The article about the 110th week of This Week in GNOME it has a title that implies that they have fixed performance problems. Those are the tweaks that are least seen, but the most important. I still remember an Apple that released a Mac OS X 10.8 Snow Leopard with hardly any features, getting to the point that they wrote items of which there were none. What they did in Cupertino was to improve the performance of "Leopard", and they did it to the point of launching a version that for many was the best in its history.
This article is not about Apple, don't panic. It is only used as an example that not everything that is seen is important, nor is everything that is not seen no longer important. Now, after reading the entire article, the performance issue is because there is an application that will allow you to control it better, not because GNOME in general is going to be more fluid. Explained that, what comes next is the News list that has arrived in the GNOME world in the week that has gone from August 18 to 25.
This week in GNOME
- GTK has a new CI runner for macOS.
- The GNOME Shell 45 Porting Guide is now available. Since GNOME Shell 45 was ported to ESM, the project wants all developers to port their extensions before the 45.0 release (Sept 20) so they can report items that need to be exported (in case they aren't already). ).
- Sysprof, a profiling tool that helps find the functions a program spends most of its time on, has been given the ability to show which processes were scheduled by CPU. This can be used to more effectively detect performance issues on the desktop.
- Thanks to the new AdwBreakpoint API in libadwaita 1.4, Chess Clock has just added improved support for larger screen sizes. Clock text is larger when the window is big enough to support it, and portrait mode kicks in whenever the window has a vertical aspect ratio (rather than requiring it to be as narrow as a vertical phone screen). . These updates should make the app more enjoyable to use on tablets and laptops.
- Workbench now supports Rust. On the other hand, they are already approaching 100 library demos.
- New version of libmks that adds support for touch events.
- New application for GNOME, ASCII Draw. It allows you to draw diagrams, flowcharts or anything else using only characters. You have many styles of lines to choose from. There are also multiple tools:
- Straight lines and arrows to connect points on your graphs.
- Rectangle to build effortless contours.
- Freehand lines to draw connected lines following the movement of the mouse.
- Text to easily preview and write text on the canvas.
- Eraser, Picker, Filled Rectangle, and Freehand Brush.
- Parabolic v2023.8.3:
- Added a new advanced download option to split chapters.
- Added a new preference to activate SponsorBlock on YouTube downloads.
- Updated translations.
- From the same developer, Denaro v2023.8.1:
- Added a password strength flag when creating an account password.
- Added an amount display style option to the custom currency settings.
- Fixed an issue where selecting the current month on an empty calendar account would cause a crash.
- Fixed an issue where adding receipts to a new transaction would get stuck.
- Improved interface and UI.
- Updated translations.
In the miscellaneous section they say that «GNOME 45 is reaching its next step in preparation for release. After three weeks of a UI freeze, on Saturday, August 26, GNOME 45 will also enter a string freeze. After 23:59 UTC that day, all major component string changes will require approval from the i18n team«.
And this has been all this week in GNOME.