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First, don't get mad at me. I'm borderline GNOME Zealot myself. Even if GNOME is straight up broken, I'll be still using it instead of other DE out of principle. This will be long rant. Grab your drink. Let's discuss. First, hot take: KDE is winning. Virtually every popular distro defaulted to KDE, even Fedora who offers GNOME as premier options offered KDE which automatically what most Windows defector would prefer once they realize it's an option. Rising stars like CachyOS straight up wrote a borderline "slanderous" description of GNOME even if they offer it as an options. a user-friendly desktop environment with a touch-style interface for accessing applications. While it is easy to learn, it has limited customization options and can be difficult to configure While I completely disagree, this represent a lot of users sentiment, even though we, GNOME user know full well how easy it is to customize GNOME. Personally, I'm worried. There are many factors as to why I feel that's GNOME is heading to the wrong directions. Drama. While the Foundation is heading to the right directions (says Steven Deobard) the leadership has not shown a united front for a long time, afaik. GNOME feels leaderless, nobody to look up for whenever problem arises. To my knowledge KDE has Nate Graham, and I see how great he handles the community and communicate with the community directly, giving the sense of "togetherness" and providing directions. GNOME doesn't have this kind of person. Almost nobody from the developer group are here actively talking to us, some that are here likely just to occasionally debate and correct misconception but never "get involved". This lack of communication creates gap. This gap creates dissonance between user and developer, making user unwilling to get involved, much less donating to the project. "GNOME developers are confrontational". I don't want this to be true, but after almost 2 years "monitoring" GNOME matrix chat channels, I'm afraid I have to face the truth that this "rumors" is not rumors, it's the truth. Have you been in an office where a person in control of maintenance of a critical system within your office and everybody is afraid of angering this person because if they resign nobody is willing to take their job, and this person is incredibly toxic? — that's my view after witnessing their exchange. They bicker about every single thing. They bicker about Programming language. They bicker when an app creator come to report a bug. They bicker when app creator doesn't use API thing properly. Etc. etc. And this bickering is almost always started by the same person I won't mention. My advice for GNOME app maker out there is to not engage with GNOME dev and just do your thing. All this problem stacked and the end result is that, I think, nobody is on the wheel to steer GNOME general directions. My theory is: This is why we don't have much news about planned future features, no road map, no nothing. It's just random pocket of devs refining their own corner of whatever part of GNOME they maintain occasionally while KDE is progressing exponentially and benefiting a lot in a time where a lot of Windows users are defecting to Linux. Finally, I'm not an expert, I am worthless nobody, nobody will miss my demise if I'm gone from the community for whatever reason — but allow the worthless me offers some solution to the future GNOME foundation leader if any chance that position could help steer GNOME project to even more brighter direction. Communicate with the community. Steve Deobald has shown how it can be done during his short tenure. Engaged community will be more willing to donate. Fellowship program should be expanded to "hire" new developers to support or take over component projects within GNOME. I don't expect expanded fellowship would offer the same amount of money, but just enough money to entice developer to do certain work to maintain or create new thing within the project. The benefit of this, for example, is to prevent one person to control the direction of "Adwaita" theme, or at the very least provide additional point of view as to prevent "tyranny of the view" in terms of decision making. That is all. Forgive me if I made spelling mistake, English is not mother tongue. I write this post not out of malice, but out of concern and deep love for GNOME (yes my name is one donation page, not this name though). Let me know what you think. submitted by /u/GegenAbschaum [link] [comments]

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Figured Id maybe ask here to see if anyone can point in how to troubleshoot? This is only happening on 1 user profile, so Im guessing whatever it might be is localized to just this instance and not others. Thanks submitted by /u/K41Nof2358 [link] [comments]

Newelle (AI Assistant for Gnome) just received a new update! 🖼 Added image generation - Support for stablediffusion.cpp, with model library and installation/compilation - Support for Pollinations, OpenAI and Openrouter - Support for image editing 💬 New chat redesign 🐞 Minor fixes: - STDIO MCP servers are now supported on Flatpak version - Better tool lazy loading: if a lazy loaded tool is called without tool search, ti will return its schema - Fixed error window when MCP server is not working submitted by /u/iTzSilver_YT [link] [comments]

While using Gnome, I never found a compelling Paint-like program, all the ones I found were really good still though. Drawing is with GTK3, and doesn’t properly support touchpad gestures. KolourPaint looks off on Gnome. Gimp is way too complicated for simple sketches. So, with the help of AI since I never have developed anything with JavaScript and Gnome before (for help with syntax, bug fixing), I developed GPaint, which is essentially a Paint clone. It has numerous tools and shapes available, each one with many options (brush types, text shadow, outlines, arrows etc). I made the interface to look as native as I could, hope you like it! In the future I want it to publish on Flathub also; for now, it’s available through the repository https://github.com/fraaaaa4/GPaint. Bug reports, suggestions and translations are welcome! One thing though, keep in mind the idea of the program itself, it should remain simple. submitted by /u/fraaaaa4 [link] [comments]

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A few days ago, I opened a feature request in the Sidra project asking for a compact mini player widget: https://github.com/wimpysworld/sidra/issues/125 During the discussion, the idea of making it a standalone application came up. I liked that approach and decided to build it. The result is MPRIS MiniPlayer, a small GTK4/libadwaita application for controlling MPRIS-compatible media players. Current features: Play / Pause Previous / Next track Album artwork display Track and artist information Automatic player detection GTK4 + libadwaita interface It works with Spotify, VLC, MPV, browsers, and other MPRIS-compatible players. Source code: https://github.com/ChrisLauinger77/mpris-miniplayer The project is still in its early stages, so feedback, bug reports, feature requests, and contributions are welcome. As an own window I can have it always-on-top, on-all-workspaces which I really like. EDIT: Forgot to mention for window management I use https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/8149/smart-auto-move-ng/ submitted by /u/chrislauinger [link] [comments]

I made a small project called FlowShell that adds a few visual tweaks to GNOME without heavily changing the desktop experience. 🔗https://github.com/tejesh-zephaniah/FlowShell Features include: Semi-Transparent top panel Floating-style panel/bar Semi-Transparent popups and menus No need for the OpenBar extension just to get a floating panel look The idea was to keep GNOME feeling like GNOME while making the default look a bit cleaner and more modern. It’s still a small project, so I’d really appreciate any feedback, bug reports, suggestions, or ideas for improvements. What do you think? Any features you’d like to see added? submitted by /u/Nox-4 [link] [comments]

Sharing a theme I've been building for GNOME — takes some cues from Material design. It covers GTK3, GTK4/Libadwaita apps, and GNOME Shell so everything looks consistent, plus comes with a few different top bar layout options to swap between. ​ It's built primarily around Matugen (generates a palette from your wallpaper or a source color), but also ships some premade color themes if you'd rather not set Matugen up at all. ​ GitHub: https://github.com/SakibShahariar/material-gnome-theme ​ Would love feedback, especially if anyone runs into compatibility issues on different GNOME versions — currently tested on GNOME Shell 50. submitted by /u/South-Bad805 [link] [comments]

Talking about this: https://github.com/vicinaehq/vicinae submitted by /u/Mercoxium [link] [comments]

If you've ever wanted to write a GTK app in JavaScript/TypeScript but on Node instead of GJS, node-gtk does exactly that through gobject-introspection. GTK 4, Adwaita, GtkSourceView, any introspected library, straight from JS. I've put a fair bit of work into it recently and wanted to share where it's at: Stability. Fixed a batch of GObject wrapper lifetime bugs that caused crashes and leaks under GC. The test suite now runs against the upstream gobject-introspection test libraries (GIMarshallingTests/Regress), so in/out/inout marshalling for every GObject type is actually exercised. Prebuilt binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows. npm install node-gtk works without a compiler. Windows was the interesting one: the prebuilt ships the GTK 4 / Adwaita runtime bundled in (DLLs, typelibs, icons), so no MSYS2 or system GTK needed. Full TypeScript support. Generates .d.ts from the typelibs on your machine, so the types match your actual library versions. camelCase methods, typed signals, enums, nullability, bigint for 64-bit ints, and GIR docs show up on hover. ESM compatible. Works under both CommonJS and ESM. Repo: https://github.com/romgrk/node-gtk Still alpha, but you can build a real Adwaita app with it today. Questions/feedback welcome. submitted by /u/romgrk [link] [comments]

It's a great looking app, but it's always wrong. Today is a great example, it's 85 out and this app says it's 75. It's always wrong. Wtf. And yes, I have the city correct. submitted by /u/AttitudeElectronic68 [link] [comments]

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https://reddit.com/link/1uad5ck/video/skowmpuuza8h1/player Made another extension making it easy to see your Public IP in Gnome's top bar. Search in Gnome Extension Manager for "Show External IP" Extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5368/show-external-ip-thisipcancyou/ Github: https://github.com/cwittenberg/thisipcan.cyou Features: - Picture of your location in menu - Getting a notification when your IP changes - handy when on the road (or dealing with VPNs) - Country flag shown of IP (configurable) - IPv4 and IPv6 support - Seeing history of your past IP addresses submitted by /u/clairehugo [link] [comments]

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For whatever reason as soon as I hit my meta key and enter the gnome overview my entire pc starts running at like 5 fps. Any youtube videos Im watching as well as the ui all drop to incredibly low frame rates for no reason as far as I can tell. This started happening after I restarted my pc, no updates were done and nothing new was installed it was just a simple restart. I'm running Bazzite. Im pretty sure this is a software issue since all my games still play just fine. Any help would be appreciated!! Specs: Intel Core i5-7500 RX 480 4GB 16GB RAM 1TB HDD (i know my pc sucks okay) submitted by /u/SympathyOver4204 [link] [comments]

I noticed that on GNOME, after boot, when opening an app or while running a somewhat heavy app, the mouse tend to skip frames, feel like it's "low framerate", or freeze for like half a second, also, under the same conditions, clicking Super, scrolling workspaces/page on app list can sometimes have the same issues. After doing some research I think I found the answer, that being that Wayland is responsible for drawing EVERYTHING on the screen, which can create a traffic jam on the main thread, back when Xorg was the default, Xorg rendered the cursor, Mutter handled animations, so this didn't happen. This issue doesn't exist on KDE and other DE's, is there anything I can do to try to fix or make this better? Hardware is not the problem, it's no NASA computer but it's alright, it's an i7 10th gen, 16gb of RAM and an RTX2060 Again everything I said here is from my understanding from my own research, I can be wrong, if you know better please correct me submitted by /u/lOwnCtAL [link] [comments]

I've found a new appreciation for gnome since realizing that dash-to-panel is now supported in Gnome 50. Plus, everything seems more visually consistent compared to Plasma. submitted by /u/isoGUI [link] [comments]

After a lot of suggestions, testing, bug reports, and feedback from the Linux community, I am finally releasing OmniGlyph v1.1.0. For anyone who hasn't seen it before, OmniGlyph is a fast GTK4-based emoji and Unicode picker for Linux that lets you search and copy emojis, symbols, arrows, math symbols, currency signs, emoticons, and more from a lightweight overlay window. What's New in v1.1.0 Full keyboard navigation Custom configuration file (~/.config/omniglyph/config.toml) Persistent history and recents Nerd Fonts collection support Release update notifications Configurable shortcuts Better sidebar navigation Faster collection switching Cleaner internal architecture and performance improvements Collections Emoji Emoticons Arrows Math Symbols Currency Symbols Special Symbols Hieroglyphs Nerd Fonts Links Website: https://omniglyph.anishroy.dev/ GitHub: https://github.com/pshycodr/omniglyph Feedback Wanted I am actively developing OmniGlyph and would love feedback, bug reports, feature requests, or ideas for future releases. Thanks to everyone who tested early version and helped shape this release. submitted by /u/Aroy666 [link] [comments]

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