We've been trying this web apps thing for over a decade, and a few things should be abundantly clear by now:
- Web apps will always have worse UX than nice native apps. The barrier to entry may be low, but so is the ceiling on what you can build
- The web fundamentally assumes a client-server paradigm no matter what you tack onto it, making it a bad fit if you care about privacy
- Anything we add to browsers can and will be used for adtech/surveillance
Exciting new milestone for Blueprint support in Workbench
It's like those 2 were made for each others !
Big shout out to our dev teams. Thanks to their efforts, we have a free software mobile platform and vibrant third party app ecosystem based on the GNOME stack. And because
we are upstreaming improvements the GNOME experience on desktop has gotten much better at the same time! Read more by @tbernard https://puri.sm/posts/how-to-be-upstream-first/
My blog post about upstream-first development is up!
I made a thing.
There have been some talks about things needing to set insets on the window, and Danielle Foré had a Pantheon Mail tweet recently (https://twitter.com/DaniElainaFore/status/1511838960321904642). So I tried to figure out how we could actually nicely do insets like iOS does them.
So, this is a pretty hacky demo, and yes, Nostalgia is already doing this, but I wanted to figure out how API for this could look like.
One thing I realized is that we need a "no shadows" mode for window screenshots.
It'd be a lot cleaner to be able to render the window shadows on screenshots dynamically in the browser, rather than having to hack around this with negative margins.
cc @YaLTeR 🙃
Finally updated my personal website, updating all the app screenshots to the new Libadwaita versions, and adding dark mode support.
The fanciest new thing is probably the adaptive apps video, which actually switches between a dark and a light video depending on the dark preference.
Yesterday, we moved the fractal-next branch to main. This means we will get now nightly builds. 🎉
Identity v0.3 is out with zoom support! You can set the scale to 100% for pixel-perfect comparisons, or zoom in and out with mouse, touchpad or touchscreen. Took me a few days to get it working just right but I'm very happy with the result.
https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.gitlab.YaLTeR.Identity
If you've been wanting to get started on drawing mockups for a new app, you're in luck!
The app mockup templates are now fully up to date with the latest Adwaita styling 🎉
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/mockup-resources/-/blob/master/pattern-templates.svg
Identity v0.2, ported to GTK 4 and libadwaita, is out, just in time for the GNOME 42 release! The old file switcher has been replaced with tabs which you can rearrange and drag between windows.
Video Trimmer also got updated with new translations.
https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.gitlab.YaLTeR.Identity
Just released 2.0 of my small tool "Audio Sharing". The interface got adapted to the new Adwaita design.
Oh and it also includes some "bug fixes and improvements"™️!
No borders, no nations. But plenty of whitespace.