The telemetry collection is something that we may like more or less. When this type of information is requested from me by a project related to Linux, at first I think about my privacy, but soon I change my mind and I think that they are going to act in good faith, call me naive. GNOME has been collecting anonymous information from users who have wanted to share it, and a few hours ago they published the first conclusions.
To my surprise, in this link we can see a list with distributions that use GNOME the most, and Ubuntu remains in third position with 10.61%. In second position is Arch Linux, with 18.64%, both far from the 54.69% that Fedora remains. That Fedora is in first position is not so surprising, since it is the most popular distribution that respects the desktop the most, but Arch Linux is a bit more surprising.
Among other data, they have also published that Lenovo is the brand that uses GNOME the most, and just over 40% do not include any online account. Of these, Google wins by far, and this is not surprising since it is the one behind its own services, and also an Android that is based on them.
New this week in GNOME
What you have next is the News list they posted this week.
- Tangram 2.0 has arrived (link to Flatub), and to avoid confusion we will remember that it is a web application management application. This version includes:
- It now uses GTK4 and libadwaita.
- Mobile responsive user interface.
- New and clearer experience.
- Improved web performance.
- Follow the system theme (light/dark).
- New app, Sudoku Solver. It is a Sudoku solving app that is written in rust using GTK4, libadwaita and blueprint. The interesting thing about this application (link to flathub) is that it was developed with the intention of learning the technologies behind GNOME and getting familiar with Rust. A bit like it has ever crossed my mind, that if I keep advancing in languages like Python or C++ and feel encouraged, I could upload my own app to Flathub... who knows (I already know that I don't...).
- The "artist formerly known as" Money, Denaro v2023.1.0 has arrived in the form of a stable version. The full list of changes includes:
- Denaro is now available for translation on Weblate.
- Money has been completely rewritten in C# and now has a new name: Denaro. With the C# rewrite, a new version of Denaro is now available on Windows.
- Added an Account Settings dialog to allow users to better customize their accounts.
- Added a “Not Grouped” row to the groups section to allow filtering of transactions that do not belong to a group.
- Added the ability to attach a receipt in jpg/png/pdf format to a transaction.
- The transaction repetition system has been revised and support for a biweekly interval has been added.
- Added the ability to export an account in PDF format.
- Added the ability to sort transactions by identifier or date.
- Added the ability to hide the groups section.
- The description of a group has become an optional field.
- Improvements in performance and in the management of large accounts.
- Bottles 50.0 has been released. They have moved away from the monthly release cycle to one where they will deliver new versions when everything is ready. What's new in the new version include:
- Since Bottles needs the Internet to download some things, the app has always been slow. It is now faster to start even with a 50KB/s connection. They have also managed to load the bottle information faster.
- Improvements and fixes in Gamescope.
- Dependency installation is faster and more stable.
- The health check has more information for faster debugging.
- NVAPI has a bunch of fixes and is more stable, it should now work correctly.
- Fixed crash when downloading a component.
- Improved backend code by avoiding spin lock.
- More variables for installer scripts.
- Fix dialog showing "All set" when it's not.
- Improved build system.
- Enabling VKD3D by default when creating bottles for games.
- Fix crashes reading Steam files with wrong encodings.
- Fix not updated components correctly in UI after install/uninstall.
- FSR fixes.
- Fix problem when a program closes after being launched from "Run executable".
- Filter file types when opening the file picker.
- New version of Weather O'Clock.
And that's been it for this week at GNOME.
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