Blog backlog, Post 2, xdg-app bundles
I recently worked on creating an xdg-app bundle for GNOME Videos, aka Totem, so it would be built along with other GNOME applications, every night, and made available via the GNOME xdg-app...
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Blutella, a Bluetooth speaker receiver
Quite some time ago, I was asked for a way to use the AV amplifier (which has a fair bunch of speakers connected to it) in our living-room that didn't require turning on the TV to choose a source.I...
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Blog backlog, Post 3, DisplayLink-based USB3 graphics support for Fedora
Last year, after DisplayLink released the first version of the supporting tools for their USB3 chipsets, I tried it out on my Dell S2340T.As I wanted a clean way to test new versions, I took Eric...
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AAA game, indie game, card-board-box
Early bird gets eaten by the Nyarlathotep The more adventurous of you can use those (designed as embeddable) Lua scripts to transform your DRM-free GOG.com downloads into Flatpaks.The long-term goal...
View ArticleGUADEC Flatpak contest
I will be presenting a lightning talk during this year's GUADEC, and running a contest related to what I will be presenting.ContestTo enter the contest, you will need to create a Flatpak for a piece of...
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Blog backlog, Post 4, Headset fixes for Dell machines
At the bottom of the release notes for GNOME 3.20, you might have seen the line:If you plug in an audio device (such as a headset, headphones or microphone) and it cannot be identified, you will now be...
View ArticleFlatpak cross-compilation support
A couple of weeks ago, I hinted at a presentation that I wanted to do during this year's GUADEC, as a Lightning talk.Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to finish the work that I set out to do,...
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Dual-GPU integration in GNOME
Thanks to the work of Hans de Goede and many others, dual-GPU (aka NVidia Optimus or AMD Hybrid Graphics) support works better than ever in Fedora 25.On my side, I picked up some work I originally did...
View ArticleFlatpak cross-compilation support: Epilogue
You might remember my attempts at getting an easy to use cross-compilation for ARM applications on my x86-64 desktop machine.With Fedora 25 approaching, I'm happy to say that the necessary changes to...
View ArticleLyon GNOME Bug day #1
Last Friday, both a GNOME bug day and a bank holiday, a few of us got together to squash some bugs, and discuss GNOME and GNOME technologies.Guillaume, a new comer in our group, tested the captive...
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Making your own retro keyboard
We're about a week before Christmas, and I'm going to explain how I created a retro keyboard as a gift to my father, who introduced me to computers when he brought back a Thomson TO7 home, all the way...
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Gaming hardware support
While my colleagues are working on mice that shine in all kinds of different colours, I went towards the old school.For around 10 units of currency, you should be able to find the uDraw tablet for the...
View ArticleSECURITY FOR THE SECURITY GODS! SANDBOXING FOR THE SANDBOXING THRONE
@GodTributes took over my title, soz.Dude, where's my maintainer?Last year, probably as a distraction from doing anything else, or maybe because I was asked, I started reviewing bugs filed as a result...
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New Evince format support: Adobe Illustrator and CBR files
A quick update, as we've touched upon Evince recently.I mentioned that we switched from using external tools for decompression to using libarchive. That's not the whole truth, as we switched to using...
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Bluetooth on Fedora: joypads and (more) security
It's been a while since I posted about Fedora specific Bluetooth enhancements, and even longer that I posted about PlayStation controllers support.Let's start with the nice feature.Dual-Shock 3 and 4...
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UTC and Anywhere on Earth support
A quick post to tell you that we finally added UTC support to Clocks' and the Shell's World Clocks section. And if you're into it, there's also Anywhere on Earth support.You will need to have git...
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More Bluetooth (and gaming) features
In the midst of post-release bug fixing, we've also added a fair number of new features to our stack. As usual, new features span a number of different components, so integrators will have to be...
View ArticleFingerprint reader support, the second coming
Fingerprint readers are more and more common on Windows laptops, and hardware makers would really like to not have to make a separate SKU without the fingerprint reader just for Linux, if that...
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Thomson 8-bit computers, a history
In March 1986, my dad was in the market for a Thomson TO7/70. I have the circled classified ads in “Téo” issue 1 to prove that :)TO7/70 with its chiclet keyboard and optical pen, courtesy of MO5.comThe...
View ArticlePipewire Hackfest 2018
Good morning from Edinburgh, where the breakfast contains haggis, and the charity shops have some interesting finds.My main goal in attending this hackfest was to discuss Pipewire integration in the...
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