Alexander Vanhee

@AlexanderVanhee
55 Followers
94 Following
66 Posts
@gnome foundation member
Developer of Gradia
Contributor to the Bazaar app store

Gradia has finally reached 100K downloads on Flathub!

Thank you all who checked it out over the past year!

WHY IS THIS HEDGEHOG GETTING CHASED BY A GIANT TRUCK
The Flathub API going offline today uncovered some truly weird things in Bazaar. 😭

Bazaar's new release 0.8.0 supports installing .flatpak bundles, Gnome Commander saw a 2.0 release with rewrite in Rust, new embedded terminal and much more in This Week in GNOME!

#250 Sideloading

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/05/twig-250/

#ThisWeekInGNOME #GNOME #TWIG

#250 Sideloading

Updates on what happens across the GNOME project from week to week

Had to remove 2 upload providers in Gradia today, because both disabled their API due to abuse by AI actors...

Hey I’m the developer of the Bazaar App Store! I absolutely love making Bazaar, it brings me a lot of joy. :)

Unfortunately I’m in a bad financial situation right now and my only source of income is from donations. I absolutely hate asking for money but it’s been kind of rough for me lately, so if you happen to enjoy my work and can comfortably toss me a coin, I would be extremely appreciative: https://ko-fi.com/kolunmi

Thanks so much!! Boosts appreciated <3

Support kolunmi

Support kolunmi

Ko-fi

Libadwaita demo app on Android, new update for Goblint, a linter for C GObject codebases, Java/Kotlin library for interacting with XDG Desktop Portal and much more in This Week in GNOME!

#246 Offline Dictionaries
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/04/twig-246/

#ThisWeekInGNOME #GNOME #TWIG

Watching todays p2panda live coding session made me really feel the need for for Blueprint templates in GNOME Builder, but apparently this was rejected. 😭😭

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-builder/-/issues/1701

Add toggle to create new project with Blueprint instead of XML (#1701) · Issues · GNOME / gnome-builder · GitLab

Then, you could skip porting the default XML/.ui files to Blueprint when creating a new project. I think of an XML/Blueprint switcher similar to the ones for...

GitLab

Both Bazaar and Gradia have had reports of images not loading correctly when using the versions from the Arch Linux repositories or the AUR respectively.

This is apparently because they treat AVIF support via libheif as optional for some godforsaken reason. 🙄