AmiMoJo writes: The GNOME 3 desktop environment was officially released in 2011, and in 2020 we are still on version 3.x. Yeah, despite many massive changes over the last (almost) decade, we have been stuck with point releases for GNOME 3. For instance, just last week, GNOME 3.38 was released. Historically, the stable releases all ended in even numbers, with pre-release…
Tag: UI
Google: Jetpack Compose Lets Android Developers Write Apps With ‘Dramatically Less Code’
Google today released the alpha version of Jetpack Compose, its UI toolkit for helping developers “build beautiful UI across all Android platforms, with native access to the platform APIs.” From a report: While an alpha release means it is definitely not production ready, Jetpack Compose promises to let Android developers build apps using “dramatically less code, interactive tools, and intuitive Kotlin…
Firefox Android Build That Caused Issues Is Working As Intended
Today, Mozilla launched the updated Firefox Android app with a version that many thought was a beta because it was full of bugs and UI issues. According to The Register, this was a deliberate software release and is the new version of Firefox for Android, which is set to hit the UK today, August 25, and the U.S. on the 27th….
Firefox Daylight For Android Arrives With Enhanced Tracking Protection, New UI
An anonymous reader writes: After more than a year of development, Mozilla today launched Firefox 79 for Android, branded Firefox Daylight. Like with Firefox 57 Quantum, Firefox Daylight gets its own name as it marks “a new beginning for our Android browser.” The new version is “an entirely overhauled, faster, and more convenient product.” Firefox Daylight includes Enhanced Tracking Protection on…
Google and Canonical Bring Flutter Apps To Linux and the Snap Store
An anonymous reader writes: Google is partnering with the Ubuntu Desktop team at Canonical to bring Linux support to its open source UI framework Flutter. Today’s Linux alpha announcement also means Flutter developers can now deploy their apps to the Snap Store. Flutter group product manager Tim Sneath argues this is a big milestone because UI frameworks rarely become versatile and…
TRACERS heliophysics mission enters Phase B
NASA has approved the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission to proceed to Phase B, which marks the transition from concept study to preliminary flight design. The satellites, led by the University of Iowa (UI) and managed by Southwest Research Institute, are set to launch in late 2023. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-06-tracers-heliophysics-mission-phase.html…
Google Resumes Its Senseless Attack On the URL Bar, Hides Full Addresses On Chrome 85
Google is pressing on with new plans to hide all parts of web addresses except the domain name. Android Police reports: A few new feature flags have appeared in Chrome’s Dev and Canary channels (V85), which modify the appearance and behavior of web addresses in the address bar. The main flag is called “Omnibox UI Hide Steady-State URL Path, Query, and…
Chrome Criticized Over ‘Senseless Attack on the URL Bar’
The site Android Police is calling out new feature flags in Chrome’s early-release Dev and Canary channels (V85) “which modify the appearance and behavior of web addresses in the address bar.” The main flag is called “Omnibox UI Hide Steady-State URL Path, Query, and Ref” which hides everything in the current web address except the domain name… There are two additional…
Google To Enable the Chrome Anti-Notification Spam System in July 2020
Google announced this week plans to enable its new anti-notification spam system in Chrome over the summer, with the release of Chrome 84, on July 12, 2020. From a report: Known internally as the “quieter notification permission UI,” this Chrome component works by blocking sites from showing notification requests, which are hidden under an icon in the Chrome URL bar (on…
Insignia Project Aims To Resurrect Xbox Live For the Original Xbox
Last week, Kotaku reported on a new project, called Insignia, “that aims to recreate the original Xbox Live service, potentially restoring online play to many dozens of classic Xbox games that fell offline when the original Xbox Live service closed on April 15, 2010.” From the report: The project’s announcement on the r/originalxbox subreddit came from SoullessSentinel, a screen name of…