Okay, hi everyone

This weekend, after a random toot from @alice in my TL, I found myself in a rabbit hole to enhance and create an iOS 6 theme for GTK4. It's not much, it has some rough edges, but damn it looks so cool, and I'm so proud of this!!

If you wanna help with design or add icons, please feel free to do so!

The code and install instructions lives here : https://gitlab.com/Krafting/igtk-theme

#gnome #gtk #libadwaita #ios #apple #gnomemobile #mobilelinux #retrocomputing #ios6 #linux #postmarketos

I finished ~~procrastinating on~~ a new blogpost! Wherein I tell you all about how I use an immutable distro for compositor development, and why this is a good idea.

https://bxt.rs/blog/using-fedora-silverblue-for-compositor-development/

Thanks a ton to @bugaevc, @alatiera, @tulilirockz for reviewing drafts of the post and lots of helpful comments!

#niri #fedora #silverblue

hello #gnome folks! foundation elections have started:

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-foundation-board-of-directors-elections-2026/34884

1) make sure you have your membership!
2) please research your candidates!
3) run for elections!

the bias against change is very noticable in the headlines and shock phrases when it comes to improvements to linux. its the default to point at the desktops/wayland/systemd/flatpak as being some kind of radical usurpers of the existent. how dare they break with us, the ones keeping the good old ways true!

it's never a headline commemorating yet another anniversary of a spite fork failing to achieve basic improvements, of some bespoke pet project still not delivering guarantees that make accessibility systems work.

The next #BoilingTheOcean is happening on May 14-15, ahead of Linux App Summit in Berlin the following weekend!

More details soon :)

#berlin #gnome #linuxmobile #localfirst #linuxappsummit

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/116459585811044061

Someone wrote a postmortem on the security issues uncovered in uutils, "the Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutils"

https://corrode.dev/blog/bugs-rust-wont-catch/

It is an interesting read on its own. The author praises Rust for managing to entirely eliminate memory safety issues in uutils. My view here is unfortunately closer to that of Lennart: the remaining class of bugs are to a large part the fault of the Rust stdlib, and entirely avoidable.

(see also my last blog post https://hachyderm.io/@swick/116455985982945725)