wow, Adwaita 1.7.0 has a new adaptive preview, so you can see how your apps will look on phones. Now that's some #LinuxMobile goodness :D

https://nyaa.place/blog/libadwaita-1-7/

My #Debian / #Gnome laptop is having serious trouble waking up. It's been getting worse over the last few days. The only thing that makes it wake up at this point is plugging an external monitor into it. Next chance I get, I'll disable all the extensions and see if the problem persists and then trouble shoot them all individually (sigh).

Any other suggestions?

I'm wanting to get back into icon design. Specifically with GNOME style icons, but I feel super rusty at all of this. I'm trying to get back into the groove with inkscape and read up on the latest HIG as well as look at some recent examples from the GNOME design team. There's some amazing talent there and I feel so far behind. Idk, I hope I can get the style figured out soon and make myself useful.
#GNOME #Icons #Inkscape

I installed #EndeavorOS + #Gnome on an old laptop and gave it to my 10 years old kid. And he is using it smoothly! .. Years ago, if I sneezed while using #Linux, I had to recompile the kernel to fix it :D .. What a progress!

I just submitted two talks for GUADEC before this weekend’s deadline; have you submitted yours? You are running out of time!

Seriously, go do it now! A slightly rushed abstract is better than not submitting it at all.

https://events.gnome.org/event/259/abstracts/

Anyone familiar with hacking on GNOME Shell or writing Shell extensions interested in helping with a design experiment?

The GNOME design team is interested in exploring some improvements to window/app switching, but we want to make sure we actually *use* the concepts before making too many assumptions. I may write up a longer blog post or something going into more of the thinking behind the design we’re exploring—but in the meantime: anyone interested in helping out?

is there somewhere i can find something like a "dos and don'ts of using #GTK4 and #adwaita"?

i've been reading through random issues and MRs on various #GNOME repos, and i'm finding some really useful comments about things that you should(n't) be doing. things like "using a listview inside a box is wrong and broken" - this is really useful knowledge, but i can't find it actually formally documented anywhere.

Last week, I improved Papers' code around link previews. You'll get in Papers upcoming release. Want me to tease what to get in 49?
We were meeting, as we regularly do:
So, at the same time, @FineFindus, sitting across from me … completely rewrote the thumbnailer … of course in Rust.
All that, while @pabloyoyoista worked on improvements for the context menu for annotations. (Based on @tbernard's¹ great mock-ups for it.)

¹ for clarity: not present

Blog post on Maps and the upcoming GNOME 48 release

https://ml4711.blogspot.com/2025/03/maps-and-gnome-48.html

Does anybody you know in the FOSS world is involved in some Foundation or Association for a project in Belgium or The Netherlands? I'd love to hear your experience! At @postmarketOS we are looking into starting a legal entity, and we are still pondering pros and cons of different options (https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/postmarketos/-/issues/75#note_473084) We already got lots of feedback from German e.V. and a Spanish Foundation is likely a no-go.

Are you doing something cool with GTK or the GNOME application development platform? Do you want to talk about it in front of the GNOME community? Then you have until March 16 to submit a talk proposal for GUADEC 2025!

https://events.gnome.org/event/259/

These days, #GNOME Web (the web-browser formally known as Epiphany) is actually a contender to Firefox and Chrome for me. I'm not a huge fan of extensions generally, and so far I'm loving the simplicity. No drama!

Big thank you to @craftyguy of @postmarketOS - had a nice time talking about all things about app ecosystem, postmarketos, and building community. Grateful that he installed a new version of postmarketos and the camera works!!! (OnePlus 6t) that was exciting. Still trying to figure out why the sim card doesn't work, but it is because there is some kind of lock.
One of the nice benefits of living in #portland. :)
#postmarketos #opensource #gnome #linuxapps #linux #mobile

Made some progress in investigating the likely cause of slowness for some #GNOMECalendar users who have a metric shitton of events to display: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1381#note_2375819

I love Dash to Panel. I don't even customize it, I just clone the default GNOME panel so I can pretend to check the time on another display.

It's sad to hear that Charles Gagnon (charlesg99) isn't going to be working on it anymore after people whined and complained about a donation button. I have never once experienced a bug in Dash to Panel and it's a testament that Charles and the other contributors have kept up this quality for years.

The only way open source projects will get better is if they beg for money and make the effort worth the contributors' time. So put that donation button back in. This isn't a charity.

I just submitted a talk proposal for #GUADEC 2025 in Brescia, Italy, from July 24-29.

I'm looking forward to seeing my @gnome people there!

If you plan to present, don't forget that the call for abstracts ends this weekend! Hurry up! https://events.gnome.org/event/259/abstracts/#submit-abstract

I want to create a space in #GNOME for exchanging information and ideas about organizing workshops and other events, and onboarding new contributors to such activities.
Here are past events that could be scaled up to other regions around the world, and that could serve as a starting point to develop more ideas:
https://pesader.dev/posts/1st-contribution-hackathon/ by @pesader
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/empowering-students-with-open-source-literacy-a-session-by-gnome-nepal/26671
Who would be interested? I would love to have more of these activities, and I think they are really important for the project!

Next weekend we're having another edition of #BoilingTheOcean (back to the og name, by popular demand)! Topics include, as usual, GNOME, Linux Mobile, and local-first. This time we'll bring a working version of Aardvark to take notes :)

Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th, from 12:00 onwards
@101lab, Skalitzerstr. 100 (thanks @ben4climate!)

Sign up here if you're joining: https://pad.gnome.org/f8xP6VekRViKPbDO-RMMtA

The terrific Dash to Panel GNOME Shell extension has been updated with new features and settings. Worth checking out if you fancy giving your desktop a revamp! https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/dash-to-panel-gnome-extension-big-update