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cassidy
Cassidy @ FOSSY/FediCon @cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family · Jul 29, 2026
Replying to @cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family
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
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cassidy
Cassidy @ FOSSY/FediCon @cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family · Jul 29, 2026
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
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zoeyTheWitch
Nix Inch Nails @zoeyTheWitch@social.treehouse.systems · Jul 20, 2026
After 6 months and many hard rebases, GNOME Shell has taken the first step (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/4013) to make the screenshot selection UI more accessible to disabled users, by implementing keyboard navigation to resizing and moving the screenshot selection rectangle. The navigation works similar to resizing and moving windows in Mutter using the keyboard, including holding Alt to move the selection, and holding Shift or Control moves/resize the selection rectangle more/less than the default, and a new shortcut on the R key to reset the selection area. This work makes it easy to get the exact area you want to screenshot as easy as possible. Next up (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/4263) is getting the area selection status to be reportable by our screen reader. This would not have been possible without @TheEvilSkeleton@social.treehouse.systems and @tyrylu@gts.trycht.cz help testing the MR and @fmuellner@mastodon.social reviewing and answering my questions here at GUADEC, and all the people who have sponsored me financially for the past 6 months. Thank you to all of you for helping! #GNOME #GNOMEShell #accessibility #disabilitypride
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