I've been on #X11 for past 28+ years, but used different WMs over time: #twm, #fvwm95, #e16, #gnome, #compiz, #xmonad and #awesomewm.

I'm migrating to #Wayland and need a wm which would ease the move. Requirements are: tiling, no window decorations, keyboard driven and config driven.

I rediscovered #i3 == #sway which check all my boxes and use common config. After some tweaking, I got it working well with my keybindings and usage patterns.

https://i3wm.org/ & https://swaywm.org/

It's not long until the 1st of June, so why not pick up the guitar and learn some catchy tunes for the summer? I've just published version 7.0 of Fretboard, which brings more accurate chord name prediction, note names on hover for the neck top toggles, and a couple of fixes for various small issues encountered since last release. It should be on Flathub very soon!

https://apps.gnome.org/Fretboard

#Fretboard #GNOME #Flathub #GNOMEApps #GNOMECircle #Guitar

• KDE Plasma (47%, 9 votes)
• Gnome (52%, 10 votes)

Very happy and proud of this collaboration between @codethink @gnome and @sovtechfund

https://www.codethink.co.uk/articles/2024/GNOME-OS-systemd-sysupdate/

Our goal is to make GNOME OS a daily driver for QA and finalize the migration, but this work will be fundamental to the future of all secure image based / immutable Linux distributions.

#Linux #GNOME #systemd

GNOME OS + systemd-sysupdate

Did you know there’s a simple way to try the most cutting-edge GNOME software?

^{www.codethink.co.uk}

Got very excited by @matt demo of AccessKit integration in #GTK

AccessKit is a cross-platform abstraction for accessibility infrastructure written in Rust.

His work will bring a11y support for GTK on macOS and Windows as well as for the new accessibility architecture on Linux code-named "Newton".

https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

https://blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2023/10/27/a-new-accessibility-architecture-for-modern-free-desktops/

#GNOME #rustlang #accessibility #a11y #Linux #Windows #macOS

Matrix certrainly has its rough edges, but I find it awesome that pretty much every major Linux community now has their dedicated space. All federated, of course.

#Matrix #Element #ElementWeb #Linux #ArchLinux #KDE #Plasma #GNOME #Debian #openSUSE #Fedora #LinuxMint #XApp #postmarketOS

Content warning: We are happy to announce that GNOME was assigned eight slots for Google Summer of Code projects this year! GSoC is a program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. A number of long term GNOME developers are former GSoC Reveal/hide

We are happy to announce that GNOME was assigned eight slots for Google Summer of Code projects this year!

GSoC is a program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. A number of long term GNOME developers are former GSoC interns, making the program a very valuable entry point for new members in our project.

In 2024 we will mentoring the following projects:

Project Title	Contributor	Assigned Mentor(s)
Add TypeScript Support to Workbench	Angelo Verlain Shema	Sonny Piers
Port Workbench demos to Vala, build a new Workbench Library, and replace the current code search	Bharat Tyagi	Sonny Piers
Improve Tracker SPARQL developer experience by creating a “web IDE” for developing queries	Demigod	Carlos Garnacho
Papers’ small screen and touch support for mobile and tablet	Markus Göllnitz	Pablo Correa Gomez
More durable synching for FlatSync	Mattia Formichetti	Rasmus Thomsen
Port libipuz to Rust	pranjal_	jrb
Improve Tracker SPARQL developer experience by creating “web IDE” for developing queries	rachle08	Carlos Garnacho
Add support for the latest GIR attributes and gi-docgen formatting to Valadoc	sudhanshuv1	Lorenz Wildberg

As part of the contributor’s acceptance into GSoC they are expected to actively participate in the Community Bonding period (May 1 – 26). The Community Bonding period is intended to help prepare contributors to start contributing at full speed starting May 27.

The new contributors will soon get their blogs added to Planet GNOME making it easy for the GNOME community to get to know them and the projects that they will be working on.

We would like to also thank our mentors for supporting GSoC and helping new contributors enter our project.

If you have any doubts, feel free to reply to this Discourse topic or message us privately at soc-admins@gnome.org

GNOME will be mentoring 8 new contributors for Google Summer of Code 2024

We are happy to announce that GNOME was assigned eight slots for Google Summer of Code projects this year! GSoC is a program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development.

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