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GYESME: A New Design-Led Downstream Of GNOME Being Explored

Written by Michael Larabel in GNOME on 11 January 2026 at 06:18 AM EST. 32 Comments
A new project trying to get off the ground and currently in an "exploratory phase" is GYESME that describes itself as a "design-led" downstream of GNOME with plans ot only fork when needed that is "minimal by default."

GYESME is a brand new effort looking to build upon the GNOME codebase is a more design-led manner and focus on minimalism and modularity. GYESME is just in the process of being established and was tipped off to its formation this weekend by a Phoronix reader. There doesn't appear to be much to it yet besides their planning documentation. They self-describe the aim of GYESME as:

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