{"slug": "liquid-glass-extension-for-gnome-shell", "title": "Liquid Glass extension for GNOME Shell", "summary": "Developer Ryosuke Watanabe released a GNOME Shell extension that brings an Apple-style 'Liquid Glass' look to the Ubuntu Linux desktop, with what the report calls significant help from AI. Watanabe said the design, shader math, architecture decisions, and all real-hardware testing were their own work, and that they built the extension because they wanted to enjoy the light-bending, depth-and-motion UI material without owning an Apple device.", "body_md": "You can now give the Ubuntu desktop a ‘Liquid Glass’ makeover using a new GNOME Shell Extension that written with ‘significant’ help from AI. Its developer, Ryosuke Watanabe, said they loved the look of Liquid Glass – Apple’s new design material that gives UI elements light-bending surfaces with depth and motion – but, not owning an Apple device, wanted a way to enjoy it on their Linux desktop. So they created an extension to do it. “The design, the shader math, the architecture decisions, and all of the testing on real hardware are mine”, says Watanabe, but adds that a […]\n\nYou're reading [Liquid Glass extension for GNOME Shell](https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/liquid-glass-gnome-shell), a blog post from [OMG! Ubuntu](https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk). Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/liquid-glass-extension-for-gnome-shell", "canonical_source": "https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/liquid-glass-gnome-shell", "published_at": "2026-09-10 20:19:14+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-10 20:41:48.483929+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Ryosuke Watanabe", "GNOME Shell", "Ubuntu", "Apple", "Liquid Glass"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/liquid-glass-extension-for-gnome-shell", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/liquid-glass-extension-for-gnome-shell.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/liquid-glass-extension-for-gnome-shell.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/liquid-glass-extension-for-gnome-shell.jsonld"}}