They don't say it like that, but it seems clear that something will change a lot in the next version of GNOME it will be your Settings app. They are improving different pages of it, and one of them is the sound page, which had already received some improvements in the past and this week they have told us about some more. For example, that the volume levels section has been moved to a separate window, to keep the main panel more compact by default.
Plus, the app icons are bigger and more colorful in the new design, and the rows also include a volume level indicator. These are those kinds of changes that users don't take much into account, until we need them, for example, to use an external monitor or a Bluetooth audio device.
Other news this week in GNOME
- Tracker, an indexer, metadata storage system, and search tool, has received support in its database library for exporting data as JSON-LD. This will be available via Tracker 3's tracker3.5-export command. This feature builds on a series of incremental improvements around data serialization and deserialization in libtracker-sparql.
- The simple UML and SysML modeling tool, Gaphor 2.15.0 has arrived this week. Among its novelties:
- Basic conflict support git merge asking which model to load.
- CSS autocompletion improvements for Gaphor stylesheets.
- Native support of the file picker on Windows.
- Fixed UTF-8 encoding issues on Windows.
- Fixed translations not loading on Windows, macOS, and AppImage.
- Black box 0.13.0 (header image) now available. It is a very simple terminal emulator that is very reminiscent of the recent GNOME Text Editor with which Ubuntu replaced Gedit. Among its novelties stands out:
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts with the possibility of completely deactivating them.
- Background transparency.
- Customizable cursor blink mode.
- Experimental compatibility with Sixel (Settings > Advanced > Compatibility with Sixel).
- Fixed scrolling on touchpad and touch screens.
- Fixed issues with copy and paste.
- This week UI Shooter has been updated, a tool to take screenshots of GTK4 widgets, used for example in CI to take screenshots in different languages for documentation. This new release correctly puts the direction of widgets in right-to-left languages, and the container image now includes all font language packs.
- Rnote, a tool for taking notes and drawing by hand, has merged tabs, or in other words, it has received support for tabs which will be available very soon. On the other hand, a color picker has also been implemented and the user interface has been polished with floating toolbars. In future versions even more things will be added, at the same time that currently present bugs will be corrected.
- Money has been renamed Denaro. It has been written in C# and includes many new features, so much so that its developer has taken the opportunity to rename it. Additionally, Denaro v2023.1.0-rc1 has been released with:
- A completely new Account Settings dialog has been implemented allowing users to further customize their Denaro accounts (including support for a custom currency).
- The Export to PDF feature has also been implemented, which generates a beautiful overview report of your account with groups, transactions and receipts included.
- Documentation for the application is also available, built using yelp-tools which is available through the Help menu item in both GNOME and WinUI.
- gdm-tools v1.2 has arrived, basically to fix bugs.
- Flare 0.6.0 has arrived with many bug fixes that make the app more stable and usable. This version has arrived with the main novelty of notifications in the background. This means that when activated, Flare will be able to launch in the background and send notifications without being opened by the user.
And that's been it for this week at GNOME.
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