It is true that both last Friday and this have been non-holiday days, but also that in some areas we continue with the Christmas holidays and that other developers have taken a break. GNOME No, and a few hours ago he published the first note of 2024 about news that has occurred in his circle. Unlike last week, this time they have once again talked about work done with The donation from Sovereign Tech, and it has been no small thing.
Although there may be other more interesting things, it is always good to see how an application has entered the GNOME circle, and in the last seven days Frets, an application for learning to play the guitar, has entered. What comes now is the list with news that has been in GNOME from December 29 to January 5.
This week in GNOME
- With Sovereign Tech money:
- Work has been done on following up on the refactoring of gnome-online-account:
- Removed GOA from initial gnome configuration.
- Removed Fedora provider.
- Work and research on http handlers has begun.
- Kernel patches sent for the Bluetooth stack:
- Disconnect Bluetooth devices before cutting power to the chip using.
- Fix a bug with scans where the wrong flags were checked and scans might not start.
- Improved logic + hardware support for establishing connections to more than a single device at the same time
- They are working on a modern design for Orca settings:
- Work has been done on following up on the refactoring of gnome-online-account:
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- Improved GNOME Shell theme and high contrast.
- Fixed issues with symbolic icons and synchronized GTK icons.
- Worked on making GTK 4 accessibility APIs available for language bindings.
- Added support for bulk directories to systemd homed.
- They are working on improving the design of the GNOME Shell scroll bars.
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- They are writing documentation for the internal workings of Flatpak.
- With the GLib documentation brought to gi-docgen, it has made its way into GNOME Nightly and is now available in the SDK.
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- They are looking into improving accessibility modifiers for screen readers in Wayland.
- They are exploring ways to make TTS engines easier to distribute and discover, and we are discussing libspiel.
- GstPipelineStudio 0.3.5 has arrived with:
- multiple registration sources such as GST registrations and messages.
- Possibility to add a log level selection.
- rename gst_pipeline_studio to gst-pipeline-studio.
- You can open a pipeline from the command line.
- Carburetor 4.4.0 released with a new OverlaySplitView to display detailed output and a set of main Guardian Project Orbot icons.
- Parabolic v2023.12.0 arrived with:
- Fixed an issue where split chapters were not being renamed correctly.
- Fixed an issue where videos were not downloading at a resolution higher than 1080p.
- Fixed an issue where choosing the AV1 codec would not select AV1 videos correctly.
- Parabolic will now remember the file type chosen for generic downloads.
- Redesigned the interface for the Windows application.
- Parabolic no longer depends on psutil.
- Translations updated.
- Fretboard has become part of the GNOME circle.
- Fractal 6.rc2 has introduced new features such as:
- Array URIs can be opened with Fractal, it is even registered as a manager for the array scheme.
- Our Join Room dialog now shows some room details as a preview when entering an identifier or URI.
- The verification flow has been rewritten to be more based on the Matrix Rust SDK, which is expected to resolve most of the issues that occurred before.
- Room members now have a profile page that allows them to be kicked, banned, or ignored, among other things.
- Speaking of ignoring users, the list can be managed from the account settings.
- The dialog to view the origin of an event has been redesigned to show more details about the event.
- Denaro v2024.1.0 arrived with:
- Fixed an issue where generated identifiers for new transactions were incorrect.
- Fixed an issue that caused sorting to behave inconsistently.
- Fixed an issue where dragging and dropping an account file did not work.
- Fixed an issue where help documentation was not displayed in the app.
- Fixed an issue that prevented some ofx files from being imported.
- Fixed an issue where the calendar did not display the marked days after pressing the “Today” button.
- Fixed an issue where label buttons would become too large.
- More logs have been added to help debug issues.
- Translations have been updated and added.
- A new version of Crosswords has arrived, focused almost entirely on improvements to the crossword editor, with significant changes under the hood. The editor now features additional panels to help write cryptic clues as well as grid statistics.
- Cavalier v2024.1.0 arrived with:
- The wavebox drawing mode now draws smoother bezier curves.
- Users can now specify –fg aarrggbb or –bg aarrggbb command-line arguments to change the foreground and background color of the Cavalier instance execution, respectively.
- Updated translations.
And this, which has not been little, has been everything this week in GNOME.
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