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#189 Global Shortcuts
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#189 Global Shortcuts
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from February 21 to February 28.thisweek.gnome.org
GNOME is participating in Google Summer of Code 2025!
The Google Summer of Code 2025 mentoring organizations have just been announced and we are happy that GNOME’s participation has been accepted!
If you are interested in having a internship with GNOME, check gsoc.gnome.org for our project ideas and getting started information.
I just noticed that the #GNOME implementation of the global shortcuts portal was finally merged 🎉 Thanks to everyone who worked on it!
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-des…
Implement global shortcuts (#47) · Issues · GNOME / xdg-desktop-portal-gnome · GitLab
Depends on https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/711 Mockups available at https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/os-mockups/-/blob/master/portals/portals.pngGitLab
One more GNOME website refreshed!
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#188 Software Fixes
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#188 Software Fixes
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from February 14 to February 21.thisweek.gnome.org
Eloquent proofreading assistant 1.1 is out with improved language detection and support for running LanguageTool server in the background 👻
This allows 3rd parties such as LibreOffice and Firefox to connect to a local and offline instance of the LanguageTool server.

@nekohayo pointed me to this slashdot article - tech.slashdot.org/story/25/02/….
Woo, it has all the old hits. It's the Princess Bride of threads with conspiracy theories, systemd hate, X11 romance, GNOME 1 supremacy - it's like I stepped back in time largely because they are still battling old grievances from 20 years ago.
Is It Time For a Change In GNOME Leadership? - Slashdot
Longtime Slashdot reader BrendaEM writes: Command-line aside, Cinnamon is the most effective keeper of the Linux desktop flame -- by not abandoning desktop and laptop computers.tech.slashdot.org
After years of hard work, countless reviews, and tons of community testing, we're happy to share that dynamic buffering has landed in Mutter for GNOME 48!
This improves the smoothness of GNOME across a wide range of hardware and software setups.
Thanks to everyone involved in this collaboration! Special thanks to author Daniel van Vugt from Canonical and reviewers Jonas Ådahl and Michel Dänzer from Red Hat.
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#GNOME #OpenSource #Linux
#187 Triple Buffered Notifications
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from February 07 to February 14.thisweek.gnome.org
What an incredible week! Shell notification grouping, Mutter triple buffering - and so much more! 🥳
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#187 Triple Buffered Notifications
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#187 Triple Buffered Notifications
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from February 07 to February 14.thisweek.gnome.org
Happy I Love Free Software Day! 💕
Unfortunately, this year I could not join nor organize any in-person celebration, BUT of course I want to share my gratitude to the many, countless #FreeSoftware services I don’t merely use, but actually depend on.
Last year, I decided to focus only on #YunoHost, because it would have been crazy to list all the projects I use and I love.
This time, even if I will most certainly forget someone, I am challenging myself to mention all the #LibreSoftware my life is powered by.
Without further ado, THANK YOU to:
- @yunohost, for powering Nebuchadnezzar
- @fedora, for running my beloved #Framework laptop
- @frameworkcomputer, for designing and building repairable, #Linux-friendly and truly open hardware
- @gnome and @GTK, for being just gorgeous
- @calyxos (thus @LineageOS), for powering my #Fairphone5
- #Obtainium, for making me directly download apps on my phone, and @fdroidorg for distributing them
- #AuroraStore, for proxying the download of apps I am doomed to get from Google Play
- @element, for developing #Synapse, even though the new proprietary Synapse Pro is VERY PROBLEMATIC AND DISAPPOINTING
- #Fractal, for being the most beautiful and awesome #Matrix client ever
- @signalapp, for keeping me connected with the people I love
- @Mastodon, for also maintaining a feature-packed experimental fork (#GlitchSoc), that is what Pan runs
- #Tuba and #Moshidon, for being the most beautiful and awesome #Mastodon clients ever
- #Firefox, for still remaining the best possible #browser choice, despite #Mozilla’s governance messiness
- @openstreetmap, for allowing us to find the right path, both literally and metaphorically!
- @organicmaps, for being the simplest, cleanest, yet feature-rich #OSM client and navigation app
- @protonvpn, for making me browse safely from/to anywhere in the planet and @protonprivacy #ProtonMail, for hosting my email, despite the latest alarming political statements…
- @libreoffice, for allowing me to draft documents with ease, the last of which was my #CV
- #LanguageTool, for preventing me from making embarassing spelling mistakes
- @photoprism, for safely storing and indexing all my photographic memories, on Aby, and for providing stellar and friendly support too!
- #Actual, for moderating the very likely risk of ending up completely broke, since it forces me to manage my finances consciously and coherently
- @readeck, for storing and sorting ALL my varied and overwhelming inputs
- @nextcloud, for storing and synchronizing my data, for its #calendar, its #tasks, and all its awesome apps
- #Rustdesk, for preventing my friends and family members from going crazy, by allowing me to remotely connect to their devices and directly address the issues they have
- #Listmonk, for sending out my newsletter
- @eleventy, for powering all the websites I maintain, above all the virtual representation of my mind, and for being the only reason why I resist and try to continue learning #JavaScript
- @forgejo, for giving us a chance to truly control and collectively develop the sources of our software, but most importantly @Codeberg, for RESISTING, RESISTING, RESISTING, despite the hatred and attacks nazi assholes throw at them
- @musicbrainz for keeping music knowledge open and free, and @ListenBrainz for scrobbling the crazy music I listen to
- The @fsfe, for promoting this celebration and fighting the good fight!
Lastly, but most importantly, the biggest thank you goes to all the free software libraries and dependencies the above mentioned #software are made of/built with, including #C, #JavaScript, #Python, #Rust, and all community-maintained programming languages.
I am super sorry if I forgot someone!
#OpenSource #ILoveFS #SoftwareFreedom #Fairphone #Android #LineageOS #FSFE #OpenStreetMap #PhotoPrism #LibreOffice #Readeck #Eleventy #11ty #GNOME #Signal #forgejo #Codeberg #MusicBrainz #ListenBrainz #MetaBrainz
Nebuchadnezzar
Information and insights concerning the configuration and maintenance of Tommi’s server.Tommi (Tommi’s mind)
#Fractal 10 had a couple regressions. We didn’t want our users to wait until Fractal 11 to get the fixes in their favorite #GNOME #Matrix client, so here is Fractal 10.1:
discourse.gnome.org/t/fractal-…
Fractal 10.1 released
Due to a couple of unfortunate but important regressions in Fractal 10, we are releasing Fractal 10.1 so our users don’t have to wait too long for them to be addressed.GNOME Discourse
RIP #GNOME logo ... we barely knew ya. 1997-2025
#BrandEquity #logo #branding #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS
GNOME nemá české překladatele
Posledních minimálně 15 let byly překlady GNOME do češtiny ve výborném stavu. U každého vydání jsem jen hlásil, že je vše přeložené, poslední roky to platilo i pro drtivou většinu dokumentace. Poslední rok se to ale začalo zadrhávat. Přispěvatelé, kteří to dlouhé roky táhli, odešli a není nikdo, kdo by to po nich převzal. Proto jsme se rozhodli jít s pravdou ven: GNOME momentálně nemá české překladatele a pokud se toho neujme někdo nový, překlady začnou postupně upadat.
#Gnome #l10n #Linux #openSource
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(reakce na tento příspěvek se může zobrazit jako komentář pod článkem)
GNOME Has No Czech Translators
For at least the last 15 years, the translations of GNOME into Czech have been in excellent condition. With each release, I would only report that everything was translated, and for the last few years, this was also true the vast majority of the documentation. However, last year things started to falter. Contributors who had been carrying this for many years left, and there is no one to take over after them. Therefore, we have decided to admit it publicly: GNOME currently has no Czech translators, and unless someone new takes over, the translations will gradually decline.
Personally, I started working on GNOME translations in 2008 when I began translating my favorite groupware client – Evolution. At that time, the leadership of the translation team was taken over by Petr Kovář, who was later joined by Marek Černocký who maintained the translations for many years and did an enormous amount of work. Thanks to him, GNOME was almost 100% translated into Czech, including the documentation. However, both have completely withdrawn from the translations. For a while, they were replaced by Vojtěch Perník and Daniel Rusek, but the former has also left, and Dan has now come to the conclusion that he can no longer carry on the translations alone.
I suggested to Dan that instead of trying to appeal to those who the GNOME translations have relied on for nearly two decades—who have already contributed a lot and are probably facing some form of burnout or have simply moved on to something else after so many years—it would be better to reach out to the broader community to see if there is someone from a new generation who would be willing and energetic enough to take over the translations. Just as we did nearly two decades ago.
It may turn out that an essential part of this process will be that the GNOME translations into Czech will decline for some time.Because the same people have been doing the job for so many years, the community has gotten used to taking excellent translations for granted. But it is not. Someone has to do the work. As more and more English terms appear in the GNOME interface, perhaps dissatisfaction will motivate someone to do something about it. After all, that was the motivation for the previous generation to get involved.
If someone like that comes forward, Dan and I are willing to help them with training and gradually hand over the project. We may both continue to contribute in a limited capacity, but the project needs someone new, ideally not just one person, but several, because carrying it alone is a path to burnout. Interested parties can contact us in the mailing list of the Czech translation team at diskuze-l10n-cz@lists.openalt.org.
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#186 Media Parsing
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#186 Media Parsing
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from January 31 to February 07.thisweek.gnome.org
Been using Text Editor for adjusting what I paste, but Buffer seems like a better tool for that. Tried it for a couple of days and it's dandy.
📣 Shortwave 5.0 is now available, bringing background playback and completely revamped stream recording!
Besides the AMD crasher, I wondered why the dev version of Showtime, #GNOME's power-efficient video player in incubation, sometimes still refused to launch; turns out it's randomly crashing with a segfault on startup for another reason.
After jumping through hoops to get a backtrace (#Python in #Flatpak makes things somewhat harder to debug), it turns out that #GStreamer is not the culprit. Presumably, it may be a bug in #GTK or somewhere else in the stack. Details here: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Incubat…
Showtime Nightly randomly segfaults on startup (even with no video) (#158) · Issues · GNOME / Incubator / Showtime · GitLab
Testing the latest nightly flatpak version on my desktop workstation with discrete open source AMD graphics (and another testbench with onboard AMD graphics), I realized one of the...GitLab
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#185 Adwaita Sans
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#185 Adwaita Sans
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from January 24 to January 31.thisweek.gnome.org
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#184 Upcoming Freeze
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#184 Upcoming Freeze
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from January 17 to January 24.thisweek.gnome.org
Hey Fedora users, tired of Fedora Flatpaks? Yes? There's an issue about deprioritizing Fedora Flatpaks in GNOME Software if anybody is interested: pagure.io/fedora-workstation/i…
#ADHD folks & #minimalism fans with overflowing #email inboxes (or some #GNOME devs with too many mailing lists & bug tracker emails) might be pleased to discover that @EvolutionGnome has a secret gsetting (that you can toggle in dconf-editor) to disable unread mail counts for folders in the sidebar: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evoluti…
Because what's the point of knowing you have 787 unread emails instead of 785, anyway? 
Wish I had per-folder notifications to go with that: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evoluti…
mail-notification: Allow to enable per-folder notifications (#672) · Issues · GNOME / evolution · GitLab
The mail-notification plugin allows account-granularity exclusions, but not folder-granularity. I've cooked up a first draft patch (see attached) that implements the latter, while retaining the former. It's not...GitLab
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#183 Updated Flatpak
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#183 Updated Flatpak
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from January 10 to January 17.thisweek.gnome.org
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Gosh I wish we could use a modern text-to-voice model like this for the screen reader in #GNOME
📚 Convert E-books into audiobooks with Kokoro - Claudio Santini
A guide on how to convert .epub e-books into high-quality audiobooks narrated by neural text-to-speechclaudio.uk
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#182 Updated Crypto
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#182 Updated Crypto
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from January 03 to January 10.thisweek.gnome.org
Last donations of 2024 made! This time I donated money to the following great FOSS projects:
- Codeberg: donate.codeberg.org/
- GNOME: gnome.org/donate/
- KDE: kde.org/fundraisers/yearend202…
- LibreOffice: libreoffice.org/donate/
- Thunderbird: thunderbird.net/en-US/donate/
Which projects did you support this year? #opensource #donations #codeberg #gnome #kde #libreoffice #thunderbird
Support Good People
Good people in the world of tech populate the non-profit communities run by altruistic volunteers with no commercial interests, and therefore no interest in exploiting you, your work, or your data.Support Good People
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#181 Happy New Year!
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#181 Happy New Year!
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from December 27 to January 03.thisweek.gnome.org
Introducing Refine, an app to tweak advanced and experimental settings in GNOME. It is an alternative to GNOME Tweaks, and is a pet project I'm currently working to experiment with PyGObject and dconf, while following the data-driven, object-oriented, and composition paradigms.
The entire codebase is made up of widgets that provide all the functionality needed to add an option. For example, instead of adding each option programmatically in Refine, the ultimate goal is to have it all done in the UI file.
For example, if we want to add an option to enable or disable middle click paste, all we need is the following code in the UI file:
$RefineSwitchRow {<br> title: _('Middle Click Paste');<br> schema-id: 'org.gnome.desktop.interface';<br> key: 'gtk-enable-primary-paste';<br>}<br>That's it. The
RefineSwitchRow widget will do whatever it needs to do to ensure the option is available, grab the setting if it's available, and display it to the user. Many of these widgets provide extra functionality, such as a Reset button.You can get Refine on Flathub: flathub.org/apps/page.tesk.Ref…
Everything else (source code, screenshot, etc.) is in the project website: tesk.page/refine/, as well as the Flathub link.
#GNOME #Flatpak #Flathub #FOSS #OpenSource #GTK #Libadwaita
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#180 Image Editing
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#180 Image Editing
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from December 20 to December 27.thisweek.gnome.org