We are pleased to announce the release of GNOME 50! You can read about what our contributors have been working on at https://release.gnome.org/50
We’d like to use this new release as an opportunity to thank all of the contributors who made it happen. ❤️
Let us know what you think!
Coming up in GNOME 50, there’s a new accessibility option: Reduced Motion! It enables you to reduce animations across both the desktop and apps, which can help people with motion sensitivity, dizziness, or migraines.
Thank you to the many contributors who made this happen! ❤️
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In #GNOME 50 release of Damned Lies, our #translation platform, we got many improvements, most important of all now we support merge requests!
This allows our translators to push translations to projects on, e.g. #FreeDesktop #gitlab without needing to manually open MRs.
Hola gente de mi chilito lindo, deen la bienvenida a mi esposa que viene refugiarse de esos 4 años.
Everyone, rejoice 🙌
Georges livestreamed himself reviewing and merging accessibility contributions in GNOME Calendar again, specifically the entirety of merge request !564, which introduces keyboard-navigable month cells. This means, as of GNOME 50, GNOME Calendar's month view will be fully navigable with a keyboard for the first time in its history! The only high-level goal that needs work now is conveying these information with assistive technologies properly.
Do note that the screen recording attached won't have any alt text, to avoid redundancy. Everything written below is a detailed explanation of the experience, and the recording is essentially a visual demonstration:
- When tabbing between events, focus moves chronologically. This means that focus continues to move down until there are no event widgets overlaying the current cell. Then, focus moves to the topmost event widget in the next cell or row. Tabbing backwards with Shift+Tab moves in the opposite direction.
- On the last event widget, pressing Tab moves the focus to the adjacent month cell. Conversely, pressing Ctrl+Tab on any event widget has the same effect.
- Pressing an activation button (such as Enter or Space) displays the popover for creating an event. Additionally, pressing and holding the Shift key while pressing the arrow keys selects every cell between the start and end positions until the Shift key is released, which displays the popover with the selected range.
Both merge requests !564 and !598 took us almost an entire year to explore various approaches and finally settle on the best one for our use case. Everything was done voluntarily, relying solely on support from donors and those who share these posts, without any financial backing from other entities. In contrast, most, if not all, calendar apps backed by trillion-dollar companies still don't offer proper keyboard navigation across their views. In many cases, they haven't even reached feature parity. If it is not too much trouble, please consider funding my accessibility work on GNOME. Thank you! ♥️
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The #Inkscape project is looking for two #developers 🧑💻🧑💻 and a bug #administrator 🐛 to work with our team on preparing Inkscape version 1.5!
Learn all about who we are looking for: https://inkscape.org/news/2026/03/02/inkscape-is-hiring-2026-1/
Applications must be submitted by 📆 April 10th, 2026.
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Apoie a Ideia Legislativa: Lei de Incentivo ao Software Livre e Código Aberto!
Essa proposta busca fortalecer a soberania digital do Brasil, reduzir gastos com licenças de software, incentivar a inovação nacional e aumentar a transparência no uso de sistemas públicos.
Ao priorizar soluções de código aberto, o poder público economiza recursos, estimula startups e desenvolvedores brasileiros e garante mais segurança e autonomia tecnológica.
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https://www12.senado.leg.br/ecidadania/visualizacaoideia?id=215795
With all the discussion around detecting when a code repo contains commits authored by an LLM, I think it is important to note commits like the following in Mozilla Firefox from 2 weeks ago:
"Bug 2011195 - When an agent commits, don't add itself as author"
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/71cc24b6a400dbd434e4df37087960d94b764791
I don't think it's a good thing that Mozilla seem to be explicitly encouraging unattributed LLM code in Firefox.
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