Niccolò Venerandi

The latest COSMIC DE update features panels, settings, and more The monthly update on the COSMIC desktop development is out, and it contains lots of user-facing improvements. The first big one is panels that can be freely customized; that is, you can move them around, change their size, have multiple

KDE sprint focused on Plasma 6 During the last week, many KDE developers attended a sprint in Germany with the goal of shaping up the next Plasma release. Now that it has finished, we have many attendees publishing their work on their personal blogs, meaning we can some insight into

Mastodon is bringing easier onboarding, quote posts, and more As you can see in the image above, Mastodon has decided to make it easier to join the Fediverse by suggesting mastodon.social as a default option (still allowing any custom server to be picked). This will make it easier for

GIMP has been ported to GTK3 And after another month, I merged the branch to our main development branch. The GTK+3 port of GIMP is officially finished (apart from minor deprecated API here and there, but no huge tasks anymore)!!! 🥳🎉🥂 I even already updated the roadmap which now says

This was a week packed with major releases of various projects. In this newsletter issue, I'll cover the releases from Fedora, Proton by Valve, the Vivaldi browser, Deepin (though the release is 20.9 and not 23), and digiKam (KDE's photo management application). Fedora 38 released, with new spins and

Linux Mint introduces Styles and Color Variants Up until now, in Linux Mint you could only choose your theme and that was it. In March, the developers decided to introduce a more complex (and powerful) way to customize their system, which relies on three elements: "styles", "modes" and "variants". Quoting