Nicolas Silva @nical@mastodon.gamedev.place
Gfx dev @ mozilla / opensource geek / a little too obsessed about vector graphics on the GPU.
Joined Nov 2017
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How do you prefer scrolling to work on a laptop? Comment with details/why, and please boost for reach!
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A new release is out: GTK 4.2.0! Learn more in this update on the GTK Development Blog: https://blog.gtk.org/2021/03/30/gtk-4-2-0/
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Here comes libadwaita! Read about our plans to make GNOME apps and GTK 4 even better, and about the future of libhandy: https://adrienplazas.com/blog/2021/03/31/introducing-libadwaita.html
@gnome hi, where should I report issues about the tour of new features thingy on first run after updating?
Great job on version 40 btw, it's beautiful
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GNOME Games 40 is available on Flathub, with added support for Mega Drive, Dreamcast, GameCube and Nintendo 3DS! https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.Games
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Let's keep the #GNOME40 celebration going with a brand new release video!
https://youtu.be/vK-SwsWnEmo
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We're excited to announce the official release of GNOME 40! After countless hours of work from the GNOME community, this release brings many exciting updates!
See the release highlights at https://forty.gnome.org/
Or view all the details in our release notes: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/40.0/
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GTK4's GPU-accelerated GL renderer(s) got a major performance boost in the last few days! Previously it struggled to render simple UIs with single digit FPS on the Librem 5; now it can get pretty fancy :) #librem5 #gnome #gnomeonmobile #gtk
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presentation-time support got merged into Mutter 🎉
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I will be mentoring someone (might be you?) this summer as part of GSoC to port one of the design toolings apps to GTK 4.
It's also a great opportunity to get familiar with gtk4-rs & librsvg ;-)
Details at:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreach/SummerOfCode/2021/Ideas
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This update from the GNOME Shell & Mutter blog answers all your GNOME 40 multi-monitor questions! Learn more about what the multi-monitor experience will be and hear the background on the decisions made for these updates.
https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2021/02/23/gnome-shell-40-and-multi-monitor/
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new blog post: a primer on Cranelift's code generation, explaining concepts with examples!
https://blog.benj.me/2021/02/17/cranelift-codegen-primer
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Improving texture atlas allocation in WebRender https://nical.github.io/posts/etagere.html - A bit of a wordy dive into packing small rectangles into larger ones in #rustlang to make browsing the web a little faster.
reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/lcdth1/improving_texture_atlas_allocation_in_webrender/
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A new major version of Authenticator, powered by Rust, GTK4 & GStreamer/ZBar is on Flathub! It has all you could need for 2-Factor-Authentication from QR code scanning to custom providers support like Steam.
Grab it while hot
https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.belmoussaoui.Authenticator
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January Update!
- Announcing #PinePhone @mobian CE
- #PinePhone keyboard progress update
- #PinebookPro and #PineTab production news
- #PineTalk podcast in Feb
- New #PINE64 website is now up
- #PineTime software news
- Red #Pinecil & firmware update
and much more!
https://www.pine64.org/2021/01/15/january-update-happy-new-gear/
This month in #rustlang game development: https://rust-gamedev.github.io/posts/newsletter-017/
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The GNOME Shell & Mutter blog is back with an update on exciting GNOME Shell design changes coming in GNOME 40! See all the details here: https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2021/01/07/a-shell-ux-update/
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I just published the first release of Decoder on Flathub ! It's a fancy toy app for scanning and generating QR codes.
Powered by Gtk4 & GStreamer
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The latest GNOME Shell & Mutter article gives us a look at upcoming GNOME Shell UX plans for GNOME 40. Check out the blog for all the details: https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2020/12/18/gnome-shell-ux-plans-for-gnome-40/
Gfx dev @ mozilla / opensource geek / a little too obsessed about vector graphics on the GPU.
Joined Nov 2017
