The last week has given a lot in GNOME. From January 12 to 19 there has been a lot of movement, much of it driven by the STF donation, but there has also been time for celebrations and welcomes. graphs, an application for creating graphs and manipulating data with ease, has become part of the GNOME circle, those applications that are not an official part of the project but do fall under its umbrella.
You could say the STF thing takes the cake this time (not all points included here). GNOME is taking the opportunity to improve a little bit of a lot, and we found improvements that range from the interface to the functionalities to the libraries. What comes now is the list with the news this week.
This week in GNOME
- With the STF donation:
- Improved bottom leaves:
- Implemented proper approach for bottom sheets.
- Fixed docs for ported dialogues.
- Implemented sliding to close the bottom sheet dialogs.
- Separate support code from window dialogs; Experiment with their placement on tab pages.
- Work has started on support for a11 and WebkitGTK /GTK4).
- Various improvements to GLib:
- Many revisions in GLib.
- More libgirepository cleanups.
- Writing unit tests for libgirepository.
- Validating GLib tests.
- Reviewing changes to the gi-docgen docs link.
- Improvements to GObject Instrospection.
- Work has continued on implementing the secret server/backend in oo7.
- Improved grid scaling on laptops with small screens,
- Improved notifications.
- More improvements to Wayland's accessibility protocol.
- Improvements in settings.
- GNOME-Shell:
- Lock screen focus style regression fix.
- Fixed recently introduced issues with Dash at small resolutions.
- Cleanup and minor fixes to the popup calendar.
- Investigating why the Alt-Tab switch lost text-to-speech support in 46.alpha.
- Various improvements to Adwaita icons and cursors.
- Laid the foundation for a complete Rust rewrite of the GStreamer real-time protocol (RTP/RTCP) networking stack.
- Improved bottom leaves:
- GJS 1.78.2 (stable) was released this week alongside 1.79.2 (unstable) to fix a regression that caused the extensions preferences window to close in the GNOME Shell. The unstable version also contains some performance improvements.
- Workbench 45.4 arrived with:
- Restore projects to disk when starting Workbench.
- Open the library on startup if there are no projects to restore.
- Restore scroll and cursor positions when formatting and running.
- Add “Copy” and “Select All” to the console.
- Add support for the Vala formatter.
- Add support for the WebP image format.
- Library: Add “Context Menu” demo.
- Library: Add demo «HTTP Server.
- Library: 12 demos ported to Python, 4 to Vala and 2 to Rust.
- Use Biome instead of prettier as a JavaScript formatter.
- Use GTKCssLanguageServer instead of prettier as CSS formatter.
- Fix console styling when changing dark mode.
- Fix blank preview in demos without code.
- Fix style that affects other windows.
- Boatswain is preparing to add support for Elgato Steam Deck+ devices.
- Apostrophe has a new layer manager to replace the discontinued AdwLeaflet.
- Collector is a new application that aims to be an alternative to Dropover for GNOME.
- Aviator has changed to a fork personalized name SVT-AV1-PSY, among other things, thinking about improving visual quality.
- Gir.Core 0.5.0-preview.4 has been released this week. It is a step towards v0.5.0 and adds many public API registries.
- Fractal 6 has arrived with:
- Fractal can open Matrix URIs, it is even registered as a handler for the scheme matrix.
- The verification flow has been rewritten, hoping to resolve most of the verification issues.
- Room members can be kicked, banned, or ignored from their profile.
- More notification options have been added, global or per room.
- The hours follow the format (12h or 24h) of the system settings.
- Tab autocomplete also works for mentioning public rooms, just start your query with #.
And that, along with a point in which he spoke to us above about GNOME Africa, has been all this week in GNOME.
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