Wednesday, 20 October 2021

PSA: gnome-settings-daemon's MediaKeys API is going away

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 In 2007, Jan Arne Petersen added a D-Bus API to what was still pretty much an import into gnome-control-center of the "acme" ut...
Thursday, 5 August 2021

power-profiles-daemon: Follow-up

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Just about a year after the original announcement , I think it's time to see the progress on power-profiles-daemon. Note that I would st...
Wednesday, 14 October 2020

Sandboxing inside the sandbox: No rogue thumbnailers inside Flatpak

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 A couple of years ago, we sandboxed thumbnailers using bubblewrap to avoid drive-by downloads taking advantage of thumbnailers with secur...
Thursday, 10 September 2020

power-profiles-daemon: new project announcement

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Despite what this might look like , I don't actually enjoy starting new projects: it's a lot easier to clean up some build warnings,...

Avoid “Tag: v-3.38.0-fixed-brown-paper-bag”

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Over the past couple of (gasp!) decades, I've had my fair share of release blunders: forgetting to clean the tree before making a tarbal...
Tuesday, 8 September 2020

Videos in GNOME 3.38

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This is going to be a short post, as changes to Videos have been few and far between in the past couple of releases. The major change to the...
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Monday, 4 May 2020

Dual-GPU support: Launch on the discrete GPU automatically

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*reality TV show deep voice guy* In 2016, we added a way to launch apps on the discrete GPU . *swoosh effects* In 2019, we added a wa...
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