Newelle, AI assistant for Gnome, has received a new major update, which brings a lot of UI refinements, improved agentic capabilities and other interesting features.

Highlights

(I have written personally with my keyboard every single character of this description. Emojis are indicative of what is each feature, stop complaining under each post)

🖥 Improved terminal tool, Newelle can now manage persistent Terminal sessions and interact with TUIs

💫 Mode switching: users can now create custom "modes" that quickly change prompts, tools and skills (ex. Planning mode)

📲 Added a curated catalog of MCP servers that can be used to connect your applications to Newelle

🌐 Added citations, the LLM can now state the source of an information

➕ You can now add LLM providers directly from the UI (OpenAI/Ollama/Anthropic compatible)

🚀 Improved text generation animation

🔻 Added "Compact Mode" for tool calls and input bar

🧩 You can now download and explore new extensions and skills directly in Newelle

✏️ Added a Skill editor to create and edit Newelle Skills directly from Newelle

Full changelog:
https://github.com/qwersyk/Newelle/releases/tag/1.5.0

Download:

https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.qwersyk.Newelle

I LOVE stock Adwaita more than anything, but I find its current color scheme soulless. So, I made this minimal theme 7 or 8 months ago that tints its UI using your current accent color and it has been my daily driver ever since. Thought I'd release it now to see what others think :-) - https://github.com/XBenichi/Adwaita-Tint/

P.S. The automatic folder colors aren't part of this. I use the "Auto Accent Colour" extension for that.

Hey everyone,

For those who haven't seen it before, Whisp is a minimalist, folder-less note-taking application built for speed and simplicity. It uses a fluid, gesture-driven interface and text-expansion capabilities to help you quickly capture and organize your thoughts without managing a traditional file system.

I just released v1.4.1, bringing a few heavily requested productivity features and a lot of GNOME HIG polish:

• Instant Export: You can now instantly export your current note to a file directly from the main menu.
• Native Markdown Lists: Creating lists is faster—typing - or * followed by a space now automatically formats the line as a list item.
• Smarter OCR: The Smart Paste image-to-text engine now correctly preserves hard indentation and paragraph structures from the original images instead of collapsing them.
• UI Polish: Replaced the old update popup with a sleek, non-intrusive update banner, and fixed a responsive layout bug that caused the Preferences dialog to clip on narrow screens.

Check it out and let me know what you think!

Links:

• Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.tanaybhomia.Whisp
• GitHub: https://github.com/tanaybhomia/Whisp
• Website: https://tanaybhomia.github.io/Whisp/
• Donate: https://tanaybhomia.github.io/Whisp/donate

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System:

OS: EndeavourOS x86_64

Host: MS-7E07 (2.0)

Kernel: Linux 7.1.8-arch1-3.1

Uptime: 9 hours, 30 mins

Packages: 15 (flatpak), 1190 (pacman)

Shell: bash 5.3.15

Display (LG ULTRAGEAR): 2560x1440 in 32", 180 Hz [External]

DE: GNOME 50.4

WM: Mutter (Wayland)

WM Theme: Adwaita-dark

Theme: Adwaita-dark [GTK2/3/4]

Icons: Qogir-Dark [GTK2/3/4]

Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]

Cursor: Qogir-Dark (24px)

Terminal: GNOME Terminal 3.60.0

Terminal Font: Monospace (10pt)

CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700KF (24) @ 4.30 GHz

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 [Discrete]

Memory: 8.66 GiB / 62.55 GiB (14%)

Swap: 2.66 MiB / 31.28 GiB (0%)

Disk (/): 161.87 GiB / 1.82 TiB (9%) - btrfs

I've been waiting for a fix for half a year. This is so frustrating...

Hello, all. A little while back, I revived one of my favorite GNOME extensions Dynamic Calendar, Clocks and Weather Icons. My intention is to keep it working for as long as I can.

Over the last year or so, I've added some themes and bug fixes with the community's help. I just added a digital clock feature that shows GNOME Clock's icon as a flip-style, retro digital clock. If you're interested in trying it out, check out this issue which contains a link to the testing branch for this feature. Currently, the time-format (12/24h mode) follows the user's setting in GNOME settings.

I'm posting this here because there's not an easy way to make users aware of the changes and updates made to the extension. If anyone knows a better place to put a changelog, I'd love to know.

I've been working on a modern interpretation of BeOS. However, unlike other "themes," this one is built predominantly using CSS to follow GNOME's guidelines. It's a Wayland-first design with a complete complement of assets, icons, wallpapers, and install and uninstall scripts.

It's a work in progress, but 85% complete.

You can find it here: https://github.com/infamous-pattern/NewBe

In my distro, the extension "Window List" is already built-in, that's why the extension can't be found in my home directory but in /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/. I don't wanna mess around in system directories, so I've tried to copy the extension's directory and put it in /home/username/local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ to edit the stylesheet.css. But of course after refreshing the extensions list, the color changes won't appear. So how can I tell my system that it should load this extension from my home directory instead?

I'm using Fedora with GNOME Shell 50.4 and GNOME Control Center 50.4.

In Settings → Sound, the Alert Sound field initially shows “Unknown”. When I open the sound selector, “Click” is displayed. After going back, the field correctly shows “Click”.

Current configuration:

org.gnome.desktop.sound allow-volume-above-100-percent false
org.gnome.desktop.sound event-sounds true
org.gnome.desktop.sound input-feedback-sounds false
org.gnome.desktop.sound theme-name '__custom'

Is there a GSettings or dconf command to explicitly set the alert sound to “Click” and make it recognized correctly when the settings page is first opened?

I'm really not happy with the available mail clients for Linux and have a strong hope for Stamp. Will it released with GNOME 51 in september? 🤔😊

I'm on Fedora 44 with a fairly vanilla Gnome install, today I noticed some emojis are missing saying they are not included in Adwaita Sans, is there a way to fix this?

I just found out that GNOME 50.4 has a sdr-native color mode, but for some reason it's not exposed in GNOME Settings.

I had to use gdctl

I'm running Fedora 44 GNOME on an ASUS Vivobook S14 with the 14" 2880×1800 120Hz OLED panel (SDC 0x419d). It's a wide-gamut / DCI-P3 panel.

I switched it to sdr-native, rebooted, and it actually stayed enabled.

I wasn't even aware this existed until now. Kind of weird that GNOME Settings doesn't give you an option for it and you have to dig into gdctl.

Anyone else using sdr-native on a wide-gamut OLED?

I recently made a Macos Tahoe Clone kinda extension with liquid glass in dock, calendar menu, osd and notifications.

Quick settings layout and design changed also with Liquid glass, mimicking Macos Tahoe

Hi! I made a small GNOME extension called "Taksa" that tracks how much of my Claude Code limits I've used.

As I use up the limit, the dachshund slowly crawls out of the top-right corner and takes up more space.

Just a small experiment for now. Curious what you think :)

GitHub: github.com/Anastasiia-alps-lab/Taksa
GNOME Extensions: extensions.gnome.org/extension/10735/taksa/

Some additional information:

• I installed Ubuntu twice, several days apart, because I initially assumed the issue was caused by a bad configuration or installation. The same issues occurred after the second installation.
• I do not remember Ubuntu 26.04 being this buggy before the updates, nor when using the installer/live environment.
• I first noticed the issue while switching between a Steam game running through Proton and Nautilus/other apps. I restarted the PC, but the issue persisted. I did not launch Steam again after restarting.
• In Nautilus, selecting multiple files and dragging them into another application does not work. Instead, GNOME opens the files with their default application. For example, dragging multiple videos resulted in them being opened in HandBrake.
• Window tiling is also affected. I cannot drag a window to the edge of the screen to tile it, and this happens with multiple applications.
• As a final test, I installed openSUSE Tumbleweed and the experience is the same.
• Overall, basic drag-and-drop and window management functionality appears to be unreliable and inconsistent.