In case you missed the last #GNOME foundation update: we're excited to share that we have officially joined the @gnome advisory board! We hope this will help us bring more attention to the #LinuxMobile effort and let us make GNOME on postmarketOS even better across all form factors.

blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/07…

2025-07-12 Foundation Update

Gah. Every week I'm like "I'll do a short one this week" and then I... do not.   ## New Treasurers We recently announced our new treasurer, Deepa Venkatraman. We will also have a new...

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We are a week away from GUADEC 2025, and I'll be there alongside other Igalians from various teams. We have presentations covering a diverse set of topics, but we also enjoy talking about what Igalia does, so feel free to have a chat with us.

events.gnome.org/event/259/

#guadec2025 #gnome #igalia

GUADEC 2025

Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.

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🐍 "The State of Python in GNOME"
with Dan Yeaw at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 14:15 CEST 📍 Brescia

⚙️ AsyncIO, girepository 2.0, real progress for Python in GNOME. Dan shows what’s new—and how to get involved.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#Python #GNOME #PyGObject #FOSS

🧱 "The state of GTK"
with Matthias Clasen at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 14:15 CEST 📍 Brescia

🎯 What's new in GTK? Color mgmt, Android, text rendering & more—plus what’s next for devs & contributors.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#GTK #GNOME #Linux #FOSS

This is GNM-3, but its friends just call it Gnomie. It lives in your computer and tends to your apps. It keeps your windows tidy and updates your Flatpaks while you’re not looking. Don’t switch workspaces too fast or you’ll make it dizzy.

#GNOME #whyHaveAMascotWhenWeAlreadyHaveAPerfectlyGoodFoot

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#208 Converting Colors
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…

#GNOME #TWIG

#208 Converting Colors

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Damned Lies, the GNOME's translation platform, now supports third-party authentication. It is now possible join the translation effort using Fedora, Launchpad, GNOME SSO, GitHub, GitLab.com and Google.

Read more from Guillaume's awesome post at discourse.gnome.org/t/release-…

#gnome #gnomedesktopenvironment #damnedlies #django #localization #internalization #l10 #i18n

Release of 3rd party authentication in Damned Lies

Dear translators, reviewers and GNOME hackers, Around the 5th of July 2025, we will ship a new way to connect to Damned Lies. Registration with a password will be permanently removed and 3rd party providers will be used to login to Damned Lies.

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this week’s @gnome foundation report is out:

blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/07…

there’s a small appeal at the end for some help for a hacker who is currently in an unsafe situation in the usa. if you can help, please contact me.

#gnome

2025-07-05 Foundation Update

## The Cat's Out Of The Bag Since some of you are bound to see this Reddit comment, and my reply, it's probably useful for me to address it in a more public forum, even if it violates my "No...

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A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#207 Replacing Shortcuts
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…

#GNOME #TWIG

#207 Replacing Shortcuts

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Below, I added some hype music to mastodon.social/@alatiera/1147…

With that, I believe we could get a huge GNOME fundraiser drive going, by selling tickets to a philanthropic wrestling match between @alatiera and probonopd. Per tradition, the match could take place in an abandoned warehouse in San Francisco, kitted up as for a rave. KDE devs welcome.

I bet Jordan would smack Xorg down so hard that xeyes pops out, and we would never hear from X11 again as Wayland reigns supreme.

#Linux #Wayland #GNOME

Jordan Petridis

2025-07-01 17:16:59

So close to the planch

I went through and cleared out a load of unnecessary subscriptions, and put some of that to become a Friend of GNOME. It’s important to me to support my favourite thoughtful, usable open-source desktop environment (and who knows, perhaps one day my favourite phone environment too)

#gnome

social.ndlug.org/@pnutzh4x0r/1…

Peter Bui (@pnutzh4x0r@social.ndlug.org)

Attached: 1 image Despite my aversion to subscriptions, I decided to become a Friend of GNOME today to support software I love :} If you wish to join me, checkout: https://donate.gnome.org/ #gnome

^NDLUG

Continuing our volunteer effort to make GNOME Calendar fully accessible with a keyboard (see thread for context), we fixed a major bug that was causing the focus to disappear into the abyss when the user tried to tab into the month view in merge request !576. This means, as of this commit, events should now be completely functional and accessible within the month view. Additionally, the merge request changes the keyboard and focus behavior within the month view: Events can only be cycled using arrow buttons, the focus can't escape the month view with arrow buttons, and entering/exiting the month view can only be done with tab. These improvements will be available on GNOME 49.

#GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #GNOMECalendar #Calendar #FOSS #FreeSoftware #Linux

Improve accessibility with event widgets in the month view (!576) · Merge requests · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab

Calendar application for GNOME

^GitLab

Happy Disability Pride Month everybody :)

During the past few weeks, there's been an overwhelming amount of progress with accessibility on GNOME Calendar:

• Event widgets/popovers will convey to screen readers that they are toggle buttons. They will also convey of their states (whether they're pressed or not) and that they have a popover.

• Calendar rows will convey to screen readers that they are check boxes, along with their states (whether they're checked or not). Additionally, they will no longer require a second press of a tab to get to the next row; one tab will be sufficient.

• Month and year spin buttons are now capable of being interacted with using arrow up/down buttons. They will also convey to screen readers that they are spin buttons, along with their properties (current, minimum, and maximum values). The month spin button will also wrap, where going back a month from January will jump to December, and going to the next month from December will jump to January.

• Events in the agenda view will convey to screen readers of their respective titles and descriptions.

Accessibility on Calendar has progressed to the point where I believe it's safe to say that, as of GNOME 49, Calendar will be usable exclusively with a keyboard, without significant usability friction!

There's still a lot of work to be done in regards to screen readers, for example conveying time appropriately and event descriptions. But really, just 6 months ago, we went from having absolutely no idea where to even begin with accessibility in Calendar — which has been an ongoing issue for literally a decade — to having something workable exclusively with a keyboard and screen reader! :3

Huge thanks to @nekohayo for coordinating the accessibility initiative, especially with keeping the accessibility meta issue updated; Georges Stavracas for single-handedly maintaining GNOME Calendar and reviewing all my merge requests; and @tyrylu for sharing feedback in regards to usability.

All my work so far has been unpaid and voluntary; hundreds of hours were put into developing and testing all the accessibility-related merge requests. I would really appreciate if you could spare a little bit of money to support my work, thank you 🩷

• ko-fi.com/theevilskeleton
• github.com/sponsors/TheEvilSke…

#Accessibility #a11y #DisabilityPrideMonth #GNOME #GNOMECalendar #GTK #GTK4 #Libadwaita #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OpenSource

Sponsor @TheEvilSkeleton on GitHub Sponsors

Support TheEvilSkeleton's open source work

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Si quieres echar una mano a GNOME y no sabes cómo...

DONA!

Cualquier cantidad por pequeña que sea es bienvenida ☺️

donate.gnome.org

#GNOME

Ich bin jetzt auch ein Freund von #GNOME und unterstütze mit einem monatlichen Betrag.

Keep up the good work! @gnome

donate.gnome.org/

#GNOME necesita tu ayuda!

Si eres usuario de GNOME o simplemente nos quieres apoyar porque te gusta nuestro escritorio, tenemos una nueva web donde puedes donar mensualmente!

donate.gnome.org

Ninguna donación es pequeña. Con esta nueva web queremos conseguir tener donaciones recurrentes a lo largo del año para poder mantener nuestra infraestructura.

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#206 Hot Days
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…

#GNOME #TWIG

#206 Hot Days

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finally some good fucking content

old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/…

#KDE #GNOME

I embloggenated about getting mad at your audio stack

arunraghavan.net/2025/06/the-u…

#linux #linuxaudio #pipewire #pulseaudio #gnome

it's been a very difficult year or two for @gnome and, to continue to exist, the foundation really needs you.

however, we first want to ask you to *donate less*:

blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/06…

#gnome

Donate Less

We have a new donation page. But before you go there, I would like to impress upon you this idea: We would vastly prefer you donate $10/mo for one year ($120 total) than $200 in one lump sum....

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Considering how GNOME Color Manager's support for calibrating scanners (and printers?) has been broken for many years, and how it seems like the remaining code might get ripped out entirely from GNOME Control Center as a result, I have filed a new #GNOME app idea, in the wild hope that someone might find this interesting enough to create a standalone utility app for creating ICC color profiles for your photo scanners and printers: gitlab.gnome.org/bertob/app-id…

#ColorManagement #Linux #photography

Color management: a printers and flatbed scanner calibration tool to generate ICC colour profiles (for accurate scanning & printing) (#293) · Issues · Tobias Bernard / App Ideas · GitLab

I searched far and wide for standalone calibration tools and they are either nonexistent or extremely hard to use (and typically commandline stuff requiring obscure arcane knowledge). Even...

^GitLab

postmarketOS v25.06 - "the one with systemd" is out now!

* Camera for OP6/6T and others 📸
* #GNOME 48 + 48.mobile.0
* #PlasmaMobile 6.3.5
* #Phosh 0.47.0 with Stevia now installed by default
* #Sxmo 1.17.1 (again, but this time with a systemd preview too!)
* os-installer images
* mobile-config-thunderbird

Thanks to all the amazing people who contributed to this release!

Thanks to @nlnet and @NGIZero for funding most of the infrastructure and maintenance work that went into this release as well as a lot of the systemd related work.

postmarketos.org/blog/2025/06/…

#linuxmobile

v25.06: the one with systemd

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

^postmarketOS

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#205 Loading Films
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…

#GNOME #TWIG

#205 Loading Films

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🔐 "Fixing Desktop Keyrings"
with Dhanuka Warusadura at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 12:30 CEST 📍 Brescia
🧩 GNOME 49 plans to replace gnome-keyring with a new D-Bus Secret Service. Here’s what’s changing.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#GNOME #Security #Keyring #OpenSource

🍜 "State of libsoup"
with Patrick Griffis at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 12:30 CEST 📍 Brescia
🔧 From 3.0 to what’s next—Patrick gives an update on GNOME’s HTTP library libsoup.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#GNOME #libsoup #Networking #OpenSource

🗓️ Planify mi bylo doporučeno v komunitní místnosti o #triliumnext – a musím říct, fakt super!
Konečně krásná co padne do #Gnome, jednoduchá a funkční aplikace pro správu úkolů, která se napojí na #Nextcloud #oscloud přes CalDAV.

Nextcloud (backend) + DAVx⁵ + Tasks.org (Android) + Planify (desktop)
Funguje to skvěle dohromady.

#FOSS #Planify #Nextcloud #CalDAV #Linux #OpenSource #oscloud
github.com/alainm23/planify

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#204 Sending Packets
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…

#GNOME #TWIG

#204 Sending Packets

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I was wondering why GNOME's i10n platform is called "Damned Lies"?

I searched and I only found a link to "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" article on Wikipedia. After understanding the context a bit, I wasn't sure about the link between this and the localisation web app, so I asked in the @gnome I18n room on Matrix, and Alexandre generously explained it. Since there was no online explanation, I wrote a post about it on my blog. Hope it helps.

blogs.gnome.org/alirezash/2025…

@afranke
#GNOME #I10n

It's really harder and harder to understand why is #GNOME alienating itself more and more form the rest of the community. Looks like we'll end up with GTK only for GNOME and GNOME only for #Linux and #systemd. I have no problems with systemd in particular, but making it a hard requirement is a limiting factor.

blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/202…

🎓 "Making a career out of FOSS Internships (GSoC/Outreachy)"
with Aryan Kaushik at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 12:05 CEST 📍 Brescia

💼 FOSS can lead to real careers. Aryan explains how GSoC & Outreachy changed lives—and why you should get involved too.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#OpenSource #GSoC #Outreachy #GNOME

I don't want to support this move to amazon. @fedora What does this mean? Do I have to replace fedora?

EDIT: it's possible to switch desktop environments: docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/q…

#linux #fedora #gnome #f42 #gnome48

Switching desktop environments

Different Fedora Linux variants (Spins/Labs) have different default environments. For example, the Fedora workstation uses GNOME as its default desktop environment, while the KDE spin will use KDE. Irrespective of…

^{Fedora Docs}

💻 "Hacking the Shell"
with Florian Müllner at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 12:05 CEST 📍 Brescia
🧪 Bleeding-edge deps? No fear—containers & tooling make GNOME Shell dev easier than you think.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#GNOME #gnomeshell #Linux #DevTools

Thank you #GNOME team

"We can’t afford to stay silent in times when history is literally being erased, and fundamental human rights are being revoked. Silence is complicity. We will not falter at this attempt to divide queer communities. We also encourage everyone to be as outspoken as they can be.

Never forget: We are stronger together.

In light of these circumstances it is especially encouraging to see the community of queer contributors growing steadily. We are here and we are not going anywhere - the GNOME community is and will always stand with queer people. We’ve got your back."

thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…

#203 Infinitely Proud

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A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#203 Infinitely Proud
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…

#GNOME #TWIG #pride #pridemonth #queer

#203 Infinitely Proud

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🎨 "Designing GNOME"
with Allan Day & Cassidy James Blaede
📅 24 July 🕒 11:05 CEST 📍 Brescia
🖌️ A year of design updates: notifications, UX patterns, Adwaita fonts & more.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#GNOME #UX #Design #Adwaita #GUADEC2025

hello #gnome folks! your chance to stand for board of directors elections closes in 8 hours:

"Candidacies must be announced prior to 2025-06-03, 23:59 UTC."

discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-fo…

read more about what it looks like to sit on the board (and what we need this year) here:

blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/05…

GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Elections 2025

I don’t have any affiliation at the moment. In near future as a contractor for the German government.

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A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#202 Presenting Screenshots
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…

#GNOME #TWIG

#202 Presenting Screenshots

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