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Cinnamon, KDE, and GNOME Leftovers
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University of Toronto ☛ Getting the Cinnamon desktop environment to support "AppIndicator"
The other day I wrote about what "AppIndicator" is (a protocol) and some things about how the Cinnamon desktop appeared to support it, except they weren't working for me. Now I actually understand what's going on, more or less, and how to solve my problem of a program complaining that it needed AppIndicator.
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K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt
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Integrate KTextEditor into Cantor(2)
Over the past few months, I’ve been working on an important refactor in Cantor: migrating the editor for command entries from our in-house
QTextDocumentimplementation to the powerful KTextEditor framework. In my previous update, I described how Phase 1 laid the foundation—command cells were migrated to useKTextEditor::View, enabling basic syntax highlighting and a modern editing experience.
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GNOME Desktop/GTK
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GNOME ☛ Steven Deobald: 2025-08-22 GNOME Foundation Update
## Bureaucracy
You may have noted that there wasn’t a Foundation Update last week. This is because almost everything that has been happening at the Foundation lately falls under the banner of “bureaucracy” and/or “administration” and there isn’t much to say about either of those topics publicly.
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