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GNOME 51 ("A Coruña") is a release‑focused update that adds smoother frame scheduling, screen‑capture speedups, auto‑rotate, touch‑pad auto‑disable, SSH‑socket remote login, offline maps, smart‑card remote desktop, visual signatures in Papers, and a raft of accessibility tweaks. Most changes are UI‑level refinements; there’s no deep technical exposition or performance data.
The Thunderbird Automation Team outlines the redesign of the desktop calendar UI, moving to a three‑pane layout (grid, navigation bar, collapsible sidebar) and updating dialogs for better visual hierarchy. Community feedback via surveys and TopicBox shaped the direction, and the new design will be rolled out incrementally for further testing.
Codename One now supports true native desktop windows via a new `Window` class that separates per‑surface state (paint queue, input routing, native peers) from the global `Display`. The change adds a `PaintSurface` abstraction, platform‑specific window back‑ends (AWT/Swing, Direct2D, GTK, UIWindowScene), and a migration path for components that assumed a single `Form`. Initial release has some UI…
