Already at noon on Saturday in Spain, one was beginning to think that there would be no weekly article about news in GNOME. We usually echo what they publish in This Week in GNOME, and the medium has taken longer than expected to publish its note. We don't know what happened, but Felix, who is publishing these articles in his latest installments, has included a point from Sonny saying that the GNOME STF team has arrived late. One possibility that would explain the delay would be that they have been waiting to include those points as well.
GNOME SFT is nothing that exists as such, with that name. It is the team part of GNOME that is using the million donation from Sovereign Tech Fund to improve your entire project, from the desktop to applications to libraries and even infrastructure. Next week, in the point about what was done with the donation there will be double the information. What follows here and now are the new arrivals that they did publish today and that includes what happened in the week that went from February 23 to March 2.
This week in GNOME
- GNOME Calendar 46 beta has arrived with:
- Work has been done to harmonize the mini calendar week numbers with GNOME Shell.
- They have taken every window to
AdwDialogand the “about” window toAdwAboutDialog. - Fixed a bug in the creation popup where full day events would display “00:00 – 00:00”.
- Ported the date picker to the Settings portal.
- Added debugging information to the About dialog.
- Ported from GtkLabel to GtkInscription to display events. Using GtkInscription for this use case increases performance.
- Month separators have been added, making it easier to distinguish the beginning and end of each month.
- Added a lock icon for read-only calendars.
- Improved handling of event names, adding visual feedback for when the event name is invalid.
- GLib has improved file information prompts under Windows, so responsiveness has been improved in the file chooser, in GIMP, and everywhere else. We also fixed a major performance issue in glib-networking that caused the system's trusted certificate to be scanned repeatedly when running under flatpak or in other container environments using p11-kit-server. Epiphany Technology Preview is now capable of loading https://www.cnn.com in 7-8 seconds, down from 31-35 seconds. You should notice improvements in network performance in many flatpak applications. This fix will be released in glib-networking 2.80.rc and 2.78.1.
- The Papers custom thread scheduler has been replaced with GLib's GThreadPool. As a consequence, multiple jobs can be scheduled concurrently (so, for example, multiple pages can be rendered at the same time), and there are no longer memory leaks in each thread.
- Work has been underway on a new thumbnail generator that follows the Freedesktop Thumbnail Managing standard to miniaturize files and roms for Nintendo portable systems. This project is an opportunity to practice Rust skills and has led to the development of the bign-handheld-thumbnailer thumbnail generator. This software currently supports several Nintendo DS and 3DS file types, although support for more formats is planned to be added in the future.
- Varia v2024.2.29-1 arrived with:
- Support for Firefox and Chrome/ium extension.
- Initial support for torrenting.
- Remote mode that allows connection to a remote aria2 instance.
- Background mode that allows you to hide the window while it continues downloading.
- Bug fixes and adjustments.
- Turtle 0.7 now runs an application service in the background that calculates file manager badges and is accepted via D-Bus. That dramatically improves speed. The packaging/debian branch has been updated and packages can now be created for Debian and Ubuntu. Lastly, several minor bugs have been fixed.
And that's been it for this week at GNOME.
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