Yesterday we reached 100 weeks since GNOME kicked off the This Week in GNOME initiative. What at first seemed like a copy of This Week in KDE, previously KDE Usability & Productivity, has ended up being a space in which they share news, but also an extra motivation for developers of all kinds to create their applications for the desktop that they use distributions like Ubuntu or Debian.
This week's entry appeared last night in the Spanish peninsular timetable as published on June 12, but that date has already been corrected to the 16th. As for the content, there is many news to deal with, most of them application related. We remind here that there are at least three levels of GNOME applications: 1, official applications; 2, hatchery applications; 3, applications that are part of the GNOME circle.
This week in GNOME
- Files was an early adopter of the new widgets AdwOverlaySplitView y AdwToolbarView, with an updated visual style. Work continues to improve the file search experience. Searching from the grid no longer switches to a list. The goal was to show the location of the recursive results, but now the grid view has grown the ability to show the path itself. This prevents the abrupt switch from grid to list view.
- Libadwaita has discontinued widgets AdwLeaflet, adwflap, adwsqueezer y AdwViewSwitcherTitle.
- The default app panel in Settings has a new look that uses libadwaita's widgets.
- For a week the new nightly version of Vala's Sdk has been published and everyone can use it. It is hosted in the GNOME nightly flatpak remote.
- There is a new Typescript SDK Extension for anyone who wants to use Typescript in GNOME applications.
- Eyedropper has received a lot of news this week, so its developer has decided to launch a beta version. Among the highlights:
- Visual feedback when entering a color format.
- Support for the introduction of all formats.
- Ability to search for colors in the summary of activities.
- Choice of file format when exporting palettes.
- Visual corrections.
- Metronome 1.3.0 has arrived by fixing a bug with off-beat ticks and allowing to change the BPM while playing. Tooltips have also been added to various buttons.
- Ear Tag 0.4.0 has arrived this week with the news below. They have also released a 0.4.1 to fix bugs:
- File renaming using a specific pattern.
- Identify songs using AcousticID.
- Option to put a full date instead of just the year.
- Design has received support for Line Types and exporting to alternate DXF versions:
- Flowtime is a productivity app for the time management method of the same name, especially useful for the tasks we like, since other methods like the Pomodoro can interrupt us when we're more focused. Flowtime allows us to work as long as we want, and then take a break that lasts one fifth of the time we have worked. It has several useful features, including:
- Statistics: Control the time we have worked, the time we have taken rest and what is our most productive day of the week.
- Reduced view: Reduce clutter in the Flowtime window by activating a mode that shows only the timer.
- Run in the background: The window can be closed to reduce distractions while the timer continues to run, and we can check the progress in GNOME Shell's background apps panel.
- Customizable factor for calculating break time: If one fifth of the time we've worked doesn't fit your workflow, it can be changed from half the time to one tenth.
- IPlan 1.5.0 is out:
- Task Row displays the description, subtasks, due date, and reminder.
- New design of the task rows.
- Add task button below the task list.
- One week per calendar page.
- "Today" and "No Date" buttons at the top of the date picker.
- Clicking on a searched task will open the task window.
- Autostart (if the user lets the app run in the background) and check for reminders on startup.
- Added or updated Czech, French and Brazilian Portuguese translations.
- Code refactoring, bug fixes and UI improvements.
- Footage is a new application to rotate, rotate, crop, cut, mute and export the video to formats of our choice:
- Impression 2.0 has arrived and they have decided to remove the major versions to simplify versioning. This version includes visual enhancements, automatic updates to the list of available drives, explicit drive selection before flashing, and more translations, making Impression available in a total of 8 languages.
- Bavarder 0.2.4 introduces faster baichat, better internal structure that is more modular, improved interface and translations.
- Version 1.0.0 of Photometric Viewer has arrived this week, a utility for viewing EULUMDAT and IESNA photometric files. These types of files are used in the lighting industry, CAD, and 3D graphics to describe light properties and distributions.
- List 44.6 has arrived this week. It is a simple application type To Do (tasks). It has a history of deleted tasks, an undo deletion button, and improvements in the interface and accessibility.
- Swap 0.12.0:
- User templates.
- CSS support in the workspace to see live CSS changes.
- GtkBuildable custom tags: support for styles, elements, etc.
- Property Bindings: Binds a property to any source property.
- XML snippets: Add any xml to any object or UI as a fallback.
- Preview mode: Hide placeholders in the workspace.
- WebKit support: new widget catalog available.
- Support of references to external objects.
- Added support for GdkPixbuf, GListModel and GListStore types
- Second major release of Paper Clip, formerly PDF Metadata Editor:
- New icon.
- Fixed a lot of UI clipping to better fit the GNOME HIG.
- The main view now has a thumbnail of the document instead of a symbolic icon.
- The details window has been removed and its content has been moved to the bottom of the main view.
- Wildcard is a new app for testing/practicing regular expressions:
- I had Converter v2023.6.1 has arrived with all these changes:
- Added authentication options when adding a download if necessary.
- Added a keychain to store credentials that can be used when authenticating.
- Added advanced download option to specify a specific time period of a media to download.
- Added the ability to include chapters in a download.
- Added the ability to auto-crop audio thumbnails.
- Added the ability to specify a comma-separated list of language codes for downloading subtitles.
- Playlist validation speed has been improved.
- The state of the "Number of Titles" toggle will be remembered and reused for future downloads.
- The previous "Video Resolution" will be remembered and pre-selected if available for future downloads.
- Comment, Description, Synopsis, and Purl fields will no longer be embedded in metadata.
- If a download fails and has not been stopped, Tube Converter will automatically retry it one more time.
- Fixed an issue that prevented validation for some websites.
- Fixed an issue where the wrong file extension was sometimes displayed in generic downloads.
- Updated translations.
- Rnote v0.7.0 launches a new concentration mode that hides toolbars to improve the experience on devices with lower resolution and a zoom tool, among other new features.
- Telegrand has been renamed Paper Plane, which translates into Spanish as "paper plane", which is the Telegram logo. Among the most recent changes:
- The chat history now has a background image, which animates when new messages arrive.
- Fixed a bug that caused the app to crash if non-existent chats were selected from the contacts window.
- Deleted account avatars now have a ghost icon.
- The app will now be built with more aggressive compiler options, which should result in a smaller and perhaps faster binary.
- Translation updates.
- Graphs 1.6.0 includes fixes and improvements such as:
- Full localization support, with full translations available in Dutch, Turkish and Swedish.
- Action dialogs now follow the GNOME HIG.
- Axis limits behavior has been improved, with fewer unnecessary reboots.
- Axis limits are now persistent when loading saved projects.
- Normal and advanced import have been merged to provide a single way to add new data.
- Graphics now work correctly on high DPI displays with scaled resolutions.
- And many general bug fixes as well as refactorings under the hood.
- Graphs is now officially available as a Snap package
- The beta of Gradience 0.8.0 has been presented, and it will include new features such as:
- Added the ability to use JSDelivr instead of GitHub for preset download.
- Added mnemonics to view toggles.
- Added keyboard shortcuts.
- Small tweaks to the icon.
- Updated translations.
- Error correction
- Scale 0.1.2:
- Fixed inability to select response code.
- Blueprint update to 0.8.1.
- Update of the Brazilian Portuguese translation.
- Added German and Turkish translation.
- Now you can create Header with empty value.
- Ability to check for duplicate data keys.
- Added new way to add new body form data.
- Added new flat design.
- Fixed some notifications.
- Dev Toolbox v1.1 has updated the platform to GNOME 44 and introduced:
- Now follow the theme of the system.
- Timestamp: ISO8601/RFC3339 output format and time zone support.
- The interface has been ported to blueprint.
- Improved icon.
- New tools:
- JS Formatter.
- Certificate parser.
- CSR generator.
- Random generator.
- CRON generator.
- change calculator.
- QR code generator.
- JSON validator.
- CSS formatter.
- New translations: Czech, Spanish, Norwegian Bokmål and Portuguese.
- Denaro v2023.6.0:
- A new account setup dialog has been added to make it easier to set up new accounts.
- Added the ability to remove recent accounts from the list.
- Denaro will now suggest autocompletes for transaction descriptions.
- Moved removing groups and transactions from their rows to their dialogs.
- Changed the default order of new accounts from last to first by date.
- The amounts displayed in the sidebar now reflect those of the transactions displayed in the view.
- Fixed a problem importing CSV files.
- Fixed an issue that caused Denaro to crash when working with a large number of transactions.
- Improved interface and user experience.
- Updated translations.
And this, which has not been little, to the point of presenting more than double the news than some weeks, has been everything this week in GNOME that has served as a celebration of week #100.
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