We conducted an AUA (Ask Us Anything) session on Reddit with GNOME's new Board members last Saturday. Sri Ramkrishna - President, Jonathan Blandford - Vice-President, Maria Majadas - Chair, and Adrian Vovk - Vice-Secretary, addressed all the questions posed by participants. You can find them at:
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New month, new GNOME Fellowship report. You can read about my contributions in my post.August 2026 blog post.
In Bazaar, we are eliminating the dialog you sometimes encounter when installing an app that prompts you to select a specific source, instead opting for placing non-primary sources somewhere on the app’s page. This should streamline the most common scenario of simply installing the normal version of the app and prevent confusion for new users who don’t know which option to install.
Hey people, this week I’ve finally released the new version of PedantiK, 1.6.0, which includes new language packs!
PedantiK is a game where you need to find the hidden Wikipedia page by guessing words one by one. The new version includes a new English language pack, allowing you to play in English or French by installing the desired language!
It’s sci-fi week for Gnome. This week cwittenberg published two purely-for-fun sci-fi extensions:
Matrix turns your desktop into the familiar falling digital rain from The Matrix, while still keeping your normal desktop usable underneath it.
Starfield takes things a little further into space, adding a Star Trek: The Next Generation-inspired starfield that makes it look like your desktop is flying through the stars.
Both extensions preserve your existing wallpaper and renders the effects efficiently on the GPU using a shader, consuming hardly any CPU.
Neither extension will make you more productive. They may, however, make staring at your desktop considerably more entertaining.
RSS FeedThe GNOME Shell extension has a new release (version 9.0).
Adding feeds no longer requires typing them in individually: you can import the entire list at once from an OPML file, using the same format you can export from most other readers. Export is also supported, so moving your feeds to another location is hassle-free.
Accessibility has also been enhanced: the panel menu is now fully keyboard-operable, and the view scrolls to keep the focused item visible.
Under the hood, the extension now checks for feed changes before downloading, resulting in lighter network refreshes. Feed data is also stored in a JSON store instead of GSettings, which handles larger feed lists more efficiently.
We are in the process of introducing a new decision-making process into the GNOME project. The specification of the RFC process is available as amerge request on GitLabThe discussion is taking place on the [inserir data ou contexto específico] .Respective Discourse threadI am now announcing:Start of the final comment periodIn support of adopting this RFC process. We are deviating from the proposal's 14-day period for this instance and will instead consider concerns raised until October 4th at 23:59 UTC. All active GNOME Foundation members remain invited to contribute to the discussion.
That's all for this week!
See you next week, and be sure to stop by.#This Week: gnome.orgWith updates on your own projects!
