New Bottles library mode, from the GNOME circle
If seven days ago o of Phosh and its advances, this week we have to do the same, but on the official alternative of an important project. Phosh is based on GNOME, but is not developed by Project GNOME. It does promote it, but we don't know how long it will continue to do so with such emphasis. And it is that GNOME Shell Mobile it's making giant strides, and the weekly news article mentioned it first.
En said article They talk very little about these improvements, but they do provide a link where you can read a lot about them. advances in the mobile version of GNOME and watch some videos. And the truth is that I am impressed. From here, in addition to linking to the original blog post, we'll mention that there are improvements like swiping up to access the overview or the way app icons are arranged in your drawer, and we'll also link to a article about these developments in our sister blog Linux Addicts.
This week in GNOME
- Many advances in GNOME Shell Mobile. Link to Linux Addicts.
- GTK 4.8.0 now available, with improvements such as:
- Fixed various bugs related to input handling in GtkTreeView.
- Added support for more font features in the font selection dialog.
- Fixed various accessibility issues including high contrast theme.
- GTK now supports high resolution scroll events and color selection on Windows.
- GTK now generates introspection data on Windows.
- Blueprint 0.4.0 has come with a change to the compiler to use .typelib instead of .gir XML files, which speeds up the build process.
- Atoms 1.0.2 has arrived on Flathub. This is software that allows you to access different distributions without having to install them. In its entrails acts proot, an implementation of chroot. Atoms currently supports Ubuntu, Fedora, openSuse, AlmaLinux, AlpineLinux, Centos, Debian, Gentoo, and Rocky Linux.
- Ear Tag 0.2.0 now supports opening multiple files and covers for OGG and FLAC files.
- Second version of Eyedropper, a color picker. A history, the option to hide unwanted formats, and support for XYZ and CIELAB models have been added in this release.
- Crosswords 0.3.5, with:
- Color styling support for borders and corners.
- Entering various characters for crossword puzzles.
- Bar crosswords are fully supported.
- Acrostic crossword improvements.
- Enums are rendered.
- French language support.
- New game preference to skip completed entries.
- Navigation mode to see the crosswords once completed.
- Numerous gameplay and style improvements, and many bug fixes
- Bottles 2022.8.28 introduced library mode, a new way to access installed programs. (header capture) Improvements and corrections have also been included, such as:
- The dependencies "copy_file" action now creates the path if it doesn't exist.
- When opening a "bottle", a dialog is displayed if the runner is not installed.
- The C: drive is now marked as persistent in the Drives section and cannot be edited by the user.
- Now all dialogs can be closed by pressing Escape.
- The dark mode toggle is now available only for systems that don't support the standard.
- Simplification of the “Legacy Tools” section.
- Minor UI improvements.
- Fixed a bug in the template system, trying to unpack a partial.
- Patch for a bug in setting overrides for old structure program entries.
- Fixed a bug in vmtouch management.
- Fixed a bug in the WineCommand interface that caused a crash if the executable path is not accessible.
- Patch for a bug in Steam Manager, which was generating wrong shortcuts when the program name had spaces.
- Fixed long names in library mode.
- Fixed a bug in creating "bottles" which would sometimes create a loop of symlinks in the user directory.
- Fixed a bug in the collision dialog where the similarity check was set too high, causing no similar reports
- GNOME Shell Extensions:
- Version 20 of the Burn-My-Windows extension has been released. Includes four new retro-style pixel effects. One of them is inspired by the legendary screen transitions from the original Doom video game.
- A new version of Night Theme Switcher, the GNOME Shell extension for automatically changing the desktop color scheme at sunset and sunrise, has been released. It is compatible with GNOME 43 and integrates with its new Dark Mode quick settings, and has new Czech, Greek and Japanese translations thanks to the community.
News in your circle
GNOME Circle has a major update on its application criteria and review procedures. They now have a more detailed and up-to-date checklist that also allows maintainers to check their applications before submitting them to GNOME Circle.
In the nearly two years of the GNOME Circle initiative's existence, the review process has developed more and more as a cooperative process of maintainers, reviewers, and the community at large working together to get great applications in an impressive way to join the GNOMECircle. We hope that the new procedures will help us continue this process.
They have also created a public channel on the Matrix network: #circle:gnome.org.
And this has been all this week in GNOME.