Good morning! Today we continue our dive into the Hoot Scheme-to-WebAssembly compiler . Instead of talking about Scheme, let’s focus on WebAssembly, specifically the set of tools that we have b...
We are thrilled to share the GNOME Foundation’s Draft Five-Year Strategic Plan proposal, a roadmap that sets the stage for our collective journey towards a brighter, more sustainable future. Th...
Mail chew, read profiles, technical planning call. COOL community meeting and encouraging testing call. E. home on the bus. Poked at profiles, and dug away at some nonsense tile description re-p...
It’s time for another Crosswords release. I’ll keep this update short and sweet. I had grand plans last cycle to work on the word data and I did work a little on it — just not in the way...
https://blogs.gnome.org/jrb/2024/05/23/crosswords-0-3-13-side-quests/
Developing WebKitGTK and WPE has always had challenges such as the amount of dependencies or it’s fairly complex C++ codebase which not all compiler versions handle well. To help with this we...
https://blog.tingping.se/2024/05/23/Introducing-WebKit-Container-SDK.html
Up super-early as J. took H. to the airport; worked through task backlog; dropped E. to school, helped by Mitch. Partner call, picked up E. after her exam. Worked on release roadmap planning wit...
Following on last week’s egregious discussion of the Hoot Scheme-to-WebAssembly compiler bootie , today I would like to examine another axis of boot, which is a kind of rebased branch of histor...
Python 3.13 beta 1 is out , and I've been working on the openSUSE Tumbleweed package to get it ready for the release. INSTALLING PYTHON 3.13 BETA 1 IN TUMBLEWEED If you are adventurous enough ...
The GNOME Foundation and Black Python Devs are proud to announce that our organizations have entered into a fiscal sponsorship agreement for the mutual benefit of our communities and the greater ...
https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/05/21/black-python-devs-and-gnome/
Last Friday I organized a Fedora 40 release party in Prague. A month ago I got a message from Karel Ziegler of Etnetera Core if we could do a Fedora release party in Prague again. Etnetera Core ...
https://enblog.eischmann.cz/2024/05/20/fedora-40-release-party-in-prague/
Apart from Software Development, I also have an interest in governance and finances. Therefore, last July, I was quite happy to attend my first Annual General Meeting (AGM), taking place in GUA...
Seems this is another of those months where I did enough stuff to merit two posts. (See Thursday’s post on async Rust ). Sometimes you just can’t get out of doing work, no matter how you try....
https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2024/05/19/status-update-19-05-2024-gnome-os-and-more/
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 the...
This is another month where too many different things happened to stick them all in one post together. So here’s a ramble on Rust, and there’s more to come in a follow up post. I first star...
https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2024/05/16/status-update-16-05-2024-learning-async-rust/
You can get Ptyxis on Flathub now if you would like to run the stable version rather than Nightly. Unless you’re interested in helping QA Ptyxis or contributing that is probably the Flatpak yo...
https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2024/05/15/ptyxis-on-flathub/
In last week's episode of the Game Scoop podcast an idea was floated that modern computer game names are uninspiring and that better ones could be made by picking random words from existing NES ...
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2024/05/generative-non-ai.html
My journey as a GNOME user started in 2020 when I first set up Ubuntu on my computer, dual-booting it with Windows. Although I wasn't aware of GNOME back then, what I found fascinating was that d...
https://sudhanshut.blogspot.com/2024/05/me-as-gnome-user-and-contributor.html
It's about time for the spring update of goings on in Maps! There's been some changes going on since the release of 46. VECTOR MAP BY DEFAULT The vector map is now being used by defa...
It’s been a while since my last blog post, which was about my Google Summer of Code project. Even though it has been months since I completed GSoC, I have continued working on the project, incr...
https://medium.com/@txnmxy3/acrostic-generator-part-one-6d119cb1e981?source=rss-7808d13499aa------2
In October 2023, with quite a bit of experience in web development and familiarity with programming concepts in general, I was in search of avenues where I could put this experience to good use. ...
https://sudhanshut.blogspot.com/2024/05/being-beginner-open-source-contributor.html
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from May 03 to May 10. SOVEREIGN TECH FUND Sonny says > As part of the GNOME STF (Sovereign Tech Fund) initiative, ...
TLDR: Thanks to José Exposito, libwacom 2.12 will support all Huion and Gaomon devices when running on a 6.10 kernel. libwacom, now almost 13 years old, is a C library that provides a bunch ...
https://who-t.blogspot.com/2024/05/libwacom-and-huiongaomon-devices.html
I write about Sysprof here quite often. Mostly in hopes of encouraging readers to use it to improve Linux as a whole. An impediment to that is the intrusiveness to test out new features as t...
https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2024/05/07/system-extensions-from-flatpak/
Now this website uses a simple statistics system which is GDPR compatible and privacy friendly. It uses Libre Counter which not need user registration neither configuration beyond adding some co...
https://olea.org/diario/2024/05/06/GDPR_statistics_with_librecounder.html
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from April 26 to May 03. SOVEREIGN TECH FUND Tobias Bernard announces > As part of the GNOME STF (Sovereign Tech Fund...
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/
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...
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...
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...
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
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 ...
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
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...
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...
(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/