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GNOME's Glycin Continues Being Built Out, Papers Ready For Document Viewing


It was another exciting week in the GNOME space to kick off July.

- Continued work phasing out GdkPixbuf for image loading directly in favor of using the modern Glycin that is written in Rust. Glycin is safer, supports more features and image formats, and should perform faster too. - Phosh 0.48 released with a new lock screen plug-in and other improvements, including updates to its Wayland compositor now re-based to using wlroots 0.19.

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