During the week from November 10 to 17, much of what happened has been that they have updated a good number of applications in their circle to new versions. An application with a Spanish accent has also been welcomed: Biblioteca, a document viewer for GNOME. But there has also been time to update libraries and some extensions, those that make the most used Linux desktop unlock possibilities that it does not offer by default.
The usual suspect that has contributed the most this week has been Parabolic, and in its first update of November 2023 it has added many improvements between new functions, corrections and updates. What comes next is the list with news that they published yesterday afternoon in Spain.
This week in GNOME
- Workbench 45.3 has added support for Python, with a total of 52 library entries now compatible with Python. On the other hand, Blueprint can now be formatted, which makes the code interface look much nicer. Among other things, the library has received many QoL improvements and the offline documentation is now a separate application. Besides:
- Each Workbench window now has its own title.
- The JavaScript linter now complains about unused or undeclared variables.
- 13 library entries ported to Vala.
- 2 library entries adapted to Rust.
- improved library entries.
- Fragments, the torrent client, now automatically detects metered networks and stops downloading or uploading data.
- Notify has received several improvements for users who self-host ntfy.sh. Support for basic http authentication has been added, to make it possible to subscribe to private topics and prevent bad actors from trying to snoop on our notifications.
- Halftone this week received a new and revamped user interface based on the new libadwaita 1.4 widgets, as well as a couple of bug fixes and new translations.
- New version of Jellybean introducing many new useful features, such as assigning icons to articles.
- Dosage 1.2.0 has arrived with fixes and a new setting for notification sound.
- First version of Library, a document viewer for GNOME. Includes GNOME SDK documentation, as well as VTE, libportal, libspelling, and libshumate. At the moment it only supports docgen documentation.
- Parabolic v2023.11.0 has arrived with this extensive list of changes:
- Parabolic is now available for Windows using the Windows App SDK and WinUI 3.
- Added support for auto-generated English subtitles.
- Added the ability to disable the download of auto-generated subtitles.
- Added the advanced option to prefer the adv1 codec for video downloads.
- Added “Best” resolution when downloading videos to allow Parabolic to choose the highest resolution for each video download.
- A URL can now be passed to Parabolic via the command line or the freedesktop application's open protocol to trigger its startup validation.
- Improved the layout of the Preferences dialog to allow better searching for options.
- The shell notification when a download is complete now contains an “Open File” button to open the download directly.
- Fixed an issue where aria's maximum connections preference per server could be greater than 16.
- Fixed an issue where enabling the advanced “Download specific time frame” option would cause certain media downloads to crash.
- Fixed an issue where stopping all downloads would cause the app to crash.
- Fixed an issue where some videos were not validating correctly.
- Update to GNOME 45 with the latest libadwaita design.
- Update to .NET 8.0.
- Updated translations.
- Gir.Core 0.5.0-preview3 upgrades to GNOME 45.
- Denaro v2023.11.0 has introduced these new features:
- Group and account names with blank spaces were not allowed.
- Fixed an issue where exported PDF values were incorrect.
- Fixed an issue where some system cultures were not being read correctly.
- Fixed an issue where moving the sidebar with the mouse over the calendar would scroll the calendar instead.
- Fixed an issue where leading or trailing spaces were not being discarded in group/account names.
- Updated to GNOME 45 with the latest libadwaita design.
- Updated and added translations.
- GNOME extensions now support a new META key – “version-name”, allowing extension developers to have more control over the versioning of their extensions.
- Pano, the clipboard manager, now supports GNOME 45, plus:
- Added animation to the indicator. When something is copied, the indicator moves.
- Added font customization for search and title.
- Added window position settings. Now you can put Pano on top, bottom, left, right.
And that, added to the reminder that GNOME Asia is just around the corner, has been everything this week in GNOME.
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