Ubuntu’s #desktop_icons extension completes its GTK4 port
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The Desktop Icons NG (aka DING) GNOME Shell extension Ubuntu uses to put icons on your literal desktop, has been busy – it finished its port to GTK4, patched memory leaks and improved a few of its lesser-known features. The GTK4 port landed in v51.0.0, released this month, alongside early support for GNOME 51 (since that’s the GNOME version #Ubuntu_26.10 will ship with in October). Prior to that, there were other, smaller in June with fixes for memory leaks and buffs to usability. DING’s GTK4 port – not to be confused with a separate GTK4 fork I covered back in […] You’re reading Ubuntu’s desktop icons extension completes its GTK4 port, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.
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