Paolo Redaelli personal blog

Category: Gnome

Gtk 1

Robin Rowe is maintaining GTK1, the classic GUI Library for Windows, Linux and MacOS. It may feel retro but its value lies in its simplicity. Currently it does has Wayland Support. It is currently hosted on GitLab but for precaution I copied it on codeberg.org/tybor/gtk1

A suggestion

A little suggestion to #Librem and #PureOs developers, especially for #Librem5: an advanced energy saving mode that turns off everything not absolutely needed. No fancy animations, black’n’white, no gradients, no sub-pixel anti-aliasing, no background services (as far as possible)

Looking glass

I’ve been using Gnome Shell for a long time but I never heard of Looking Glass! Looking Glass is GNOME Shell’s integrated inspector tool and JavaScript console useful for debugging. It can be run by typing ‘lg’ in the Alt+F2 prompt and can then be exited by pressing Esc. More details are here. Source: Projects/GnomeShell/CheatSheet…

Status Icons and GNOME – Form and Function

Those people of Gnome are getting wiser. They took it a while tought: From GNOME 3.26, we are therefore planning not to show status icons in GNOME Shell by default. We feel that, long-term, this change will enable us to provide a better experience for our users (I’ll go into some detail about this in…