GNOME has published entry #65 about news that has happened during the last week in or near his circle. Although there are new features in existing software, there is still a lot of GNOME 43, GTK4 and libadwaita, three components on which the software in this project revolves. Gnome 43 I arrive in mid-September, and GTK4 arrived at the end of 2020. For those who think that we are late with GTK4, remember that GIMP, where the letters GTK (GIMP Took Kit) come from, still uses GTK2.
Following on from this library, GTK 4.10 will arrive in March 2023, discontinuing GtkTreeView, GtkIconView, Gtk, ComboBox and all APIs related to cell renderers. As for the rest of the news, the following list collects the changes introduced this week.
This week in GNOME
- Video Trimmer 0.8.0 has arrived with support for GNOME 43. It now supports drag and drop to open videos in the Flatpak version and has included the new “About” dialog. Also fixed a bug that caused the app to crash when trying to open an inaccessible file.
- Flatpak-vscode 0.0.3.0 now available, mostly with bug fixes:
- Added command to show application data directory.
- Fallback to the installed flatpak-builder (org.flatpak.Builder) when it is not found on the host.
- Now automatically resizes the terminal output when the terminal window is resized.
- Removed rust-analyzer runnables.extraArgs target-dir override.
- Updated to node v16.
- Does not require finish-args.
- Tube Converter, a frontend (GUI) for yt-dlp written in C++, GTK4 and libadwaita, has been released. Support multiple downloads at the same time and mp4, webm, mp3, opus, flac and wav. Available on Flathub beta (link to app here and a tutorial to add the repository here).
- Tagger 2022.10.3 has received many new features, with UX improvements included, in addition to those advanced in the past week:
- It will now notify the user of changes that are waiting to be applied to a file. A confirmation dialog will also be displayed when reloading a music folder or closing the application with changes pending.
- Added the ability to send tag metadata to AcoustId.
- Added the ability to right-click on the music file list when files are selected to access a context menu of tag actions.
- The 'Remove Tag' action must now be applied to be saved to the file.
- The 'Label to Filename' action should now be applied to rename the file on disk.
- Improved accuracy and performance of the “Download MusicBrainz Metadata” action.
- File size calculation has been improved.
- Fixed an issue where the "Apply" action would clear the file selection.
- Fixed window size issues on low resolution screens.
- Girens, a GTK-based Plex client, already uses GTK4 and libadwaita. Also, Wayland is now supported, the lists for large libraries have been improved, and the borderless view mode is much better.
- Eyedropper now supports HWB and CIELCh formats, as well as displaying the color "name" specified by the CSS key or the xkcd color poll.
- Extension Manager 0.4 includes:
- Fully customizable and mobile-friendly user interface.
- Update wizard to check the compatibility of extensions before updating them.
- Paginated search results.
- Unsupported extensions are hidden by default.
- Full screen image viewer.
- It handles the new gnome-extensions:// URI scheme.
- Bottles 2022.10.14 arrived just yesterday with interface improvements, using common names to help use options. Project names used to be used, but have been changed to help new users. For example, DXVK is now Direct3D 9/10/11.
- Finally, in the Miscellaneous section, the experimental tests of OpenQA de Gnome now verify that each main application starts as expected.
And that's been it for this week at GNOME.
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