@allanday

UX designer, Red Hat Desktop Team. GNOME design team, ex-GNOME Foundation Director. Ex-sociologist. He/him.

 Sheffield, England
Joined January 2008
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GNOME's design guidelines have been updated for libadwaita 1.0! All the details - blogs.gnome.org/aday/2022/01…

Human Interface Guidelines, libadwaita 1.0 edition

After a lot of hard work, libadwaita 1.0 was released on the last day of 2021. If you haven't already, check out Alexander's announcement, which covers a lot of what's in the new release. When we...

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I did a blog! About the GNOME platform design work that's been happening recently. blogs.gnome.org/aday/2021/10…

Platform Design Goings On

The GNOME design team has recently been working on GNOME's application development platform, and I thought that it might be interesting for people to hear about what we've been up to. The following...

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Allan Day retweeted
GNOME@gnome22 Sep 2021
We're excited to announce the official release of GNOME 41! After six months of work from the GNOME community, this release brings many exciting updates! youtu.be/V5jP1ym7nhM See the release notes for all the details: help.gnome.org/misc/release-… #GNOME41 #releaseday #OpenSource
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Decided it was time to inform the world again on what some of the cool things we been doing to help move the Linux Desktop forward is. So check out my latest blog post about what is happening in Fedora Workstation: blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2021/… #fedora @fedora #linux #gnome #pipewire
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GNOME Software 41 is coming, and it's going to make your app look a lot better... if your app metadata is good ;) I wrote a little guide with the most important things to consider: blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/202… Thanks in advance for updating your metadata!
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In case you missed it: the new GNOME HIG is now official. There's more work to be done, but I'm pretty pleased with it overall. developer.gnome.org/hig/
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The new GNOME Patterns app is making some good progress at the moment 🎉
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GUADEC 2021 starts today! Some great talks on the schedule, for anyone with an interest in open source. events.gnome.org/event/9/tim…

GUADEC 2021

About GUADEC GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters together for a week of talks and...

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Found this neat little meditation app on Flathub. Very nicely done❤️ flathub.org/apps/details/io.…
Screenshot of a simple breathing timer app with a graphic made up of blur concentric circles visualizing the breathing.

ALT Screenshot of a simple breathing timer app with a graphic made up of blur concentric circles visualizing the breathing.

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So excited about Ivan fixing one of the glaring deficiencies. imolodetskikh.wordpress.com/…

GSoC 2021: GNOME Shell Screenshot UI

Hello! I’m Ivan Molodetskikh, a computer science student from Moscow, Russia. I’ve been involved in GNOME starting from my GSoC 2018 project to port librsvg filters to Rust. Throughout …

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After 6 years, today's my last day as a GNOME Foundation director. End of an era! (Sort of. I'm still chair until a new one is selected.)
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Outreachy is excited to announce our partnership with @wellcometrust! We look forward to working with them to support internships in scientific open source communities. Together, we can tackle climate change, infectious diseases, and mental health issues medium.com/wellcome-data/out…

Outreachy: tackling underrepresentation in open source technology

Wellcome’s Data for Science and Health and Open Research Teams are supporting Outreachy

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It's elections time for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors, and we're looking for people to stand! Find out what it involves: blogs.gnome.org/aday/2021/05…

GNOME Foundation Board Elections 2021

The election process for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors is currently underway. Three positions are up for election this year, and Foundation members are able to nominate themselves until...

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GNOME's new human interface guidelines are almost done! Blog post: blogs.gnome.org/aday/2021/05…

New HIG

In recent weeks, I've been working on a major update to the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG). The motivations for this work were varied. The HIG is fairly out of date, both in relation to...

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Also, you can see the new version here: teams.pages.gitlab.gnome.org…
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Symbolic icons with way less duct tape, mainly thanks to @bil_moussaoui. blog.jimmac.eu/2021/how-to-s…
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Fedora 34 is out! Not only one of the first distros to ship GNOME 40, but also the best GNOME experience out there. forty.gnome.org/ 👉 getfedora.org/en/workstation…

GNOME 40

The next step in focused, distraction-free computing..

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Good GNOME Foundation Board discussion about the future of the FOSS movement yesterday. General feeling in the room: let's move on, look to the future, and use this opportunity to think about the movement's role in the 21st century.
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Working on a revamp of the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines. (In-progress artwork by @jimmac.) Any requests? Suggestions?
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App developers rejoice: shiny new things coming to the GNOME platform! Amazing work behind this, particularly from @KekunPlazas and @alexm_gnome . adrienplazas.com/blog/2021/0…

Introducing Libadwaita

GNOME 41 will come with libadwaita, the GTK 4 port of libhandy that will play a central role in defining the visual language and user experience of GNOME applications.

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