A few hours ago, in the last hour of Friday in Spain, GNOME posted a new entry on your TWIG. The project has finished the article by recalling that they have just turned 25, two and a half decades since they presented themselves saying that they wanted to make free and friendly applications together with desktop tools, something like CDE and KDE had already been doing. The original article is still available online, specifically here.
Back to the present, the week 57 of TWIG has brought us, above all, application updates, such as a Black Box (Terminal) that was presented one month ago and that does not stop receiving improvements, or a Kooha that, with permission from OBS Studio, became the best alternative to SimpleScreenRecorder when they started using Wayland.
This week in GNOME
- NewsFlash can now render Latex math formulas inside articles with the help of mathjax.
- Kooha 2.1.0 arrived with new features and fixes:
- Previously selected video sources are now remembered.
- It is now possible to cancel while the recording is downloading.
- The settings toggle button now uses different icons to discern the status more clearly.
- Added 3 second delay option.
- Fixed MP4 encoder crash when initializing on uneven resolutions.
- Fixed display of time in case it is greater than one hour.
- Recordings are now stored by default in a "Kooha" videos subfolder, XDG videos subfolder.
- The “Show in files” button now highlights the recording in the file manager.
- Improved support information through the about window.
- Other improvements in error handling and stability.
- Various improvements to Gradience, formerly "Adwaita Manager":
- The project was renamed to "Gradience" to remove any confusion with the official GNOME app.
- Monet engine performance has been improved (2 seconds in v0.2.0 and 2,5 minutes in v0.1.0).
- Fixed invisible text on "cards" when Monet palette is applied.
- Minor UI improvements.
- Black Box 0.12.0 was released with:
- Support for text search in the terminal.
- Support for customizing the number of lines kept in the buffer.
- Possibility of reserving a part of the header bar to drag the window.
- Improved theme integration and UI.
- Lower CPU usage, thanks to a VTE upgrade.
- Bottles 2022.8.14 has introduced vmtouch to cache data and improved performance. There is also a new dialog for configuring vkBasalt settings where you can change effects and colors. On the other hand, the dark mode toggle has returned and has introduced these other changes:
- Prevent programs from launching when clicking input instead of the play button.
- Windows can now be closed by pressing Escape.
- Library view now supports program setting overrides.
- "Add to Steam" and "Add Entry to Desktop" now support integrations (Epic, Ubisoft, etc.).
- The bottles-cli "schedules" option now also shows the integrations' schedules.
- Gamescope now supports FSR.
- Minor UI improvements.
- Fixed missing translations.
- Fixed a bug where "Add to Steam" was not compatible with ~/.steam.
- Fixed a regression when renaming programs, this was causing duplicate entries.
- Fixed a bug in the "internal-sandbox", WINE symlinks were not being unlinked if the username had special characters.
- Fixed a bug in generating desktop entries for programs with spaces in their names.
- Patch for a bug in the copy_dll dependency action, wildcards were not handled correctly.
- Patch for a bug in loading gstreamer libraries, bottle architecture was not respected.
- Fixed a regression in library mode, adding a new program would cause a loop when the name and path of the bottle.
And that has been all this week in GNOME. Most of the applications discussed here are available in Flatub.