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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19327308

Notable changes

• Add experimental color management protocol support
• Use libadwaita for server-side decorations on GNOME (on Xorg and Xwayland apps)
• Let scaling-aware Xwayland clients scale themselves
• Add initial PipeWire explicit sync support

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19239598

Hopefully this means no more blurry Xwayland apps.

Ambitiously setting the Milestone for GNOME 47 but I understand if maintainers want to push back on that.

You know how on Windows you can collapse icons in the task tray to keep them out of sight? Or on macOS, third-party apps like Bartender let you hide menu bar icons until you need them?

Well, Lilypad is a new GNOME Shell extension that does the same thing, just for GNOME Shell. It gives you greater control over what top bar items are visible or hidden, and the order they’re arranged in.

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Well, with Lilypad you can hide those ugly [colored] icons out of sight — without losing the ability to use the functionality they provide.

Finally, and most useful, you can use Lilypad to rearrange icons in the top bar, putting extensions applets and tray icons in the order you’d prefer.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19188902

Retargeted triple buffering to GNOME 48 instead of trying to upstream it in 47 at the last minute. Actually upstream wants it in 47 more than we do. But recent code reviews are both too numerous to resolve quickly and too destabilizing if implemented fully. So I’m not going to do that so close to release. There are still no known bugs to worry about and the distro patch for 24.10 only needs to be supported until EOL in July 2025.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/desktop-team-integration-squad-updates-monday-2nd-september-2024/47587/2

As of today, Mutter will style legacy titlebars (i.e. of X11 / Xwayland apps that don’t use client-side decorations) using Adwaita on GNOME.

Shadows match the Adwaita style as well, including shadows of unfocused windows. These titlebars continue to follow the system dark and light mode, even when apps don’t.

GitLab Merge Request: frames: Load libadwaita on GNOME

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a quick countdown of the 10 best new features in GNOME 47!

• New Dialogs
• Better Touch
• Disk Mounter
• Custom Bookmarks
• Custom Shortcuts
• Custom Variables
• Default to Vulkan
• DRM Lease
• Accent Colors
• File Picker
• Wayland ACTUALLY works!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18979052

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18910379

After many months, I finally found the time to finish the GNOME desktop/application settings migration in the Linux Desktop Migration Tool and made another release. It basically involves exporting the dconf keys on the source machine and importing writable keys on the destination machine. I’ve also added some extra code to handle the desktop background.

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The list of migrations the tool can do is already fairly long:

• Migrate data in XDG directories (Documents, Pictures, Downloads…) and other arbitrary directories in home.
• Reinstall flatpaks on the new machine.
• Migrate Flatpak app data.
• Migrate Toolbx containers.
• Migrate ssh certificates, PKI certificates and nss database, GPG keys, keyring, GNOME Online Accounts.
• Migrate GNOME desktop/app settings

Git Repository: linux-desktop-migration-tool

With this First Look, we will be taking a look at “Tiling Shell”, an open-source window tiling solution for GNOME-equipped systems.

Some key highlights of Tiling Shell include:

• Easy multi-monitor operation.
• Windows 11-like snap assistant.
• Can be used on GNOME 40-46.
• Supports both X11 and Wayland.

The level of control it gives is impressive, there are options to tweak the inner/outer gaps between windows, enable snap assistant, configure the tiling system, add keybinds for window management, and more.

In terms of the layout choices, the possibilities are endless (literally), there are some handy pre-configured ones that are usable. But, the main highlight is the layout editor, which is the star of the show.

As for how the multi-monitor experience is, Tiling Shell doesn't disappoint in that matter. It's easy to tile windows between workspaces and displays using the snap assistant, I didn't feel that this behavior was an add-on, it felt quite native to me.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/965743

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users experiencing issues setting up Fastmail and mailbox.org providers in GNOME Online Accounts to access cloud files, calendars, and/or contacts will be pleased to hear a fix is inbound.

Ubuntu have now packaged the gnome-online-accounts 3.50.4 update for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and uploaded it to the ‘proposed’ updates channel for noble to allow for proper testing.

This update also bring a number of other fixes, including buffs to improve ‘the usability of new Microsoft 365 provider’ – aka the to sign-in to if you want to access OneDrive files through the Nautilus file manager as a virtual filesystem.

Merge Request: goabackend: fixes for generic WebDAV providers