Last night in Spain, GNOME He published the entry of news that has occurred in his world in the period from May 12 to 19. Looking back over time and what a few weeks have released, it seems clear that GNOME wants its Settings app to be even better. They already took a huge step in GNOME 44, but they want to keep polishing it to make everything more user friendly and look nicer.
From the following list I would also highlight a novelty in Software. It will better manage flatpak packages, and will even allow us to remove an application and all its associated data. Without something like that, we have to do it manually from file explorer or from the terminal, but that won't be the case if using the future GNOME Software Store.
This week in GNOME
- Improvements have been made to the Settings app interface:
- Added an info popup in the user panel to explain the autostart setting.
- The name setting has been changed to use AdwEntryRow instead of a UI workaround (screenshot below).
- In the sharing panel, descriptions have been added for each of the functions (header capture).
- Software, the official project store, has been given the ability to delete app data when uninstalling a flatpak package. When other types of applications are uninstalled, it is remembered that the data remains.
- Document Scanner has received a few patches to continue the transition from GTK3 to GTK4:
- Uploaded to GTK4 and libadwaita.
- Multi-threaded image resizing, which improves image resizing performance.
- A new design has been introduced for page reordering, driver installation and authentication dialogs, which is expected to be more user-friendly and attractive.
- Workbench 44.1:
- Updated icon-development-kit; 143 new icons have been added.
- Blueprint 0.8.
- VTE 0.72.1.
- Rome tools 12.1.1.
- Gaphor has expanded its documentation with tutorials that show the functions of the program.
- Bavarder 0.2.2 can now have multiple windows open at the same time, the user interface has been improved and a new mechanism has been included to notify users if a provider is down due to a remote change. Hugging Chat has been disabled and replaced by the model behind it, which is Open-Assistant SFT-112B.
- From the same developer, Imaginer 0.2.1 has arrived with support for a custom provider, improved user interface, a faster loading mechanism for preferences, and an improved mechanism for saving credentials.
- IPlan 1.1 has arrived during this week. It is an application to manage your private life that allows you to group tasks by projects and lists, has a countdown for tasks, global search and allows you to organize projects, lists and tasks by dragging and dropping. In this version:
- Lazy loading for project tasks and statistics.
- Records window to create, edit and delete recordings.
- Added a new feature in Phosh that allows you to turn on the screen when notifications arrive depending on the category and urgency. This allows, for example, the screen to turn on when receiving critical notifications and/or only with messages from messaging applications. They have also improved the idle-inhibit support in phoc, so that the same amount of information can now be displayed when an application uses that Wayland protocol instead of DBus to prevent the screen from freezing (as mpv does, for example). .
- Now available Fractal. 5.beta1. This is the first beta since the app was rewritten to take advantage of what's new in GTK 4 and the Matrix Rust SDK. It is the result of two years of work:
- Possibility to join the room by ID, by alias or with a Matrix URI.
- Creation of direct chats.
- Sending and viewing read receipts, read markers, and write notifications.
- Notifications about new messages.
- Highlight messages with mentions.
- Added media file history viewers in room details.
- Display of the other user's avatar as the room's avatar for direct chats.
- This week they have presented Escambo (available at Flatub), an HTTP-based API for testing GNOME applications. Among what it offers us:
- API Testing: Escambo's main goal is to facilitate HTTP-based API testing. It provides an interface where users can specify API endpoints, parameters, headers, and other relevant information to execute various types of API requests.
- Request configuration: Escambo allows users to configure different types of HTTP requests such as GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc. Users can define request headers, authentication credentials, request bodies, and other request-specific parameters.
- Authentication and security: The application can support authentication methods, API keys, or basic authentication.
- Blueprint 0.8.1 has arrived with some syntax changes and a bunch of new supported features. This is a Release Candidate for Blueprint 1.0.
- Three new extensions for GNOME Shell are available:
- Hide Audio Devices from Quick Settings – Allows you to hide selected devices from the Audio Devices panel in Quick Settings.
- Gray Out Completed Calendar Events: Stylizes the calendar events in the top panel to make it clear which events are completed, ongoing, or upcoming.
- Do Not Disturb While Screen Sharing or Recording: Automatically activate "Do Not Disturb" mode while screen sharing or recording.
- A new version of Weather O'Clock has just arrived. In this new version, the extension creates its own WeatherClient instance from GWeather instead of recycling the existing one from dateMenu. This caused the time to be forcibly updated each time the clock was clicked.
And that's been it for this week at GNOME.
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