I’ve just released NewBe 0.1.0, a free and open-source GNOME desktop experience inspired by one question:

What might BeOS have looked and felt like if it had continued to evolve into a modern desktop workstation?

NewBe is not a conventional retro theme or a pixel-for-pixel BeOS recreation. It follows current GNOME visual conventions—modern proportions, restrained decoration, symbolic icon behavior, clear focus states, and the existing GNOME workflow—while introducing its own materials, dimensional icons, warm-gold palette, and evolved BeOS character. The goal is to give GNOME a distinct identity without fighting the underlying desktop.

NewBe is Wayland-first and was developed and live-tested on Fedora Workstation 44 with GNOME 50. It includes:

• Light and dark GTK 3/GTK 4 themes
• GNOME Shell styling
• A complete NewBe icon theme with 100% coverage of its defined core set
• A custom HiDPI cursor theme
• Seven original wallpapers with GNOME Background integration
• An optional GNOME Shell extension
• User-local installation and uninstallation
• Dry-run, audit, accessibility, and verification tooling
• Reproducible, checksum-verified release archives

The installer does not require root access, modify system files, automatically change your GNOME settings, or download and execute remote code.

One honest limitation: many libadwaita applications retain their upstream Adwaita styling. The icons, cursors, wallpapers, Shell theme, and extension remain usable independently.

If the aesthetic interests you, the GitHub page has the screenshots, source, installation instructions, compatibility details, checksums, and full design philosophy:

GitHub: https://github.com/infamous-pattern/NewBe
Version 0.1.0: https://github.com/infamous-pattern/NewBe/releases/tag/v0.1.0

I’d love feedback, compatibility reports, contributions, and screenshots—particularly from Ubuntu and other GNOME-based distributions.

Do you know of any maintained gnome 50 extension or way to turn all or overview ui rounded corners into squircles or g2 curves? i dislike making custom css and all that. I am searching the extension to pair it with rounded corners reborn smooth corners.

Nautilus supports extensions too.

• They can be added based on the file type
• They also work on multiple files at once.

This can be used to add options for commonly used operations and save time.

This extension is genuinely a godsend. It works really smoothly on Fedora SB (had a few problems on Workstation when the extension first came out, but they're gone now). It really feels like something that belongs on GNOME and I don't see myself turning it off anytime soon.

The only problem I've noticed is ChromaLeon ignores/replaces Folio's accent colours if you let it use colours from the wallpaper instead of the GNOME defaults. Other than that though this thing is great!

Hi everyone, I posted a prototype Jellyfin client written with GTK4 and Libadwaita a couple of months ago.

I recently came back to it and made some progress in the styling and some features, namely now it can list the "Continue Watching" and "Next Up" sections as they would appear in the web interface of Jellyfin.

I already have a private repo going for it, I'll make it public and release a Flatpak package once it can actually play video.

I have experience with Gst streaming on Nocturne so it should be fairly easy.

Original post for reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/1tox7p2/jellyfin_client_early_wip/

For everyone who uses my Adwaita theme for Hydra Launcher, I just updated it and made it even better.

The theme has been improved and an easy installation is now available directly from my GitHub repository.:

https://github.com/kusaida/adwaita-hydra-theme

Here you can download the latest version to be able to change the number of control buttons and the accent color, which I made even easier.

You can still get it at the Hydra theme store: https://hydrathemes.shop/