The launch of GNOME 44 is just around the corner, and that means that the news that arrive soon can still be introduced, but those that take a little longer will have to wait for GNOME 45 that will arrive after the summer. A change that has come in time is that Builder you will get support to add custom shortcuts. Some existing shortcuts can be overridden from the preferences dialog. A popup menu and a keyboard window will reflect the changes the user makes (header capture).
Among the rest of the news, a new app that comes to the GNOME Circle. Is about Clairvoyant, an application that will give physical answers to our questions. The icon is that of an 8 ball, and it acts more or less the same as those balls that you move and give you a random response. The rest of the news this week are in the following list.
This week in GNOME
- Libadwaita 1.3 is now available. The release note, or rather the full list of changes, is available at this link.
- Read It Later 0.3.0 has arrived this week. Is a customer for wallabag, a service that allows you to save articles to read them later. This version highlights that it has been uploaded to GTK4, bugs have been fixed and translations have been added. If you are looking for an alternative, Pocket is the best, and it is also owned by Mozilla.
- I had Converter v2023.3.0 is now available as a stable version. The most important change is that it is completely rewritten in C#, and that makes it improve in many areas, such as performance. In addition, entire playlists can now be downloaded, there is a new queue system to manage downloads, and the interface has been redesigned. Moreover, it is now also available for Windows.
- The latest version of Portofio is now available after a break in its development. This update includes major bug fixes, minor tweaks, and some visual improvements.
- Fractal 4.4.2 has been released and is now available on Flathub. Fractal is a client for the Matrix messaging network designed to look good on GNOME, for which it uses GTK. Although there are no new features, this update makes Fractal compatible with new versions of its dependencies. This means that its flatpak version is now based on the GNOME 43 runtime, just before the release of the next version of the desktop. Its developers have taken the opportunity to talk about the next big release, Fractal 5, which will include new features such as sending read receipts and updating the read complete marker. The beta version is near.
We've finally implemented one of the most annoying missing features: sending read receipts and updating the read complete marker. What's doubly cool about this, is that we're now just one feature away from being regression-free compared to our stable version (and a merge request is open for the latter)!
This means that a beta version is right around the corner, but we also have serious performance issues to address first. We hope that the move to the new store backend currently being developed in the Matrix Rust SDK will fix some of these, but we still need to properly investigate how we can improve the situation.
- Denaro v2023.3.0-beta2 includes:
- More customizations for an account's custom currency, such as decimals and separators.
- Ability to add a password to an exported PDF.
- Improvements when importing QIF files, which have fixed a problem that prevented the import of files on non-English speaking systems, and OFX, which has fixed a bug where files could not be imported safely.
- Fixed an issue where editing transactions with a recipe could cause the app to crash.
- The interface has been rebuilt using blueprint.
- The Collosseum and krypto extensions have received support for GNOME 44.
And that's been it for this week at GNOME.
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