Epiphany — the web browser most of us would like to use, but don’t — has a new release on the way. Having had a sneaky peek at the upcoming update’s change-log I think it’s fair to say that the next release of Epiphany could make …
GNOME shell top bar translucency Prepare to bid bye-bye to the fancy translucent top panel in the GNOME Shell desktop environment. GNOME developers have removed the eye-candy see-through panel effect from the default Shell theme’s code, citing outstanding (and unaddressed) issues with text legibility. “Nobody stepped …
Users can look forward to greater control over installed applications in the upcoming release of GNOME 3.32. A new ‘Applications‘ panel has been created by developers that offers users more control over the majority of locally installed applications, including Flatpak and repo apps, and on a …
This quick tutorial shows how to change the time and date clock format in Ubuntu 18.04’s default Gnome desktop panel. Since Ubuntu switched to Gnome 3 desktop, you can no longer use dconf editor to customize clock format. Instead, a Gnome Shell extension can do the …
Flashing my dope cool nerd badge. Agent Dedo, at your service. Why? Because I’m testing an Arch-based distro again. Now, over the years, Manjaro has done a great deal to distance itself from its sacrificial altar roots, and now caters to people who prefer things …
Improved desktop notifications and a Wayland-compatible battery testing tool are among the 14 projects selected by GNOME for this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC). The yearly, three month long initiative from Google is a mainstay of the free software calendar. Under the guidance of community-based …
Daniel van Vugt is a name that many of you will be familiar with due to his previous efforts to improve the performance of GNOME Shell on Ubuntu. So you won’t be surprised to hear that this particular developer has, once again, played a major role …
Ubuntu 20.04 introduces new dark mode in the Settings utility. It is however not full dark when you turn it on in Gnome Shell. System tray menu, top-bar calendar, notification popups, and desktop context menu are not dark but always light when you switching between light, …
