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GNOME's Mutter 3.35.1 Fixes The Night Light Mode On Wayland

With many of the prominent fixes that we've talked about for GNOME Shell and Mutter since last month's 3.34 release having been back-ported to 3.34.1, this weekend's release of GNOME Shell 3.35.1 and Mutter 3.35.1 as the first steps towards GNOME 3.36 aren't all that big. But at least in the case of this new Mutter development release are some worthwhile fixes.

13 October 2019 - GNOME Shell + Mutter 3.35.1 - 8 Comments
GTK 4.0 Isn't Expected To Be Released Until Autumn 2020

GTK 4.0 won't be out this year, nor is it expected next spring as part of the GNOME 3.36 cycle, but now the developers believe this next major tool-kit update will be ready to ship in just over one year's time with the autumn release of GNOME 3.38.

29 August 2019 - GTK4 In 2020 - 36 Comments
GNOME Launches An Inclusion & Diversity Team

In addition to GNOME's involvement and stewarding of the Outreachy program (back to the days when it was known as GNOME's "Outreach Program for Women"), they have just launched an Inclusion and Diversity Team to help the desktop environment community become more inclusive.

2 August 2019 - GNOME Inclusion + Diversity Team - Add A Comment
Sysprof Picks Up Profiling Support For CPU Power Consumption

GNOME's Sysprof profiler continues on a trajectory of becoming an incredibly versatile component for developers looking to maximize performance and efficiency under this desktop environment. Sysprof already picked up a number of new features for GNOME 3.34 but work is not yet finished.

1 August 2019 - Sysprof - 2 Comments
Pango 1.44 Is Coming Thanks To The Revival By GNOME Developers

Back in May there were the plans shared by Red Hat's Matthias Clasen to work out some improvements to the Pango layout engine library after going fairly stale in recent years. That work is coming to fruition with a Pango 1.44 release looking like it will be here soon with new features.

19 July 2019 - Pango 1.44 - 10 Comments
GNOME Software Moving Forward With Disabling Snap Plugin

While currently Ubuntu makes use of GNOME Software as their "software center" (or "app store") with Snap integration, as we wrote about recently Canonical has begun writing their own Snap Store. Given this and that they don't plan to use GNOME Software in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and thus have taken their developers away from working on the upstream support, GNOME developers are planning to disable the Snap plug-in for GNOME Software.

11 July 2019 - GNOME Software + Snap Store - 139 Comments
Another Attempt At Reducing GNOME's Mutter Input Latency

Prolific GNOME contributor Daniel Van Vugt of Canonical working to optimize the desktop stack for Ubuntu continues his great upstream-focused work on enhancing the performance of various key components. This past week he posted a new merge request that seeks to lower the input latency further for the Mutter compositor / window manager.

1 July 2019 - Lower Mutter Input Latency - 11 Comments
GNOME 3.34's Mutter Adds Mouse Accessibility Support For X11/Wayland

Up to now the GNOME desktop has offered mouse accessibility support using the long-standing Mousetweaks program that allows for different actions to take place all from the lone input device for those that may be limited to manipulating only one button or other limitations around this primary input device. But GNOME's Mousetweaks only works with X11 so now Mutter has picked up mouse accessibility support itself that works on both X11 and Wayland sessions.

6 June 2019 - Mouse Accessibility - 9 Comments
Running NVIDIA On GNOME's X.Org Session May Get A Lot Smoother
Running NVIDIA On GNOME's X.Org Session May Get A Lot Smoother

Canonical's Daniel van Vugt continues doing a lot of interesting performance investigations and optimizations around improving the experience of GNOME not only for Ubuntu but the upstream components. His latest focus has been on NVIDIA enhancements and now for the X.Org session there is a merge request pending to provide for a smoother experience.

2 June 2019 - NVIDIA + GNOME + X11 - 62 Comments
Sysprof Making Progress For Improved GNOME Profiling
Sysprof Making Progress For Improved GNOME Profiling

Christian Hergert of GNOME Builder IDE fame has been working on a round of improvements recently to the Sysprof tool he also leads development on for system profiling in determining the hot functions of a program and related profiling mostly around GNOME components.

31 May 2019 - Sysprof Profiling - 16 Comments

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