GNOME Project continue taking advantage of donation from Sovereign Tech Fund to improve everything related to the project. The weekly articles have become longer, and they also include dozens of improvements made thanks to this donation. But the pace of the rest remains the same, and week after week they tell us about new versions of applications and everything new that they can do or will be able to do in the medium-term future.
Among the developments that have taken place in the week from February 9 to 16, in addition to the extensive list signed by STF, I would perhaps highlight the next version of GNOME Maps, which now has a dark theme, or the latest from Apostrophe, which has received improvements to the bottom bar. What follows is the list with the news this week.
This week in GNOME
- With the STF donation:
- Various accessibility improvements, including lots of work on Orca and a number of minor fixes to GNOME Shell.
- Platform improvements, such as some papercuts have been fixed with the gnome-online-accounts UI configuration panel, a fix is being investigated for a regression in the AdwDialog user experience, Blueprint now supports AdwDialog, it's done GTK4 version of online accounts available or existing WebDAV accounts have already been migrated to GOA.
- Changes in hardware support: work has been done on fractional scaling in XWayland, there is already a screencast pipeline block list or we have continued to iterate on the design for VRR in screen settings.
- In the security section, the oo7-daemon implementation has continued.
- Related to Wayland and Portal APIs:
- libportal configuration support: Fixed testing for app to fit smaller screens and configuration API (in review).
- support for flatpak devices: proposed and started implementing a compatibility mechanism. Running the test with ASAN leak everywhere.
- Complete list in the link at the end of this article.
- The GNOME Maps Experimental Map mode has a new look for GNOME 46 and features such as:
- Dark theme.
- Labels translated for some languages.
- Accessibility setting for large text.
- Symbols for road routes.
- Adwaita icons.
- A label can now be clicked and the information bubble appears immediately.
- Zbus 4.0 has arrived with a more ergonomic and secure API.
- Newsflas 3.1 is available with general improvements and bug fixes.
- Apostrophe has seen its bottom bar improved. The stats button now fits into the available space and many changes have been made to the bottom bar widget.
- Flashcards has introduced:
- Tags: We can now group tiles within a set using tags. This feature streamlines organization and makes it easier to manage related cards.
- Keywords: The application also introduces keywords that allow us to group entire sets. These keywords serve as filters in the sidebar, making it easy to locate specific sets.
- Carburetor version 4.5.0 has been released with support for Snowflake and WebTunnel bridges, providing even more opportunities to seamlessly connect to the TOR network.
- A new update to Done, the ultimate task management solution for perfect organization and efficiency, is now available. This update includes a new design, a moved services bar, and the ability to expand task details from each task.
- Chatty has been ported to use the modern widgets and sidebar from libadwaita 1.4 by Chris Talbot.
- The Gtk4 port of Cambalache already has a beta version. Version 0.17.2 includes small improvements and a new user interface adapted to Gtk 4.
- Added support for
AdwAlertDialogto Blueprint. Blueprint is able to support new widgets automatically thanks to GObject Introspection but some widgets have custom constructor syntax that needs to be added to Blueprint.
And this has been all this week in GNOME
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