Notices by Tobias Bernard (tbernard@mastodon.social)

There's now a recording of my Linux App Summit talk about our work on Reflection, and the broader project of making local-first collaboration easy for GNOME apps.

There are unfortunately some skips in the audio, but it's more or less understandable :)

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/jRTmqrPxtikkW7ozr6erd7

https://youtu.be/MGAuUGp-Z68

RE: https://autonomous.zone/@dantescanline/116419494401075294

To prevent break-ins I'm putting in a security system that burns down my house if I lose the keys

Some dope new app releases on Flathub this week 🔥

I just realized there are now ~5 modern GTK streaming music player apps, but not a single good one for local libraries 🥲

Tidal:
https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.nokse22.high-tide
https://flathub.org/en/apps/dev.dergs.Tonearm

Jellyfin:
https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.m51.Gelly

MPD:
https://flathub.org/en/apps/de.wagnermartin.Plattenalbum

Spotify:
https://flathub.org/en/apps/dev.diegovsky.Riff

I always find it odd when people talking about high level policy stuff like EuroStack completely ignore end-user devices - Like, if you have fully sovereign EU AI cloud apps, where are you going to access them from? Your iPhone?

https://ecfr.eu/publication/get-over-your-x-a-european-plan-to-escape-american-technology

Presented without comment

Sooo I guess at this point it's just literally the old background blur with extra steps?

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/20/ios-26-1-liquid-glass-toggle

i see a big market opening up for "I bought this Framework before they went crazy" stickers

@nikitonsky seems to me the visual style and the bugginess are two separate questions no? you can do the calmer visuals without the specific quality and contrast issues you pointed out here - and without those that last screenshot would look nicer than the in-your-face y2k aesthetic of the first ones

Congratulations to the winners of our Summer of GNOME OS challenge 🎉🎉

1. Ada Magicat (40 points)
2. Ignacy Kuchciński (37 points)
3. Forteller (26 points)

This was very much an experiment, but everyone I talked to said it was surprisingly smooth, and they'll continue to daily drive GNOME OS.

Thanks to everyone who participated, it was a lot of fun! And thanks even more to the GNOME OS team for getting us this far, especially @Valentin, Abderrahim, @alatiera, @AdrianVovk, and @jjardon!

@forteller Thanks! This is a good time to file issues around this, since the developers are actively looking at it and fixing regressions :)

@forteller Did you file an issue for the second one? There were big changes to thumbnailing this cycle, but most of the fallout from that is fixed for me on the latest GNOME OS.

Part 3 of the GNOME Shell gestures work by @verdre has landed in Mutter/GNOME Shell main. This is one of the main dependencies for upstreaming the rest of GNOME Shell mobile 🙌

Huge thanks to everyone involved in review, especially @fmuellner, Carlos Garnacho, @jadahl, Bilal Elmoussaoui, @rmader, and @swick!

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/2857

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2853

This summer we're asking the question: What if we just started using GNOME OS as our primary OS?

It's still early days for GNOME OS, but it's finally ready for wider testing by developers and early adopters, on real hardware. Join us for a 3-month challenge from today until September 1st, file and fix some issues, and win a a OnePlus 6 with Linux Mobile or a limited-edition shirt 🌈👕

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/06/01/summer-of-gnome-os

#gnomeos #imagebased #flatpak

The redesigned annotation workflow has landed in Papers Nightly!

There are a few minor things left (such as recoloring the icons), but what has already landed is a huuuge improvement to the workflow. Thanks so much to @pabloyoyoista, @camelCaseNick, lbaudin and the rest of the team for reviving this app ❤️

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Incubator/papers/-/merge_requests/470

Here's the blog post I've been trying not to write for the past year.

We need to start discussing the events surrounding @sonny's ban last year with the entire community, and unfortunately the only way to do that is in public. Here's hoping this is the first step towards that wider discussion, and an eventual resolution.

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/04/23/the-elephant-in-the-room

Wait the camera bumps were optional this whole time?? https://www.theverge.com/news/631826/google-pixel-9a-specs-price-availability

@jimmac Not sure I buy that it's because of physics anymore, when Google just shipped the same camera for 5 years and nobody complained, because it's all software anyway...

My completely unscientific hot take is that the huge camera bumps are mostly a camera quality placebo and a way to upsell people on the more expensive phones.

If the future is that we need to wait 5s every time a GNOME Gitlab page loads, maybe we should at least show something interesting - how about random tips or excerpts from the HIG?

"Never use the label 'OK' on a button"

"Margins should be multiples of 6px, e.g. 12, 18, 24"

"Button labels should use Title Case"

"Don't ask for confirmation when you could have undo instead"

and so on :)

Looking over the guidelines I'd guess the trick is probably in setting the requirements such that only Windows/MS Office/AutoCAD/etc can meet them?

Very interesting document though, they have decision making flow charts and everything:

https://www.agid.gov.it/sites/default/files/repository_files/lg-acquisizione-e-riuso-software-per-pa-docs_pubblicata.pdf