I’ve blogged in the past about how WebKit on Linux integrates with Sysprof, and provides a number of marks on various metrics. At the time that was a pretty big leap in WebKit development since it gave use a number of new insights, and enabled various performance optimizations to … | Continue reading
Last week I published the Flatpak 1.16.0 release This marks the beginning of the 1.16 stable series. This release comes after more than two years since Flatpak 1.14, so it’s pretty packed with new features, bug fixes, and improvements. Let’s have a look at some of the highlights! … | Continue reading
As of today, Mutter will style legacy titlebars (i.e. of X11 / Xwayland apps that don’t use client-side decorations) using Adwaita on GNOME. Shadows match the Adwaita style as well, including shadows of unfocused windows. These titlebars continue to follow the system dark and lig … | Continue reading
One topic that interests me endlessly is profiling. I’ve covered this topic many times in this blog, but not enough to risk sounding like a broken record yet. So here we are again! Not everyone may know this but GNOME has its own browser, Web (a.k.a. Epiphany, or Ephy for the int … | Continue reading
Following my announcement a few days ago, in probably what has been record time, the Ko-Fi goal for the Elgato Stream Deck+ has been reached! I’ve acquired the device and it’s already on its way, expected to reach me by the end of January ~ early February due to being an interna … | Continue reading
Following up on my previous blog post, due to popular demand, I started a small fundraiser campaign to acquire an Elgato Stream Deck Plus. The goal is US$ 500, which should cover the costs of acquiring the device, and should pay for a few hours of reverse engineering work. Natur … | Continue reading
2023 was a crushing year. It just slipped away, I barely managed to process all that happened. After going full offline for a very short 4-day break last week, I noticed I simply couldn’t remember most of the events that happened last year. We’re in 2024 now, and to start the ye … | Continue reading
Greetings! It’s been a long time since my last article. I’d like to share some recent developments in GNOME Calendar that got some people really excited about: the infinitely scrolling month view. The Now Before GNOME 45, Calendar offers two views – week and month – as well as … | Continue reading
Over the past few months, the Endless OS Foundation has been putting focus on improving GNOME Software’s reliability and performance. Endless OS is an OSTree-based immutable OS, and applications are entirely distributed as Flatpaks. GNOME Software is the frontend to that, and sin … | Continue reading
GNOME Settings is one of the largest modules of the GNOME desktop. It sits comfortable as one of the bigger repositories out there. Not only that, but feature-wise, Settings is a pretty big hub of the desktop, connecting to GNOME Shell, Mutter, gnome-settings-daemon, the Bluetoot … | Continue reading
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Since I created Boatswain, earlier this year, a lot has happened. Recently it was accepted as part of the GNOME Circle! As the app gets more popular, people are asking for more useful features that I cannot implement without having access to the actual hardware they depend on. S … | Continue reading
Last week, I’ve rolled out the 0.2.1 release of Boatswain, the Elgato Stream Deck application for Linux. After the massive push to get the initial releases out, the development pace naturally slowed down, but I managed to pick up some new fancy features for this release. The mos … | Continue reading
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Seven years ago, back when I was a university student living with my parents and with lots of free time in my hands, I created GNOME To Do to help me organize my Google Summer of Code tasks. It was a fantastic time of my life, and I had the privilege of having time to procrastina … | Continue reading
Since I wrote the announcement of Boatswain, things have progressed quite a lot. As I prepare for the 1.0 release, more features and bugfixes get in, and it’s getting dangerously close to achieving all features I personally want from it. Stream Deck Mini & Original (v1) Thanks … | Continue reading
I’ve been quiet for the past few weeks, with no live streams nor blog posts. Sorry! This was the reason: That’s right: rich and engaging Stream Deck integration on Linux. Boatswain is a new app I’ve been working on for the past month that allows controlling Stream Deck device … | Continue reading
Today, OBS Studio published its 27.2 release. With this release, besides the always good to have bugfixes and improvements, there’s one change in particular that makes me super excited: this … | Continue reading
It took a long time, and massive amounts of energy and sweat and blood, but as of last week, Settings is finally ported to GTK4 and uses libadwaita for platform integration. This was by far the big… | Continue reading
Using a computer is mostly about executing apps, reading, writing and doing. But it can also be about not doing. Confusing? Bear with me. Imagine for a second that you are in an elementary school. … | Continue reading
As of today, Mutter and GNOME Shell support Sysprof-based profiling. Christian wrote a fantastic piece exposing what happened to Sysprof during this cycle already, and how does it look like now, so… | Continue reading
After my somewhat dark post about being a Free Software maintainer, a very significant number of people got in touch and asked how can they help me, and GNOME, more actively than saying “keep… | Continue reading
The very first update in the series is about GNOME Shell and Mutter. I’ve been increasingly involved with the development of those two core components of GNOME, and recently this has been the… | Continue reading