GNOME 3.12 on Fedora 20

I’ve finished building the packages for GNOME 3.11.90. I’ve done this as a Fedora 20 COPR. It’s probably a really good idea to test this in a VM rather than your production systems as it’s only had a small amount of testing.

If it breaks, you get to keep all 132 pieces. It’s probably also not a good idea to be asking fedora-devel or fedoraforums for help when using these packages. If you don’t know how to install a yum repo these packages are not for you.

Comments and suggestions, welcome. Thanks.

AppData status for January

So, it’s been a couple of months since my last post about AppData progress, so about time for one more. These are the stats for Fedora 21 in January (with the stats for Fedora 20 in November in brackets):

Applications in Fedora with long descriptions: 11% (up from 9%)
Applications in Fedora with screenshots: 9% (up from 7%)
Applications in GNOME with AppData: 53% (up from 50%)
Applications in KDE with AppData: 1% (unchanged)
Applications in XFCE with AppData: 0% (unchanged)

If you want to see what your application looks like, but don’t want to run gnome-software from Fedora rawhide or jhbuild, you can check the automatically-generated status page.

Some applications like 0ad and eog look great in the software center, but some like frogr and gbrainy just look sad. As always, full details about AppData here.

For artists, photographers and animators it’s often essential to be working with an accurately color calibrated screen. It’s also important to be able to print accurate colors being sure the hard copy matches what is shown on the display.

The OpenHardware ColorHug Colorimeter device provided an inexpensive way to calibrate some types of screen, and is now being used by over 2000 people. Due to limitations because of the low cost hardware, it does not work well on high-gamut or LED screen technologies which are now becoming more common.

ColorHug Spectro is a new device designed as an upgrade to the original ColorHug. This new device features a mini-spectroraph with UV switched illuminants. This means it can also take spot measurements of paper or ink which allows us to profile printers and ensure we have a complete story for color management on Linux.

I’m asking anyone perhaps interested in buying a device in about 9 months time to visit this page which details all the specifications so far. If you want to pre-order, just send us an email and we’ll add you to the list. If there isn’t at least 100 people interested, the project just isn’t economically viable for us as there are significant NRE costs for all the optics.

Please spread the word to anyone that might be interested. I’ve submitted a talk to LGM to talk about this too, which hopefully will be accepted.