I made a little joke — which some people didn’t find funny, alas — about the super bright, glaring white default wallpaper Ubuntu devs added to the Mantic Minotaur daily builds last week. That joke is now even flatter as, following respectable&#x…
The latest nightly builds of the Nautilus file manager sport a split header-bar look. And if all goes to plan, Nautilus’ new two-panel look will roll out to all when…
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Among the many new features in GNOME 45 is keyboard backlight control from the Quick Settings menu. When GNOME 45 (currently in beta) is running on a device with compatible,…
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When Pine64 launched its RISC-V tablet earlier this year they were clear from the start: software support, particularly usable desktop Linux distros, would be lacking at first. But not for…
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Keen to kick the tyres on the next wave of KDE software? If so, check out a revamped experimental archive KDE neon developers recently announced. Unstable builds of the Ubuntu-based KDE neon now include KDE Plasma 6 (which is under active development) …
As you may be aware (or you may not – we all lead busy lives) one of GNOME’s Google Summer of Code projects for this year (2023) was to add…
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GNOME developers are “rethinking” the Activities button that appears by default in GNOME Shell’s Top bar. Feedback shows that the word “Activities” doesn’t mean a great deal to users (and…
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Planning to upgrade or install Ubuntu 23.10 when it’s released in the autumn? If so, you can look forward to an experience powered by the Linux 6.5 kernel. While the Linux 6.5 kernel is yet to be released yet, the stars (or rather the release cal…
All going well, Mozilla Firefox 116 will include hardware accelerated video decoding on the Raspberry Pi 4. Current stable builds of the famed FOSS browser uses software decoding for video…
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Ever look at Nautilus’ sidebar and think there are a few too many entries? GNOME devs have. They’re proposing to prune the number of sidebar location shortcuts the file manager’s…
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GNOME Web, also known as Epiphany, is a great lightweight web browser with a number of compelling features, including Firefox Sync. The next version of Web is adds another cool…
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Big changes may be coming to the way Fedora Workstation is installed. Red Hat engineers have been beavering away a new web-based UI for the Anaconda OS installer for the past…
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With Debian 12 released and well-received attention turns to its successor, Debian 13 — and we already know a few tantalising details about it. First up its codename. Debian releases…
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Users of the Evolution Flathub build are being asked to consider switching to beta builds to help ramp up testing of future releases. Developer Jiri Eischmann lays out the case…
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Improved window tiling is coming to Ubuntu 23.10. If you’re a regular reader you’ll have expected this. I revealed earlier this year that Ubuntu developers wanted to make the Tiling Assistant GNOME extension part of the default install. Wel…
Looks like GNOME designers are giving some much-needed love to fractional scaling settings accessible through the Settings app. In mockups shared on Gitlab, which is where the bulk of GNOME…
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Support for a light theme in GNOME Shell was merged upstream this week — though before anyone panic, I must stress it won’t be shipping as the default option in…
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The latest version of GNOME Software uses fewer resources when idle. Something of a lynchpin in the software management experience for GNOME desktop, it’s understandable that GNOME Software is a…
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A new beta build of Mageia 9 is available for testing. Since being forked from the iconic Mandriva Linux distribution in 2011, Mageia has matured into its own skin, earning…
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Microsoft Edge (dev) on Ubuntu 23.04
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