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Digital Wellbeing Contract

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This month I have been accepted as a contractor to work on the Parental Controls frontent and integration as part of the Digital Wellbeing project. I'm very happy to take part in this cool endeavour, and very grateful to the GNOME Foundation for giving me this opportunity - special thanks to Steven Deobald and Allan Day for interviewing me and helping me connect with the team, despite our timezone compatibility :) The idea is to redesign the Parental Controls app UI to bring it on par with modern GNOME apps, and integrate the parental controls in the GNOME Shell lock screen with collaboration with gnome-control-center. There also new features to be added, such as Screen Time monitoring and setting limits, Bedtime Schedule and Web Filtering support. The project has been going for quite some time, and there has been a lot of great work put into both designs by Sam Hewitt and the backend by Philip Withnall, who's been really helpful teaching me about the project code practices and...