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Here’s the latest state of a WIP prototype branch. We’re still going to do a design pass to improve things; maybe removing the card styling of results (since each section isn’t activatable, but results within are). There’s more to do, and again: this light style is an off-by-default accessibility setting that I’ve been testing with to ensure it will work, but we don’t plan to ship a light shell by default in 51 afaik. But you can at least see some progress. :) #GNOME #GNOMEdesign #GNOMEshell

We miiiiight be able to sneak in a pretty substantial change to GNOME Shell in time for the next release: moving the search results to an overlay instead of taking over the screen. It’s more spatial (the search results come from somewhere instead of just… taking over) but for light style users like me: it should actually be more accessible, too! One more step on the path to a proper light style Shell. NOTE: lots of style issues remain in this prototype! #GNOME #GNOMEdesign #GNOMEshell

Live now: @jimmac@mastodon.social showing new icon capabilities in GNOME! Our icons are gaining support for variable weight plus transitions and animations. 🤩 Track 1: https://www.youtube.com/live/HnduDRyFsZ0 #GNOME #GNOMEdesign #GUADEC #GUADEC2026