Gnome 50 looks great. I have heard that session restore is not yet part of the release. Do you know, if it is an experimental feature or if it hasn't been included at all. If the latter, do you guess it will come with 50.x or rather 52?
🚨 #GNOME 50 will be released on March 18!
😍 Star or/and boost this post if you're excited! With 5 more days to go we just asked our developers to drop their final GNOME 50 release of their projects.
You can now enable or disable mosaic tiling on a per-workspace basis!
- Toggle mosaic directly from the Quick Settings
- Disable tiling on specific workspaces while keeping it active on others
- The top bar indicator reflects the current workspace's state (on/off)
🍿 I added a workspace switcher popup to visually notify when an automatic workspace change occurs, such as when a window does not fit in the workspace due to overflow or when the last window of a workspace is closed.
Maintaining Mosaic WM and my other open source projects has become a real part-time job. If you enjoy my work on Linux/GNOME stuffs and can chip in, please consider becoming a sponsor! 🧱✨
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#240 Big Reworks
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Updates on what happens across the GNOME project from week to weekthisweek.gnome.org
PSA: following the example from various other projects within GNOME, and based on libadwaita's policy document, GNOME Calendar now explicitly forbids AI-generated contributions: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…
We honor the exquisite art of organic homegrown code made with care and a willingness to learn the craft, and want to protect the time of people who help review merge requests.
#MaintainerLife #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #OpenSource #GNOMECalendar #NoAI #aislop #genAI #LLM #GNOME #libadwaita
This is copied ad verbatum from libadwaita, which itself was introduced based on [1]. [1] https://discourse.gnome.org/t/loupe-no-longer-allows-generative-ai-contributions/27327GitLab
We’re launching an end-of-year fundraising campaign with a simple goal: to reach 1,500 Friends of GNOME. And we need your help!
blogs.gnome.org/foundation/202…
This week we’ll also be sharing and celebrating accomplishments of GNOME over the past year here on the fediverse; be sure to follow #FriendsOfGNOME!
Finally, if you’re already a Friend of GNOME or join this month, please join us in posting with #FriendsOfGNOME as well so that we can thank you. 😊
#GNOME #OpenSource #FOSS #Linux #GivingTuesday
This post was contributed by the Fundraising Committee from the GNOME Foundation. This week we are launching an end-of-year fundraising campaign with a simple goal: to reach 1,500 Friends of GNOME...mariamaj (GNOME Foundation)
🚨We are extending the #GUADEC 2026 Call for Participation deadline to March 27th .
If you were still thinking about it, you now have a bit more time to share your ideas with the GNOME community.
You can submit your proposal here:
events.gnome.org/event/306/abs…
Welcome to GUADEC 2026 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.GNOME Events (Indico)
The call for proposals deadline for #GUADEC, #GNOME's developer and user conference, is tomorrow, March 13!
Submit your proposals at events.gnome.org/event/306/abs…. More information at discourse.gnome.org/t/the-guad…
#opensource #linux #desktop #GUADEC2026
The GUADEC 2026 call for participation is open! You can submit your talk proposal at: https://events.gnome.GNOME Discourse
Remember GNOME Office? We believe it should return.
itsfoss.com/gnome-office-reviv…
Those who used GNOME 2 in the 2000's would remember the now forgotten GNOME Office. I think it's time to revive that project.Roland Taylor (It's FOSS)
The GUADEC 2026 call for participation is open! You can submit your talk proposal at: https://events.gnome.GNOME Discourse
Come by at #FOSSASIA
Lots of stickers, pens and t-shirts to give away!
Our table is in Area 1: Workshop Center, next to the Debian and KDE table. See you!
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Grüße aus meinem Garten!
Greetings from my garden!
#gourmetkater #fuhnegarten #naturimgarten #gartenzwerg #photography #foto #photo #gardening #krokus #gnome #spring
#garden #bernburg #naturimgartendeutschland
Grüße aus meinem Garten!
Greetings from my garden!
#gourmetkater #fuhnegarten #naturimgarten #gartenzwerg #photography #foto #photo #gardening #krokus #gnome #spring
#garden #bernburg #naturimgartendeutschland
Mein Schaufenster zu allen meinen Projekten, von Kunst zu Food, von Buch zu Garten.www.gourmetkater.de
Spring is approaching, and so is the next #BoilingTheOcean 🌿
When? Saturday, March 28
Where? Cultivation Space (Berlin)
It will be a single-day hacking event, focused on all the usual topics: mobile, local-first, platform, UX, and more. There will also be lightning talk slots in the evening.
More details and link to signup pad to follow!
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#239 Accessibility Contributions
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Thank you #miniOrange for generously sponsoring us their Wordpress plugin for SSO authentication!
This allowed us to consolidate yet another service to use our unified authentication layer for #GNOME contributors.
linkedin.com/company/miniorang…
miniOrange | 17,829 followers on LinkedIn. Secure Identity, Access & Data Everywhere | miniOrange is a world-class cybersecurity organization that has been delivering innovative products in the cybersecurity space for over a decade.miniOrange
GNOME Live Coding | Calendar (EN) | 03/03/2026 | Georges Stavracas
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#gnome #gnomecalendar #coding #GTK4 #gtk #opensource #libadwaita #linux #foss @gnome @gnome_br @TheEvilSkeleton
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A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#238 Navigating Months
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An update on GNOME Calendar: Georges livestreamed himself reviewing and merging parts of merge request !598, making the month view easier than ever to navigate with a keyboard!
This merge request introduces a coordinate-aware navigation system in the month view, which computes the coordinates of relevant event widgets and finds the nearest widget relative to the one in focus when using arrow keys. When tabbing, focus moves chronologically, meaning focus continues to move down until there are no event widgets overlaying that specific cell, which then moves focus to the topmost event widget found in the next cells or rows; tabbing backwards goes in the opposite direction.
To illustrate the sheer complexity of navigation in a calendaring app, here is Georges's live reaction:
"Wow, congratulations, this is looking INSANE, Hari... The hell is going on here"— Georges, maintainer of GNOME Calendar - youtu.be/smofXzVwNwQ?t=1h24m6s
#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #GTK4 #libadwaita #accessibility #a11y #FOSS #OpenSource #Linux
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Georges Stavracas is reviewing my long-awaited merge requests related to accessibility on GNOME Calendar in his stream 👀
youtube.com/watch?v=smofXzVwNw…
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…
#accessibility #a11y #GNOME #Calendar #GNOMECalendar #libadwaita #GTK4
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Attached: 1 image First MR merged in the currently happening GNOME Calendar livestream: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/362 It's already available in the current nightly flatpak version.Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo) (Mastodon)
At last, all the accessibility improvements on GNOME Calendar are finally available as a stable release. Get it on Flathub while it's hot!!!
flathub.org/en/apps/org.gnome.…
#Accessibility #GNOME #GTK #GTK4 #libadwaita #a11y #calendar #GNOMECalendar #Linux #GNU #OpenSource #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OSS
There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth …TheEvilSkeleton
After two weeks of writing, revising, and trying to make everything as digestible as possible, I finally published "GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days", where I explain in detail the steps we took to turn GNOME Calendar from an app that was literally unusable with a keyboard and screen reader to an app that is (finally) accessible to keyboard and screen reader users as of GNOME 49!
tesk.page/2025/07/25/gnome-cal…
#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #DisabilityPrideMonth #Linux #FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #GTK #libadwaita
There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth …TheEvilSkeleton
Continuing our volunteer effort to make GNOME Calendar fully accessible with a keyboard (see thread for context), we fixed a major bug that was causing the focus to disappear into the abyss when the user tried to tab into the month view in merge request !576. This means, as of this commit, events should now be completely functional and accessible within the month view. Additionally, the merge request changes the keyboard and focus behavior within the month view: Events can only be cycled using arrow buttons, the focus can't escape the month view with arrow buttons, and entering/exiting the month view can only be done with tab. These improvements will be available on GNOME 49.
#GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #GNOMECalendar #Calendar #FOSS #FreeSoftware #Linux
This implements button functionality to make it able to focus and activate it. This also sets the appropriate accessibility role and labels/descriptions. Related:GitLab
London members of the GNOME community! I'm in town until the end of the week, so I'm putting together a little meetup.
Join us TONIGHT, at 18:00 and Simmons Bar (Kings Cross) for drinks and discussions on the future of GNOME 😀
#gnome #gtk #freedesktop #london
This is a podcast special where we had an interview with Emmanuele, a developer of the GNOME project.www.trommelspeicher.de
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A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#237 Article Rendering
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I finally did a little UI rewrite for Dippi 👀
🗣️
@gnome@floss.social is participating in Google Summer of Code 2026!
Potential GSoC contributors may reach out with questions about our project ideas or #GNOME internships in general. Please direct them to gsoc.gnome.org to learn more.
You can find our proposed project ideas at gsoc.gnome.org/2026.
🗓️ Project proposal submissions are open from March 16th to 31st.
We’re excited to announce that Linux App Summit 2026 will take place May 16–17 in Berlin, Germany. Join developers, designers, and open source contributors for two days focused on Linux apps.
linuxappsummit.org/local/
#Linux #opensource #Apps #KDE #GNOME #LinuxAppSummit #LAS2026
The Linux App Summit (LAS) is designed to accelerate the growth of the Linux application ecosystem by bringing together everyone involved in creating a great Linux application user experience.linuxappsummit.org
Interesting. Resources embedded in shared libraries was originally a Windows thing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource…
ELF binaries are divided into sections just like Windows DLLs, so you can do the same thing here too, if you define a name and format for your resource section, which #GNOME evidently did.
Fun fact: I once used an icon editor for #Windows 3.1 that could package multiple icons into an “icon library”, which is a DLL containing only icon resources and no code.
"Get your pencil ready!"
I could have done so many useful things on a Sunday. But instead I've finished these 100 audio cassette designs using the GNOME color palette.
So in trying to figure out why my pavucontrol is missing an icon, I learned a lot about how icon themes work today!
First, it seems that if your system is using dconf, #GTK 4 will only observe the value you see when running:
dconf read /org/gnome/desktop/interface/icon-theme
You can change it using:
dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/interface/icon-theme "'name-of-theme'"
(That's single quotes inside double quotes!)
This even seems to work while the application is running! 😮
Finally managed to build #GNOME OS on my system with my very own custom kernel and then deploy it to my own system from GNOME OS too. Took a few tricks here and there but all in all a great experience, and definitely less annoying than trying to do the same on any other other distro I've used!
Instructions: gist.github.com/pojntfx/0012d0…
Build GNOME OS with custom kernel and install changes to local system - main.shGist
Das Schönste, was es gibt. Ich liebe #Gnome.
(aber nur mit "Dash to Panel" ☺️ )
Das GNOME-Projekt hat eine Beta für GNOME 50 bereitgestellt. Sie kommt ohne X11-Sesion-Code. Die stabile Veröffentlichung von GNOME 50 ist für den 18. März 2026 geplant.Ferdinand (LinuxNews.de)
Hmm, is anyone else missing this icon in pavucontrol? (On more "bare-bones" window managers, maybe?)
I'm trying to figure which piece I'd need to fix here. I'm on #NixOS, but that doesn't seem to be the only reason. 😁
This seems to be the "emblem-default" icon gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseau… which Nix' adwaita-icon-theme doesn't seem to have anymore…
The nixpkgs derivation is here: github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/…
Nix Packages collection & NixOS. Contribute to NixOS/nixpkgs development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Ephraims Wochenrückblick (in Vertretung): KW 7, 2026
In Woche 7 war in der FOSS-Welt einiges los. Von LineageOS über KDE zu Thunderbird.
#Wochenrückblick #LineageOS #vim #kde #Gnome #Thunderbird #CoMaps #Linux
#GUADEC2026 CfP is open! 🎉🎉
We are seeking talks on a variety of topics, including but not limited to:
- Application development
- Privacy and security
- Community and team building
- Design of user and developer experience
- Use of GNOME technologies outside the desktop
- Newcomers initiatives
- Project planning and governance
We will be accepting both remote and in-person presentation submissions.
Was ist das denn für ein Ratschlag? Bis Ende Oktober 2026 noch bei #windows10 bleiben. Und dann? Alter Verwalter. Warum dann nicht direkt auf #linux umsteigen? Ja, ich weiß, alles ganz schlimm bei #linux. Alles gefrickel usw. Ich bin auf #Debian/sarge gewechselt, als das noch Testing war. Und habe nie Probleme gehabt. Ob #KDE, #Gnome, oder #i3 (reiner Fenstermanager)
Datenschützer raten: Bleiben Sie bei Windows 10 und wechseln Sie nicht zu Windows 11 - PC-WELT
pcwelt.de/article/3053497/date…
Windows 11 bringt neue Funktionen, steht aber erneut in der Kritik. Datenschützer sehen zu hohe Risiken und empfehlen Anwendern und Behörden, bei Windows 10 zu bleiben.Laura Pippig (PC-WELT)
Kurzes Fazit: Linux #Mint mit nachinstalliertem #Gnome und den Anpassungen, die ich haben will überzeugt dann doch ganz gut!
Einziges Manko: ich muss auf #Kernel 6.14 bleiben, weil alle neueren Kernel den Standby bricken.
Also erstmal einen nicht mehr unterstützten Kernel nutzen.
Naaagut, ansonsten bin ich echt zufrieden bisher.
