During this weekend, GNOME published a new article about the developments that occurred in the last seven days. Among the novelties, which took place from April 21 to 28, there are two applications that are preparing to become part of GNOME, or to enter a little more: Snapshot and Telegraph. Both are already available on Flathub, and one of them might make more sense on mobile devices, but also on laptops (which, after all, are a type of "mobile" device).
GNOME is a desktop, but also all the software related to it, including applications and other libraries. This week there have also been news in libadwaita and GLib. What you have next is the list with news that the project has published this week.
This week in GNOME
- Snapshot has entered the incubator, which means that it is preparing to become the official application of the project. It is a camera app, and it supports both desktop and mobile devices. In Flathub it appears as verified and with GNOME as a developer, but at the moment it is in the incubator.
- Breakpoints has finally arrived in libadwaita, after almost a year of development. They allow arbitrary layout changes based on tray/window size and aspect ratio, with the trade-off of losing the automatic calculation of the minimum size. This finally allows things like adding a bottom bar on narrow sizes to be done without issue, and allows for many layouts that are currently impractical to implement. Breakpoints can also be used directly in AdwWindow and AdwApplicationWindow for added convenience.
- GLib has received an internal list of pending GTask, in order to debug what is happening in an app using gdb. can be used with
print g_task_print_alive_tasks()in gdb. - Telegraph has become part of the circle. It is an application to translate from/to morse code.
- Amberol has received a new release:
- The playlist from the last session can now be restored.
- Background playback can be activated.
- There is a quick button to mute/unmute the sound.
- There are no duplicate songs in the playlist.
- The user interface has been slightly modified to avoid confusing the volume scale with the song position.
- Improved the readability of the drop overlay.
- The base runtime and dependencies have been updated to GNOME 44.
- Lots and lots of small and big fixes.
- Flat Seal 2.0 is now available with visual enhancements coming from GTK4 and Libadwaita. At the same time, they have taken the opportunity to make improvements and bug fixes.
- Fixed an old issue with GNOME CI templates. Rust applications were built three times per template. The old template runs a normal build. It then rebuilds all dependencies in preparation for testing. And accidentally builds again during test execution. With the recent change, the CI job rewrites the Flatpak manifest to allow tests to run. Flatpak will take care of executing the test suite during the build.
And that, and a topic from the foundation, GUADEC and the Code of Conduct Committee, has been all this week at GNOME.
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