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technology2 days ago

GYESME Emerges as a Design-First, Minimalist GNOME Downstream in Early Exploration

GYESME is a new, exploratory project that aims to be a design-led downstream of GNOME, prioritizing minimalism and modularity while allowing optional features and broader portability. It positions itself as a platform for extension rather than a replacement, may fork only if architectural modularity demands it, and seeks to avoid unnecessary hard dependencies (notably on systemd) where alternatives exist. The effort is in planning stages with documentation and a two-year roadmap on GitHub.

via Phoronix|
#design#gnome#gyesme
technology1 year ago

"GNOME Mutter 46 Beta: Boost for Gamers and VM Users"

GNOME Shell and Mutter have released their GNOME 46 Beta versions, featuring improvements for gamers and virtual machine users. Notable changes include support for mouse cursor hotspots for KMS atomic mode, refactoring of Wayland focus management, and dropped experimental RT-scheduler feature. However, dynamic triple buffering and Mutter Variable Refresh Rate support were not included. GNOME Shell 46 Beta brings improved styling, default styles, and handling of screencast failures, among other changes.

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#beta-release#gaming#gnome
technology1 year ago

"GNOME 46: Last-Minute Decision on Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) Support"

The GNOME 46 desktop release, scheduled for 16 March, may not include Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) integration due to the feature coming down to the wire. The ongoing work around VRR for GNOME includes refining the settings UI and updating the VRR backend support. While it's treated as an experimental feature and may not make it to GNOME 46, efforts are being made to iron out VRR support for the GNOME 47 cycle in the autumn, thanks to funding from Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund.

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#gnome#mutter#technology
technology1 year ago

"GNOME Advances: Variable Refresh Rate Setting and Battery Charge Control"

GNOME developers are making progress on enhancing the desktop environment with Variable Rate Refresh (VRR) settings and discussing the best way to present the option to users. Additionally, there are pending merge requests for adding laptop battery charge threshold controls to help preserve battery health for frequently plugged-in systems, with work being carried out on UPower and the GNOME Control Center for this purpose.

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#battery-charge-control#desktop-environment#gnome
technology2 years ago

"Ubuntu 23.10: New Features, ZFS Option, App Center, Raspberry Pi Support, and Improved RDNA3 Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance"

Ubuntu 23.10 'Mantic Minotaur' is now available for download. This update features a default minimal installation option, improvements to the GNOME 45 desktop environment, new features and apps such as quarter tiling and a Flutter-based App Center, and updates to the Linux kernel, graphics drivers, and core packages. Users can choose to download the main edition of Ubuntu or various flavors, and ARM images are available for the Raspberry Pi 5 and Lenovo X13s Gen 1.

via OMG! Ubuntu!|
#gnome#operating-system#software
technology2 years ago

GNOME Drops X.Org Session Support with New Merge Requests

GNOME has opened merge requests to drop X.Org (X11) session support, making it a Wayland-only desktop environment. The move aligns with Fedora's plan to disable GNOME X11 session support and make KDE Plasma 6 Wayland-only. The merge requests aim to remove X11 session targets and eventually eliminate the X11 session code, reducing gnome-session's codebase by 3.6k lines. Concerns have been raised about the impact on downstream desktops that haven't fully transitioned to Wayland, but it appears that GNOME will become Wayland-only in 2024.

via Phoronix|
#desktop-environment#gnome#merge-requests
technology2 years ago

"Enhanced GNOME Code Boosts NVIDIA Proprietary Driver Multi-Monitor Performance"

A merge request for GNOME's Mutter compositor aims to improve performance for NVIDIA proprietary driver multi-monitor setups by adding hardware acceleration for secondary GPUs. The request addresses issues of slow performance and extreme lag on secondary monitors powered by NVIDIA GPUs. The code is currently undergoing review and shows promise for enhancing the multi-monitor experience on GNOME Wayland with the NVIDIA proprietary driver.

via Phoronix|
#gnome#multi-monitor#nvidia