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GNOME

Top 5 reasons GNOME is awesome:

1. Distraction-free: we respect you and include personal digital wellbeing features

2. Accessibility: we work to make computing accessible to all

3. Design: we make a cohesive, modern experience that looks great

4. Free and Open Source: we preserve your freedoms

5. Privacy: your data is yours, and we respect that

If these resonate with you, consider supporting us today! We're aiming for 1,500 #FriendsOfGNOME by the end of the year.

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Since we’re gonna be around all day to read, respond, and boost stuff on the fediverse… what are YOUR favorite things about GNOME? 👀

#GNOME #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux

Show threadCauêDec 3
@gnome The consistency in the design.
Show threadJoakim ForsDec 3
@EuCaue @gnome Agreed! Subtly stylish and out of your face.
Show threadKateDec 3

@EuCaue @gnome same, I love GNOME for its consistent (and imo beautiful) design! it's also the reason why I picked GTK and libadwaita as the toolkit for my apps

I simply love how GNOME looks!

Show threadeickotDec 3
@gnome easy to use, I really like that out of the box feels a really good and nice experience (at least to me)
Show threadGNOMEDec 3
@eickot 🙌 This will make our design team so happy!
Show threadeickotDec 3
@gnome btw, some month ago, I tried to do an small donation to gnome, but I got my credit card "block" as a suspicius activity. Is that normal?
Show threadMaRIa_MaJDec 5
@eickot @gnome did you reach out to our help? If you did, could you provide your email by private message and we will follow up?
[email protected]
Show threadeickotDec 5
@MaRIa_MaJ @gnome , no, I ended getting a lot of expenses, right now, my banks account are a little bit low, I hope for january, I will have money again to share, and I will try again.
Show threadMaRIa_MaJDec 5

@eickot @gnome i am sorry to hear that. Please dont worry much about becoming donor, it is more important your financial stability. We appreciate your time and support to GNOME.

All the best

Show threadeickotDec 5
@MaRIa_MaJ @gnome well, my life is ups and downs, also, my rule of bank too low is not what a poor person will have, until now, I had more or less luck, still until new year, 0 donations, usually by this time I do some donations to wikipedia, but not this year.
Show threadsodiboo Dec 3
@gnome feet
Show threadGNOMEDec 3
@sodiboo 👣
Show threadMaria “indigoviolet” IvyDec 3
@gnome @sodiboo my heart skipped several beats seeing gnome @ sodi
Show threadTrisDec 3
@gnome Coherent design
Show threadJared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Dec 3
@gnome I am an extremely visual person. (This is why I've used Macs for decades!) So I appreciate the attention to design and detail in GNOME and how much I can feel at home when I install and use new apps because of the HIG. Been running Asahi Linux on my Mac mini M1 and love that GNOME feels incredibly snappy and smooth!
Show threadAbdullah EsmailDec 3
@jaredwhite any issues running Asahi Linux on M1? Thinking about doing it but I’m afraid it might not be usable as my daily machine.
Show threadJared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Dec 3
@aesmail All of the basics are working great on my Mac mini including audio output. I would say my only real annoyance is it's not supporting Display P3 color on my LG monitor and thus it's showing sRGB in such a way that the colors are over-saturated. I had to fiddle with the display settings on the monitor itself to compensate a bit. (There's also just the general issue of whether all your desired software is arm64 compatible. I've mostly had good luck.)
Show threadAbdullah EsmailDec 3
@jaredwhite good to know. Good point on potential arm64-compatibility issues. I’m thinking on installing it on my MacBook Pro with M1 Pro. I’ll mainly use it for web development (ruby/rails) and flutter.
Show threadGabriel ⛺💤Dec 3
@jaredwhite @gnome there’s dozens of us ! Dozens ! 🙃 (M2 on Asashi on my end ^^’)
Show threadJonathan FredericksonDec 3
@gnome That it scales down to mobile phones pretty well! I'm hoping the mobile patches that pmOS uses make it back upstream :) https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/GNOME
GNOME - postmarketOS Wiki

Show threadGNOMEDec 3
@jfred yes!! Contributors have been doing incredible work on that front.
Show threadVictoria LacroixDec 3
@gnome The attitude. Devs for GNOME itself as well as third-party apps all seem united by an idea that software can and should always be made simpler to use. Instead of piling on features to solve edge cases, the problem space is reexamined, and old solutions are replaced by simpler ones which solve more problems.
Show threadJoakim ForsDec 3
@gnome All the advanced tech under the hood that is well integrated. RDP remote sessions, Wayland color management/HDR, calendars, connectivity and peripheral controls etc just works.
Show threadLeniwcowaty Dec 3

@gnome can I say what I do not like? Abandoning dark theme for everything except libadwaita GTK4 applications.

Want it or not, close to 80% of software is still on GTK3 or even GTK2. Without a dark theme for GTK3 GNOME switched from being the most consistent to the least consistent DE

Show threadVictoria 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 3
@leniwcowaty @gnome gtk3 still have dark theme. Apps just need to plug into colorscheme portal. Libadwaita does this automatically
Show threadFineFindusDec 3
@leniwcowaty @gnome Huh? According to https://github.com/valpackett/awesome-gtk less than 30% of applications still use GTK3
GitHub - valpackett/awesome-gtk: List of awesome GTK (3/4) applications

List of awesome GTK (3/4) applications. Contribute to valpackett/awesome-gtk development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Show threadmaymageDec 3

@leniwcowaty @gnome you know, there's the adw-gtk theme with a dark variant installable for native and flatpak apps?

Paired with an extension for switching with the global theme.. I can't complain!

Show threadLorenzDec 3
@leniwcowaty @gnome many gtk3 apps also support dark mode. At least the frameworks support it well and you can implement it.
Show threadLeniwcowaty Dec 4
@lw64 @gnome yes, they support, absolutely! But in one of latest releases (I think it was GNOME 46 or 47) GNOME just removed the default Adwaita-dark gtk3 theme, leaving only Adwaita light theme. As a result, with the default theme in GNOME all libadwaita apps respect dark mode, but the "older" GTK3 apps have only light mode.
Which is bullshit.
Show threadLorenzDec 4
@leniwcowaty @gnome that seems unintentional...
Show threadLeniwcowaty Dec 4
@lw64 @gnome how? Actively removing GTK3 default theme, that was there for a decade, was actively supported and maintained? For me that's very intentional
Show threadThibDec 3

@gnome consistent and responsive apps.

I use Niri to organize my windows, and GNOME apps integrate so well.

They adapt to the screen size they have, and they have a consistent look and feel. I feel at home.

Show threadGNOMEDec 3

@thibaultamartin absolutely; the work that the design team and developers of libadwaita and GTK have been doing has been excellent not just for adapting to form factors like mobile, but for tiling and just having little windows open!

Bringing that consistency and adaptiveness to the platform has been a years-long effort from a bunch of really amazing contributors, and we’re proud that it’s paying off no matter where you use GNOME apps. ☺️

Show threadGNOMEDec 3
@thibaultamartin shout outs to @tbernard, @monster, @kramo, @bragefuglseth, @jimmac, @snwh, @alice, @mclasen, and many more! As well as all of the developers making an awesome ecosystem of apps that utilize and build on this work.
Show threadVictoria 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 3
@thibaultamartin @gnome this is honestly also a big point for me. I love to use my apps in a phone-like size. They're really nice and sweet this way!
Show threadFred og roDec 3
@gnome Tiling windows side by side is nice, and being able to resize the windows to different sizes while staying tiled is really appreciated.
Show threadVictoria 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 3
@gnome 1. Feet
2. Clean, consistent design
3. Workflow
4. Inclusive community!
Show threadGNOMEDec 3
@tragivictoria we're never gonna live the foot thing down, are we
Show threadVictoria 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 3
@gnome hehe
Show threadJacques 🐀 Mar 30
@gnome @tragivictoria you're the ones who decided to put a foot as their logo, embrace it!
Show threadVictoria 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 30
@ij @gnome tbf it happened like 30 years ago, most people involved back then are no longer contributing
Show threadJacques 🐀 Mar 30
@tragivictoria @gnome shush, they should embrace it!
Show threadEskild HustvedtDec 3
@gnome It enables me to get things done, and just gets out of my way the rest of the time.
Show threadChadDec 4
@zerodogg @gnome Same
Show threadBrickedDec 3
@gnome Apart from what has already been mentioned I love the search because it lets me access almost anything instantly! In general, the workflows feel very snappy which is probably thanks in part to the consistent design.
Show threadGNOMEDec 3
@bricked yes! Search is such a powerful part of the desktop. It's hard to use anything else after you've gotten used to using it. 😅
Show threadMisanoDec 3
@gnome being sexy
Show threadCarbon CarrotDec 3
@gnome But will libadwaita ever be themeable?
Show threadVictoria 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 3
@CarbonCarrot @gnome you can already do it
Show threadCarbon CarrotDec 3
@tragivictoria @gnome …by either recompiling or overwriting adwaita. Or writing a custom gtk.css, which only gets you so far w/o ugly importance hackery
Show threadVictoria 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 3
@CarbonCarrot @gnome you realise you can just add theme to ~/.config/style.css, right? And it's going to work basically very similarly to gtk3. Instead of complaining on fedi you could as well just research the topic
Show threadCarbon CarrotDec 3
@tragivictoria @gnome I don't think that lets you change everything w/o fighting adwaita for the highest specifity value, does it?
Show threadVictoria 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 3
@CarbonCarrot @gnome do you want just theming or overwriting entire stylesheet?
Show threadCarbon CarrotDec 4
@tragivictoria @gnome theming, but I've tried to override parts of adw w/ gtk.css and didn't manage to do so. How about you link to an example?
Show threadFineFindusDec 3
@CarbonCarrot @gnome It's open source software, the power to change anything is just one git clone and recompile away :)
Show threadCarbon CarrotDec 3
@FineFindus @gnome but compiling means patience and making toolchains toolchain. And don't you DARE break ABI compat by accident…
Show threadFineFindusDec 4

@CarbonCarrot @gnome There is no such thing as free lunch.

I've generally found GNOME apps/libraries incredibly easy to build (e.g. just click on 'Run' in builder). I would also be very surprised if you managed to break ABI by changing the CSS :)

Show threadCarbon CarrotDec 4
@FineFindus @gnome Welp I would've taken the approach of loading CSS from a user defined path instead of always adwaita but yes