"Designing GNOME"
with Allan Day & Cassidy James Blaede 24 July
11:05 CEST
Brescia
A year of design updates: notifications, UX patterns, Adwaita fonts & more.
"Designing GNOME"
with Allan Day & Cassidy James Blaede 24 July
11:05 CEST
Brescia
A year of design updates: notifications, UX patterns, Adwaita fonts & more.
Well well well let's work on making a release then.
'tis been fun working on this application launcher, next up is adding support for extensions, and i have some solid ideas for that implementation in the same vein as the import functions in the creative writer.
yes, yes i know, who needs another application launcher.
but come on, this is metal AF.
(and yes, i know about the openrouter typo)
It took so long to find the energy to figure it all out, but I finally got the iPod Classic running RockBox reliably with my flac music library. And it's using the adwaita theme to match my laptop lol. I am so happy to be able to use it for listening to my music especially since I kinda broke my HiFiWalker H2 a few months ago.
#RockBox #GNOME #Adwaita #iPodClassic #iPod #LocalMusicLibrary #LocalMusic #Music #FLAC
In Fedora 42 KDE Edition, the annoying bug with distorted and way too big mouse cursors in GTK/libadwaita applications is finally gone :-)
The mouse cursor is now rendered identically in QT/KDE and GTK applications alike.
Nice!!
Excited to announce that Learn 6502 Assembly is now available on Flathub!
Modern 6502 Assembly Learning Environment with:
• Interactive step-by-step tutorial
• Code editor with syntax highlighting
• Built-in assembler & debugger
• Visual game console
Perfect for retro-computing enthusiasts, students, or anyone curious about how computers work at a low level.
Available on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/eu.jumplink.Learn6502
#6502 #Assembly #Programming #GNOME #Adwaita #Flathub #OpenSource #Learning
I know a lot of people switched to the new #Adwaita fonts right after their conception, but I've actually sticked with Cantarell 'till the very end except for some light testing. Just upgraded to the latest Fedora beta with the new fonts, and it's a whole new world!
This is the culmination of years of discussion and research by many people, but @monster deserves a special thanks for spearheading this particular solution and pushing the initiative over the finish line once and for all.
is there somewhere i can find something like a "dos and don'ts of using #GTK4 and #adwaita"?
i've been reading through random issues and MRs on various #GNOME repos, and i'm finding some really useful comments about things that you should(n't) be doing. things like "using a listview inside a box is wrong and broken" - this is really useful knowledge, but i can't find it actually formally documented anywhere.
if there are any #GNOME designers/artists (gnomes? gnome heads? gnomish sourcerers? gnaphic gnesigners?) seeing this, does it comply with the HIG in your opinion? what would you suggest changing if not?
the cheesecrater icon uses the standard rustacean image, which doesn't have that smooth, rounded look the HIG usually suggests, but i lack the skill to make a "blobby" version of ferris.
the crates browser, with its triple-pane layout (third screenshot), is the most complicated of them, but it's based on the design of the crates.io website, which displays the readme alongside a right-aligned "metadata" pane.
(also: either it's very hard to write descriptive alt text for UI design screenshots, or i am very bad at it. possibly both.)
# pacman -S adwaita-fonts
I almost feel like I am writing from the future, already using the "new" #gnome #adwaita fonts, Adwaita Sans and Adwaita Mono.
Adwaita Sans is a variant of Inter, and Adwaita Mono, the Menlo style of Iosevka.
So, they're not really new fonts, but I'm still excited.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-fonts
#linux
Finally made some progress on a small #gtk utility using #gjs
Still in very early stage development
Written in #TypeScript
uses #adwaita widgets.
Hey gnome folks!
I have some free time and want to start out learning to build libadwaita apps. Where do I even start? Is there anyone here who started gnome app development recently and still remembers how they got started? Or some veterans with a good understanding of recent best practices for gnome app development?
@tbernard the #Fedora #flatpak repo has a fair deal of #Plasma packages in it, and that's probably because the Fedora community has been porting desktop apps over to it.
I have a cynical take though. I believe that #designers and #UX experts gravitate more towards #Gtk/ #Adwaita because it is more modern. Plasma/ #Origami has come a long way, but is still not as enticing as Gtk/Adwaita. This becomes a little barrier to entry in of it self, IMHO. It also means there is more Gtk #abandonware.
Okay. I've got one idea. Super basic but useful. A "Who has my thing?" app. It tracks who you lent an item to.
It needs a better name though...
It's perfect for a beginner, because the data structure is dead simple. The library is so easy to write that I can focus on developing my #libadwaita skills.
Adwaita is really pretty freaking great. It makes designing responsive apps just… easy?? Here’s an update to Butler, my Home Assistant app, for GNOME 47 and Adwaita 1.6.
Update coming soon to Flathub!