Debian and GNOME have both recently adopted self-hosted GitLab for their git hosting. GNOME’s service is named simply https://gitlab.gnome.org/ ; Debian’s has the more intriguing name https://salsa.debian.org/ . If you ask the Salsa sysadmins, they’ll explain that they were in…
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GNOME Tweaks 3.28 Progress Report 1
A few days ago, I released GNOME Tweaks 3.27.4, a development snapshot on the way to the next stable version 3.28 which will be released alongside GNOME 3.28 in March. Here are some highlights of what’s changed since 3.26. New…
GNOME Tweaks 3.25.91
The GNOME 3.26 release cycle is in its final bugfix stage before release. Here’s a look at what’s new in GNOME Tweaks since my last post. I’ve heard people say that GNOME likes to remove stuff. If that were true,…
Link: Ubuntu @ GUADEC 2017 and plans for GNOME Shell migration
Since Didier Roche’s blog is not on Planet GNOME or Planet Debian and I think his post is of widespread interest, I’m linking to it here. Enjoy! Ubuntu @ GUADEC 2017 and plans for GNOME Shell migration
GNOME Tweak Tool 3.25.3
Today I released the second development snapshot (3.25.3) of what will be GNOME Tweak Tool 3.26. I consider the initial User Interface (UI) rework proposed by the GNOME Design Team to be complete now. Every page in Tweak Tool has…
#newinstretch : Latest WebKitGTK+
Debian 9 “Stretch”, the latest stable version of the venerable Linux distribution, will be released in a few days. I pushed a last-minute change to get the latest security and feature update of WebKitGTK+ (packaged as webkit2gtk 2.16.3) in before…
GNOME Tweak Tool 3.25.2
Today, I released the first development snapshot (3.25.2) of what will be GNOME Tweak Tool 3.26. Many of the panels have received UI updates. Here are a few highlights. Before this version, Tweak Tool didn’t report its own version number…
Moving On
While I had been interested in Debian/Ubuntu packaging for a while, it was the release of GNOME 3 two years ago that gave me the opportunity to get involved significantly. As Ubuntu switched to Unity by default instead of a…
Resigning from the Docs Team
I first got involved with Ubuntu docs around the time the Ubuntu 11.04 Beta was released. That was a very busy time as GNOME 3.0 was being finalized and Ubuntu 11.04 was switching to Unity by default. The GNOME Docs…
Ubuntu Online Accounts and the Ubuntu GNOME Remix
A defining goal of the Ubuntu GNOME Remix is to bridge the gap between Ubuntu and GNOME. Shipping a pure GNOME flavor that is part of Ubuntu is a huge challenge as Ubuntu has been patching GNOME for years. We’ve…
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Jeremy Bicha
