📣 #TWIG #28 is out!
The new GNOME Shell screenshot UI got merged, Builder got improved podman/toolbox support, a new third party extension manager, FOSDEM, three new foundation projects... and much more! 🚀
📣 #TWIG #28 is out!
The new GNOME Shell screenshot UI got merged, Builder got improved podman/toolbox support, a new third party extension manager, FOSDEM, three new foundation projects... and much more! 🚀
On Flatpak disk usage and deduplication: https://blogs.gnome.org/wjjt/2021/11/24/on-flatpak-disk-usage-and-deduplication/
There is a blog post doing the rounds asserting that Flatpak Is Not The Future. The post is really long, and it seems unlikely that I and the author will ever agree on this topic, so I'm only going to talk about a couple of paragraphs about disk usage and sharing of runtimes between apps...
Curious about text editing in GTK 4? Check out this post from Mattias Clasen on the GTK Development Blog: https://blog.gtk.org/2021/08/18/text-input-in-gtk-4/
We're excited to share our brand new GNOME Developer website! The site includes helpful components, tools, docs, and tutorials along with a new version of our Human Interface Guidelines. Check it out: https://developer.gnome.org/
If you're interested in GNOME Mobile development, adaptive apps, and the future of the GNOME platform join our virtual Q&A later this week!
We'll have many of the core people behind various pieces of the stack, including @agx, @KekunPlazas, @[email protected], @dos, and myself.
Thursday, July 29
14:00 UTC
meet.gnome.org/ale-z3p-pjq-kkn
We're kicking off #GUADEC2021 with a welcome party! Bring your favorite drink and snack and join us in Track 1 at 19:00 UTC today for this informal social: https://events.gnome.org/event/9/page/108-social-events
Check your registration email for the Track 1 access code, or register today to receive it!
About GUADEC GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters together for a week of talks and workshops. About GNOME GNOME is a free and open-source software environment project supported by a non-profit foundation. Together, the community of contributors and the Foundation create a computing platform and software ecosystem, composed entirely of free software, that is designed to be elegant,...
Rust GCC Backend was officially merged in the compiler.
https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/442#issuecomment-876358112
Proposal rustc_codegen_gcc is a new code generation backend for rustc using the libgccjit library from GCC. (Despite its name, libgccjit works for ahead-of-time compilation as well.) rustc_codegen_...
Reminder to all GNOME Foundation members: today is the last day to vote for the Foundation Board. Check your email for voting instructions and make sure to submit before 23:59 UTC.
View the list of candidates here: https://vote.gnome.org/2021/candidates.html
Libadwaita 1.0.0-alpha.1 is out!
Start porting your application from GTK 3 and Libhandy to GTK 4 and Libadwaita now with our migration guide: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libadwaita/doc/1.0.0-alpha.1/migrating-libhandy-1-4-to-libadwaita.html
Be aware that the API is bound to change until the first beta, planned for mid-August.
It's now possible to compile small Rust programs with libgccjit! This will enable Rust on a bunch more architectures.
https://blog.antoyo.xyz/rustc_codegen_gcc-run-core-tests
Admittedly these programs don't run correctly yet, but getting something basic working often takes 80% of the work in PL.