GNOME News Archives

The WebKitGTK+ build of the WebKit rendering engine for GNOME desktop applications has seen measurable Wayland improvements ahead of this month's GNOME 3.28 debut.

Thanks to this year's Google Summer of Code, there is a branch pending for allowing game controllers to be re-assigned within GNOME Games.

Student developer Jente Hidskes' work this summer on improving the Piper GTK3 user-interface for configuring gaming mice on Linux via libratbag is now the latest example of a very successful Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project.

Georges Stavracas has announced that for GNOME 3.25.91 they have finished up work on their new GNOME Settings user-interface, a.k.a. the redesign to the GNOME Control Center.

GNOME 3.25.91 is now available as the second and final planned beta ahead of the release candidate before next month's official GNOME 3.26 debut.

It was twenty years ago today that Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena founded the GNOME project.

A little bit late but the beta for next month's GNOME 3.26 is now available for testing.

GNOME's annual developer conference, GUADEC, wrapped up earlier this month in Manchester. The videos are now available for those that were unable to attend this Linux desktop event.

One of the many successful Google Summer of Code (GSoC) projects this year by student developers is the work done on Piper, the new GTK3 user-interface for configuring gaming mice under Linux via libratbag.

The GNOME Shell 3.25.90 release is available today which serves as its v3.26 beta.

GParted, the widely-used GNOME/GTK Partition Editor for Linux systems, is out with a new release and is joined by an updated GParted Live, the live CD/USB Linux distribution for editing your partitions/file-systems.

At last week's annual GUADEC GNOME developer conference, the state of the GTK4 tool-kit was a hot discussion item.

Thanks to work ongoing to GNOME Disks and UDisks, there should soon be support within this disk/file-system management program for resizing partitions as well as running a file-system repair.

GNOME 3.25.4 is the latest development snapshot available of this open-source desktop environment in the road towards GNOME 3.26.

With the GNOME 3.25.4 development milestone this week, new versions of GNOME Shell and Mutter are among the packages checked-in for release.

We are one step closer to the release of GTK4 with today's GTK+ 3.91.1 tool-kit release.

GNOME Games, the application for the GNOME desktop to serve as a game library for browsing installed games as well as integrating with some game emulators and other features, is seeing new feature activity for the GNOME 3.26 cycle.

Georges Stavracas' latest work on GNOME is the new WiFi panel for the GNOME Settings area.

GNOME's Mutter has flipped on its new "Monitor Configuration Manager" by default as it seeks to improve the multi-monitor and multi-GPU experience.

Patches are pending for GStreamer that provide the first public client and server implementation of the RTSP 2.0 protocol, Real Time Streaming Protocol 2.0.

Ubuntu's desktop team and designers are still working through their planned desktop experience with the switch from Unity 7 to GNOME.

GStreamer now has a plug-in for supporting accelerated video decoding using NVIDIA's VDPAU-successor, NVDEC.

Georges Stavracas' latest work on GNOME is making the GNOME Music player less slow.

GNOME 3.25.3 is now available as the latest stepping stone towards September's release of GNOME 3.26.

GNOME's Mutter 3.25.3 window manager / compositor is now available as the newest release in the path towards GNOME 3.26.

GNOME's Shotwell photo manager is out today with a new testing release as it ushers in the v0.27 development series.

Georges Stavracas has been hacking away on better half-tiling support in GNOME Shell / Mutter and is working towards quarter-tiling functionality.

Version 2.0 is the next major release of GNOME's Tracker software for file meta-data indexing and searching.

GPS-Share made its first release today, a GNOME-aligned project for sharing a GPS device on a LAN.

KDE/Qt applications will now look better on GNOME desktops when sandboxed using Flatpak.

It looks like support for fractional scaling might be working in time for GNOME 3.26 to help out HiDPI users where integer-based scaling may be less than ideal.

GNOME 3.25.2 is now available as the latest test snapshot leading up to this September's GNOME 3.26 stable debut.

Florian Müllner has pushed out an updated Mutter 3.25.2 window manager / compositor release in time for the GNOME 3.25.2 milestone in the road to this September's GNOME 3.26 release.

GNOME Builder, the GNOME-focused integrated development environment, will be picking up some more features this cycle.

As a replacement to BugZilla and Cgit, GNOME developers are planning on a GitLab deployment for improving their development infrastructure.

GNOME 3.24.2 is now available as the second and last planned point release to the GNOME 3.24 desktop series until the GNOME 3.26 debut in September.

Outreachy has announced their accepted participants for the summer 2017 internship period to work on various open-source projects.

The GTK+ tool-kit is the latest GNOME component being brought over to the Meson build system.

GJS -- the GNOME JavaScript system that allows for GObject introspection and other capabilities via JavaScript on the desktop -- is planning for further improvements with GNOME 3.26.

GNOME 3.25.1 is now available as the first development milestone in the road to this September's GNOME 3.26.

The first development snapshots of GNOME Shell and Mutter in the 3.25 series were released today in preparation for this week's GNOME 3.25.1 milestone.

The second release candidate is now available for GStreamer 1.12, the next version of this widely-used, open-source, cross-platform multimedia framework.

Epiphany 3.25.1 has been released as the latest update for GNOME's Web Browser in what will be part of GNOME 3.26 this September.

GStreamer 1.12.0 will soon be released as the latest version of this widely-used, open-source multimedia framework.

Matthias Clasen has announced the first point release to last month's big GNOME 3.24 desktop release.

Jonas Ådahl's latest GNOME work to benefit the GNOME Wayland support and other areas is a rework of Mutter so it now handles all low-level monitor configuration.

While there is GIMP for advanced image manipulation and then a few other alternatives for more simpler image manipulation or drawing, a new "GNOME Paint" program is in development.

Last week when writing about the release schedule for GNOME 3.26, one of the first questions was about what features are coming to this next installment of the GNOME desktop.

Matthias Clasen on Friday released version 3.90.0 of the GTK+ tool-kit.

The release schedule for GNOME 3.26, the next six-month update to this open-source desktop environment, has now been firmed up.