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Nightly and Wayland Builds of Firefox for Flatpak
When I announced Firefox Developer Edition for Flatpak over a month ago, I also promised that we would not stop there and bring more options in the future. Now I can proudly announce that we provide two more variants of Firefox – Firefox Nightly and Firefox Nightly for Wayland. With Nightly, you can closely follow…
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Dark Adwaita and HighContrast Themes for Qt
One of our goals for Fedora Workstation is to run Qt applications in GNOME as seamlessly as possible. Their look should be as close to their GTK+ counterparts as possible, you shouldn’t have to set things on two different places just to make the change in both GTK+ and Qt applications. A while back, we…
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DevConf.cz 2017
Another edition of DevConf.cz took place last week. It was already the second edition I didn’t organize. This year, I was involved in the organization even less, just helping with the program and serving as a session chair for one day. So I could enjoy the conference more than ever before. DevConf.cz is still growing.…
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Digest of Fedora 25 Reviews
Fedora 25 has been out for 2 months and it seems like a very solid release, maybe the best in the history of the distro. And feedback from the press and users has also been very positive. I took the time and put together a digest of the latest reviews: Phoronix: Fedora 25 Is Quite…
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Dark title bars for apps with dark UI
I really like the polished look of GNOME and its default theme Adwaita, but there is one thing that has been bugging me for some time. By default server side window decorations are light and if an app has a dark UI and uses a server side window decorations, you get a dark window with…
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Firefox Developer Edition for Flatpak
Our team maintains Firefox RPMs for Fedora and RHEL and a lot of people have been asking us to provide Firefox for Flatpak as well. I’m finally happy to announce Firefox Developer Edition for Flatpak. We started with the Developer Edition because that’s something that is not easily available to Fedora users. Providing the standard…
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Installing flatpaks gets easier in Fedora 25
A lot of users complained that installing flatpaks was too difficult. And they were right, just look at the installation instructions on the Flatpak download page at LibreOffice.org. But that was never meant to be the final user experience. Richard Hughes integrated Flatpak support into GNOME Software and the Red Hat desktop apps team worked…
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OpenAlt 2016
OpenAlt, a traditional open source conference in Brno, took place last weekend. I gave talks on Wayland and Flatpak, and organized a Fedora booth. Originally, I planned to give a talk on Flatpak only, but then the organizers came to me if I could find someone who could give a talk on the status…
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GNOME 3.22/KDE Plasma 5.8 release party in Brno
Last Thursday, we organized a regular Linux Desktop Meetup in Brno and because two major desktop environments had had their releases recently we also added a release party to celebrate them. The meetup itself took place in the Red Hat Lab at FIT BUT (venue of GUADEC 2013) and it consisted of 4 talks. I…
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Ease of 3D Printing in Fedora
We had a Fedora booth at LinuxDays 2016 in Prague and one of our attractions was Miro Hrončok‘s 3D printer Lulzbot Mini. Because Miro was busy helping organize the conference he just left the printer at the booth and I had to set it up myself. And it really surprised me how easy it is…