Quiet week in GNOME, or at least that is what the list of news that they published a few hours ago suggests. Several of them are related to their infrastructure and related projects, and it is something that they have achieved thanks to the money donated by Sovereign Tech Fund. I don't know if it is totally true or if they just add more points in this section to give the impression that the money is being used, but we will have to believe them.
A new version of the most popular GNOME for mobile devices has also arrived this week, in this case Phosh 0.34.0. Among other new arrivals which we will detail in the following list include improvements in Wayland.
This week in GNOME
- With money from Sovereign Tech Fund:
- They have opened pull requests for work in the USB portal:
- added -usb and -no-usb to flatpak.
- portal API specification.
- Boatswain experimental branch for testing.
- Fixed many styling and polishing issues in MR notification grouping.
- Fixed hidden scrollbars taking up space in the GNOME Shell layout.
- Fixed several issues in Orca related to keygrabs, and some regressions from the giant table refactoring.
- They are working on sync, async and finish annotations for GObject introspection.
- Completed porting of the PAM module from gnome-keyring to libsecret.
- Areas we are currently investigating:
- Exploring the constraints and options for fractional scaling.
- They are studying the status of speech synthesizers in Linux, particularly in relation to the screen reader.
- They are discussing the technical requirements of adaptive dialogues (bottom sheets).
- They have opened pull requests for work in the USB portal:
- Several memory usage fixes have arrived in Tracker's SPARQL database library.
- Varia v2023.12.7 has arrived with a new download manager written in GTK4 and Libadwaita.
- This week Playlifin has arrived, a simple tool that will bring YouTube music lists to our Jellyfin server.
- Phosh 0.34.0 has arrived with an updated Wayland composer (phoc) that works with the recently released wlroots 0.17.0 adding support for new Wayland protocols such as security-context-v1 (to limit protocol access to flatpak packages ). They have also fixed support for night light and drag and drop on touch screens.
And that has been all this week in GNOME
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