Workbench shows errors in CSS, this week in GNOME
GNOME posted the 61st TWIG entry, also known as This Week in GNOME. In its list of novelties, there are several that stand out, but without a doubt the most important is the arrival of libadwaita 1.2.0. It is because it is something that we will all use when we are in GNOME, but there are also new applications that will be very interesting for the end user.
As for the libadwaita 1.2.0, the release note is available at this link, and it talks about aspects such as adaptive design. This will make it look good on all kinds of screens, and it's something you have to do if you want it to your mobile proposal stay as best as possible. Just after libadwaita 1.2.0 they have also arrived AdwTabOverview y AdwTabButton.
Other news this week in GNOME
- Apostrophe has finished its re-based on GTK4. The entire interface has been improved, many bugs have been fixed and there are new features such as stat selection.
- Flare 0.4.0, an unofficial signal client, has come with minor improvements, including support for storing persistent messages.
- Workbench now shows CSS typing/syntax errors. In the header capture there is an example: when putting margin-start: 12, in addition to being underlined in red, a message appears saying that this property does not exist, and that it should end with a semicolon. The last part is not true if it is the last line of a CSS block, but the new function is there. And well, it is always advisable to learn certain vices, even if they are not necessary, to avoid future problems or improve readability.
- Pods has received new features since last April 22:
- New app icon.
- Provision of basic functions for the pods (overview, detailed view, start, stop, delete, …).
- Management of connections to different instances of Podman.
- Bulk actions like starting or deleting multiple containers at the same time.
- Ability to build images from Docker files.
- Process viewer for containers and pods.
- Views for the raw inspection data of the images/containers/pods.
- Information about the health status of a container.
- Various other small features and improvements.
- The beta version has arrived in the Flathub beta repository.
- Login Manager Settings 1.0-beta.4 has introduced:
- A real (working) AppImage is now available. It can be downloaded from here.
- Screenshots have been updated.
- Support for incomplete shell themes has been added.
- If the value of the --verbosity option is invalid, the application refuses to launch now instead of assuming the maximum value.
- Fixed: The Flatpak version of the app couldn't change the logo.
- Fixed: Extracting the default shell theme saved directly to the /usr/local/share directory instead of /usr/local/share/themes.
- Fixed bug where version 1.0-beta.2 information was not displayed in GNOME Software.
- Cawbird can now hide responses from our timeline or timeline, thanks to part of the re-based GTK4, among other improvements.
- Bottles has been ported to Blueprint, a new language for creating GTK interfaces. It is a novelty intended for developers.
As a fact that seems curious to me, the articles about this week in GNOME began showing only news that had arrived during the last week, but from stable versions. On the other hand, KDE published absolutely everything, and almost everything future. It seems that both projects have brought the concepts a bit closer, staying more faithful to their GNOME style I would say, and started talking about other releases as well, like alpha and beta. KDE, for its part, continues to talk about what will come in the future, but it has picked up a bit of cable and now it only talks about what is important, although it is true that it links to other threads where they talk about bugs of all kinds.
In any case, they are two different projects and they will always do things their way, no matter how close they are in their articles. And now yes, this has been all this week in GNOME.