Among the news about GNOME that are arriving to us every week, it seems that a section is going to be repeated for a long time. It is a section that includes the improvements that have been made to the desktop thanks to the donation from Sovereign Tech, 1 million euros with which they began to improve security and have continued with a little bit of everything. For example, fixing parts of the GNOME Shell or its SDKs.
In the field of applications, the update of kooha, a screen recording app that gained popularity when Ubuntu started using Wayland by default, at which point SimpleScreenRecorder took a backseat. What follows is the list with the news that has taken place during the week which has gone from November 24 to December 1.
This week in GNOME
With Sovereign Tech's money
- Fixed a scrolling bug in GNOME Shell.
- Fixed some High Contrast stylesheets in GNOME Shell.
- Added WebP support to GNOME Platform/SDK.
- Finished work to remove gtk-doc support from GLib.
- Redesigned the internals of systemd-homed to allow an administrator user to change the account settings of a standard user without the user's password.
- They have been looking for memory leaks in Flatpak and portal-related projects.
- Projects that have started this week with the donation:
- They are working on overhauling the design of the Open With dialogs, adding support for apps to register as URL handlers for a specific domain.
- Improvements to language bindings.
- They are working on the prototype of a new a11y architecture.
- They are working on a strategy to improve the experience of visually impaired users.
- The team is collaborating with systemd for TPM-backed encryption and secret storage for the desktop keychain.
Development of the usual
- gtk-doc has been removed from GLib and all documentation is now generated using gi-docgen. GNOME asks for help updating the syntax in the documentation comments to re-enable bindings in the documentation.
- Gaphor 2.22.0 has arrived with this list of new features:
- Add app preferences to override dark mode and set language to English. As part of this, it helps improve support for libadwaita 1.4.0 on macOS and Windows.
- Proxy port improvements.
- Add mappings toolbox with map relationship element.
- Add members in the model browser.
- Facilitate line selection by increasing tolerance.
- More flexible model loading.
- Carburetor 4.2.0 released with new icons and now also on Flathub. Carburetor is based on Libadwaita to allow us to easily configure a TOR proxy in the session, without getting our hands dirty with system configuration. Initially aimed at simplifying the life of GNOME enthusiasts on their mobiles, it is now also fully usable with a mouse and/or keyboard.
- Pods version 2.0.0 has arrived. The biggest changes are that it now supports volumes and that the basic interface design has been redesigned. Pods now has a completely new look, with a sidebar and new libadwaita 1.4 widgets.
- Kooha has fixed several bugs and has a new user interface to correct design limitations and improve the overall experience.
- A new version of gi-docgen, 2023.2, the documentation generator for C libraries using gobject-introspection. Lots of quality of life improvements, as well as bigger changes, such as:
- parse the default value attribute for GObject properties.
- a complete redesign of search results, with better output in smaller form factors.
- support for warnings (note, warning, important) within documentation blocks.
- show the implemented interfaces in the pseudocode description of the class.
- Add a link in the extra content files to your source in the code repository.
And this has been all this week in GNOME.
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