome/115662430888922814

I've finally put my money where my mouth is and joined the other #FriendsOfGNOME.

I've been using #GNOME since the #HelixCode/#Ximian days shortly after 1.0 and while I have certainly tried other DEs over time, GNOME remains my go-to desktop project after all of these years. It just vibes with how my brain works and what it likes. It is one of my FLOSS rocks.

The consistency, attention to details, and un-overwhelming/non-stim-triggering design has been a comfort to me all of these years later.

I'm finally, 26ish years on, finally in a place that I can actively, and responsibly, support incredible projects like GNOME.

RE: https://floss.social/@gnome/115662430888922814

I've finally put my money where my mouth is and joined the other #FriendsOfGNOME.

I've been using #GNOME since the #HelixCode/#Ximian days shortly after 1.0 and while I have certainly tried other DEs over time, GNOME remains my go-to desktop project after all of these years. It just vibes with how my brain works and what it likes. It is one of my FLOSS rocks.

The consistency, attention to details, and un-overwhelming/non-stim-triggering design has been a comfort to me all of these years later.

I'm finally, 26ish years on, finally in a place that I can actively, and responsibly, support incredible projects like GNOME.

@algernon @gnome This! That's exactly how I feel. And #gnome gives me a relaxed feeling.

what do people use to read RSS nowadays on #GNOME ?

what do people use to read RSS nowadays on #GNOME ?

RE: https://floss.social/@gnome/115650488438321885

#Gnome is one of many open source projects I am regularly donating to. I use it every day on laptops at home, on laptop at work and hopefully one day on my daily driven phone. Do you also like it? Donate few dollars too. Be #FriendsOfGnome.

RE: https://floss.social/@gnome/115650488438321885

#Gnome is one of many open source projects I am regularly donating to. I use it every day on laptops at home, on laptop at work and hopefully one day on my daily driven phone. Do you also like it? Donate few dollars too. Be #FriendsOfGnome.

@gnome It feels human.

This can't be overstated, most modern software feels like it's built for corporate interests, not the humans which use it.

Microsoft, Apple, they all do it. #GNOME feels different, in the very best sort of way.

Pixel art variants of the gnome app icons from the alternative future where we still have VGA CRT screens.

#pixaki #pixelart #gnome #app #icons

RE: https://floss.social/@gnome/115650488438321885

Tak jsem se také přidal. Zrušil jsem předplatné dvou streamovacích služeb, které stejně skoro vůbec nevyužívám, a místo toho jsem se skamarádil s GNOME.

#Friendsofgnome #GNOME

@gnome Contrary to what many people think, I could adapt #GNOME48 to my particular needs and blogged about my customizations: https://karl-voit.at/Gnome-Setup/

gsettings is great to reproduce the setup on other machines. 👍

#GNOME shines on simple setups but seems to have some issues when the setup gets a bit more complex.

Furthermore, speed was an issue at my side: I was a heavy user of invoking the GNOME shell for starting applications and switch windows but unfortunately that was a bit of a drag to be honest.

Visually, the GNOME UI is great.

Pixel art variants of the gnome app icons from the alternative future where we still have VGA CRT screens.

#pixaki #pixelart #gnome #app #icons

@gnome It feels human.

This can't be overstated, most modern software feels like it's built for corporate interests, not the humans which use it.

Microsoft, Apple, they all do it. #GNOME feels different, in the very best sort of way.

RE: https://floss.social/@gnome/115650488438321885

#Gnome is one of many open source projects I am regularly donating to. I use it every day on laptops at home, on laptop at work and hopefully one day on my daily driven phone. Do you also like it? Donate few dollars too. Be #FriendsOfGnome.

After 14 years away from coding, I finally rebuilt my old Python + GTK text editor.

From Python2 + GTK2 → Python 3, GTK4 — and now preparing a talk for GNOME Asia Summit 2025.

Feels good to build again.

Full story 👇
🔗 https://zulfian1732.medium.com/rebuilding-a-python-gtk-text-editor-after-14-years-the-story-of-jollpi-9258fc883caf

#Linux #GTK #Python #GNOME #FOSS #DevJourney #IndieDev #TextEditor #OpenSource #Programming #Coding

The scalable and weight adjustable icon set for GNOME matches the number of awesome Friends of GNOME. Who is going to get ahead?

https://teams.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/Design/icon-development-kit/index.html

https://donate.gnome.org

#gnome #icons #scalable #symbolic #devkit

After 14 years away from coding, I finally rebuilt my old Python + GTK text editor.

From Python2 + GTK2 → Python 3, GTK4 — and now preparing a talk for GNOME Asia Summit 2025.

Feels good to build again.

Full story 👇
🔗 https://zulfian1732.medium.com/rebuilding-a-python-gtk-text-editor-after-14-years-the-story-of-jollpi-9258fc883caf

#Linux #GTK #Python #GNOME #FOSS #DevJourney #IndieDev #TextEditor #OpenSource #Programming #Coding

The scalable and weight adjustable icon set for GNOME matches the number of awesome Friends of GNOME. Who is going to get ahead?

https://teams.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/Design/icon-development-kit/index.html

https://donate.gnome.org

#gnome #icons #scalable #symbolic #devkit

GNOME really makes computers more fun

#GNOME

GNOME really makes computers more fun

#GNOME

The late night temptation to stay up “just a little bit longer” because the European #GNOME folks are starting to wake up… 😬

Need me some new apps for the pixel art icon bingo!

#gnome #icon #pixelart #pixaki

The late night temptation to stay up “just a little bit longer” because the European #GNOME folks are starting to wake up… 😬

It has been an exceptional 2025 when it comes to what GNOME has delivered. Let’s help the Foundation reach 1,500 Friends of GNOME by the end of the year to be able to deliver even more in 2026!

https://cassidyjames.com/blog/looking-back-gnome-2025-looking-forward-2026/

#GNOME #GNOMEFoundation #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux #FriendsOfGNOME

Seems like #GTK 4 really discourages using drag and drop as a method of sorting lists. My implementation is reaching 200+ lines. I get that it's not very accessible, and maybe impossible on devices without a mouse. But I'm struggling to think of an alternative for large lists of items such as music playlists. Using Up/Down buttons to move an item from position 1 to position 100 seems like a lot of presses... #gnome

Need me some new apps for the pixel art icon bingo!

#gnome #icon #pixelart #pixaki

New, soon-to-be upstreamed #puregotk #GNOME work today: A Meson-free/pure Go & Flatpak environment for building GNOME apps in Go as an alternative to the Meson one! Now I just have to rename them, git-subtree-split them out of the repo, and upstream it to the bindings and then these can become Foundry/Builder templates :)

https://github.com/pojntfx/senbara/commit/965d5857ce40490ace4a1432b86c7c13c3a7812b

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#227 Circle Benefits
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/11/twig-227/

#GNOME #TWIG

this week's foundation update is a good one:

https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2025/11/28/gnome-foundation-update-2025-11-28/

of particular note, the travel committee is looking for more volunteers to help with travel grants. in what might be the lowest friction setup possible, you can just drop a comment on allan's blog if you're interested. ❤️ members: please go help allan and the new board — they're doing great work and they'll do even better with your support.

#gnome

A simple life is a peaceful life.
My favorite browser, @zenbrowser with my Favorite Search Engine, @kagihq on my Favorite OS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Aesthetic and elegance at once, I love it.

#browser #zen #kagi #redhat #gnome

this week's foundation update is a good one:

https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2025/11/28/gnome-foundation-update-2025-11-28/

of particular note, the travel committee is looking for more volunteers to help with travel grants. in what might be the lowest friction setup possible, you can just drop a comment on allan's blog if you're interested. ❤️ members: please go help allan and the new board — they're doing great work and they'll do even better with your support.

#gnome

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#227 Circle Benefits
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/11/twig-227/

#GNOME #TWIG

@gnome @kde I love #gnome too!

To my American friends, Happy Thanksgiving folks!

I'm thankful for… #Fedora #GNOME #Linux running on my Mac mini M1 for the very first time! 😁

(more on that in the near future 😏)

But really, yes, I'm thankful for a great many other things as well. Have a great evening y'all

youtube video idea:

▶️ “4096 settings vs 8 #gnome developers”

youtube video idea:

▶️ “4096 settings vs 8 #gnome developers”

New #puregotk #Go #GNOME PR for today: Support for importing GTK GObject libraries built in Go via Meson from Go GTK applications, out of the box!

https://github.com/jwijenbergh/puregotk/pull/33

New #puregotk #Go #GNOME PR for today: Support for importing GTK GObject libraries built in Go via Meson from Go GTK applications, out of the box!

https://github.com/jwijenbergh/puregotk/pull/33

I added a new CI check to Drum Machine, it now automatically checks if the .pot translation template file is up to date. If I forget to regenerate it after adding/changing translatable strings (which I usually do), it reminds me :D

You can add it to your own projects as well, just copy the translation-check job from the workflow file and change the paths!
https://github.com/Revisto/drum-machine

#GNOME #i18n #GTK #Python

As I'm getting more and more into desktop #linux, I seem to be liking #gnome the most. However, I'm trying to shy away from Ubuntu for the reasons of snap, though I'm not experienced enough to know whether snap is "just fine" for me or I should avoid it.

The other toggle point is the use of the dock. I like the persistent dock, but trying to get used to vanilla Fedora Workstation at the moment, sans dock.

What are you running for #desktop?

#fedora #ubuntu #boost #recommendations

Awesone @gnome extension to keep track and get notification when @owncast streams go live.

https://github.com/AgentScrubbles/owncast-live-gnome-extension

#Gnome #Owncast #Linux #Streaming

Awesone @gnome extension to keep track and get notification when @owncast streams go live.

https://github.com/AgentScrubbles/owncast-live-gnome-extension

#Gnome #Owncast #Linux #Streaming

What's your favorite video editor for #linux ?

#opensource #foss #floss #free #freesoftware #kde #gnome #ubuntu #bazzite #bluefin #universalblue @system76 @jorge #fedora #video #videoediting #art #photo #photography

I am Him

3077 × 3700 PX • 11.1 MP • 91.24 MB

#loops #video #meme #humor #lol #chad #dog #doge #gnome #gnu #videoediting #gnuedit #linux #fediverse #art #absurdres #encoding #ffmpeg #kdenlive #ubuntu #fedora #kde #loopsapp #loop #gimp #gnuimagemanipulationprogram #fypシ #fyp

nice @asavage7 made a #Jellyfin #Gnome GTK4 client and it looks fantastic 🤩 https://github.com/asavage7/JellyfinGTK

#postmarketOS #LinuxMobile

What's your favorite video editor for #linux ?

#opensource #foss #floss #free #freesoftware #kde #gnome #ubuntu #bazzite #bluefin #universalblue @system76 @jorge #fedora #video #videoediting #art #photo #photography

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#226 Exporting Events
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/11/twig-226/

#GNOME #TWIG

If you like and are excited about Bazaar, consider donating to support Kolunmi! it would help them a lot!

https://github.com/sponsors/kolunmi

https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.kolunmi.Bazaar

#gnome #linux #gtk #flatpak #flathub

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#226 Exporting Events
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/11/twig-226/

#GNOME #TWIG

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#226 Exporting Events
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/11/twig-226/

#GNOME #TWIG

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#226 Exporting Events
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/11/twig-226/

#GNOME #TWIG

RE: https://indieweb.social/@jaredwhite/115430888213074014

This plan is now in motion! Bought a Mac mini M2 Pro off eBay and it's being shipped to me now. Once I get everything transitioned over and working as expected, I'll be installing Asahi #Fedora #GNOME #Linux on my Mac mini M1! 🥳

Enfin ! Une extension au bureau #Gnome permet enfin de gérer deux paramètres de capture de vidéo via l'outil de capture intégré qui manquaient. L'outil pouvait "seulement" enregistrer au format vidéo, sans le son et sans pouvoir paramétrer les FPS (le nombre d'images par secondes).

L'extension s'appelle Screencast Extra Feature, et se trouve dans les extensions de Gnome (onglet "parcourir"), s'installe en un clic et permet donc de capturer le son et de régler les FPS de 30 jusqu'à 60.

If you like and are excited about Bazaar, consider donating to support Kolunmi! it would help them a lot!

https://github.com/sponsors/kolunmi

https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.kolunmi.Bazaar

#gnome #linux #gtk #flatpak #flathub

Enfin ! Une extension au bureau #Gnome permet enfin de gérer deux paramètres de capture de vidéo via l'outil de capture intégré qui manquaient. L'outil pouvait "seulement" enregistrer au format vidéo, sans le son et sans pouvoir paramétrer les FPS (le nombre d'images par secondes).

L'extension s'appelle Screencast Extra Feature, et se trouve dans les extensions de Gnome (onglet "parcourir"), s'installe en un clic et permet donc de capturer le son et de régler les FPS de 30 jusqu'à 60.

@kaixin the GUI based disk management tools are so good these days... gparted, #Gnome Disks, #KDE Partition Manager. Were they not good enough for you?
#Linux #OpenSource

Delayed by distinguished guests today, Georges did a shorter #GNOMECalendar "live coding" stream at https://www.youtube.com/live/rbHbEoAFN5Q

This 1-hour session was focused on solving memory leaks found by the CI test suite.

In 60 minutes, Georges investigated & fixed *fifteen* memory leaks while casually chatting with the audience 🤯

#GNOME

Delayed by distinguished guests today, Georges did a shorter #GNOMECalendar "live coding" stream at https://www.youtube.com/live/rbHbEoAFN5Q

This 1-hour session was focused on solving memory leaks found by the CI test suite.

In 60 minutes, Georges investigated & fixed *fifteen* memory leaks while casually chatting with the audience 🤯

#GNOME

Hi friends, one of the most requested features is coming to @planifyapp : Smart Date Recognition. For now, it only supports English and Spanish, but it’s extensible to more languages

#vala #planify #gtk #gnome #indiedev

The last edition of #BoilingTheOcean for 2025 is happening next weekend! If you're in Berlin on November 29 and 30th, join us at Cultivation Space 🪴✨

We'll have the full p2panda/Reflection crew joining, including Sam and @jsparber, so get ready for lots of fun peer-to-peer discussions! Of course, all the other usual topics (Linux Mobile, GNOME UX, security etc.) are also welcome :)

Sign up and add your topics and lightning talks here: https://pad.gnome.org/SkiIvfFxTUiTW-ppZNR3Tw

#localfirst #gnome #postmarketOS

The last edition of #BoilingTheOcean for 2025 is happening next weekend! If you're in Berlin on November 29 and 30th, join us at Cultivation Space 🪴✨

We'll have the full p2panda/Reflection crew joining, including Sam and @jsparber, so get ready for lots of fun peer-to-peer discussions! Of course, all the other usual topics (Linux Mobile, GNOME UX, security etc.) are also welcome :)

Sign up and add your topics and lightning talks here: https://pad.gnome.org/SkiIvfFxTUiTW-ppZNR3Tw

#localfirst #gnome #postmarketOS

Hi friends, one of the most requested features is coming to @planifyapp : Smart Date Recognition. For now, it only supports English and Spanish, but it’s extensible to more languages

#vala #planify #gtk #gnome #indiedev

@gnome is cozy computing.

Adwaita apps are calm, focused, consistent. Tasks can often be done offline. Even badges for unread notifications are tinted blue and not red.

Non core apps are maintained by indie developers scratching their own itch. With GNOME Circle, a community of more experienced people help review and polish them.

GNOME is the village of Gauls peacefully resisting the Big Tech Empire with its sole existence.

https://circle.gnome.org/

#gnome #adwaita #cozy #linux

First MR merged in the currently happening GNOME Calendar livestream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/362

It's already available in the current nightly flatpak version. It is so nice to be able to use the new event quick-add popover, with no extra swirly pages etc. to pick the target calendar. Very efficient! 😌

Thanks to @TheEvilSkeleton for their patience and sisyphean rebasing of that much awaited merge request over the past 2 years 🫡

4 tickets have been closed as a result!

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #UX

Another notable feature merged in the GNOME Calendar live coding session today: the ability to export an entire calendar as an .ics file.

This was originally added to the wishlist 10 years ago: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/31

Thanks to @FineFindus's dedication towards implementing this (alongside the individual event .ics export feature) this year, you will be able to use this feature in #GNOME 50 (or the nightly flatpak version of Calendar today): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/615

#GNOMECalendar #calendaring

Another notable feature merged in the GNOME Calendar live coding session today: the ability to export an entire calendar as an .ics file.

This was originally added to the wishlist 10 years ago: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/31

Thanks to @FineFindus's dedication towards implementing this (alongside the individual event .ics export feature) this year, you will be able to use this feature in #GNOME 50 (or the nightly flatpak version of Calendar today): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/615

#GNOMECalendar #calendaring

First MR merged in the currently happening GNOME Calendar livestream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/362

It's already available in the current nightly flatpak version. It is so nice to be able to use the new event quick-add popover, with no extra swirly pages etc. to pick the target calendar. Very efficient! 😌

Thanks to @TheEvilSkeleton for their patience and sisyphean rebasing of that much awaited merge request over the past 2 years 🫡

4 tickets have been closed as a result!

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #UX

@gnome is cozy computing.

Adwaita apps are calm, focused, consistent. Tasks can often be done offline. Even badges for unread notifications are tinted blue and not red.

Non core apps are maintained by indie developers scratching their own itch. With GNOME Circle, a community of more experienced people help review and polish them.

GNOME is the village of Gauls peacefully resisting the Big Tech Empire with its sole existence.

https://circle.gnome.org/

#gnome #adwaita #cozy #linux

@gnome is cozy computing.

Adwaita apps are calm, focused, consistent. Tasks can often be done offline. Even badges for unread notifications are tinted blue and not red.

Non core apps are maintained by indie developers scratching their own itch. With GNOME Circle, a community of more experienced people help review and polish them.

GNOME is the village of Gauls peacefully resisting the Big Tech Empire with its sole existence.

https://circle.gnome.org/

#gnome #adwaita #cozy #linux

This week, Georges "feaneron" Stavracas will be doing livestreams between 11h to 14h Brasília Time (14-17h UTC) while working on merge requests reviews in #GNOMECalendar!

The first session is planned this Tuesday here: https://youtube.com/live/CpgrEcG_KCE

Don't miss it if you want to learn practical @gnome GObject C #programming from a wizard

#GNOME

This week, Georges "feaneron" Stavracas will be doing livestreams between 11h to 14h Brasília Time (14-17h UTC) while working on merge requests reviews in #GNOMECalendar!

The first session is planned this Tuesday here: https://youtube.com/live/CpgrEcG_KCE

Don't miss it if you want to learn practical @gnome GObject C #programming from a wizard

#GNOME

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#225 Volume Levels
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/11/twig-225/

#GNOME #TWIG

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#225 Volume Levels
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/11/twig-225/

#GNOME #TWIG

I'm really curious: What #Linux Distro are you running as your main 'daily driver' right now?

If your favorite isn't on the list, please post it in the comments below!

Let's see what the community is using!😎

#foss #tech #technology #gaming #privacy #opensource #debian #fedora #software #firefox ##ubunu #gnome #kde

Tick tock, Friday app icon sketches.

#gnome #procreate #app #design #icon #sketch

Query: I'm seeing more and more "I'm trying #linux" videos out there and most of them have people installing applications via the command line & I'm curious: does anyone have any theories about why this is? I know there are some contributors on here (thank you) and I'm really curious.

Is it a discoverability issue or are people just getting intrigued by forum posts with cli commands before installing? The stores on #gnome and #kde are so good at this point that I rarely don't use them.

Query: I'm seeing more and more "I'm trying #linux" videos out there and most of them have people installing applications via the command line & I'm curious: does anyone have any theories about why this is? I know there are some contributors on here (thank you) and I'm really curious.

Is it a discoverability issue or are people just getting intrigued by forum posts with cli commands before installing? The stores on #gnome and #kde are so good at this point that I rarely don't use them.

TIL #GNOME Web has, over the last few versions, picked up both an #adblocker and anti-popup functionality.

It has also added something that was being worked on a while ago, which is Web App compatibility...

Now, if only I could have the sites automatically follow dark theme, and Dark Reader and Bitwarden integrations...

I just donate to the @gnome project / foundation. This time I could only manage 10USD! But please if you can spare some money! Support one or more #opensource projects! It does actually make a difference!

#gnome #foss #moneyinopensource

Tick tock, Friday app icon sketches.

#gnome #procreate #app #design #icon #sketch

annoying that i cant search here anymore

#gnome

I tried #omarchy few days ago and am positively surprised by the overall experience it serves out of the box. Seems like opinionated desktop setups are not that bad after all, unless they are so opinionated there’s no wiggle room left (I’m looking at you #GNOME). There are some things I appreciate, like load of #bash scripts powering some of the integrations between the components or system update filesystem snapshots. General approach of favoring TUI apps I find appealing too 👌🏻

Just donated $5 to the GNOME Foundation.

Open source software powers so much of what we do - often built by volunteers.

If you use and love a project, consider giving back - even a few dollars or a thank-you matters.

#opensource #FOSS #Linux #GNOME

My app, Typesetter, is now available on Flathub! It's a local-first editor for Typst (a markup language combining the simplicity of Markdown with the power of LaTeX), featuring a minimal interface, live preview, and click-to-jump between source and preview. It's still in early development, but I'd love feedback if you try it out.
Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/details/net.trowell.typesetter
Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/haydn/typesetter
#Typst #GNOME #GTK #Flatpak #Flathub #Rust

We've released a new version of mobile-broadband-provider info. Besides updated provider info and more #cellbroadcast channel information we also added emergency number information:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mobile-broadband-provider-info/-/releases/20251101

#LinuxMobile #ModemManager #Phosh #GNOME

My app, Typesetter, is now available on Flathub! It's a local-first editor for Typst (a markup language combining the simplicity of Markdown with the power of LaTeX), featuring a minimal interface, live preview, and click-to-jump between source and preview. It's still in early development, but I'd love feedback if you try it out.
Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/details/net.trowell.typesetter
Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/haydn/typesetter
#Typst #GNOME #GTK #Flatpak #Flathub #Rust

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#224 Reduced Motion
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/11/twig-224/

#GNOME #TWIG

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#224 Reduced Motion
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/11/twig-224/

#GNOME #TWIG

Well, we all saw this coming. Starting off empty but working on it over the course of the next few months ...

cc @alatiera

https://github.com/projectbluefin/distroless

#linux #gnome

Friday app icon sketches.

#gnome #app #icon #sketch #procreate

Friday app icon sketches.

#gnome #app #icon #sketch #procreate

It's been a while since I did a #GNOME extensions and apps showcase, so here are a bunch of relatively recent extensions (or older very useful ones), and some great apps that will of course also run on any other #Linux desktop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgLHvULNjyo

It's been a while since I did a #GNOME extensions and apps showcase, so here are a bunch of relatively recent extensions (or older very useful ones), and some great apps that will of course also run on any other #Linux desktop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgLHvULNjyo

Mutter is finally ready to drop X11 backend from #GNOME!

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/4505

With very, very little work you can get Adwaita to behave similarly to “Material You”, with tinted but legibly-contrasted colors based on the user’s selected accent color or a brand color.

I’ve been trying this out experimentally in Clairvoyant, and just pushed it a little more in Butler—this time, based on a selected color to match your Home Assistant dashboard rather than your OS accent color.

#GNOME #Adwaita #Linux

My thoughts after using GNOME since September 10th:

I feel like GNOME does minimalism & modern design way better than Windows 11 tbh. The Adwaita design is pleasing for my eyes and the colours all look comfortable to look at especially in dark mode. The overview thing was a bit to get used to but now I feel it's very powerful and useful. The search bar works really really well even letting me convert units and do math. The touch-screen like design grew on me even though my initial criticisms of it circled around that. One thing I found hard to get used to was the lack of minimize and maximise so I just turned them back on. Getting KDE apps to use an Adwaita Qt theme was a bit fiddly but I got it eventually. I also love the GNOME Circle as it is full of powerful & useful software.

Obviously this is in no way a "GNOME superior, all other desktops suck" cause it's all personal preference in the end and all DEs serve their purpose to someone . There are some shortcomings especially with multi-monitor stuff but the community made extensions help fill some of the gaps.

Overall just really pretty and feels comfortable to use once you get used to it .

#Linux #GNOME

Which desktop environment gets unnecessary flak in 2025?

#linux #desktop #cinnamon #xfce #gnome #kde

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#223 Spooky Updates
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/10/twig-223/

#GNOME #TWIG

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#223 Spooky Updates
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/10/twig-223/

#GNOME #TWIG

A little late friday sketch scraps.

#procreate #gnome #app #icon #design #sketch

A little late friday sketch scraps.

#procreate #gnome #app #icon #design #sketch

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#223 Spooky Updates
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/10/twig-223/

#GNOME #TWIG

I became a friend of #GNOME

Wow! 6 days ago I created an issue over at #Gnome, about fixing a tiny annoyance I had, where I couldn't choose to open certain links inside #libadwaita apps in any way except for in the default browser.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libadwaita/-/issues/1093

The very same day the great @alice replied positively, and by the next day she already had three commits ready!

Today I checked in my #GnomeOS nightly, and whaddayaknow, it's already implemented! Yey!

So fun to actually have a real impact on the OS you use :)

Wow! 6 days ago I created an issue over at #Gnome, about fixing a tiny annoyance I had, where I couldn't choose to open certain links inside #libadwaita apps in any way except for in the default browser.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libadwaita/-/issues/1093

The very same day the great @alice replied positively, and by the next day she already had three commits ready!

Today I checked in my #GnomeOS nightly, and whaddayaknow, it's already implemented! Yey!

So fun to actually have a real impact on the OS you use :)

Wow! 6 days ago I created an issue over at #Gnome, about fixing a tiny annoyance I had, where I couldn't choose to open certain links inside #libadwaita apps in any way except for in the default browser.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libadwaita/-/issues/1093

The very same day the great @alice replied positively, and by the next day she already had three commits ready!

Today I checked in my #GnomeOS nightly, and whaddayaknow, it's already implemented! Yey!

So fun to actually have a real impact on the OS you use :)

I was admittedly bearish about Bazaar early on; I was confused by the design that was trying to reinvent a lot of things, plus I didn’t know how I felt about diverging efforts from GNOME Software.

Now that the Bazaar team has decide to clone the Flathub web UI whenever it makes sense (and improve on it in cool ways!), I’ll admit it: it’s pretty rad.

Huge props to the designers and developers making Bazaar. It’s the Flathub app store @tbernard always wanted.

#Flathub #Flatpak #Linux #GNOME

Fedora Linux 43: Adieu X11, Hallo WebUI

Fedora 43 macht den neuen Installer zum Standard und fegt X11 aus dem Desktop: Die Hauptversionen mit Gnome 49 und KDE Plasma 6.5 arbeiten nur noch mit Wayland.

https://www.heise.de/news/Fedora-Linux-43-Adieu-X11-Hallo-WebUI-10912606.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Fedora #Gnome #ChatGPT #IT #Linux #Wayland #news

We're really close to 500 Friends of GNOME on https://donate.gnome.org — only 10 people left to get there

#gnome #funding

We're really close to 500 Friends of GNOME on https://donate.gnome.org — only 10 people left to get there

#gnome #funding

Fedora Workstation 43 brings a few niceties like @gnome 49 and a new video player, but also an important change.

With this release, Fedora Workstation will be Wayland only as we finalize the migration to the new display server. It's been a long road getting to this point, but the day has come. Excited to continue to make progress in this space!

➡️ https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-workstation-43/

#Fedora #GNOME #Linux #Wayland #OpenSource

Which one do you think will become the de facto standard for tinkering or development environments on Linux when locked down model like mobile or atomic desktops become common?

#Linux #Desktop #MacOS #Windows #kdelinux #Fedora #Silverblue #universalblue #bazzite #steamOS #GNOME

Fedora Linux 43: Adieu X11, Hallo WebUI

Fedora 43 macht den neuen Installer zum Standard und fegt X11 aus dem Desktop: Die Hauptversionen mit Gnome 49 und KDE Plasma 6.5 arbeiten nur noch mit Wayland.

https://www.heise.de/news/Fedora-Linux-43-Adieu-X11-Hallo-WebUI-10912606.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Fedora #Gnome #ChatGPT #IT #Linux #Wayland #news

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#222 Trip Notifications
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/10/twig-222/

#GNOME #TWIG

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ebassi/115429613083886645

Got nerdsniped around lunchtime yesterday, and ended up implementing a shared "reduced motion" setting for GNOME and the rest of the xdg stack:

- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/9077
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/-/merge_requests/114
- https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/discussions/1839
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/-/merge_requests/236
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/3253

#a11y #accessibility #gnome #gtk #xdg #portals

Greek getaway caused me to miss my Friday sketching last week. Here's another batch after the short break.

#procreate #sketch #gnome #app #icon #design

I am a friend of #GNOME now :)

https://donate.gnome.org/

I am a friend of #GNOME now :)

https://donate.gnome.org/

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#222 Trip Notifications
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/10/twig-222/

#GNOME #TWIG

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#222 Trip Notifications
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/10/twig-222/

#GNOME #TWIG

So I tagged a photo with #gnome .. and the percentage of 'mythical figure gnome' vs 'linux desktop gnome' is 5%. 😂

I am a friend of #GNOME now :)

https://donate.gnome.org/

I gave a short talk at the #UbuntuSummit about funding @gnome! Watch it to learn about how GNOME is actually funded, and what we’re doing to help ensure it stays sustainable. 👀

https://www.youtube.com/live/bEEamxJ60aI?t=7h47m29s

#Ubuntu #Linux #GNOME

Greek getaway caused me to miss my Friday sketching last week. Here's another batch after the short break.

#procreate #sketch #gnome #app #icon #design

I gave a short talk at the #UbuntuSummit about funding @gnome! Watch it to learn about how GNOME is actually funded, and what we’re doing to help ensure it stays sustainable. 👀

https://www.youtube.com/live/bEEamxJ60aI?t=7h47m29s

#Ubuntu #Linux #GNOME

Matthias wrote up on his symbolic icon Odyssey. A lot of invisible work appreciated by the designers.

https://blogs.gnome.org/gtk/2025/10/23/svg-in-gtk/

#gnome #icon #design

Matthias wrote up on his symbolic icon Odyssey. A lot of invisible work appreciated by the designers.

https://blogs.gnome.org/gtk/2025/10/23/svg-in-gtk/

#gnome #icon #design

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#221 Virus Season
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/10/twig-221/

#GNOME #TWIG

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#221 Virus Season
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/10/twig-221/

#GNOME #TWIG

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#221 Virus Season
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/10/twig-221/

#GNOME #TWIG

My Change list for my Gnome mobile fork

Mega link:
https://mega.nz/file/qcliVA5R#6cesjs9GzsSgvRU_wdqaksX1ta1hPB3Mhs22dtt3t3M
#Linux #gnome #gnomemobile #linuxmobile #mobilelinux #mobile #os #mobilegnome #fork

Can someone explain to me the whole drama with @frameworkcomputer, Omarchy, #DHH, Hyprland? From what I read, FW supported the development of #Hyprland, #GNOME, #KDE and #Omarchy and provided expertise to make them more compatible with their hardware. I do not get, why this is wrong or harmful towards Linux community.

I have no idea who DHH even is, what are their political views or alignments, nor did I notice any harmful messaging in Omarchy itself. Am I missing something?

It's Gnome desktop with extensions. its less stable then Gnome mobile, but i like the looks.

Extensions used:
V-Shell - vertical-workspaces@G-dH.github.com
Just Perfection - just-perfection-desktop@just-perfection
Hide Activities Button - Hide_Activities@shay.shayel.org
Screen Rotate - screen-rotate@shyzus.github.io
TouchUp - touchup@mityax
#mobilelinux #linuxmobile #Gnome #gnomedesktop #gnomemobile #desktop #linux #os #mobile

Ich teste momentan ja #Gnome unter #Fedora auf meinem Arbeitsgerät, während ich eigentlich seit Jahren privat und vorher beruflich #KDE #Plasma gewohnt bin.

Weiß noch nicht ob ich dabie bleibe. Ich muss mich ehct bei sehr vielen DIngen umgewöhnen und einiges umbiegen bzw. nach meinen Bedürfnissen konfigurieren. Aber eigentlich will ich den Desktop ja nicht zu stark verbiegen...
An anderen Stellen vermisse ich Features.

Nein, ist natürlich nicht alles blöd: Gnome ist wirklich schick und fühlt sich wie aus einem Guss an, außerdem gibt es auch wirklich tolle #GnomeCircle Apps.

Gibt es tolle Exklusiv-Features oder Workflows, die ich mir mal anschauen sollte? 👀

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#220 Exemplary Snake
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/10/twig-220/

#GNOME #TWIG

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#220 Exemplary Snake
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/10/twig-220/

#GNOME #TWIG

Tomorrow is the last day to help during the Fedora Test Days for @gnome 49 and related core apps!

Learn how you can participate while the Quality Team is available!
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2025-10-06_GNOME_49_Desktop_and_Core_Apps

#Fedora #GNOME #Linux #OpenSource

Pretty happy about the new symbolic workflow. While Matthias is still busy exploring the animation capabilities and some conventions need to be set for the advanced states, perhaps the parametric future isn't that far.

https://teams.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/Design/icon-development-kit/index.html

#gnome #symbolic #icons #gtk #parametric

Pretty happy about the new symbolic workflow. While Matthias is still busy exploring the animation capabilities and some conventions need to be set for the advanced states, perhaps the parametric future isn't that far.

https://teams.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/Design/icon-development-kit/index.html

#gnome #symbolic #icons #gtk #parametric

#fedora #gnome test days is going on for the next few days - join in at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2025-10-06_GNOME_49_Desktop_and_Core_Apps and https://testdays.fedoraproject.org/testday/7 !

Lately I’ve been working on some small but nice improvements for @planifyapp

Nothing huge, but those little details that make the app feel smoother and more polished.
Let’s go 👇

#planify #gtk #vala #linux #opensource #indiedev #gnome

Lately I’ve been working on some small but nice improvements for @planifyapp

Nothing huge, but those little details that make the app feel smoother and more polished.
Let’s go 👇

#planify #gtk #vala #linux #opensource #indiedev #gnome

#fedora #gnome test days is going on for the next few days - join in at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2025-10-06_GNOME_49_Desktop_and_Core_Apps and https://testdays.fedoraproject.org/testday/7 !

#fedora #gnome test days is going on for the next few days - join in at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2025-10-06_GNOME_49_Desktop_and_Core_Apps and https://testdays.fedoraproject.org/testday/7 !

Lately I’ve been working on some small but nice improvements for @planifyapp

Nothing huge, but those little details that make the app feel smoother and more polished.
Let’s go 👇

#planify #gtk #vala #linux #opensource #indiedev #gnome

i remember coming across some #GNOME productivity app on #Flathub that had some some sorta Apple Photos-like scrubber/slider control and i cannot recall what does that app do or what it's called

Nate Graham's latest blog post: "a Mac-like experience on Linux"

https://pointieststick.com/2025/10/04/a-mac-like-experience-on-linux/

#KDE #Plasma #GNOME #OSX

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#219 Deciphering Hieroglyphs
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/10/twig-219/

#GNOME #TWIG

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#219 Deciphering Hieroglyphs
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/10/twig-219/

#GNOME #TWIG

I maintain that we need a "fall guy" group in the Linux desktop space to fund, develop, and openly release stuff that would get the Internet mad at existing players, so they typically avoid doing them.

Keeping in mind the intent is to push things forward while not caring about peoples' gut reactions (because technology is more nuanced than a gut reaction!), this could include…

#Linux #OpenSource #FreeDesktop #GNOME #FDo #KDE

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#218 Adaptive Sidebars
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/09/twig-218/

#GNOME #TWIG

Just applied for renewal of my GNOME Foundation membership. And realized it's been 10 years since I became a foundation member!

Time flies when having fun! 😎🔟

#GNOME #gnomefoundation #10years #Anniversary #foss #freedesktop

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#218 Adaptive Sidebars
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/09/twig-218/

#GNOME #TWIG

So glad I’m migrating to #GNOME. The irony being that GNOME has already converged desktop, tabled and mobile, but in a way that actually works.

"Anything can be forced to converge, but the problem is that products are about tradeoffs, and you begin to make tradeoffs to the point where what you have left doesn't please anyone. You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not gonna be pleasing to the user."
—Tim Cook (in 2012)

Ready to share a preview of my first app, which I've been working on in my spare time for a while now, a GTK-based Typst editor called Typesetter.

It's designed to be clean, simple, and local-first, with syntax highlighting and live preview.

No Flatpak release yet, but you can clone the repository and give it a whirl in GNOME Builder if you're so inclined.

https://codeberg.org/haydn/typesetter

Still a work in progress. Contributions, bug reports, and ideas are welcome!

#Typst #GTK #GNOME #Rust

I Donated to GNOME! https://donate.gnome.org
enjoying #gnome 49 in arch :)

I’ve been using a Bluetooth mouse with my laptop because the trackpad is getting a bit janky (fingers get stuck… which is a whole other issue). Usually I have a Logitech mouse that has back/forward buttons, but I found an Apple Magic Mouse at a yard sale for literally $1 and have been trying it out.

I miss back/forward buttons the most! I feel like this mouse should be able to do a two-finger swipe for the gesture, but alas, it doesn’t work for me out of the box. :(

#GNOME #AppleMagicMouse

Status update, 22/09/2025

For the first time in many years I can talk publicly about what I’m doing at work: a short engagement funded by Endless and Codethink to rebuild Endless OS as a GNOME OS derivative, instead of a Debian derivative.

There is nothing wrong with Debian, of course, just that today GNOME OS aligns more closely with the direction the Endless OS team want to go in. A lot of the innovations from earlier versions of Endless OS over the last decade were copied and re-used in GNOME OS, so in a sense this is work coming full circle.

I’ll tell you a bit more about the project but first I have a rant about complexity.

Complexity

I work for a consultancy and the way consultancy projects work is like this: you agree what the work is, you estimate how long the work will take, you agree a budget, and then you do the work.

The problem with this approach is that in software engineering, most of your work is research. Endless OS is the work of thousands of different people, and hundreds of millions of lines of code. We reason and communicate about the code using abstractions, and there are hundreds of millions of abstractions too.

If you ask me “how long will it take to change this thing in that abstraction over there”, I can research those abstractions and come up with an estimate for the job. How long to change a lightbulb? How long to rename a variable? How long to add an option in this command line tool ? Some hours of work.

Most real world tasks involve many abstractions and, by the time youve researched them all, you’ve done 90% of the work. How long to port this app to Gtk4? How long to implement this new optimization in GCC? How long to write a driver for this new USB beard trimmer device? Some months or years of work.

And then you have projects where it’s not even possible to research the related abstractions. So much changed between Debian 12 and GNOME OS 48 that you’d be a year just writing a comprehensive changelog. So, how can you possibly estimate the work involved when you can’t know in advance what the work is?

Of course, you can’t, you can only start and see what happens.

But, allocating people to projects in a consultancy business is also a hard problem. You need to know project start and end dates because you are lining up more projects in advance, and your clients want to know when their work will start.

So for projects involving such a huge number of abstractions, we have to effectively make up a number and hope for the best. When people say things like “try to do the best estimation you can”, it’s a bit like saying “try to count the sand on this beach as best as you can”.

Another difficulty is around finding people who know the right abstractions. If you’re adding a feature to a program written in Rust, management won’t assign someone who never touched Rust before. If they do, you can ask for extra time to learn some Rust as part of the project. (Although since software is largely a cowboy industry, there are always managers who will tell you to just learn by doing.)

But what abstractions do you need to know for OS development and integration? These projects can be harder than programming work, because the abstractions involved are larger, more complicated and more numerous. If you can code in C, can you can be a Linux integrator? I don’t know, but can a bus driver can fly a helicopter?

If a project is so complex that you can’t predict in advance which abstractions are going to be problematic and which ones you won’t need to touch, then even if you wanted to include teaching time in your estimation you’ll need a crystal ball to know how much time the work will take.

For this project, my knowledge of BuildStream and Freedesktop SDK is proving valuable. There’s a good reference manual for BuildStream, but no tutorials on how to use it for OS development. How do we expect people to learn it? Have we solved anything by introducing new abstractions that aren’t widely understood — even if they’re genuinely better in some use cases?

Endless OS 7

Given I’ve started with a rant you might ask how the project is going. Actually, quite some good progress. Endless OS 7 exists, it’s being built and pushed as an ostree from eos-build-meta to Endless’ ostree server. You can install it as an update to eos6 if you like to live dangerously — see the “Switch master” documentation. (You can probably install it on other ostree based systems if you like to live really dangerously, but I’m not going to tell you how). I have it running on an IBM Thinkpad laptop. Actually my first time testing any GNOME OS derivative on hardware!

For a multitude of reasons the work has been more stressful than it needed to be, but I’m optimistic for a successful outcome. (Where success means, we don’t give up and decide the Debian base was easier after all). I think GNOME OS and Endless OS will both benefit from closer integration.

The tooling is working well for me: reliability and repeatability were core principles when BuildStream was being designed, and it shows. Once you learn it you can do integration work fast. You don’t get flaky builds. I’ve never deleted my cache to fix a weird problem. It’s an advanced tool, and in some ways it’s less flexible than its friends in the integration tool world, but it’s a really good way to build an operating system.

I’ve learned a bunch about some important new abstractions on this project too. UEFI and Secure Boot. The systemd-sysusers service and userdb. Dracut and initramfs debugging.

I haven’t been able to contribute any effort upstream to GNOME OS so far. I did contribute some documentation comments to Freedesktop SDK, and I’m trying to at least document Endless OS 7 as clearly as I can. Nobody has ever had much to time to document how GNOME OS is built or tested, hopefully the documentation in eos-build-meta is a useful step forwards for GNOME OS as well.

As always the GNOME OS community are super helpful. I’m sure it’s a big part of the success of GNOME OS that Valentín is so helpful whenever things break. I’m also privileged to be working with the highly talented engineers at Endless who built all this stuff.

Abstractions

Broadly, the software industry is fucked as long as we keep making an infinite number of new abstractions. I haven’t had a particularly good time on any project since I returned to software engineering five years ago, and I suspect it’s because we just can’t control the complexity enough to reason properly about what we are doing.

This complexity is starting to inconvenience billionaires. In the UK the entire car industry has been stopped for weeks because system owners didn’t understand their work well enough to do a good job of securing systems. I wonder if it’s going to occur to them eventually that simplification is the best route to security. Capitalism doesn’t tend to reward that way of thinking — but it can reward anything that gives you a business advantage.

I suppose computing abstractions are like living things, with a tendency to boundlessly multiply until they reach some natural limit, or destroy their habitat entirely. Maybe the last year of continual security breaches could be that natural limit. If your system is too complex for anyone to keep it secure, then your system is going to fail.

#codethink #gnome

Status update, 22/09/2025

For the first time in many years I can talk publicly about what I’m doing at work: a short engagement funded by Endless and Codethink to rebuild Endless OS as a GNOME OS derivative, instead of a Debian derivative.

There is nothing wrong with Debian, of course, just that today GNOME OS aligns more closely with the direction the Endless OS team want to go in. A lot of the innovations from earlier versions of Endless OS over the last decade were copied and re-used in GNOME OS, so in a sense this is work coming full circle.

I’ll tell you a bit more about the project but first I have a rant about complexity.

Complexity

I work for a consultancy and the way consultancy projects work is like this: you agree what the work is, you estimate how long the work will take, you agree a budget, and then you do the work.

The problem with this approach is that in software engineering, most of your work is research. Endless OS is the work of thousands of different people, and hundreds of millions of lines of code. We reason and communicate about the code using abstractions, and there are hundreds of millions of abstractions too.

If you ask me “how long will it take to change this thing in that abstraction over there”, I can research those abstractions and come up with an estimate for the job. How long to change a lightbulb? How long to rename a variable? How long to add an option in this command line tool ? Some hours of work.

Most real world tasks involve many abstractions and, by the time youve researched them all, you’ve done 90% of the work. How long to port this app to Gtk4? How long to implement this new optimization in GCC? How long to write a driver for this new USB beard trimmer device? Some months or years of work.

And then you have projects where it’s not even possible to research the related abstractions. So much changed between Debian 12 and GNOME OS 48 that you’d be a year just writing a comprehensive changelog. So, how can you possibly estimate the work involved when you can’t know in advance what the work is?

Of course, you can’t, you can only start and see what happens.

But, allocating people to projects in a consultancy business is also a hard problem. You need to know project start and end dates because you are lining up more projects in advance, and your clients want to know when their work will start.

So for projects involving such a huge number of abstractions, we have to effectively make up a number and hope for the best. When people say things like “try to do the best estimation you can”, it’s a bit like saying “try to count the sand on this beach as best as you can”.

Another difficulty is around finding people who know the right abstractions. If you’re adding a feature to a program written in Rust, management won’t assign someone who never touched Rust before. If they do, you can ask for extra time to learn some Rust as part of the project. (Although since software is largely a cowboy industry, there are always managers who will tell you to just learn by doing.)

But what abstractions do you need to know for OS development and integration? These projects can be harder than programming work, because the abstractions involved are larger, more complicated and more numerous. If you can code in C, can you can be a Linux integrator? I don’t know, but can a bus driver can fly a helicopter?

If a project is so complex that you can’t predict in advance which abstractions are going to be problematic and which ones you won’t need to touch, then even if you wanted to include teaching time in your estimation you’ll need a crystal ball to know how much time the work will take.

For this project, my knowledge of BuildStream and Freedesktop SDK is proving valuable. There’s a good reference manual for BuildStream, but no tutorials on how to use it for OS development. How do we expect people to learn it? Have we solved anything by introducing new abstractions that aren’t widely understood — even if they’re genuinely better in some use cases?

Endless OS 7

Given I’ve started with a rant you might ask how the project is going. Actually, quite some good progress. Endless OS 7 exists, it’s being built and pushed as an ostree from eos-build-meta to Endless’ ostree server. You can install it as an update to eos6 if you like to live dangerously — see the “Switch master” documentation. (You can probably install it on other ostree based systems if you like to live really dangerously, but I’m not going to tell you how). I have it running on an IBM Thinkpad laptop. Actually my first time testing any GNOME OS derivative on hardware!

For a multitude of reasons the work has been more stressful than it needed to be, but I’m optimistic for a successful outcome. (Where success means, we don’t give up and decide the Debian base was easier after all). I think GNOME OS and Endless OS will both benefit from closer integration.

The tooling is working well for me: reliability and repeatability were core principles when BuildStream was being designed, and it shows. Once you learn it you can do integration work fast. You don’t get flaky builds. I’ve never deleted my cache to fix a weird problem. It’s an advanced tool, and in some ways it’s less flexible than its friends in the integration tool world, but it’s a really good way to build an operating system.

I’ve learned a bunch about some important new abstractions on this project too. UEFI and Secure Boot. The systemd-sysusers service and userdb. Dracut and initramfs debugging.

I haven’t been able to contribute any effort upstream to GNOME OS so far. I did contribute some documentation comments to Freedesktop SDK, and I’m trying to at least document Endless OS 7 as clearly as I can. Nobody has ever had much to time to document how GNOME OS is built or tested, hopefully the documentation in eos-build-meta is a useful step forwards for GNOME OS as well.

As always the GNOME OS community are super helpful. I’m sure it’s a big part of the success of GNOME OS that Valentín is so helpful whenever things break. I’m also privileged to be working with the highly talented engineers at Endless who built all this stuff.

Abstractions

Broadly, the software industry is fucked as long as we keep making an infinite number of new abstractions. I haven’t had a particularly good time on any project since I returned to software engineering five years ago, and I suspect it’s because we just can’t control the complexity enough to reason properly about what we are doing.

This complexity is starting to inconvenience billionaires. In the UK the entire car industry has been stopped for weeks because system owners didn’t understand their work well enough to do a good job of securing systems. I wonder if it’s going to occur to them eventually that simplification is the best route to security. Capitalism doesn’t tend to reward that way of thinking — but it can reward anything that gives you a business advantage.

I suppose computing abstractions are like living things, with a tendency to boundlessly multiply until they reach some natural limit, or destroy their habitat entirely. Maybe the last year of continual security breaches could be that natural limit. If your system is too complex for anyone to keep it secure, then your system is going to fail.

#codethink #gnome

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#217 Mahjongg Sundays
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/09/twig-217

#GNOME #TWIG

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#217 Mahjongg Sundays
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/09/twig-217

#GNOME #TWIG

It's so encouraging to see so many awesome iterative improvements coming out of #gnome lately.

Thanks to all of you for making a better ecosystem! Hit me up with your favorite #gnome app, and if it's missing from Bluefin's recommendations let's add it. Why not crowdsource awesomeness?

Love to see it!

I'm not a particularly smart designer, but I always thought that consistency was supposed to be the ultimate aspiration - with differences only occurring when justifiable. So I'm still in shock that of all the big software releases this month - #MacOS26, #Android16 - it is #Gnome49 that seems to step forward in this regard.

The Linux platform is not without its problems and limitations, but the team behind #Gnome really deserve massive kudos: https://release.gnome.org/49/

More sketches on a Friday.

#gnome #app #sketch #procreate

More sketches on a Friday.

#gnome #app #sketch #procreate

I'm not a particularly smart designer, but I always thought that consistency was supposed to be the ultimate aspiration - with differences only occurring when justifiable. So I'm still in shock that of all the big software releases this month - #MacOS26, #Android16 - it is #Gnome49 that seems to step forward in this regard.

The Linux platform is not without its problems and limitations, but the team behind #Gnome really deserve massive kudos: https://release.gnome.org/49/

Mahjongg was accepted into Circle! 🀄🀄🀄

It's one the historical GNOME games, but thanks to Mat's modernization work over the past few cycles it looks very fresh and clean nowadays. Welcome :)

https://apps.gnome.org/Mahjongg

#gnome #circle #libadwaita

Mahjongg was accepted into Circle! 🀄🀄🀄

It's one the historical GNOME games, but thanks to Mat's modernization work over the past few cycles it looks very fresh and clean nowadays. Welcome :)

https://apps.gnome.org/Mahjongg

#gnome #circle #libadwaita

Mahjongg was accepted into Circle! 🀄🀄🀄

It's one the historical GNOME games, but thanks to Mat's modernization work over the past few cycles it looks very fresh and clean nowadays. Welcome :)

https://apps.gnome.org/Mahjongg

#gnome #circle #libadwaita

Mahjongg was accepted into Circle! 🀄🀄🀄

It's one the historical GNOME games, but thanks to Mat's modernization work over the past few cycles it looks very fresh and clean nowadays. Welcome :)

https://apps.gnome.org/Mahjongg

#gnome #circle #libadwaita

Déjà Dup Backups 49.0 is finally out! This is a big one - Restic by default, restoring by file manager, and a big UI refresh.

Read more here: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/deja-dup-49-0-released/

#DejaDup #Gnome #Restic #AppDev

#GNOME 49 will be released today, with a big focus on adding features to apps, and improving performance on the shell, compositor, and even some apps as well.

It's a really nice release, nothing groundbreaking, but plenty of quality of life improvements:

vhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwSEWsUCkuE

#GNOME 49 will be released today, with a big focus on adding features to apps, and improving performance on the shell, compositor, and even some apps as well.

It's a really nice release, nothing groundbreaking, but plenty of quality of life improvements:

vhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwSEWsUCkuE

From the Orca mailing list:

Hey all.

I just landed a refactor in the main branch that impacts the following:

* Key echo (what is spoken when you press keys)
* Character echo (what is spoken when a character is inserted)
* Word + sentence echo (what is spoken as you type)

Hopefully I've broken nothing.

I've also made all the settings associated with these accessible via the
D-Bus Remote Controller. This should make it possible for games to turn
off key echo when keys are used for navigation. Note that this is like
all the other on-the-fly settings, so if you Alt+Tab into another app,
the change won't persist. But as I've mentioned before, and subsequently
documented [1], that is not a D-Bus-specific issue.

Regardless, I'd really appreciate some testing. I didn't realize the
49.0 release is due already....

Thanks!
--joanie

[1]
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/-/blob/main/README-REMOTE-CONTROLLER.md#the-stickiness-or-lack-thereof-of-on-the-fly-settings-changes
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General information: https://orca.gnome.org
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#linux #foss #orca #accessibility #blind #gnome

Blog post about some of the new stuff for GNOME Maps 49.

https://ml4711.blogspot.com/2025/09/maps-and-gnome-49.html

#gnome #maps #gnomemaps #libshumate #mapstodon #openstreetmap

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#216 Growing Community
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/09/twig-216

#GNOME #TWIG

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#216 Growing Community
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/09/twig-216

#GNOME #TWIG

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#216 Growing Community
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/09/twig-216

#GNOME #TWIG

Sketch Friday Drop.

#procreate #icon #sketch #gnome #apps

Sketch Friday Drop.

#procreate #icon #sketch #gnome #apps

Kinda dig the cheesy CRT filters in #pixquare. Drawn in #pixaki though.

#gnome #icon #pixelart

More GNOME pixelart app icons!

#pixaki #pixquare #gnome #apps #icons #pixelart

Kinda dig the cheesy CRT filters in #pixquare. Drawn in #pixaki though.

#gnome #icon #pixelart

More GNOME pixelart app icons!

#pixaki #pixquare #gnome #apps #icons #pixelart

More GNOME pixelart app icons!

#pixaki #pixquare #gnome #apps #icons #pixelart

Kinda dig the cheesy CRT filters in #pixquare. Drawn in #pixaki though.

#gnome #icon #pixelart

Blog post about some of the new stuff for GNOME Maps 49.

https://ml4711.blogspot.com/2025/09/maps-and-gnome-49.html

#gnome #maps #gnomemaps #libshumate #mapstodon #openstreetmap

Finally got to add support for getting emergency numbers from mobile-broadband-provider-info into #gnome #calls. I guess once that landed we can turn emergency calling on by default in #phosh .

#GNOME picks of the day:

➡️ @gnome - Official GNOME account in English

➡️ @gnome_br - GNOME in Portuguese

➡️ @haeckerfelix - GNOME developer, foundation member, author of "This Week in GNOME"

➡️ @Tuba - FOSS Fediverse app for GNOME, forked from Tootle

➡️ @WebKitGTK - GTK port of WebKit, official browser engine in GNOME

➡️ @GTK - FOSS cross-platform toolkit for creating GUIs

➡️ @EvolutionGnome - Free open source personal information manager software

🧵 1/2

Great news for @EvolutionGnome users: in Evolution 3.58 (expected to ship alongside GNOME 49 in Q4 2025), the calendar events conflict checks in meeting invitations received via email will now respect the user preferences; this will boost performance quite a bit: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/1441#note_2382738

We will need someone to implement the corresponding per-calendar property in #GNOMECalendar's calendars management GUI, see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1297

#performance #GNOME #email #calendaring

Just one week to go for #GUADEC, where my colleagues Patrick and Georges from our #WebKit team, along with people from other teams at @igalia will present some talks and lead a couple of BoFs related to their work on #GNOME.

See https://events.gnome.org/event/259/timetable for more details and stay tuned!

#GNOME picks of the day:

➡️ @gnome - Official GNOME account in English

➡️ @gnome_br - GNOME in Portuguese

➡️ @haeckerfelix - GNOME developer, foundation member, author of "This Week in GNOME"

➡️ @Tuba - FOSS Fediverse app for GNOME, forked from Tootle

➡️ @WebKitGTK - GTK port of WebKit, official browser engine in GNOME

➡️ @GTK - FOSS cross-platform toolkit for creating GUIs

➡️ @EvolutionGnome - Free open source personal information manager software

🧵 1/2

#GNOME picks of the day:

➡️ @gnome - Official GNOME account in English

➡️ @gnome_br - GNOME in Portuguese

➡️ @haeckerfelix - GNOME developer, foundation member, author of "This Week in GNOME"

➡️ @Tuba - FOSS Fediverse app for GNOME, forked from Tootle

➡️ @WebKitGTK - GTK port of WebKit, official browser engine in GNOME

➡️ @GTK - FOSS cross-platform toolkit for creating GUIs

➡️ @EvolutionGnome - Free open source personal information manager software

🧵 1/2

Here is this week's #Linux and #opensource news video!
in this one, we have a date for the #Cosmic Beta, #GNOME deciding to keep X11 sessions a bit longer, plenty of #SteamOS related news, and more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkQw8m4X4Zk

Here is this week's #Linux and #opensource news video!
in this one, we have a date for the #Cosmic Beta, #GNOME deciding to keep X11 sessions a bit longer, plenty of #SteamOS related news, and more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkQw8m4X4Zk

Just released Drum Machine v1.5.0 and I'm excited.

You can finally export your beats as audio files! WAV, FLAC, OGG, MP3. Plus, you can add metadata like artist name, song title, and cover art. You can also set how many times your pattern repeats. So if you make a short 4-bar loop, you can export it as a 3 minute track!

I would love to hear what you create with it, so please tag me if you share your beats anywhere <3

@gnomeapps
#GTK #OpenSource #Music #Flathub #Gnome #Python

Just released Drum Machine v1.5.0 and I'm excited.

You can finally export your beats as audio files! WAV, FLAC, OGG, MP3. Plus, you can add metadata like artist name, song title, and cover art. You can also set how many times your pattern repeats. So if you make a short 4-bar loop, you can export it as a 3 minute track!

I would love to hear what you create with it, so please tag me if you share your beats anywhere <3

@gnomeapps
#GTK #OpenSource #Music #Flathub #Gnome #Python

Just released Drum Machine v1.5.0 and I'm excited.

You can finally export your beats as audio files! WAV, FLAC, OGG, MP3. Plus, you can add metadata like artist name, song title, and cover art. You can also set how many times your pattern repeats. So if you make a short 4-bar loop, you can export it as a 3 minute track!

I would love to hear what you create with it, so please tag me if you share your beats anywhere <3

@gnomeapps
#GTK #OpenSource #Music #Flathub #Gnome #Python

Late Sketch Friday.

#procreate #icon #sketch #gnome

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#215 Turn On
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/09/twig-215

#GNOME #TWIG

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#215 Turn On
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/09/twig-215

#GNOME #TWIG

Late Sketch Friday.

#procreate #icon #sketch #gnome

GNOME Shell developers (or extension developers): first, forgive me for I have sinned; second, if I want GNOME Shell to show the app grid on startup instead of the overview, tell me why this is the wrong way to do it.

https://github.com/Hexcz/Start-Overlay-in-Application-View-for-Gnome-40-/pull/12

😅

#GNOME #GNOMEShell

I might start daily driving GNOME OS soon… but not how you’d expect. 👀

#GNOME #GNOMEOS #Linux #OpenSource

Déjà Dup now lets you browse your backed up files in your file manager! Note that this only works for Restic backups.

Coming in 49.0 later this year.

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/deja-dup-backups-gains-restic-mount-support/28960

#DejaDup #Gnome #Restic #AppDev

I'm so embarrassed! I've kept my listing on https://pad.gnome.org/s/summer-of-gnomeos mostly up to date. But others have not. I've seen all the activity in the #GnomeOS Matrix! And today was the last day? And now it looks like I'm in 3rd place!? I could even be second, depending if there's some more issues I should count (depending how you interpret the rules)!? Which is obviously not correct! I've just daily driven and made issues, I haven't fixed or MR'd anything! Please update your listing I'm so 🫣 #gnome

I'm so embarrassed! I've kept my listing on https://pad.gnome.org/s/summer-of-gnomeos mostly up to date. But others have not. I've seen all the activity in the #GnomeOS Matrix! And today was the last day? And now it looks like I'm in 3rd place!? I could even be second, depending if there's some more issues I should count (depending how you interpret the rules)!? Which is obviously not correct! I've just daily driven and made issues, I haven't fixed or MR'd anything! Please update your listing I'm so 🫣 #gnome

Gormless doodles from today

Gormless doodles from today

hi frogzone hear! im still alive

i realise everyone has probably forgotten me and with think, who is this spammer, but after 9 months without fediverse, I figured that i better login to explain myself.

Basically near the start of the year two things happened at the same time to make it impossible to access fedi. Anyway Im enabling #javascript in a browser now to tell you this but i NEVER enable javascript in this browser normally and will probably disable it again, hopefully not for 9 months but this #distrohop is a BIG one, more like a distro-leap! @nimda it would really help if the #BloatFE interface was available over #i2p. @silverpil is there anyway to force a non-js experience, using a specific uri combo? FYI ive been recommending #mitra more in the meatspace lately, so heads up you may be getting more traffic??? or not.... lol

@gabriel i LOVED ur interview on #corbettReport, it is disconcerting to see his non-acknowledgment of your interest in #fediverse. He has known about fedi for a long time and probably should have known better than to pump S.S. (i mean sCRubstack), anyway sorry to hear u were set upon by S.S. drones. I've been meaning to inform u that your libresolutionsnetork.i2p site is broken, it redirects to gabe.i2p, so i may be missing out on insights. i was enjoying your updates on ur health drive but havnt been able to keep upto date lately.

The recent #openSource orgs sign onto the #unitedNations pact is super creepy. The last clause, ie. to do the bidding of the United Nations makes me a bit squeemish, just because we all saw covid, right? Even the other clauses about "diversity and inclusion" a nasty, and seem to require developers identify themselves, meaning no more anonymous contributions? i expect better from the #libreoffice folks that to sign onto something like this (i already knew #gnome were heading down a nasty path by their locked-down communication channels). My feeling is this is a result of the engineered #inflation ( #covid / #nft / #moneylaundering) crises means people are grasping at straws to maintain their income and status, forcing developers to accept ridiculous contracts. i dont know. Maybe im talking out a nether orifice. If i hear that everyone is plotting forks of LibreOffice and GNOME, it wouldnt surprise me.

I'm also interested in what appears to be the lawfare-based extortion of archive.org, not able to research it lately. I bet a billion bitcoins (that will never exist, because bitcoin is capped at 21 million) that #archiveDotOrg no longer accept #bitcoin donations. AMIRIGHT? (i dunno again I might be wrong, i literally have not checked, lol but seriously they are partnering with the US government to be a repo of govt documents??? now???)

The word of the day is '#SUSPECT'

... and remember everyone, #iran is to blame for ALL OF IT. including of cause the genocide that almost everyone on fedi knew was a #genocide almost 2 years ago. Why would it take 2 years for people on corporate media pratforms to work this out.... INSERT THINKING EMOJI

anyway there is so much to talk about and i will not be able to do it now. and will not be checking messages, because my connection is REALLY, REALLY, REALLY bad now. and i'll be here forever and die. so this is just a i'm still alive, just working thru technical coincidental problems.

love you all, and hopefully i can be online proper, in the near future.

#fedimeta #gnome #opendocumentfoundation @stefano

Scriptorium just got bumped to v1 with a major UI redesign, epub export, and a more focused writing experience. Available now from your favourite flathub front end https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.cgueret.Scriptorium #foss #gnome #gtk4 #novels #writing

Scriptorium just got bumped to v1 with a major UI redesign, epub export, and a more focused writing experience. Available now from your favourite flathub front end https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.cgueret.Scriptorium #foss #gnome #gtk4 #novels #writing

Here is today's #Linux and #OpenSource News, with a re-recorded intro and first segment, because apparently, the #GNOME FOundation lost their Executive Director. Again.

We also have AI being tested in the Linux kernel, Android blocking sideloading from unverified devs, and a lot more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR_Uzf2B-YA

Here is today's #Linux and #OpenSource News, with a re-recorded intro and first segment, because apparently, the #GNOME FOundation lost their Executive Director. Again.

We also have AI being tested in the Linux kernel, Android blocking sideloading from unverified devs, and a lot more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR_Uzf2B-YA

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#214 Managing Tasks
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/08/twig-214

#GNOME #TWIG

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#214 Managing Tasks
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/08/twig-214

#GNOME #TWIG

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#214 Managing Tasks
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/08/twig-214

#GNOME #TWIG

Sketch Friday

#procreate #app #gnome #design #sketch

It‘s a long time I‘ve last installed and used a regular #Ubuntu (the version that now ships with #Gnome). I just installed version 25.04 - and I‘m impressed. Not only did they manage to make Gnome feel usable, it‘s also amazingly fast and snappy. And it supports fractional scaling very well (don‘t know why I ordered that Full HD 12,5“ screen laptop - many DEs just don‘t work using that resolution).

#Linux #Desktop

Over a week on #Gnome and #Debian now. And I must say that I love it. Never thought that I would say this. Has it still its quirks? Yes. But way less than I thought. And Gnome + their UI framework makes the apps look so georgous now. Really impressed by the quality of all those apps. OpenSource does not need to look ugly. Seems like #libadwaita makes it really straightforward to build beautiful apps.

A big thank you to all amazing open-source contributors to that ecosystem.

After more than 4 years in review (on and off, not continuous 😅) Wordbook by Mufeed Ali is finally in Circle!

It's a handy offline dictionary for looking up English words when you're not sure you remember the exact definition.

Congratulations 🥳

https://flathub.org/apps/dev.mufeed.Wordbook

#gnome #circle

Over a week on #Gnome and #Debian now. And I must say that I love it. Never thought that I would say this. Has it still its quirks? Yes. But way less than I thought. And Gnome + their UI framework makes the apps look so georgous now. Really impressed by the quality of all those apps. OpenSource does not need to look ugly. Seems like #libadwaita makes it really straightforward to build beautiful apps.

A big thank you to all amazing open-source contributors to that ecosystem.

After more than 4 years in review (on and off, not continuous 😅) Wordbook by Mufeed Ali is finally in Circle!

It's a handy offline dictionary for looking up English words when you're not sure you remember the exact definition.

Congratulations 🥳

https://flathub.org/apps/dev.mufeed.Wordbook

#gnome #circle

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#213 Fixed Rules
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/08/twig-213/

#GNOME #TWIG

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#213 Fixed Rules
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/08/twig-213/

#GNOME #TWIG

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#213 Fixed Rules
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/08/twig-213/

#GNOME #TWIG

Another Sketch Friday

#procreate #gnome #app #icon #design