Thanks for all the feedback on Adwair! I’ve spent some more time working on the theme, mostly refining existing icons and making everything feel more consistent.

At this point, I’m happy with how the app icons and device icons turned out. They’re now pretty much how I wanted them to look from the beginning.

There’s still some work left to do on mimetypes, but it’s not a priority for now. Other than that, I don’t have any major changes planned, so I thought I’d share the current look of the theme.

The project is still available here: Adwair

Lately, I’ve noticed the emergence of a large number of email apps written in the GTK4/libadwaita style for GNOME-based desktops. I became curious about their differences, aside from minor variations in the user interface.

I asked Google to compare these clients. Here’s what I got.

Some details may only be clear to technically savvy users. I was advised that Letter is the safest option (in terms of interacting with Yahoo Mail). The closest alternative is Postcard. In my subjective opinion, Postcard and Hylki are the most visually appealing.

It’s also funny that only the developers of Postcard and Hylki took screenshots of their apps that most fully reflect the GNOME philosophy—without window minimize and maximize buttons.

Hey everyone!

A while ago I shared my project desktop-widgets for GNOME. Thanks to the feedback from the community, I’ve just pushed a new update!

What’s new / improved:

You can check out the source code, installation steps, and updates here:

🔗https://github.com/r3nhick/desktop-widgets#desktop-widgets

Let me know what you think or if you run into any issues. Feedback and feature requests are always welcome!

Newelle, AI Assistant/Agent for Gnome, is updated to 1.6.0. As Newelle is very customizable, on this update we focused on making it easy to use it for many different purposes at the same time.

- Workspaces: Divide chats into workspaces, and tie profiles to them. Different workspaces can run in different windows - Subagents: You can now create subagents "template" to tackle specific tasks. The main assistant can launch that subagent - New Long Term Memory: Added a new explorable long term memory that manages memory across chats much better - Usage Tracking: You can now track how much you use Newelle and specific models - Better search: You can now search for messages in conversations and options in settings - Drafts: You can now create drafts of messages

Minor improvements: - Newelle can now host an MCP server with Newelle's tools for third parties to access - Improved profiles: They now have explicit inheritance systems and you can transfer settings - Added support to Qwen Image 2.1 and other image generation tools - Add a universal screenshot tool - When downloading local models, their size compatibility is estimated in the model downloader - Improvements to the voice pill, still experimental - Long Term Memories can now expose mini apps - Performance improvements when deleting a message - You can now delete the chat you are in

Get it on Flathub: https://flathub.org/it/apps/io.github.qwersyk.Newelle

The next update will be focused on real use and guided customization.

LLM Disclaimer: Newelle codebase is almost fully human written. The whole architecture is human designed. LLMs are used only for small boring patches and heavily human reviewed.

Newelle is not a vibecoded project and has years of human effort behind.

TIL: latest version of gnome properly sends shapes to blur even on popovers!

You just have to add `backdrop-filter` to your css surfaces. Enjoy!

The visual changes are minimal for the most parts you're going to see, but for the past month I have been polishing the UI and code, and have rewritten some stuff, to make it 1:1 with Adwaita, especially with (most of) Discord settings, user profiles and typography. It was also really laggy, but not anymore. Basically, it should be more pleasant to use, compared to before.

I have, since then, also included a transparent sidebar option, if you're into that, because I am.

https://github.com/ricewind012/discord-gnome-theme :-)

https://github.com/drkhn1234/oled-gnome

Hi, as you red the title i would like to have an animation to switching work spaces while vertical work spaces are enabled? Here is a video with what i meant:

PS. It only has animation when switching work spaces while there is a window on the workspace you are switching to. And to be clear this extension is called:

"V-shell"

GNOME Weather only lets you pick locations from libgweather's built-in list. If your town isn't in there, you can add it through gsettings, but that means hand-writing a GVariant with coordinates in radians.

I first wrote a Bash script for this, and now there's also a small GUI: "Weather Locations".

What it does:

- Add a location by name + latitude/longitude (decimal degrees, "." or "," both work)

- Shows your saved locations and lets you remove them

- Works with native GNOME Weather and detects the Flatpak version (the Flatpak path is less tested)

- Optionally restarts GNOME Weather so the change shows up immediately

Built with Rust, gtk4-rs and libadwaita, MIT licensed. Prebuilt x86_64 binaries are on the Releases page (needs GTK 4 and libadwaita >= 1.4), or build it yourself with cargo + make.

One tip: enter latitude first, then longitude. If you swap them, GNOME Weather happily shows the weather somewhere else on the globe. :)

https://github.com/crian/gweather-add-loc

Feedback and bug reports welcome!

Any of us love the extensions, sure. A lot of us are real dev, somebody deeply, and obviously we love to share scripts and ideas, it's like a form of art for people like me.

Probably it is a silly idea but it is the same problem of supplies chain for dev software web and videogames for me, and I resolve with drastic solutions.

So...

If I could accept a "trust me bro" level for a simple idea, in something like agents, mail clients, calendars, note online (so, private data), debits cards... What are your parameters or checklist to understand "ok, I have no problem with privacy about this extension"? Who checks them?

GNOME 50.6 is out. It is a bugfix release for the 50 series, which is now old-stable after GNOME 51.

Only six components were updated. Most changes are in GNOME Shell 50.6, Mutter 50.6 and Nautilus 50.4.

Shell fixes an issue where Quick Settings could prevent direct scanout. It also fixes mount notifications staying visible after a drive is disconnected, plus several memory leaks. Mutter fixes auto screen rotation on phones without a tablet-mode switch. Nautilus fixes the read-only file indicator, Properties dialogs opening too small, and makes Replace the default focus in file conflicts.

GLib 2.88.4 also has backported security fixes.

Full changes: https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-build-meta/50/gnome-build-meta-50.6.news

I built a standalone touch OSK for GNOME 50 that actually feels usable on laptops/2-in-1s.
Even though I didn't have all the necessary skills, all the keyboards I found for my touch-screen laptop were either very disappointing or barely usable for my purposes, so I decided to build one myself. In hindsight, I thought it might be useful to someone else, and I decided to make it public.

It uses a TKL layout with working Fn shortcuts, supports dock/float/full modes from a top-bar toggle. I also include a spacebar cursor navigation, backspace drag-to-delete gesture, smart quote/bracket auto-pairing, and a layout editor (current layout already created are IT and US)

as for now, it's on github, I'll upload it to the extensions store later if anyone finds it useful

The stock Date Menu really need to be overhauled, in my opinion. This would be the quickest way to access Pomodoro, Stopwatch, and Timer without opening Clock app. Would you like if this become the default GNOME?

I have the gnome extensions and Gnome extensions manager installed. Are there any tools in the gnome extensions that will provide a workaround, to stop KeyPassXC from locking the databases when the screen saver comes on ?

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay
uint32 600
gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.screensaver lock-delay
uint32 0

Im on gnome 50 wayland, the lock screen that appears when I super + L is so much better than what appears when I log out....how can I make them the same? Can I even?

I’m using Ubuntu 24.04 with GNOME 46. when I noticed this strange corner appearing on the menus and bars. What’s causing this? i think It’s due to the "Blur my Shell" extension, but unfortunately, I don’t want to disable or remove it. Has anyone else had this issue and managed to fix it?

I just think it's a funny bug, this time the icons got so small, why does this happen so randomly for no aparent reason?

https://github.com/Niwmua/liquidglass-gnome-widgets

https://github.com/DaniloNavesS/Aevum