Planet GNOME

Tech planning call, sync with Lily, mail backlog. Booked flights to the next LibreOffice Technology Hackfest in Budapest - hosted by Miklos. Should be a great place to work on all things LibreO...

https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2024-05-02.html

The post Outreachy May 2024: A letter to Fedora applicants appeared first on /home/jwf/ . /home/jwf/ - Free & Open Source, technology, travel, and life reflections To all Outreachy May 2024...

https://blog.jwf.io/2024/05/outreachy-may-2024-letter-fedora-applicants/

We are happy to announce that GNOME was assigned eight slots for Google Summer of Code projects this year! GSoC is a program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software deve...

https://feborg.es/gnome-will-be-mentoring-8-new-contributors-for-google-summer-of-code-2024/

Mail chew; caught up with the backlog mostly. Testing call, catch-up with Anna. Plugged away cleaning up progress notification from kit to browser processes, with JSON details for background sav...

https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2024-05-01.html

International Workers' Day marks the release of Workbench 46.1 This new release comes with SAVE/RESTORE WINDOW STATE AND DIMENSIONS for each session/project. I couldn't use the method de...

http://blog.sonny.re/workbench-46-1?pk_campaign=rss-feed

THE GNOME FOUNDATION INVITES BIDS FOR HOSTING GNOME ASIA 2024. THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO BRING GNOME ASIA TO YOUR CITY! If you are interested in submitting a proposal to host GNOME Asia in your ci...

https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/04/30/call-for-gnome-asia-2024-location-proposals/

The firmware which drm/kms drivers need is becoming bigger and bigger and there is a push to move to generating a generic initramfs on distro's builders and signing the initramfs with the distro...

https://hansdegoede.dreamwidth.org/28291.html

It’s been around 6 months since the GNOME Foundation was joined by our new Executive Director, Holly Million, and the board and I wanted to update members on the Foundation’s current status a...

https://ramcq.net/2024/04/26/update-from-the-gnome-board/

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from April 19 to April 26. GNOME CORE APPS AND LIBRARIES GTK Cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interf...

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/04/twig-145/

This is a project update for the SGS Pilot 1 project. This is a WMF funded project  (ID: 22444585 ). They have been created two relevant places: Phabricator: VerySmallGLAM · Workboard Meta: ...

https://olea.org/diario/2024/04/26/Small_GLAM_Slam_project__update.html

It’s no secret I have way more projects to manage than hours in the day. I hope to rectify this by sharing more knowledge on how my projects are built. The most important project, Builder, is...

https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2024/04/24/collaborating-on-builder/

EMBEDDABLE GAME ENGINE Many years ago, when working at Xamarin, where we were building cross-platform libraries for mobile developers, we wanted to offer both 2D and 3D gaming capabilities for ...

https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2024/Apr-23.html

One of the things we’re tackling as part of the STF infrastructure initiative is improving notifications. Other platforms have advanced significantly in this area over the past decade, while w...

https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2024/04/23/notifications-46-and-beyond/

In the 80s and 90s software development landscape was quite different from today (or so I have been told). Everything that needed performance was written in C and things that did not were written...

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2024/04/c-is-dead-long-live-c-apis.html

Sometimes I build stuff other than software and this is a post about that. My wife and I had to postpone our honeymoon for a couple years due to COVID. Last spring we were able to take a trip t...

https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2024/04/19/builder-of-things/

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from April 12 to April 19. SOVEREIGN TECH FUND Sonny says > As part of the GNOME STF (Sovereign Tech Fund) >  > ini...

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/04/twig-144/

The GNOME Foundation invites bids for hosting GUADEC 2025. For next year’s annual gathering of GNOME users and developers, we’re looking for location proposals from anywhere in the world. Thi...

https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/04/18/call-for-guadec-2025-location-proposals/

For the last few months, Benjamin Tissoires and I have been working on and polishing a little tool called udev-hid-bpf . This is the scaffolding required quickly and easily write, test and even...

https://who-t.blogspot.com/2024/04/udev-hid-bpf-quickstart-tooling-to-fix.html

We first introduced support for dmabufs and graphics offload last fall, and it is included in GTK 4.14. Since then, some improvements have happened, so it is time for an update. IMPROVEMENTS D...

https://blog.gtk.org/2024/04/17/graphics-offload-revisited/

Perhaps the most interesting feature is that this new version reduces the number of external dependencies by almost 15%. In other words the number of deps went from 7 to 6. This is due to Apple C...

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2024/04/capypdf-0100-is-ou.html

In which I meet QA testers, bang my head against the GNOME OS initial setup process, and travel overland from Scotland to Spain in 48 hours. LINUX QA MEETUP Several companies and communities w...

https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2024/04/17/status-update-17-04-2024/

Just a little update about my activity around the Wikimedia Movement. As said in this blog, I have been invited to guide a workshop on Wikibase at the Murcia University . Also, I’ve sent tw...

https://olea.org/diario/2024/04/17/Wikimedia_update.html

In this post I’ll try to document the journey starting from a WebKit issue and ending up improving third-party projects that WebKitGTK and WPEWebKit depend on. I’ve been working on WebKit�...

https://base-art.net/Articles/from-webkitgstreamer-to-rust-av-a-journey-on-our-stacks-layers/

Retro; the customizable clock widget is now available on Flathub in v2 This new release comes with Support both 12h and 24h clock format. It follows GNOME Date & Time preference while bei...

http://blog.sonny.re/retro-v2?pk_campaign=rss-feed

(I need to put that somewhere because people ask about it and having a little post to explain it is nice.) What’s it about? GTK recently introduced the ability to offload graphics rendering ,...

https://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2024/04/14/making-gtk-graphics-offloading-work/

It has finally happened! The long awaited major update of Fragments is now available, which includes many exciting new features. The most important addition is support for torrent files. It is ...

https://blogs.gnome.org/haeckerfelix/2024/04/07/fragments-3-0/

Hi, I am happy to announce a new Cambalache stable release. With the UI ported to Gtk 4 I bumped the version to 0.90 to reflect the fact we are really close to 1.0 RELEASE NOTES: Migrat...

https://blogs.gnome.org/xjuan/2024/04/06/cambalache-0-90-0-released/

As a follow-up in spirit of reversing the USB a blood pressure monitor See Github project I was part of a project to revive a GPS receiver from the late 2000s. This is still work in process sinc...

https://jensge.org/2024/04/06/exercises-in-reversing/

VTE (Virtual TErminal library) is the library underpinning various GNOME terminal emulators. It provides a GTK widget that shows a terminal view, which is used in apps like GNOME Terminal , ...

https://bxt.rs/blog/just-how-much-faster-are-the-gnome-46-terminals/

A few people (and multi-billion dollar companies!) have asked for my response to the xz backdoor . The fwupd metadata that millions of people download every day is a 9.5MB XML file — which than...

https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2024/04/03/fwupd-and-xz-metadata/

So Fedora Workstation 40 Beta has just come out so I thought I share a bit about some of the things we are working on for Fedora Workstation currently and also major changes coming in from the ...

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2024/03/28/fedora-workstation-40-what-are-we-working-on/

The post Win-win for all: How to run a non-engineering Outreachy internship appeared first on /home/jwf/ . /home/jwf/ - Free & Open Source, technology, travel, and life reflections This yea...

https://blog.jwf.io/2024/03/win-win-for-all-outreachy/

Christian was looking at PGO and BOLT recently I figured I’d write down my notes from the discussions we had on how we’d go about making things faster on our stack, since I don’t have time...

https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2024/03/26/thoughts-on-employing-pgo-and-bolt-on-the-gnome-stack/

Good day, hackers. Today, a pragmatic note, on hacking on V8 from a Guix system. I’m going to skip a lot of the background because, as it turns out, I wrote about this already almost a deca...

https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/03/26/hacking-v8-with-guix-bis

Another small feature update just in time for gnome 46. SUBSCRIBE VIA CLI Lets start with something that already went into version 3.1.4: you can subscribe to feeds via CLI now. The idea is th...

https://blogs.gnome.org/jangernert/2024/03/25/newsflash-3-2/

> Kooha  is a simple screen recorder > for Linux with a minimal interface. You can simply click the record > button without having to configure a bunch of settings. W...

https://seadve.github.io/blog/10-kooha-2-3/

We’ve had a lot of questions from people planning to attend this year’s edition of the Berlin Mini GUADEC from outside Berlin about where it’s going to happen, so they can book accommodati...

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2024/03/22/mini-guadec-2024-we-have-a-venue/

GNOME 46 just released , and with it comes TinySPARQL 3.7 (aka Tracker SPARQL) and Tracker Miners 3.7. Here’s what I’ve been involved with this month in those projects. GOOGLE SUMMER OF COD...

https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2024/03/20/status-update-20-03-2024-tinysparql-and-tracker-miners/

It has been 3 years since my last post with release news for GVfs. This is mainly because previous releases were more or less just bug fixes. In contrast, GVfs 1.54 comes with two new backends. L...

https://ondrej.holych.net/whats-new-in-gvfs-for-gnome-46/

It’s been a busy few several months, but now that we have some breathing room, I wanted to take stock of what we have done over the last year or so. This is a good thing for most people and c...

https://arunraghavan.net/2024/03/asymptotic-a-2023-review/