The weekly entry of news in GNOME published yesterday was called "Automated Testing". Honestly, considering that it's Saturday, I must be a bit asleep, because I don't get the reference. Headline aside, they have republished the news that has reached their world (and/or circle) in the week that was from November 25 to December 2. What catches my attention the most is a new application, but for a personal hobby.
That app is called Converter, and it's basically an image converter made using libadwaita and GKT4 that allows manipulate images through an interface. It uses Python and is basically a frontend (GUI or user interface) of ImageMagick, and if it caught my attention it's because I've been playing around to do the same thing, in my case to convert images and videos to other formats. Of course, I am learning on my own, I just wanted to do a test and my "ConverMedia" neither looks nor is as powerful as Converter. The rest of news this week is what you have next.
This week in GNOME
- The Mutter and Shell team has published an article about recent development to automate composer testing in GNOME. Is available in this link, and I have already woken up to understand the headline…
- After more than a year of work, GStreamer Paintable Sink for GTK4 has received support for GL textures, greatly reducing CPU consumption (from 400%-500% to 10-15% in 4K streaming scenarios). and allowing zero-copy rendering when used with hardware decoders.
- Settings, the GNOME tweak app, continues to be polished and getting new skins, preparing for the next release (GNOME 44):
- Continuous improvements have been added to the device security panel. These improvements range from better wording of security features, new layouts for dialogs, and making the panel more actionable.
- The accessibility panel has been redesigned. This is the first panel to implement a more modern navigation model in Settings. More dashboards will be redesigned with this navigation model in the future.
- The Date and Time panel is now more mobile friendly, using a two-column layout for the month picker.
- The Network and Wi-Fi panels now use libnma's own security widgets to manage connections. This is a massive codebase cleanup, and allows us to focus our efforts in one place.
- Various improvements and minor improvements to many panels such as Users, Wacom, Region and Language, and others.
- Gaphor, the simple modeling tool, has released v2.13.0, and it includes:
- Auto-layer diagrams.
- Actor relationships can be connected under the actor name.
- Export to EPS.
- Ctrl+scrollwheel zooming works again
- First version of Meeting Point, a video conferencing client that uses the BigBlueButton in the background. Right now it is in the experimental phase, and it has these functions:
- Ability to join meetings (also with passwords) hosted by senfcall.de, a free BigBlueButton provider.
- View the video streams from the web cameras of the participants.
- Read the public chat of the group.
- View a list of all participants.
- Listen to the audio (can be disabled).
- Delete group chat history, if you are a moderator.
- Girens (Plex client) has released its version 2.0.1. With this version the transcoding protocol is changed to DASH. Thanks to the transcoding protocol change, some resume playback bugs have been fixed. Also, if items are uploaded from the server in the section view, an upload icon is displayed. The sidebar containing the section titles now has an icon next to it. The translations have also been updated.
- blueprint-compiler v0.6.0 has arrived primarily as a bugfix release, but also adds the typeof() operator for specifying GType properties such as Gio.ListStore:item-type .
- BlackFennec v0.10 has arrived introducing actions. Now it is possible to execute functions on the elements. The ability to undo/redo any changes that have been made to the data, as well as copy and paste, has also been added.
And that's been it for this week at GNOME.
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