GNOME has published article number 83 a few hours ago since they began to do as KDE and they told us about all the most important things that are happening in their world. The article has been called "Sharing is caring", said in English that is like a saying that rhymes and everything ("Sharing is Caring"). The headline is usually put on by one or more of the changes introduced, and what they mean by this is that you can create a QR code from the settings to share the WiFi network.
Between the restaurant of new arrivals, what you have in the header screenshot (video included in the original link at the end of this article) has caught my attention more: they have improved the mouse and touch panel section with aesthetic tweaks and can also be done Test the new configuration. The list of news from the last week is below.
This week in GNOME
- In the WiFi section in the settings, it is now possible to create a QR code to share network information.
- The mouse and trackpad panel has received a nice facelift (header shot), with animations that exemplify what the panel preferences do. The behavior test dialog has also been redesigned and a "Pointer Assist" preference has been added, which controls the mouse acceleration profile.
- The GNOME Shell team has been busy finishing up some big changes to quick settings this week: GNOME Shell quick settings now have captions, the bluetooth button has a submenu to allow quick connection to devices, and a list of applications that are running in the background.
- In libadwaita, adw avatar now looks better with scaled images when using GdkTexture as custom paintable. Applications using custom paintables will need to update their code separately to achieve the same result.
- GNOME Console now has a tab view that replaces the previous tab switcher in small sizes, but is also available on the desktop in addition to the tab bar.
- A demo of the Petridis GTK and Widget Factory is now available for aarch64 in the GNOME flatpak nightly repository.
- The weather app has received a couple of improvements for GNOME 44:
- The details view now has a flat header bar.
- The temperature line now has a smooth curve.
- GNOME Contacts 44.beta has been released, with new features such as:
- Contacts can now be shared with a QR code, allowing for a simple and easy way to pass contact information between devices.
- Birthdays on a leap day will now receive a birthday reminder on February 28 in non-leap years.
- The main menu has been renamed to follow the GNOME HIG and now contains an action item to export all contacts.
- Added support for multiple keyboard shortcuts that didn't exist before, such as Ctrl+F, Ctrl, Ctrl+Enter, and more.
- It was previously impossible to remove a birthday from a contact, which has now been fixed.
- Some translation issues have been found and fixed.
- Fixed a bug where some title buttons would display twice when using left-aligned title buttons.
- Epiphany has a new user interface for managing permissions, replacing the old GtkInfoBar:
- Tracker 3.5.0beta has fixed several issues in the command tracker3tag, and adds test coverage to protect against future regressions.
- A new application has been launched to keep track of medications. It's called Capsule and it's available in Flatub.
- Aviator 0.2.0 has arrived with a newer version of SVT-AV1 with default presets with better visual quality and support for Film Grain Synthesis applied as a filter at decode time, a progress bar, a Stop button encoding, support for more buttons in the header bar, and a stereo downmix switcher for audio.
- New version of Oh My SVG that includes a new icon and some cosmetic tweaks.
- Tube Converter is being rewritten in C#. It now supports download progress bars and has seen improved performance when performing parallel downloads.
- cowbird leaves Twitter and will now focus on Mastodon.
And that's been it for this week at GNOME.
Images and information: TWIG.