During the last week in GNOME, which ran from October 27 to November 3, there have been some of the usual news. Examining for a headline, and as the one in this article says, the highlight has come to mobile phones, with a new version of Phosh in which, among other things, they have made phoc more modern so that it works better with wlroots git . Although taking into account that bots are on everyone's lips lately, Hebbot's update also draws a little attention.
Although the truth is that Hebbot is not like ChatGPT or Google Bard. It is the automated software that is responsible for managing the news of This Week in GNOME, but as it is part of the project, it is also part of this type of articles in which the latest news. And they are the ones you have below.
This week in GNOME
- GLib has recently improved its support for Hurd and musl, and is in the process of migrating from gtk-doc to gi-docgen.
- This week the Evolution Data Server library has gotten a new home page for its documentation using GitLab for an always up-to-date version and GI-Docgen to align with documentation from other libraries in the ecosystem.
- The venerable GNOME Terminal is working on moving to GTK 4. Additionally, VTE will now time its rendering work based on GdkFrameClock. This eliminates a long-standing issue where rendering was limited to 40 frames per second.
- This week version 0.5.0 of Read It Later arrived. This is a client for Wallabag, which allows you to save web articles and read them later. The significant changes are the update to GNOME 45, a bug fix, better support for links in articles, and new translations.
- This week the first version of Jellybean also arrived, an application that allows you to manage inventories of various items.
- Overskride v0.5.2 has been released with a bunch of new features:
- Support for audio profiles. Now allows you to choose which profile to use with supported devices.
- Battery polling, so you can see the battery of the connected device.
- Automatic acceptance of files from trusted devices.
- And many more fixes and quality of life improvements.
- Tagger v2023.11.0 has arrived fixing an issue where Tagger would crash when loading cover art data for some files.
- Phosh 0.33.0 arrives with the notable new features of:
- a consistent toggle for password visibility in modal dialogs.
- A new lock screen plugin to launch apps. It is very useful, for example, if we forget to start the music player and we do not want to unlock just for that.
- better information for problem solving.
- Better support for Indic languages.
- There was a problem with TWIG-Bot, better known as Hebbot, which had an accident or crash during the creation of a report, causing a delay in publication. The problem was quickly identified and fixed. It's not something that the end user might be very interested in, but hey, it's part of TWIG.
- This week the Blueprint formatter was merged: «You will no longer have to worry about redundant whitespace, forgotten indentations, or random new lines when editing your .blp files. This will make writing UI templates for GTK applications much more enjoyable for developers. The formatter is also part of Blueprint LSP, which means it should be integrated into development tools like GNOME Builder, VS Code, and Workbench very soon. I would like to thank James Westman and Sonny for guiding me through the process of writing the formatter, they helped me a lot«.
- A new version of the Weather or Not extension has been released, which introduces a control to change the position of the indicator on the panel. You can now choose to place the indicator in the left or right boxes of the panel or in one of four different positions in the center box. This is implemented only in the GS45+ main branch of the extension.
And this has been all this week in GNOME.
Images and content: TWIG.