#GUADEC2026 CfP is open! 🎉🎉
We are seeking talks on a variety of topics, including but not limited to:
- Application development
- Privacy and security
- Community and team building
- Design of user and developer experience
- Use of GNOME technologies outside the desktop
- Newcomers initiatives
- Project planning and governance

We will be accepting both remote and in-person presentation submissions.

#GNOME #GUADEC

@touk @ryan "average human only uses 12% of their email" factoid actualy just statistical error. average human uses 0% email per day. Email Georg, who lives in cave & reads over 10000 emails each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

RE: https://mastodon.social/@wingo/116039914443435315

Can you imagine if C were an actual serious programming language?

@linuzzz yeah, Flatseal will only work for flatpaks; use the CLI.

Last week the GTK developers held a hackfest in Brussels, to discuss and plan for the next 12 months. You can read the report on the GTK development blog: https://blogs.gnome.org/gtk/2026/02/06/gtk-hackfest-2026-edition/

@linuzzz the portal stores the permissions in the same database as flatpak, since flatpak needs to be able to know what is available before creating the sandbox. All permissions are identified by the application id.

@linuzzz on the CLI: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/flatpak-command-reference.html#flatpak-permissions

As a GUI: https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal

Every now and again I remember that the Super Brain Genius Number One Special Boy Who Really Wishes Actual Engineers Would Take Him Seriously got shitcanned from PayPal because he thought it was a good idea to ditch UNIX and move to Windows NT

The EC is putting together an initiative to develop their strategy for open digital ecosystems. Given its potential to push forward the development and funding of open-source software in Europe and beyond, Igalia submitted a response with some suggestions. Read more: https://www.igalia.com/2026/02/03/Igalias-Response-to-the-European-Commission-on-the-Open-Digital-Ecosystem-Strategy.html

The Guardian has a piece on British typographer and graphic designer Margaret Calvert, who’s (partially or wholly) responsible for the British highway signage typeface (Transport), the British Rail typeface (Rail Alphabet) and the pictographs on British road signs, and whose autobiography is also out:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/feb/02/road-sign-making-design-genius-margaret-calvert-font-legend

Some dudes would rather clean up documentation for AI agents than make documentation easier to read for everyone, such as people

The talk I gave yesterday at #FOSDEM, titled "Free as in Burned Out, who really pays for Open Source Software?" has already been published!
You can watch it here:
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/L3BK7S-free-as-in-burned-out/

GTK hackfest ➡️ FOSDEM (somewhat) ➡️ OpenEmbedded workshop

This is officially the longest time I spent in Brussels since my first visit 20 years ago

We are still at #FOSDEM !

If you are considering becoming a recurring donor, now it is your time!

Come to our stand in K level 2 and you get this t-shirt!!

#GNOME #FriendsofGNOME

@laund @christophbegall none of this is a fully rust project

@purpleidea FOSDEM and questionable hygiene practices, name a more iconic duo

@purpleidea no; I’ll have to try it next time

@laund @christophbegall we cross compile for Android, but keeping the CI happy on Windows and macOS with the Rust toolchain is its own full time job. We do that because we depend on AccessKit for accessibility anyway.

The main reason we don’t use librsvg is, though, that it does not allow us to use the rendering primitives we use for widgets, and that it does not support animations.