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A systemd-sysupdate Plugin for GNOME Software

In late June 2024 I got asked to take over the work started by Jerry Wu creating a systemd-sysupdate plugin for Software. The goal was to allow Software to update sysupdate targets, such as base system images or system extension images, all while respecting the user’s preferences such as whether to download updates on metered connections. To do so, the plugin communicates with the systemd-sysupdated daemon via its org.freedesktop.sysupdate1 D-Bus interface.

Capitole du Libre et discriminations

Le weekend du 16 et 17 novembre 2024, j’ai eu le plaisir d’aller au Capitole du Libre (CdL), une chouette conférence tenue tous les ans à Toulouse, et j’ai envie de revenir dessus. Le CdL rassemble la communauté libriste française, avec une représentation notable du milieu associatif. On y trouve un village associatif rassemblant un large pan du milieu libriste français au delà du logiciel, des présentations techniques accessibles à tous les niveaux de connaissance, et des présentations plus politiques qui proposent de réfléchir et faire évoluer le mouvement libriste. Ça en fait une conférence très joviale et conviviale où l’on peut venir en famille.

Towards a GNOME Mobile Test Suite

GNOME’s integration is tested via GNOME OS and openQA, but there are issues preventing to test GNOME Mobile the same way. Learn more about them.

One Device to Do it All

On January 1st 2023 at 00:30, my Android smartphone died, and it made me realize how dependent on that device I was. I used it for many aspects of my life: to stay organized, to be informed, to be entertained, or to move around.

David Revoy (Comic Artist): “At First, Publishing Under a Free License Scared Me”

Making comics, deciding to give up copyright and hoping to make a living from them in capitalist lands, what an idea! Yet that’s what the comic artist and librist activist David Revoy decided to do. Here’s a look at his unusual journey into the commons.

David Revoy (bédéiste) : « Au début, publier en licence libre me faisait peur »

Faire des bandes dessinées, décider d’en abandonner le droit d’auteur et espérer en vivre en terres capitalistes, mais quelle idée ! C’est pourtant ce qu’a décidé de faire le bédéiste et militant libriste David Revoy. Retour sur un parcours hors du commun dans les communs.

Berlin Mini GUADEC 2022

Making a Platform Adaptive for Everyone

When we announced the Librem 5, we knew we would have to invest in and build a mobile operating system and applications to run on it — by “mobile” understand “for smartphones”. To avoid reinventing the wheel, we decided to base that system on an existing environment. Librem laptops ship with our operating system PureOS, which provides GNOME as its graphical user environment as it is a modern environment and a very active project with which we share many goals, design principles and values.

Introducing Libadwaita

GNOME 41 will come with libadwaita, the GTK 4 port of libhandy that will play a central role in defining the visual language and user experience of GNOME applications.

What’s New in Libhandy 1.2

Libhandy 1.2 just got released in time for GNOME 40, we recommend you to use this adaptive GTK widgets library in your apps targeting that GNOME version.

Specify Form-Factors in Your Librem 5 Apps

While more and more applications are being redesigned to take smartphones like the Librem 5 into account, PureOS still offers lots of desktop applications which are not ready to run on such devices yet.

Handy 1 Alpha 1 and Migrating to GNOME

A few days ago we released the first alpha of Handy 1, known as Handy 0.80.0. It comes with tons of new features, such as: HdyWindow and its companion widgets, a free-form unified window that Alice presented in a blog post; HdyDeck, that you can picture as a swipeable and spatialization-aware stack; HdyViewSwitcherTitle, a simpler way to implement a view switcher in a titlebar; overhauled HdyActionRow and HdyExpanderRow; many smaller widget refinements; overhauled theming support, implemented with SASS and supporting dark variants and per-theme stylesheets; vastly improved Glade support; a cleaned up API, see the migration documentation.

A Coloring API for GTK

In GUADEC 2019 we had a vendor themes BoF which got expanded to the application developers’ need to brand their app with color. We agreed on the need of a recoloring API for apps and vendors to take advantage of.

Linux App Summit and Capitole du Libre 2019

GUADEC 2019

This year again I attended GUADEC, now for the sixth time in a row. It was a great GUADEC, as usual, thanks to the organizers and the attendees for making it as enjoyable as it was!

libhandy 0.0.10

libhandy 0.0.10 just got released, and it comes with a few new adaptive widgets for your GTK app. You can get this new version here.

FOSDEM and GTK Hackfest 2019

My Name is Handy, Lib Handy

Libhandy 0.0.7 just got released! I didn’t blog about this mobile and adaptive oriented GTK widget library since the release of its 0.0.4 version three months ago, so let’s catch up on what has been added since.

GNOME at Capitole du Libre 2018

Last Saturday and Sunday I went to the Capitole du Libre 2018 to animate the GNOME booth and help on the Purism one.

Librem 5 ❤️ GNOME 3.32

I am glad to announce that the tooling I am working on since the beginning of the year is ready to be used! Thanks to new features introduced into libhandy 0.0.3 and 0.0.4 and thanks to a few fixes to Adwaita in GTK+ 3.24.1, you can make GTK+ 3 apps adaptive to work both on the desktop and on the upcoming GNOME-based Librem 5 phone.

Games 3.30: Features Overload

With a new version of GNOME always comes a new version of Games, and this new version comes packed with new features, bug fixes and developer experience improvements.

Games, Tests and GitLab CI

We are getting midterm of the GNOME 3.30 development cycle and many things already happened in the Games world. I will spare the user facing news for later as today I want to tell you about development features we desperatly needed as maintainers: tests and continuous integration.

Adaptive GNOME Web

I started working on making GNOME Web work well on the Librem 5; to be sure it fits a phone’s screen I want the windows to fit in a 360 points width, which is definitely small. To do so I started with the advices from Tobias Bernard to make Web have two modes that I named normal and narrow. The normal mode is Web as you know it, while the narrow mode moves all buttons from the header bar but the hamburger menu to a new action bar at the bottom, letting the windows reach yet unreachable widths.

One Widget to Adapt Them All and to The Librem 5 Port Them

In my previous article I shared my plans to help porting existing GTK+ applications to Purism’s upcoming Librem 5 phone without having to fork them. This article will present the GTK+ widget I developed for Purism to make this happen.

GTK+ Apps on Phones

As some of you may already know, I recently joined Purism to help developing GTK+ apps for the upcoming Librem 5 phone. Purism and GNOME share a lot of ideas and values, so the GNOME HIG and GNOME apps are what we will focus on primarily: we will do all we can to not fork nor to reinvent the wheel but to help allowing existing GTK+ applications to work on phones.

CRT Filter in Games — SUSE Hack Week

SUSE Hack Week 0x10 finished on previous Friday, during it I wanted to support hardware rendering in retro-gtk.

retro-gtk: The Future, Marty!

Let’s come back to retro-gtk. In the previous articles I explained how bad retro-gtk was, what I did to start improving it and more importantly what I did to prepare the terrain for further development. This article will detail the aforementioned planed improvements!

retro-gtk: Renaissance

This is the second article in a small series about retro-gtk, I recommend you to read the first one, retro-gtk: Postmortem, before this one.

retro-gtk: Postmortem

This article is the first of a small series about retro-gtk, a library I develop in tandem with Games and which allows it to use Libretro cores. This first article focuses on the initial goals of the library, its design and the problems that arose during its development, while the next ones will focus on what I am working on to fix these problems.

Have You Played Atari Today? 🎵

This is a guest article by Laurent « Hell Pé » Pointecouteau, the Alfred Pennyworth of GNOME Games who relentlessly works in the shadows to help make Games what it is, when he’s not busy writing in French about video games or slacking on Twitter.

The Path to GNOME Games 3.26

Games received a non-negligible amount of changes that you will find in 3.26. These changes can be big as much small, and more are to come!

GNOME Games 3.24

GNOME 3.24 will be out in a few weeks and with it will come Games 3.24. This new version will offer a few new features and many refinements, some of which have been implemented by new contributors theawless and Radhika Dua, kudos to them!

GNOME Games 3.22: the Giant Leap

I didn’t blog about Games since quite some time and the app changed a lot since 3.18. 3.20 was quite a small update featurewise: it added support for MAME and Neo Geo Pocket games, added the About dialog, allowed l10n of the application, added a Preferences window listing the available plugins and fixed other small bugs, but this release mainly saw refactoring work with the introduction of the plugins system where plugins allow to list games: the Steam plugin lists Steam games and the SNES plugin lists SNES games.

GUADEC 2016 and the Butterfly Effect

Between August 10th to 17th included, I went to the nice city of Karlsruhe for GUADEC 2016.

GNOME Games 3.20 Development

The last semester was quite crazy for me as I had to work restlessly for my studies, which let me very little time to work on GNOME Games. That being said that doesn’t mean nothing happened in Games land! Here is what to expect in the next versions of Games.

Games 3.18.0 Released

Do you like video games but don’t like how inconsistent and annoying it can be to enjoy them on a personal computer? Then read on, I have something for you! And if you’re not such a gamer, you’ll probably learn fun things in the article nonetheless.

GUADEC 2015 Was Awesome!

I went to GUADEC 2015 which was help in Gothenburg between friday 08/07 and wednesday 08/12, here is what I did there.

Adding a List View to Boxes

A list view was a requested feature for Boxes, I decided to commit myself to implement this during this GSoC.

Boxes’ Thumbnails Overhaul

I recently spent quite some time reworking the overall look of Boxes’ machine thumbnails. Here is the result.

Playing with GtkAssistant

I decided to spend some time today to play with GtkAssistant, more precisely, I tried to build a mock installation wizard mimicking Boxes’ one in order to test how I could adapt its behaviour to make it GtkAssistant ready.

Boxes’ Hardening Sprint: Two Weeks In

Finishing my 4th year of CS studies

Retro 0.1 RC

During last GUADEC, I had a chance to briefly present my project of having a powerful yet simple video game manager and player for GNOME. To make it a reality, a lot of work was needed on the backend side.

GSoC 2014 Report 2

What an eventful month! Lots of code have been read, produced, reviewed and refused, several code designs have been proposed, but as everything was work in progress, I didn’t fell it was exciting enough to blog about it at that time.

GSoC 2014 Report 1

Week #1

Projet Badnik, partie 2 : GameData et appel à contribution

Cet article a initialement été publié sur LinuxFr.org.

Présentation de Badnik (alias GNOME Games)

Cet article a initialement été publié sur LinuxFr.org.

Préservation du jeu vidéo

Ce rapport a été initialement écrit et présenté ce même jour pour mon partiel d’histoire de l’informatique, puis il a été publié sur LinuxFr.org.

Interview sur le travail d’un ingénieur logiciel avec le fondateur de la Yorba Foundation

Pour mes études je devais interviewer un professionnel de la profession de mon choix. M’étant décidé sur le métier d’ingénieur logiciel (de logiciels libres de préférence), j’ai envoyé un email à Yorba demandant une interview, j’ai rapidement reçu une réponse positive et chaleureuse d’Adam Dingle, le fondateur de Yorba. Environ une semaine plus tard, je lui envoyais par email un questionnaire sur son expérience, sur Yorba et sur l’implication d’un tel travail. J’ai reçu les réponses par email le mardi 20 mars 2012.

Yorba Founder, Software Engineer Adam Dingle

For my studies I had to interview a professional of the profession of my choice. Having decided on a career as a software engineer (preferably FLOSS), I sent an email to Yorba asking for an interview, and quickly received a warm, positive reply from Adam Dingle, the founder of Yorba. About a week later, I emailed him questions about his experience, Yorba and what such a job entailed. I received the answers by email on Tuesday March 20, 2012.

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