One of the goals of the new GNOME project handbook is to provide effective guidelines for contributors. Most of the guidelines are based on recommendations that GNOME already had, which were then...
I’m a firm believer in the importance of documentation for open source projects, particularly when it comes to onboarding new contributors. To attract and retain contributors, you need good doc...
https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2024/01/30/announcing-the-gnome-project-handbook/
The GNOME 46 development cycle started around October last year, and it has been a busy one for my GNOME user experience design work (as they all are). I wanted to share some details of what I’...
https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2024/01/09/recent-gnome-design-work/
At this year’s GUADEC, I made a proposal: that the GNOME project should migrate its documentation from wiki.gnome.org to other locations, and then disable its wiki. This blog post describes the...
https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2023/08/02/what-to-do-with-the-gnome-wiki/
Last August, we ran a research exercise using a small tool called gnome-info-collect. The tool allowed GNOME users to anonymously send us non-sensitive data about how their systems were configure...
https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2023/01/18/gnome-info-collect-what-we-learned/
There has been a fantastic response to gnome-info-collect since Vojtěch announced it three weeks ago. To date we’ve had over 2,200 responses. That’s amazing! Thanks to everyone who has run t...
https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2022/09/15/gnome-info-collect-closing-soon/
This is a guest post by Vojtech Stanek, who has been interning at Red Hat and who has been working on an exciting new tool for the GNOME project. gnome-info-collect is a new tool which collects a...
Photo courtesy of Jakub Steiner As I write this post, I’m speeding through the German countryside, on a high speed train heading for Amsterdam, as I make my way home from the GUADEC satellite e...
After a lot of hard work, libadwaita 1.0 was released on the last day of 2021. If you haven’t already, check out Alexander’s announcement, which covers a lot of what’s in the new release. W...
https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2022/01/13/human-interface-guidelines-libadwaita-1-0-edition/
The GNOME design team has recently been working on GNOME’s application development platform, and I thought that it might be interesting for people to hear about what we’ve been up to. The fol...
https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2021/10/12/platform-design-goings-on/