Monday, 25 May 2026

Azul, the guys from the Zulu JDK, has aquired Payara.

I thought I'd mention it here, as I am using Payara in my hobby project.

There's a message on what it means for the Community version of Payara at [1] on https://foojay.io.

References

[1] foojay.io - A New Chapter for the Payara Community: https://foojay.io/today/a-new-chapter-for-the-payara-community/

GNOME has traditionally always been one to prefer the benefits of a clean Desktop.

But I'm not one for traditions.

There's an GNOME extention available called Desktop Icons NG (DIN)¹.

What I needed to do was:

copy the application file (thingy.desktop) from /usr/share/applications somewhere and then drag it onto my Desktop.
Make it Executable
Set it to "Allow launching"

[1] Desktop Icons NG (DING) by rastersoft: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2087/desktop-icons-ng-ding/