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GNOME ☛ Peter Eisenmann: Fellowship Report August 2026 (Rivendell)
The second month of the Fellowship is already over, let’s see what I got up to this month
Nautilus
I started implementing Tobias’ redesigned “Open With” mockup. The foundations to make the changes are done, as are most of the UI changes. Here is a preview:
Due to technical limitations the design will need adjustments. Nautilus only can retrieve information about one recently used application per file type, but the mockup intended to have the displayed apps sorted by recency (and then limited to only showing 5 of them). Nautilus could start tracking app usage itself, but it probably would make more sense to have it in the App Chooser Portal. Unfortunately the portal currently does not support opening more than one file. For now I will implement a compromise of the mockup in nautilus and in parallel work on a proposal to extended the portal API to also cover opening multiple files.
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GNOME ☛ Sophie Herold: GNOME Fellowship August 2026
The GNOME Foundation is supporting contributors with its fellowship program. You can help expand the fellowship program with a donation.
The previous month concluded with releasing the beta versions for GNOME 51. So this month, it was about time to get the bugs fixed in the beta releases.
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GNOME ☛ Sophie Herold: Introduction of GNOME RFC Process: Start of Final Comment Period
We are in the process of introducing a new decision-making process into the GNOME project. The specification of the RFC process is available as a merge request on GitLab.
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This Week in GNOME ☛ This Week in GNOME: #264 Version Picking
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from August 28 to September 4.