Gnome

You can easily install Amazon’s Kindle Cloud Reader as a standalone web application on Fedora Linux using the Epiphany (GNOME Web) browser via GNOME Software. However, this comes with one major hurdle: the default offline storage quota for web databases is a measly 6 MB, which you will exhaust almost immediately. webkitgtk3 used to offer an API called webkit_get_default_web_database_quota, but this was removed from the newer webkitgtk4 engine that Epiphany relies on. ...

The GNOME Shell status tray is an interesting implementation written in JavaScript. Consequently, it is approachable to learn, write extensions for, and modify. However, one issue that bothered me was focus stealing. When clicking on a status tray icon and moving the mouse cursor diagonally down toward the open menu, focus would inadvertently switch to the next adjacent tray icon. This was rather jarring, exacerbated by the gap between the panel icon and the popover menu. ...

I am heading to FUDCon Pune this year! I hope to present a talk to help newcomers get started with contributing to open source, specifically within the GNOME project. Please check out and vote for my session here: Contributing to Open Source (FUDCon Session)

It’s been a blast—Linux on the desktop never ceases to amaze me.

Good news: the Dell ST2220T multi-touch monitor works on Fedora Linux using evdev under Xorg! Special thanks to Gopal for tracing and testing this. Additional hardware diagnostic info is posted in Red Hat Bugzilla 703118.

xchat-gnome 0.26.2 has been tagged, though it hasn’t yet been uploaded to ftp.gnome.org. Instead, I am pushing for an immediate 0.26.3 release—hopefully the final release in the GTK+ 2.x series—followed by xchat-gnome 0.3.0 targeting GNOME 3.

For anyone who prefers to stick with “GNOME Legacy” (Fallback mode) rather than GNOME 3 with GNOME Shell, you can configure your default session by running: cd /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions sudo mv gnome.session gnome-new.session sudo mv gnome-fallback.session gnome.session

Notable improvements expected with the release of Evolution 3.0: Migration of local mail storage from mbox to the faster, more resilient maildir format. Built-in duplicate email detection and removal. Significant memory usage and leak optimizations.

Apologies for the delay in releasing a new version. I recently relocated to Pune and am searching for accommodation, after which I’ll be setting up broadband internet. Once that is sorted out, I will resume active work on xchat-gnome. In the meantime, patches and contributions are very welcome! P.S.: xchat-gnome now has an official mailing list.

I am currently one of the maintainers of xchat-gnome and am working steadily toward releasing version 0.26.2. Track progress on GNOME Bug 602311.