Alexander Dunaev | Igalia - Open Source Consultancy and Development

Alexander Dunaev

Alexander Dunaev

Builds things.

Novosibirsk, Russia

I studied physics at Novosibirsk State university, but the only thing that truly fascinated me was engineering. I gave up attaining my Ph.D., diving into software engineering instead with no regrets.

POSTS

Jan 18, 2023

Deprecating old stuff

Chromium 109 (released January 10, 2023) has dropped support for xdg_shell_unstable_v6, one of Wayland shell protocols. For years, the Chromium’s Wayland backend was aware of two versions of the XDG...

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Dec 17, 2021

Ozone: our way to the big change

Did you know that there is the Ozone layer inside Chromium? Well, Chromium is so huge, it has enough space for anything. Like the real ozone layer o

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Nov 23, 2021

Drop shadows on Linux, or why standards are good

Since the origins of graphical desktop environments, there were two approaches to styling GUI of an application: using the standard system toolkit ver

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Commits

[Chromium] [linux/wayland] Improved documentation for the shell wrappers. This patch improves some bits of ...

[Chromium] [linux/wayland] Enabled the test. This patch enables the test that no longer fails on the Waylan...

[Chromium] [linux/wayland] Tentatively fixed a Wayland error on XDG activation. There are some reports for ...

[Chromium] [linux/wayland] Commit surface after configure with same size This is a reland of [1] that cause...