How GNOME made its Calendar application accessible
This article will explain in details about the fundamental issues that held back accessibility in GNOME Calendar since the very beginning of its existence, the progress we have made with accessibility as well as our thought process in achieving it, and the now and future of accessibility in GNOME Calendar. ↫ Hari "TheEvilSkeleton" Rana
On August 15, 1997, @Migueldeicaza announced the start of GNOME on the GTK mailing list¹. Twenty-eight years later a lot has changed, but we continue to develop and iterate on “a free and complete set of user friendly applications and desktop tools… based entirely on free software.”
To help us continue this work far into the future, we hope you join us in celebrating our birthday by becoming a Friend of GNOME today! 🎂
- Knock-knock. - Who's there? - Dozen. - Dozen who? - Dozen anyone want to let me in?
Celebrating a dozen of #Fractal versions with knocking support! Get Fractal 12, the new version of your favourite #Matrix client for #GNOME from #Flathub now!
Knock, knock, knock… on wood rooms, baby 🎵 Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh 🎶 That’s right, Fractal 12 adds support for knocking, among other things. Read all about the improvements since 11.
New #GNOME app release! Just a tiny one, based on the idea from a few weeks ago ( mastodon.social/@pojntfx/11491… ). A nice skeumorphic Pomodoro timer, except you get to set the session and pause durations yourself (which happens to be the way I use my physical Pomodoro timer).
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Would anyone be interested in a "skeumorphic" Pomodoro timer for GNOME? I have one of those nice physical analog Pomodoro timers and I kind of wish an app version would emulate it (pause button on the top, drag to set your time etc…
Trotz prekärer Finanzlage organisierte die Gnome Stiftung ein Entwicklerinnen- und Entwicklertreffen in Italien, um über die Zukunft des Projektes zu beraten.
For those who were unable to attend, or see the recording, these are the notes for my GUADEC 2025 presentation about introducing a formal technical governance in GNOME, starting from a "change proposal" process, through the addition of a steering committee to evaluate those changes, and all the way down to the removal of the role of the "maintainer" for projects that exist under the GNOME umbrella.
For those who were unable to attend or see the recording, these are the notes for my GUADEC 2025 presentation about introducing a formal technical governance in GNOME, starting from a
Using #GNOME Builder again after Zed added mecha-hitler integration, currently rebuilding my website, and finding Builder very pleasant to use after customizing some stuff, and ofc adding #Vim keybinds in. Honestly nice having a GUI to configure stuff, and it being native to my GNOME system!
The GUADEC 2025 core days ended, and now it's the time of workshops and "birds of a feather" sessions.
Join my colleague Martín Abente Lahaye in his workshop on Gameeky, a learning tool designed for teaching programming, arts, and other skills, on Sunday, July 27, at 12:00
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.
Lightning talks (2/2): - @jimmac gave us a trip down memory lane of icons over the years - @ramcq talked about what @EndlessAccess is working on. Apparently adorable games that teach kids. - Jordan covered all the great CI improvements - Aryan talked about using extensions as a way to start contributing to #gnome - Syazwan talked about open source from Malaysia. he helps run the gnome YouTube streams - Pietro (age 12) talked about the programs he's written. Very cool, very inspirational.
@n8 gives a talk about using TUI's that integrate with #GNOME.
Really old-timers might appreciate the appearance of Midnight Commander in this talk. Created by #gnome founder @Migueldeicaza , this was the basis of our first file manager and vfs system.
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.
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.
After two weeks of writing, revising, and trying to make everything as digestible as possible, I finally published "GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days", where I explain in detail the steps we took to turn GNOME Calendar from an app that was literally unusable with a keyboard and screen reader to an app that is (finally) accessible to keyboard and screen reader users as of GNOME 49!
There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth …
The gnome she'll team gives their annual state of #GNOME Shell talk. Highlights: - Basic HDR has landed all up and down the stack (hooray!) Work is progressing on additional improvements, including color management - Many new Wayland protocols have been added, bringing QoL improvements, some gaming related - Input, including the global shortcuts portal - Accessibility improvements to reader shortcuts and visual alerts - triple buffering landed, amongst other speedups
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.
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.
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.
