What do you think is still missing in #Wayland?

I feel that the last rough edges have been ironed out in the last year. This includes #HDR, #TripleBuffering, #ColorManagement, #SessionRestore implementations, improved #Accessibility, etc.

What important pieces do you think are still missing in Wayland?

#XWayland #Mutter #KWin #Gnome #KDE #X11 #XOrg #Cosmic #Enlightenment #GTK4 #GTK #QT6 #Weston #Cinnamon #Xfce hyprland #niri #sway

I found the #inkscape dev version issue reported by @mmcm

Nothing to do with my cmyk pdf branch. Entirely the brokenness left over from the upgrade to #Gtk4 *sigh*

So many bugs to fix!

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Double release! Matthias released GTK 4.18.4 from the stable branch, which contains a series of fixes for the cursor tracking on Wayland, as well as a fix for window resizing on Windows.

Off the main development branch also comes GTK 4.19.0, the first snapshot towards GTK 4.20, to be released in September alongside GNOME 49. This is a development release, so beware!

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (14/2025): Wallpapered Lockscreens

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-14-2025/

GTK 4.18.3 is now available; this is a bug fix release of the stable branch of GTK, including fixes for Vulkan, accessibility, introspection annotations, HiDPI GL rendering on Windows, and macOS event handling.

You can read all the changes here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/commit/a4033016969298dfedb5b96ae6fde41c332e3675

The main branch is now open for the next development cycle.

@GettingThingsGNOME @nekohayo I wanted to ask you about the status of #GTG 0.7 with the new core and #GTK4. Is the release still far away or rather close? The last comment on the related issue [1] was almost a year ago and it did not seem not to be too far away then. Thanks!

[1] https://github.com/getting-things-gnome/gtg/issues/737

Turns out that if you have structured your file handling code correctly from the start, then implementing drag and drop is actually easier than anticipated.

Shoutout to @nakura for great DJ intros that are perfect for testing a waveform viewer.

Share of programming languages used by #GTK3 / #GTK4 applications (2025-03-16):

28% #Python
21% #Vala
20% #Rust
17% #C
06% #C++ #Cplusplus
06% #gjs #Javascript
04% Other: #Csharp #Go #Lua #Haskell #Swift #Typescript #Crystal #Swift #D #Perl

63% use GTK4 (90% of them use #libadwaita), while still 37% use GTK3

Method: Source [1] lists 543 awesome #gtk (3/4) #opensource applications and their #programminglanguage

[1] https://github.com/valpackett/awesome-gtk

#GTK #FLOSS #Linux #Programming #Gnome

@GTK @gnome

GTK 4.18.1 is out! This is the first stable release of the 4.18 cycle, and includes a few last minute additions:

- fractional scaling support on macOS works again
- the Android backend uses GL rendering for top level surfaces

Plus, as usual, lots of bug fixes, performance improvements, and documentation updates.

You can download the release archive from the usual place: https://download.gnome.org/sources/gtk/4.18/

Or you can wait until your distribution of choice is updated to ship GNOME 48.

is there somewhere i can find something like a "dos and don'ts of using #GTK4 and #adwaita"?

i've been reading through random issues and MRs on various #GNOME repos, and i'm finding some really useful comments about things that you should(n't) be doing. things like "using a listview inside a box is wrong and broken" - this is really useful knowledge, but i can't find it actually formally documented anywhere.

Introducing Refine 0.5.0, the GNOME Tweaks alternative leveraging the data-driven and composition paradigms. This version re-adds the Document font option, and renames "Middle Click Paste" to "Middle Click to Paste Text" with an accompanying subtitle.

Thanks to @CodedOre, 0.5.0 also adds the capability to rearrange the titlebar's window buttons. This new feature also lets you add the minimize and maximize buttons.

While we thoroughly tested right-to-left (RTL) direction and keyboard navigation with a screen reader, it's worth noting that we're no experts. We welcome feedback from those who use Refine in RTL and/or with a keyboard and screen reader.

You can get Refine 0.5.0 right now on Flathub.

If you would like to help fund projects like Refine, please consider looking at the donation channels at https://dir.floss.fund/view/funding/@tesk.page.

We are nearing the end of the development cycle leading to GTK 4.18, so here's a new snapshot: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/commit/758eda9f62b48c5b4b76279d84065cd41eed731f

While we're at it, here's the latest GTK3 release: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/commit/198aeace1e9e119c77f4d669bd8efdf337828ad1

Thanks to @everton137 I got a new testing device, a Thinkpad X220. The motivation is to have a common device that barely supports the emerging new baseline of GLES 3.0, needed e.g. for #firefox or #gtk4 (4.18) apps to have HW acceleration.

I'm very positively surprised just how well it runs with #gnome (nightly) - I used to have a X230 many years ago and I'm pretty sure watching youtube 1080p60 while compiling Mutter in the background didn't use to work so smoothly as it does right now for me.

I want to like Tuba, I really do, but it is SO ... SLOW. Not just in normal interaction (yes, that's slow), but when it goes to fetch new toots it just jumps out of the window for minutes at a time and due to the shit that is GNOME/Gtk4 that means all the window-level controls are dead: can't iconify, can't move it aside, ... and no, I don't use GNOME as an environmeng and tbh I don't understand why anyone does.

Whalebird is worse, performance-wise. Tokodon is at least as bad.

Is there no deck-style native Fediverse client for Linux? Preferably that is not based on Gtk4/anything GNOMEish?

It's been a while since I last showed the progress on my #audio waveform viewer here. The waveform display widget itself is slowly reaching quality levels I'm happy with - switching from software rendering to #OpenGL has really worked wonders for both the speed and the quality of the waveform rendering.

Now I just gotta write the rest of the app around it...

hi all
I’m excited to launch **Uruk Systemd Manager**, a modern **GTK4/libadwaita** GUI for managing **systemd** services on **GNU/Linux**. Easily **view, start, stop, restart, enable, disable services**, and check logs in real-time!

Get it now:
https://codeberg.org/alimiracle/uruk-systemd-manager.git
#Linux #OpenSource #Systemd #GTK4 #SysAdmin