Collaborate Disseminate
“The foundation behind the Gnome desktop environment is having to go through some serious belt-tightening…” writes Linux Magazine.
From an October 7th announcement by The Gnome Foundation:
Our plan for the previous financial year was to operate a … Continue reading GNOME Foundation Cuts Budget, Seeks More Volunteers and Donations
The GNOME Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting the GNOME desktop environment, has been operating at a deficit for several years, depleting its financial reserves. Robert McQueen, the foundation’s president, has announced plans to increase f… Continue reading GNOME Foundation To Focus On Fundraising After Years Running A Deficit
prisoninmate shares a report from 9to5Linux: Dubbed “Kathmandu” after the host city of the GNOME.Asia 2023 conference in Kathmandu, Nepal, the GNOME 46 desktop environment is here to introduce major new features like headless remote desktop support tha… Continue reading GNOME 46 Released
Curl gave us all a big warning that a severe security problem had been found in that code-base. Given the staggering number of Curl installs around the world, we held …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Curl Reveal, Rapid Reset DDoS, and Libcue
“A set of merge requests were opened to drop X.ORG (X11) from GNOME desktop,” writes Slashdot reader motang. Phoronix reports: This merge request would remove the X11 session targets within gnome-session: “This is the first step towards deprecating the… Continue reading GNOME Merge Requests Opened To Drop X11 Session Support
A one-click exploit targeting the Libcue component of the GNOME desktop environment could pose a serious threat to Linux systems.
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In GNOME Shell there’s a dark background for the Quick Settings menu, the calendar applet, and desktop notification– but in Ubuntu 23.10, “the default Yaru theme uses a light style for GNOME Shell elements,” according to the blog OMG Ubuntu.
“But th… Continue reading Developer Creates ‘Dark Style’ GNOME Extension for Ubuntu 23.10
The upcoming release of GNOME 45 — expected September 20th — will bring new features to the Nautilus file manager (now in public beta testing). An anonymous reader shared this report from 9to5Linux:
Nautilus in GNOME 45 already received a… Continue reading Nautilus File Manager Gets New Features in Upcoming GNOME 45
Managing windows — “even after 50 years, nobody’s fully cracked it yet,” writes GNOME developer Tobias Bernard:
Most of the time you don’t care about exact window sizes and positions and just want to see the windows that you need for your current… Continue reading GNOME Devs Are Working on a New Window Management System
“9to5Linux.com reports that the GNOME 44 desktop environment is officially released and gives a detailed look at the major new features and improvements,” writes Slashdot reader prisoninmate. From the report: Code-named “Kuala Lumpur” in recognition of… Continue reading GNOME 44 Released