Automated testing of GNOME Shell

Focus stealing prevention exists for two main reasons: One is security, since we need to prevent rogue apps from deceiving users into e.g. typing their password into another window. If apps can silently claim keyboard focus and open their own window over the currently focused one, this enables phishing and other similar attacks. The other …...

One of the things we’re tackling as part of the STF infrastructure initiative is improving notifications. Other platforms have advanced significantly in this area over the past decade, while we still have more or less the same notifications we had since the early GNOME 3 days, both in terms of API and feature set. There’s … Continue reading...

By now it is probably no longer news to many: GNOME Shell moved from GJS’ own custom imports system to standard JavaScript modules (ESM). Imports? ESM? JavaScript originated in web browsers to add a bit of interactivity to otherwise static pages. There was no need to split up small code snippets into multiple files, so … Continue reading...

TL;DR: The gnome-shell-sass repository is no longer getting updated upstream. Background As gnome-shell’s CSS grew more complex, designers needed something more expressive, so they started compiling the stylesheet from SASS. The sources were moved to a subproject, so they could be shared between the regular stylesheet and the GNOME Classic...

Co-authored by Sebastian Wick & Jonas Ådahl. During April 24 to 26 Red Hat invited people working on compositors and display drivers to come together to collaborate on bringing the Linux graphics stack to the next level. There were three high level topics that were discussed at length: Color Management, High Dynamic Range (HDR) and … Continue...