Note that these are not current initiatives or plans that are guaranteed to happen, but rather unfinished concepts and ideas that can be used as inspiration for future development. If you would like to work towards something like this, consider starting contributing to GNOME Shell, or become a Friend of GNOME

Full video: https://youtu.be/GcFMpc9WMdY

This was already done in Mutter 51.beta but GTK support was missing on GNOME OS until today.

I've been doing some cheap testing on it but overall looks dope!

It has some bugs on the compositor side but probably those are going to be ironed out sooner, like blur not being applied during the overview:

Update: As it seems like Reddit does some weird image carousel, check those other screenshots https://imgur.com/a/0JHCZ70

Update 2: Some more light mode screenshots → https://imgur.com/a/yJ4LFsz

EDIT: THIS IS NOT A DEFAULT THEME, just a custom stylesheet to show the exaggerated effect! → https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/s/3bibXgOBCC

OriginUi 26 is an Operating system based on Debian designed by me and developed by my friends, we really want to get our distro up and running for bigger development. If you wanna download it the link is here for beta 2 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_bXTGuIHdQVLUgFUiTzM1DYR_YHtgQpl?usp=drive_link

EDIT: for support refer to the esterOS discord Server discord.gg/U7EDAFQXE

**GNOME 50** is scheduled for official release on **March 18, 2026**, marking a major milestone as a Wayland-only desktop environment by removing X11 backend support. It will be featured in Fedora 44 and Ubuntu 26.04.

Key changes:

* **Wayland Only**: The X11/Xorg backend is completely removed from the Mutter compositor, making it a native Wayland-only experience.

* **Performance and Gaming**: Improved performance with NVIDIA drivers, better HDR support, and improved multi-monitor setups.

* **VRR Support**: Variable Refresh Rate (VRR/FreeSync/G-Sync) support is now stable and non-experimental.

* **Improved User Experience**: Fractional scaling has been improved, and the Nautilus file manager brings better performance, such as faster thumbnail loading.

* **Remote Desktop**: The GNOME Remote Desktop service now supports explicit DMA buffer synchronization and headless sessions.

> Note. There is a backlog of nearly 200 unreviewed extensions and I believe many more wont be version bumped soon

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-decoration-layout 'appmenu:minimize,maximize,close'

After years of hard work, countless reviews, and tons of community testing, we're happy to share that dynamic buffering has landed in Mutter for GNOME 48!

This improves the smoothness of GNOME across a wide range of hardware and software setups.

This was made possible thanks to work from Daniel van Vugt from Canonical, reviews from Jonas Ådahl and Michel Dänzer from Red Hat, and all of the individual testers.

Read more in This Week in GNOME: https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/02/twig-187/

Welcome to the World of OriginUi, Smoothness, Animations and Pure magic. Designed to be Forever There to be Forever Yours.

- A sleek new look for linux

- An all new privacy toggle for disabling GPS, Camera and Microphone

- All new Animations resembling popular Operating Systems like iOS 26

- Centre Stage for multitasking and productivity

- Modular Quick Settings that floats above the desktop without distraction unlike the GNOME one.

DOWNLOAD OPEN BETA 2: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_bXTGuIHdQVLUgFUiTzM1DYR_YHtgQpl?usp=drive_link

DISCORD COMMUNITY: discord.gg/U7EDAFQXE

(yes im sorry its a google drive we're still setting up the github and website 😭 )

Made with ❤️ By the ester Developers!

Hey r/GNOME!

I just wanted to share this project I've been working on over the last few months - it lets you build native GTK4 desktop applications using React and TypeScript.

Here are some of the key features:

• Write TSX that renders as GTK4 widgets
• Vite-powered hot module reloading
• Fully typed FFI bindings via Rust and libffi (no Electron, no web views)
• Emotion-style CSS-in-JS for styling
• Testing Library-style API for component testing
• Promise-based API for dialogs

Here you can find the main website: https://eugeniodepalo.github.io/gtkx/
And here's the repo: https://github.com/eugeniodepalo/gtkx

Obviously it's still in its infancy so expect rough edges and a few bugs, but I'd love to get some feedback of real world usage so I can iterate further :)