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Gnome 3.24 (with Night Light) Released

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Note: the reason we need Night Light to be in Gnome is because since the move to Wayland, it can't be done by an external application like it used to be under X; it has to be done by the Wayland compositor.

I'm looking forward to using this in Fedora 26. One of the major things that broke for me in Fedora 25 was Redshift.

Recent versions of Sway, the i3-compatible Wayland compositor, work with a patched Redshift: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway/releases/tag/0.12

There is a Gnome Shell extension that works with Wayland: https://fedoramagazine.org/safe-eyes-redshift/

Used Gnome for a while now, like it a lot. However, at times it feels quite bloated and that the bloat will mean some apps don't get attention they should.

Night light is nice, though. Will try it as soon as it hit the repositories on Arch.

I like and use GNOME but Flatpak is a big step backwards in GNU/Linux application deployment. Stick to your distros, folks!

Why do you think so?

I'm not overly fond of Flatpak, but it at least puts us in a much better place than Docker does.

There is a third way, nix and NixOS.

Also Guix and GuixSD, which is what I help develop.

Why do you think it is a step backwards?

A recipes app as part of a desktop environment? Feels like a loss of focus to me.

If you look at why the application was built I would say it's not as silly as it sounds. It was built as a fun side project for GNOMEs 20th anniversary and was used to test starting a project using GNOME Builder. https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2016/12/02/gnome-loves-to-co...

I doubt it's something they took a serious amount of time on.

Personal wet dream: Gnome on MacOS. I candidly ignore why is this so difficult to achieve.

It's been a while since I've tried it since feels too awkward in practice, but there is this:

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/GNOME

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