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? 😊
As a result, I'm revising this post a bit to try to be more nuanced and balanced.
And I hope we (as in, the GNOME community, myself absolutely included) can take a step back and try to be a bit more objective and productive. That includes being a little less quick to die on certain hills, less likely to make assumptions and generalizations about groups of contributors, and more willing to listen and think about what our community members are saying.
@cassidy I agree with you about that logo, I have always found it off-putting. I would also point out that in some cultures and even for some Western people (such as germophobes) feet are considered "dirty", so for those people it's kind of like using a toilet or a garbage dumpster as a logo, not in any way appealing.
Friday night?
Perfect time to drop a blog post that might sound like clickbait, but that I genuinely hope can help forge a path forward while making everyone happy—or at least pissing everyone off equally (sometimes the best you can ask for!)
https://cassidyjames.com/blog/gnome-foot-logo-rebrand/?1==
Edit: lol it’s Thursday night. I should go to bed.
Edit ×2: comments enabled; reply publicly here and it’ll show on the post as well. ✨
Edit ×3: I’ve revised the post based on feedback
As such, the GNOME UI font test repo has been updated based on Inter 4.1. If you’ve been trying Inter/the new font out on GNOME, make sure you update!
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-ui-font
(If you didn’t know, we’re testing a modified version of Inter with one change so far: cv05 or “lower-case L with tail” enabled by default to give it a bit more legibility and familiarity for those coming from Cantarell, the current GNOME default font.)
Hmm… two lines of CSS in libadwaita 1.6. Should I do it??
#GNOME #GNOMEdesign #libadwaita #OpenSource #Linux #Flatpak #Flathub
Third-party GNOME/Adwaita app developers: if there was a simple way to opt into some more expressive kind of user-chosen theming (think: more like Material You with Adwaita and less like whole GTK stylesheets), would you be interested in opting your app into it?
Why or why not?
Feel free to boost widely! Not a poll because raw numbers are not as interesting as the discussion to me. 😊
Support the GNOME Foundation: https://us.commitchange.com/nonprofits/5385/donate?offsite=t via @CommitChange @gnome #linux #gnomedesign
I've become more active in the GNOME community and want to help improve the user experience in GNOME.
Proposal:
Marble Shell should be the default GNOME theme. It offers a modern look with dark and light modes and complements the new font in GNOME 47. This update would enhance the user experience. More details: https://github.com/imarkoff/Marble-shell-theme.
Join me in this effort to improve GNOME!
Oh, and I love these colorful wallpapers (amazing work from @jimmac yet again!). They pair so nicely! I didn’t have to download anything to change up the look—each screenshot was just two or three clicks.
Cassidy James 
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