Linux App Summit

This presentation aims to inspire developers to build beautiful, free (as in freedom) apps and leverage the powerful tools and community available through GNOME Circle. Alireza Shabani is a developer from Iran. He enjoys coding, making music an...

openKylin is an open-source project incubated and operated by the OpenAtom Foundation. It was co-founded by a diverse group of organizations, including foundational software and hardware companies, non-profit organizations, community groups, unive...

On April 25, 2022, Twitter changed ownership which led to a user exodus to other platforms. One of the top choices was the fedivere and specifically Mastodon. Mastodon wasn't new, it already existed for 6 years at the time and had gathered a large...

Flatpak has served us well for 10 years and succeeded in establishing a direct distribution model for app developers, independent of the underlying platform. However, development has slowed down significantly and the containers ecosystem has evolv...

There are many choices of LLMs out there, many that are focused on writing code. But a lot of them provide wrong or incorrect answers. Some of this will cause more work for maintainers as increasingly these LLMs are being used to submit pull or me...

Ever since the release of ChatGPT 3.5 by the Not-so-OpenAI, the AI has become an annoying buzzword the likes of which we haven't seen the burst of the blockchain bubble. In contrast to that recent series of events, AI has already produces some rea...

During this panel session on App ecosystems and the future of desktop Linux distributions, we will go over the following: How would you describe the state of Desktop Linux in 2025?, What are the main obstacles for increasing user adoption?, W...

"We" have been doing "this" for about 3 decades and yet things keep changing: Stakeholders change, projects die and projects get born. How is the wider Linux community adapting to fulfill the needs of the present and future? What's the role of app...

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 developme...

Distribution-independent packaging, like Snap, Flatpak, AppImage, and also OCI container images, gets more and more common, allowing users to freely choose from thousands of apps from app stores, like on smartphones. To be able to provide always ...

Perhaps more popularly known as "tracker", LocalSearch is the filesystem and metadata indexer at service in GNOME desktops, and TinySPARQL is the crazy little data layer that makes it possible. This talk will cover the plans beyond the rename of ...

E-Ink displays offer significant advantages in power efficiency and readability, but their integration into modern Linux desktops remains fragmented. Most Wayland compositors assume high-refresh-rate displays, leading to suboptimal rendering, ghos...

Desktop portals have become the linchpin of the application development platform for Linux: they not only provide a security boundary for sandboxed applications, and provide a way to mediate the access to system resources, but they are also a unif...

Portals have become the primary way of interacting with the platform for a lot of apps nowadays. If something goes wrong, apps can become completely unusable, so we better make sure that we don't break everything. But how do you even test Portals?...

Flutter has been here from the starting of 2017. Initially, it was a mobile only framework which slowly and steadily got support for other platforms, like Web and Desktop. As Canonical started working on their own flutter based App Center, the F...

This talk will introduce one of the more exciting things in GTK 4.18, the new Android backend. It will cover some of the technical difficulties that we had to overcome to make GTK apps work on Android, and outline the next steps for making Android...

Windows 10 security updates end on 14 October 2025, KDE's 29th birthday and also, ironically, International E-Waste Day (you cannot make these things up!). Hundreds of millions of functioning devices will become e-waste. This means manufacturing a...

postmarketOS is an Operating System which develops free and open-source software to extend the life of consumer electronics. Nowadays postmarketOS runs on every kind of device: phones, laptops, desktops, tablets, and even routers, smart clocks and...

Flathub changed the game and gave developers a way to publish their applications directly to users. But how did this happen, what it take to get here, and what effects will it have on the future of the desktop? Jordan Petridis is a long time GNOM...

This case study examines the deployment of a scalable Light Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system designed for processing and querying Albanian legal data. The system leverages lightweight retrieval methods combined with generative AI to del...