GNOME welcomes three apps into its circle. New this week

It's been about 30 months since GNOME opened the can of their initiative Gnome Circle. Since then, any developer can submit their applications, and with a bit of luck and good work, they will become part of the circle. This week the 50th application has been added to this "circle", partly because three new ones have been accepted in the last seven days: Chess Clock, a clock to keep the time of chess games, Komikku, an application to read comics , and Eyedropper, which allows you to select colors from the desktop and generate palettes.

In addition, GNOME has also told us about many other news, and the TWIG entry for the week of February 17-24 includes a long change list What do you have next? All of the following adds up to the arrival of the three applications that have entered the GNOME circle, so it could be said that they have had a full and productive week.

This week in GNOME

• Workbench is now fully isolated. Starting with the next version, it will protect users from accidents or malicious code. Possibly made by Flatpak.
• Pika Backup 0.5 has arrived with:
  • Different presets for commonly excluded folders that can be activated independently.
  • Support for adding exclusion rules based on regular expressions or shell patterns.
  • Ability to manually delete specific files.
  • More automated help finding and mounting USB drives when starting backups.
  • Over 20 other changes, including minor interface improvements and bug fixes.

• GLib now includes support for getting UWP app names on Windows in GLIb, making the GTK app launcher dialog more useful.
• GJS 1.75.2 has been released. It is a beta for GNOME 44, and includes:
  • There are new methods Gio.Application.prototype.runAsync() y GLib.MainLoop.prototype.runAsync() that do the same as run () but they return a Promise that resolves when the main loop finishes, instead of blocking while the main loop is running.
  • There are new methods Gio.InputStream.prototype.createSyncIterator() y Gio.InputStream.prototype.createAsyncIterator() which allow easy iteration of input streams over consecutive chunks of bytes, either with a for-of loop or a for-await-of loop.
  • DBus proxy classes now have a static method newAsync(), which returns a Promise that resolves to an instance of the proxy class in which initAsync() He has completed.
  • DBus property getters can now return GLib.Variant instances directly, if they have the correct type, instead of returning JS values ​​and having them packaged in GLib.Variants.
  • Some long-standing typos have been caught in the Cairo enums.
  • More improvements in Cairo, tubery has created Cairo.SVGSurface.prototype.finish() y Cairo.SVGSurface.prototype.flush() because previously SVG surfaces were only written to disk when the SVGSurface object was garbage collected, making it uncertain to trust them.
• GNOME Boxes now has a more modern virtual machine creation dialog that sits better in GNOME's Human interfaces.
• GNOME Builder now has a switch to allow us to launch an application with the GTK inspector active. Also, it now uses PTY for clone operations to provide more reliable messages from the git server. The message board has also been improved to allow us to more easily fix problems in projects. Several subsystems have been updated.

• Elastic has already been released to the public. It is an editor for spring animations from libadwaita.

• Mousai now supports offline mode. With this update, the recordings will be saved and will be recognized when we have a connection again.

• Palette v0.3.0 has arrived this week, completely rewritten in Rust. This update uses colorhief-rs, which makes extracting colors much faster.

• Capsule 1.1 has arrived with mobile support.

• Tube Converter has rewritten its entire backend using pythonnet, a framework with which it is possible to integrate Python directly within the application to use yt-dlp calls directly from Python instead of relying on the executable.
• Login Manager Settings v3.alpha.0 is available for testing as an AppImage, and includes new features such as:
  • Option to “Always show the accessibility menu” in the settings on the top bar.
  • Option to change the size of the cursor/pointer.
  • Release notes available in the "About" window.
  • The proper names of the themes are shown instead of the name of their directory.
  • Cursor-only themes are not displayed when choosing the icon theme.
• Fractal 4.2.2-beta2 is available on Flathub Beta, and is a maintenance release that fixes a few things in Fractal 4.4.
• A new version of Eyedropper has been released, with many small improvements to its UX (user experience) and UI (interface). What is most obvious is a new icon.
• Denaro v2023.2.1 has arrived with:
  • New and improved icon.
  • Fixed an issue where the wrong group was selected in the TransactionDialog.
  • Fixed an issue where some LC variables could not be parsed.
  • Various UX improvements.

• Bottles 51.0 has arrived with many bug fixes.

And that's been it for this week at GNOME.

Images and content: TWIG.