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Contributing to Boxes
I have to admit that Boxes is a bit late for the Flatpak party, but that’s not a problem. The technical difficulties of getting a virtualization hypervisor to run inside the flatpak sandbox are mostly...
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Attending GUADEC!
Just passing by to say that I am looking forward to see you all later this week in Almeria. The conference program sounds very promising and the host city is looking outstanding. We will be hosting a...
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Summing up GUADEC 2018
That’s my seventh edition of GUADEC (and counting) and I just can’t get enough! This year’s edition was once again a blast. The best opportunity to put faces into the names we interact daily throughout...
View ArticleDevConf.CZ 2019
Last month I attended DevConf CZ for the third time. The conference has been growing a lot in the last years and it has been attracting a wider variety of people. It is a free-admission conference in...
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User account fallback images in GNOME 3.32
Your face might resemble this one in the left (avatar-default) as much as it could be pretty much everyone else using the same computer as you. With this in mind, we introduced a small feature in GNOME...
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Introducing GNOME Usage’s Storage panel
GNOME Usage is a new GNOME application to visualize system resources such as memory consumption and disk space. It has been developed by Petr Stetka, a high school intern in our Red Hat office in Brno....
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Settings: new Search panel
I haven’t been working on GNOME Settings for quite some time now. Currently, I am focusing mostly on GNOME Boxes, Usage, and Fedora Silverblue. To be fair I still have some love for Settings and I...
View ArticleNewcomers workshop @ GUADEC 2019
This year’s GUADEC is approaching and I can already feel people’s excitement while talking about our annual conference. It is important that we benefit from having so many GNOMies together in the same...
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GUADEC 2019
Meeting my fellow GNOMies is something I look forward to every year. For eight years now I have traveled to participate in GUADEC and returned home with my head thinking of next year’s edition of the...
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GNOME 3.34 Release Party in Brno, Czech Republic
In September 25th we had once more a local meetup in Brno to celebrate another fantastic GNOME Release! GNOME “Thessaloniki” 3.34 is out now and will be reaching distros in the following months. This...
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Try the GNOME Nightly VM images with GNOME Boxes
It was a long time overdue but we now have bootable VM images for GNOME again. These VMs are good for testing and documenting new features before they reach distros. To provide the best experience in...
View ArticleTen Years Contributing to GNOME!
Time flies! Exactly ten years ago today I made my first contribution to GNOME. I rarely celebrate recurring dates but this is a nice rounded number that serves as the perfect excuse for me to publish...
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DevConf.CZ 2020
Once again, DevConf.CZ, is our meeting-while-freezing winter conference in Brno. For this year I cooked up two talks: An hour-long talk about Portals during the first day of the conference. The room...
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Announcing “Connections”: a modern remote desktop client for GNOME
Yes! Connections is a brand new app that I put together in the last month. It is a remote desktop client for the VNC and RDP protocols on top of the same backend code that we were already using in...
View ArticleLet’s welcome our 2020 GSoC interns!
It is Google Summer of Code season again and this year the GNOME project is lucky to have 14 new interns working on various projects ranging from improvements in our app ecosystem to core components...
View ArticleGUADEC 2020: Intern lightning talks
Hi, I hope you are all enjoying GUADEC! I am just passing by to let you know that on Monday 27th, 18:00 UTC, we will have our traditional Intern lightning talks where you will get to see our Outreachy...
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Identifying Operating Systems in GNOME Boxes
One secret sauce of GNOME Boxes is libosinfo. It basically is an umbrella for three components: libosinfo, osinfo-db-tools, and osinfo-db. libosinfo offers programmatic means to query for information...
View ArticleGUADEC 2020: Intern lightning talks
This year’s GUADEC was a blast. I miss seeing everybody in person but, at the same time, the online event enabled the participation of many that otherwise wouldn’t be able to attend the conference. I...
View ArticleDelivering osinfo-db updates automatically for Flatpak users
If you are familiar with GNOME Boxes internals you are aware that our secret sauce is libosinfo. It does the OS image detection and provides us with a database of devices, preferences, and...
View ArticleCall for Project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2021
It is that time of the year again when we start gathering ideas for Google Summer Code. This time around we will be posting and discussing proposals in GNOME’s GitLab instance. Therefore, if you have...
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