Mastodawn

I built a super simple Japanese–English dictionary app for GNOME called Kotoba because I wanted something fast and keyboard-focused. It’s basically a lightweight wrapper around JMDict with a minimal UI. Thinking of polishing it for a public release. Would anyone else find that useful?

#gnome #gtk #rust #linux #foss #japanese

Hylke Bons 🥜2d ago

I'm bored. let me launch #Gaim to see if my friends are online!

#linux #app #icon #design #gtk #libadwaita #OpenSource

Florian 3d ago

I was helping an open-source app become more #accessible yesterday and we ran into the problem that it looks like #screenReader Orca has a bit of a tendency to crash when exposed to webkitGTK applications. I've not done Desktop #linux for a long time and have no idea what the workarounds for this would be, does anyone know anyone who might know what's happening here? Do we need to set a random environment variable somewhere or update a specific package so this person can do basic screen reader testing on their app? #tech #openSource #screenReaders #linux #GTK #webdev

Jiří Eischmann 3d ago

#Meshy consumes 140 MB on startup, not too bad for a Python app using #GTK 4 and #libadwaita running in Flatpak.
But once you open the emoji picker it jumps to 650 MB with the vulkan renderer. As if it loaded all 3000 UTF emojis into memory at once. With the gl renderer the memory consumption jumps by ~30 MB and then grows as you browse the emojis. Cairo is even better at it, but there is a performance penalty.

GeopJr 3d ago

Metadata Cleaner is back btw https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.gitlab.metadatacleaner.metadatacleaner

#GNOME #GTK

Install Metadata Cleaner on Linux | Flathub

View and clean metadata in files

Tobias Frisch 3d ago

GNUnet Messenger API: March 2026

https://thejackimonster.de/blog/gnunet-messenger-api-march-2026.html

#messenger #gnunet #gui #cli #gtk

GNUnet Messenger API: March 2026

Hello again, this month I've contributed a bit across all kinds of services from GNUnet. It started with minor adjustments to the Messenger...

Alex White 4d ago

The fact that the GTK.AboutDialog has parameters specifically for crediting developers, translators, and artists speaks so much about the ecosystem.

Software created by people for people. That's the future in this sloppy world.

#GTK #Gnome #Linux

Alex White 5d ago

Okay this is sweet, got keyboard navigation nailed down for my Outliner.

This is my spirtual successor to Bonsai and Shadow Outline on Palm OS.

#GNOME #GTK #NativeApps #LinuxFirst #Fedora #Python

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Fossery Tech

5d ago

(more Linux news in previous posts)

Proton Experimental brings fixes for Crimson Desert, Steam Overlay with EA games, Death Stranding 2:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/proton-experimental-brings-fixes-for-crimson-desert-steam-overlay-with-ea-games-death-stranding-2/

GE-Proton 10-34 brings fixes for God of War Ragnarök, Assassin's Creed, Final Fantasy XIV:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/ge-proton-10-34-brings-fixes-for-god-of-war-ragnarok-assassins-creed-final-fantasy-xiv/

D7VK version 1.6 gets improved vertex processing and VSync handling:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/d7vk-version-1-6-gets-improved-vertex-processing-and-vsync-handling/

Pine64 teases PineTime Pro with AMOLED, GPS and ‘custom’ chip:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/pine64-tease-pinetime-pro-smartwatch

GTK3 Toolkit Winding Down To One Release Per Year:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK3-Annual-Release-Cadence

Qt 6.11 Toolkit Released With "The Same 3D Capabilities As A Game Engine":
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.11-Toolkit

wlroots 0.20 Released,Sway 1.12-rc1 Available For Testing With Color Management:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/wlroots-0.20-Sway-1.12-rc1

Fish 4.6 Shell Brings Support For Recent systemd Environment Variables:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fish-4.6-Released

GStreamer 1.30 to Support HDR10+ Metadata Parsing from H.265 & AV1 Bitstreams:
https://9to5linux.com/gstreamer-1-30-to-support-hdr10-metadata-parsing-from-h-265-av1-bitstreams

Mesa 26.0 Will Make It In Time For The Fedora 44 Release:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.0-For-Fedora-44

NVIDIA 595 Linux Graphics Driver Released as Latest Production Branch Version:
https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-595-linux-graphics-driver-released-as-latest-production-branch-version

Electron's Investment Into Good Wayland Support:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Electron-Good-Wayland-Support

(FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #Proton #ProtonExperimental #GEProton #D7VK #Pine64 #PineTime #PineTimePro #GTK #GTK3 #Qt #wlroots #FishShell #GStreamer #Mesa #NVIDIA #NVIDIADriver #Electron #Smartwatch #LinuxSmartwatch #FosseryTech

Proton Experimental brings fixes for Crimson Desert, Steam Overlay with EA games, Death Stranding 2

Valve just pushed out another excellent update for Proton Experimental - further improving Windows games running on Linux / SteamOS.

GamingOnLinux

Modal Collective 6d ago

Lots of fun stuff at Boiling The Ocean 10 today, including

- Fairphone 5 audio hacking
- Reflection newcomer session
- Fixed document sorting by editing date in Reflection
- Fixed multi-window zooming bug in Reflection
- Reflection on macOS
- GNOME Maps UX
- Bazaar app version pinning UX
- GNOME 50 celebration
- Talk: "Readability, Legibility, Usability" by @frankrausch
- and more!

#gnome #linuxmobile #postmarketos #gtk #localfirst #berlin