GNOME Software improves support for Flatpak packages and other improvements this week

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It's already the weekend, and that means both KDE and GNOME They are going to tell us about the news they are working on. Now it is the turn of the project whose desktop uses the main version of Ubuntu and other distributions, and, if we pay attention to the headline, in this week's article they assure us that the software is going to receive a facelift. Well, that's something they've been doing for weeks.

El this week's article They have called it "Software Cleanup," and this can mean two things. The first is that they polish the interface, something that as we mentioned they have been doing for a long time when adopting GTK4 and libadwaita in many of the GNOME applications. The other is to polish the code, something that is usually done whenever there is a chance.

This week in GNOME

Software You have received a patch for an issue installing a flatpakref file (the flatpak package bindings) that did not use flatpak transactions, ie the newer API. In addition, the appearance in the app review view has been improved. GNOME Software is the software center used by many distributions with the GNOME desktop, among which Ubuntu is not, and where we recommend its installation.

Less related to the desktop is the call app, and improvements have been added this week so that the keyboard can be used to send DTMF from the Phosh lock screen. Although I am not a huge fan, Phosh is the mobile version of GNOME, and I have to admit that it works very well. If I don't love it, it's because it's not so well adapted for tablets, and I have a PineTab.

GLib has been polished a bit, and with this GNOME library goes on to talk about the apps in its circle (Circle Apps), starting with Get busy 0.0.4. The new version has added patches for various bugs that appeared when uploading to GTK4. Gaphor, a UML and SysML modeling tool, has released its version 2.7.0 with an extension for Sphinx to generate diagrams for documents, support for information flows in connectors, many improvements to influence diagrams, improved autocompletion in the console. Python and usability updates. Fragments, a torrent client, displays more information and restores the last remote connection automatically, among other improvements.

Third party projects

And as for third-party projects, the icon library and icon previews app They are over its move to GTK4 and libadwaita. Junction, the app launcher, has slightly improved its user interface and Fly-Pie, the markup menu extension for GNOME Shell has received a major update that includes proper support for Wacom touchscreens and tablets, as well as a new menu clipboard

And that's all that's happened in GNOME this week.


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