Are you interested in hosting #GUADEC2025 in your city? Make sure to let us know by submitting your intent to bid by May 3! https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/04/18/call-for-guadec-2025-location-proposals/

This is not your full proposal, just a short form that lets us know who you are and where you want to host.

#GUADEC #GNOME

After more annoyances that Gnome/RedHat is pulling lately ( https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/issues/288 ), I just donated to #Linux #Mint, instead of my original intention, #Gnome.

The Gnome Project is a wall-garden, but not of the Apple kind. It's a club of mostly #Redhat programmers & a few select others, and either you're in it, or you're not. Your user needs, your bug reports, your patches, all end up on /dev/null. They listen to no one. Never have, never will.

So, my money went to a fork.

#opensource #foss

Symbolic icons only have the `-symbolic` suffix, breaking compatibility with FDO-compatible apps (#288) · Issues · GNOME / adwaita-icon-theme · GitLab

[Here I use the copy icon as an example, but the issue affects everything] The Adwaita icon theme has an icon-named edit-copy-symbolic for its copy...

^GitLab

GNOME will be mentoring 8 new contributors for Google Summer of Code 2024

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 development. A number of long term GNOME developers are former GSoC interns, making the program a very valuable entry point for new members in our project.

In 2024 we will mentoring the following projects:

As part of the contributor’s acceptance into GSoC they are expected to actively participate in the Community Bonding period (May 1 – 26). The Community Bonding period is intended to help prepare contributors to start contributing at full speed starting May 27.

The new contributors will soon get their blogs added to Planet GNOME making it easy for the GNOME community to get to know them and the projects that they will be working on.

We would like to also thank our mentors for supporting GSoC and helping new contributors enter our project.

If you have any doubts, feel free to reply to this Discourse topic or message us privately at soc-admins@gnome.org

#gnome #gsoc

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

GNOME will be mentoring 8 new contributors for Google Summer of Code 2024

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 development.

^{GNOME Discourse}

Congrats to the 9 applicants who got accepted into GSoC with GNOME! 🧑‍🎓

They'll be working on

• Rework Bustle's Diagram
• Add TypeScript Support to Workbench
• Port Workbench demos to Vala, new library
• Create a web IDE for Tracker SPARQL (2x)
• Mobile/touch support for Papers
• More durable synching for FlatSync
• Port libipuz to Rust
• Add support for the latest GIR attributes and gi-docgen formatting to Valadoc

And thanks to mentors!

#GSoC #gsoc2024 #GNOME #rustlang #TypeScript #vala

#GNOME picks of the day:

➡️ @gnome - Official GNOME account

➡️ @gnomeapps - Recommending GNOME apps every week

➡️ @ramcq - President of GNOME

➡️ @sonny - GNOME foundation director

➡️ @haeckerfelix - Author of "This Week in GNOME" blog

➡️ @Tuba - Fediverse app for GNOME

➡️ @EvolutionGnome - Personal information management

➡️ @gnomeboxes - Easily download & install OS in virtual machine

➡️ @GNOMELatam - GNOME conference in Latin America

➡️ @gnome_br - Portuguese-language GNOME account

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Workbench 46.1 is out!

https://flathub.org/apps/re.sonny.Workbench

Happy International Workers' Day

See what's new and details at https://blog.sonny.re/workbench-46-1

#GNOME #GTK #JavaScript #rustlang #Python #Vala #Linux #development

Workbench 46.1

Labor day marks the release of Workbench 46.1 This new release comes with Save/restore window state and dimensions for each session/pro...

^Sonny's

The #GNOMEAsia2024 Call for Locations is open! If you are interested in bringing GNOME Asia to your city make sure to submit an intent to bid by May 15, and your full proposal by June 6.
More details on how to submit here: https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/04/30/call-for-gnome-asia-2024-location-proposals/

#GNOME #GNOMEAsia

#postmarketOS isn't just for phones!

Here it is running #GNOME on a recovered 2012-era #macbook (everything works!) 🥳

We are excited to announce that #LAS2024 will be held in Monterrey, Mexico! Join us on October 4-5 in person or online. More updates will come soon at: https://linuxappsummit.org
#LAS #LinuxAppSummit #KDE #GNOME #opensource"

Thank you so much for your patience! Let's GO!

Linux App Summit 2024

The Linux App Summit (LAS) is designed to accelerate the growth of the Linux application ecosystem by bringing together everyone involved in creating a great Linux application user experience.

^{linuxappsummit.org}

#postmarketos #linuxmobile #gnome I have been daily driving PMOS edge with Gnome mobile on my OnePlus 6 for a week now. So far quite pleased with the performance, despite a few glitches, so I decided to donate some money to both of the providers making this possible - PMOS and Gnome. Thank you for making this possible. Looking forward to further development.

p.s. Managed to get the flashlight working today, another bonus! d.s.

#GNOME 46.1 Desktop Environment Released with Explicit Sync Support and Numerous Improvements https://9to5linux.com/gnome-46-1-desktop-environment-released-with-explicit-sync-support

@gnome #Linux #OpenSource

Hieroglyphic by @FineFindus joined GNOME Circle!

The app lets you find LaTeX symbols by sketching.

https://apps.gnome.org/Hieroglyphic/

#GNOME #GNOMECircle #LaTeX

Christian Hergert just published a massive PDF document named "Builder, A Developers Notebook", where he documents over the technical details of GNOME Builder.

Document: https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/builder-a-developers-notebook/-/raw/main/builder-a-developers-notebook.pdf?ref_type=heads

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

#GNOME #GNOMEBuilder #GTK #IDE #Development #OpenSource #FOSS #Flatpak

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#145 Quality Over Quantity
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/04/twig-145/

#GNOME #TWIG

Thanks to @slomo the #gstreamer #gtk gtk4paintablesink just got support for DMABuf (and thus Wayland/KMS) passthrough

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs/-/merge_requests/1547

This will allow to make video playback in various apps much faster. And, if everything works out, allow the same for Camera viewfinders in apps like #gnome camera / snapshot 🤞

gtk4: Implement support for directly importing dmabufs (!1547) · Merge requests · GStreamer / gst-plugins-rs · GitLab

Fixes

^GitLab

Is Totem (Gnome Videos) still maintained? As per https://apps.gnome.org/Totem/ latest version is 43 from 2022. Is it going to be removed from Gnome Core apps or replaced with something new?

#gnome #GNOME46 #linux #videoplayer

Videos – Apps for GNOME

Play movies – Videos is the official movie player of the GNOME desktop environment. It features a searchable list of local videos, and DVDs, as well as local network video shares (using UPnP/DLNA) and video highlig...

^{apps.gnome.org}

After a great week for Linux, with the releases of Fedora 40 and today Ubuntu 24.04, I would be interested to know which operating system the Fediverse in my "bubble" uses? Linux? Windows? Or macOS or even a BSD? More than one?

Please write in the comments which distribution or version! Thanks for participating and SHARING!

#linux #unix #opensource #freesoftware #windows #microsoft #apple #macos #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #debian #fedora #ubuntu #linuxmint #archlinux #opensuse #gnome #kde

• Linux - Which one? (71%, 50 votes)
• Windows 10/11 (15%, 11 votes)
• macOS (20%, 14 votes)
• FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD (30%, 21 votes)

You don't need a new computer for up-to-date software ... just the right software!

Come to #Umweltfestival 2024 in #Berlin to learn about the role of independent #FreeSoftware in the sustainable use of hardware.

🗓️ Sunday 28 April, 11-19h
📍 Straße des 17. Juni (Brandenburg Gate)

#KDEEco together with #FSFE (@fsfe) and Bits & Bäume (@bitsundbaeume_berlin) will be there! Some in the #GNOME and #postmarketOS community may be joining as well :)

@kde

#KDE #BMUV #UBA #GermanEnvAgency #OpenSource

#GUADEC2024 is only a few months away! Have you registered yet? Let us know if you're attending in person in Denver, or remotely by signing up today: https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/02/14/guadec-2024-registration-is-open/

#GUADEC #GNOME

Welcome to our newest GNOME Foundation member @eeejay 🎉

Eitan has been involved in Linux/GNOME accessibility for 20 years and is on the Mozilla accessibility team.

In the past he created Accerciser, and contributed to Orca as well as Telepathy.

Eitan makes Spiel; a speech framework for the freedesktop.

https://project-spiel.org/

I heard you might be able to catch him at GUADEC in Denver this year.

#GNOME #Linux #Mozilla #accessibility

@pvagner@fedi.ml
I've read your reply to @WestphalDenn@social.cologne questions about working with #Gnome on #Linux. Thanx for your insights!

What interests me:
Is the #Electron#Desktop#App#Element for #Matrix#Chat accessible for #blind#users? You use it?

#a11y#Acessiblity

I've made a little demo app for the new AdwButtonRow widget 🐈‍⬛

https://gitlab.gnome.org/Monster/button-rows

https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libadwaita/doc/main/class.ButtonRow

#gnome

For a mere £1M - the amount of engineering that the @gnome project has been doing this year is nothing short of phenomenal. The App Ecosystem is worth investing in.
https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2024/04/23/notifications-46-and-beyond/
This year's Linux App Summit and GUADEC will be awesome I think :)

#gnome #linuxapps

As part of the GNOME @sovtechfund project we've been working on improving notifications in GNOME (and the wider free desktop) 🔔✨

In this blog post @jsparber gives an update on the current state, what's already landed in 46, and what's coming in the near future!

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

#gnome #stf #freedesktop #flatpak

Congratulations to the entire @fedora community on the release of F40!

And this is awesome: The "Slimbook Fedora 2" laptop looks like a great way to get more people up and running with #FreeSoftware and best of all, they donate 3% of the proceeds to @gnome.

#Fedora #GNOME #OpenSource #Slimbook

https://fedoramagazine.org/slimbook-fedora-2-new-ultrabooks-for-fedora-linux-40/

Slimbook Fedora 2: New Ultrabooks for Fedora Linux 40 - Fedora Magazine

Check out the new Fedora Slimbook 2 Ultrabook with Fedora Linux 40 installed! Fourteen inch and sixteen inch versions are available.

^{Joseph Gayoso (Fedora Project)}

Fedora Linux 40 is HERE! Check out all our latest variants for desktop, server, and more.

New features include:
* @kde Plasma 6
* @gnome 46
* Fedora Atomic Desktops (rebrand for Silverblue et al)
* PyTorch / ROCm
* And more!

Learn more and try Fedora 40 today! https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-40/

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #Gnome #KDE

• intuitive and funtional (73%, 28 votes)
• strange, but has clear advantages (13%, 5 votes)
• incomprehensible, bizarre, counterintuitive (13%, 5 votes)
• no idea / what's a GNOME? (0%, 0 votes)

WTF? Is #Tenacity on the #Flatpak store #MALWARE? Apparently it was running in the bg AS IF it was an invincible #Gnome extension so SystemMonitor/htop would NOT see it as a process. But #MissionCenter (also from flatpak store) saw it as it is: an app running on startup! Killing it killed Gnome session! It was also spiking wifi, and was leaking the Gnome gjs service from 4MB RAM to 120MB. Uninstalling fixed the prob

Third party flatpak/snaps should be vetted.

#security #opensource #linux #foss

Dear GNOME, GTK and friend developers 🧑‍💻

Have you ever encountered an issue with #Blueprint? Please file an issue, and we'll look at it for Blueprint 1.0

https://gitlab.gnome.org/jwestman/blueprint-compiler/-/issues

We aim for supporting all GTK builder syntax and 100% XML↔Blueprint porting compatibility.

#GTK #GNOME #libadwaita

Issues · James Westman / Blueprint · GitLab

A markup language for GTK user interfaces. Docs: https://jwestman.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/blueprint-compiler/

^GitLab

@sonny It's a tricky one, but I think it should be doable to make it work somehow. For being featured the first screenshot is most important, you can preview that here: https://docs.flathub.org/banner-preview

More generally, I'd reduce the number of screenshots to 3 or so (e.g. first, second, last) and avoid manual compositing with multiple windows as much as possible. Happy to discuss this more in detail, but might be better on Matrix, e.g. #flathub or #gnome-design :)

Brand color preview | Flathub Documentation

Preview your brand color

^{docs.flathub.org}

A new version of GNOME Podcasts is out - you can now search for podcasts in-app using iTunes search

https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-podcasts-7-0-released-with-itunes-podcast-search/

#gnome #opensource #podcasts

GNOME Podcasts 7.0 Released with iTunes & fyyd Search - OMG! Linux

If you love podcasts and you love the look of GTK4/libadwaita apps then you'll be pleased to hear a new version of the GNOME Podcasts app has been

^{Joey Sneddon (OMG! Linux)}

I can't believe it's another Friday. A sketch Friday it is!

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

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

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

#GNOME #TWIG

Orca the Linux screen reader now has a website!

https://orca.gnome.org/

Thanks to @snwh

And thank you Joannie, @igalia and the community for all the ongoing work and support.

#Linux #GNOME #freedesktop #a11y #accessibility