25–26 Apr 2025
Tirana, Albania
Europe/London timezone

How I Am Rewriting GNOME Boxes to Bring it to the GTK4/Libadwaita Era

26 Apr 2025, 11:00
40m
Tirana, Albania

Tirana, Albania

Presentation (40 min) Main Track

Speaker

Mr Felipe Borges (Red Hat / GNOME Foundation)

Description

Keeping up with toolkit and design language evolution is not simple for a virtualization manager app. Add a bit of code quality decay driving away contributors and you have a recipe for a rewrite.

Find out how I learned my lessons in app development with Boxes and how I'm giving it back in a new form, compatible and yet much different. For modern VM workflows and for software sustainability.

Author(s) Bio

Felipe contributes to GNOME for over a decade in software development and community governance. Maintains GNOME Boxes and GNOME Settings. Works in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation as part of the Red Hat Display Team.

Twitter and/or Mastodon Handle

@felipeborges@floss.social

Participation In-person
Track Main Track
Level of Difficulty Intermediate
Pronouns he/him

Primary author

Mr Felipe Borges (Red Hat / GNOME Foundation)

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