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."

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/06/twig-203/

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#203 Infinitely Proud
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/06/twig-203

I feel like GNOME's branding is really at odds with the desktop. The foot and the name indicate something a lot more, I dunno, GNOME 2-y? than where GNOME is at now. GNOME is a really slick desktop that (mostly) knows what to add in and what to strip out in order to make one of the most thoughtful, minimalist desktop environments for modern PCs. I know Cassidy James made a blog post about getting rid of the foot, and I largely agreed with it, but I also kinda think the GNOME name is also a bit dated. Idk. I think it's cool that there's several decades of history to it, but it also just feels like a weird name for something that's so sleek and thoughtful.

Idk. ​ Maybe I'm thinking too much.

Even though I've used Gnome a bit (either stock via Debian or Fedora or customized via Pop_OS or, sigh, Ubuntu), it's still a bit of a mind-bend after I've used KDE Plasma for the past 10 months.

Dash to Dock has helped a little bit, but there are just a lot of tiny little things that I'm used to in KDE that don't work that way in Gnome that continue to trip me up a little bit.

I don't know if I'll sit (back) to Gnome as my daily driver desktop environment. I'm keeping it on my secondary laptop, though.

Speed up your workflow on Ubuntu & GNOME with these 13 essential keyboard shortcuts!

Watch now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuqbTiR9sfQ

"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.

https://events.gnome.org/event/259/contributions/1208/

I just released Multiplication Puzzle 15.0, which finally offers a portrait mode, making it a more functional game on Linux phones.

https://flathub.org/apps/app.drey.MultiplicationPuzzle

#MultiplicationPuzzle #Gnome #AppDev

My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows … to see how it goes | Tom's Hardware

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/my-week-with-linux

That's a nice desktop background Bing gave me today. I guess they know it's #WorldBicycleDay :D

Who’s going to GUADEC in person this year?

Repurposed an Old Laptop into a Headless SMS Notification Server — Here's How

https://github.com/joshikarthikey/notify-sms

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/joshikarthikey/notify-sms

One thing I often hear GNOME critics complaining about, usually with Nautilus' busy headerbar area as the primary example, is that its client-side window decorations don't leave many empty spaces for dragging the window around.

What most critics don't realize is that the entire window headerbar area remains draggable. You can drag any of those toolbar widgets to move the whole window around with it, as if those widgets weren't even there. The right-click menu works, too.

MirrorNeko - virtual screen, like MirrorHall, but without #gnome mutter screencast dependency. And written in @vala_lang .
Now i can use my @postmarketOS tablet as 3rd screen :D
Btw, video demo was #ShotOnOnePlus 6.

https://gitlab.com/NekoCWD/mirrorneko#

P.S. I need icon for it
Feel free to draw one

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#202 Presenting Screenshots
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/05/twig-202/

#AlpineLinux 3.22 Released with Support for #GNOME 48, #KDE Plasma 6.3, and #LXQt 2.2 Desktops, systemd-efistub, and More https://9to5linux.com/alpine-linux-3-22-released-with-gnome-48-kde-plasma-6-3-and-lxqt-2-2

tfw you have to edit your local copy of a gnome shell extension so it runs in the latest update of ubuntu

#linux #gnome #fedora
for me such numbers are confusing

my calculator throws a stack overflow
values don't quire add up in my narrow mind

Since I covered #GNOME 1 recently, I thought it was only right I took a look at #KDE 1 as well!

And it was pretty interesting: I think it compares favorably to Windows 95 and Windows 98, but it was very, very barebones compared to the first GNOME version that released shortly after it.

Very different from what we know today, and still, pretty recognizable:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtOCyRQSrQA