Not long ago, seeing or reading something about tube-converter I thought something like “why is it called that if what it does is download more than convert? Not the luckiest name." Apparently, the satellite dish of its developers is able to tune in with the thoughts, since a short time later they have announced a name change. Posted in the last entry of This Week in GNOME, have changed their name to Parabolic.
It's not that I love the name either, as it can lead to confusion and make us think that it's for watching television channels, but at least it goes hand in hand with the application icon. This is one of the new arrivals that have taken place in the week that was from June 23 to June 30 in the GNOME universe, but there is more. Everything from the last seven days is related to third-party projects, except for the first point where we are told about more news in libadwaita.
This week in GNOME
- The back buttons
AdwNavigationViewnow support a context menu that allows you to open multiple pages at once. This works with nested navigation views and even with structures likeAdwNavigationSplitViewcontaining navigation views both in the content and in the sidebar. Also, the back button tooltips are now more reliable: they previously did not work in this situation and required the app to manually sync the sidebar page title with the page visible in its navigation view. Now it is automatic as in other cases.
- Planiti 4.1 has arrived with:
- new icon.
- option to quickly add new tasks from anywhere on the desktop with a simple keyboard shortcut, which can be configured from settings.
- The preferences page has been redesigned.
- New settings available to run in the background and to do it at startup.
- the error that did not allow to see the calendar has been fixed.
- added a setting to create a tutorial project.
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.
- Wildcard 0.2.0 brings a more streamlined design and a nice dialog to quickly turn expression flags on/off.
- Tagger v2023.7.0-beta2 has been rewritten from scratch in C# with a more stable backend and better performance. A new icon has also been included. The list of changes would look like this:
- Tagger has been completely rewritten in C#. With this new language comes better performance and more stable features. To signify this big change, they have also updated the app icon.
- Added a separate option in Preferences to overwrite album art with MusicBrainz metadata, regardless of the tag data overwrite setting.
- An option has been added in Preferences to control how music files are sorted.
- Track values are now padded with double digits.
- Fixed an issue where some file types would not load album art correctly.
- Fixed an issue where applying unapplied changes would sometimes not work.
- Improved interface and user experience.
- Translations updated.
- Parabolic v2023.6.3 has arrived, rebranding from the previous Tube Converter. In this update a very large memory leak caused by not disposing the logs correctly has been fixed and the translations have been updated.
- IPlan 1.7.0 has arrived with:
- Graph of the time spent in the last 7 days.
- Delete records button moved to the row of records.
- Improved usability for the phone form factor.
- Option to disable background execution.
- Improved duration format.
- Code refactoring, bug fixes and UI improvements.
- GNOME Netword Display now has a DBus interface, which displays the list of devices that are being screencasted on our network. It's part of the effort to allow GNOME Network Display to function as a screencasting backend for other projects, like GNOME Shell or xdg-portal,
And this, along with a reminder that GUADEC 2023 is just around the corner, has been all this week at GNOME.
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