As we have already mentioned on occasion, the This Week in GNOME initiative has been very good for the most used desktop in the Linux world. It has encouraged developers to share their work, and several of them have become part of the circle of GNOME. This week, number 112 and which went from September 1 to 8, has seen two more applications added to that circle.
The first application that has been included in the GNOME Circle in the last seven days has been Forge Sparks, and it allows you to receive Git notifications on the desktop. The second is an application called Impression, and it is an interface or frontend for creating bootable drives similar to Etcher or Raspberry Pi Imager. What you have below is the rest of new arrivals that they have published in today's article.
This week in GNOME
- GTK Rust bindings have finally been released. More information.
- Cambalache 0.14.0, the latest version of the RAD tool for GTK4 and GTK3 with a clear MVC design, has arrived with:
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Added support for GMenu.
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Added UI requirements editing support.
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Added Swedish translation.
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Updated Italian translation.
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Now displays deprecated and unavailable warnings for objects, properties, and tokens.
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Minimum output required library version instead of latest.
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Fix output for templates with inline object properties.
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Various optimizations and bug fixes.
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Increase testing coverage to 66.
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- Multiplex has arrived, an application to watch torrents together. It provides a similar experience to Apple's SharePlay and Amazon's Prime Video Watch Party, except it plays torrents instead of a specific streaming service. Thanks to WebRTC, it does not require a central server to synchronize playback positions, and allows the use of a central HTTP gateway to BitTorrent if a viewer cannot use the BitTorrent protocol on their own device. It is written in Go with Adwaita and is available on Flathub.
- PinApp 1.4 has also arrived, which is an update to the app to create and edit shortcut files in an elegant way without having to mess with .desktop files. In this version it has been translated into German and Spanish and supports snaps.
- Gir.Core 0.5.0-preview.1 has much better support for opaque boxed records.
- Tagger v2023.9.0, alternative to MusicBrainz Picard, has arrived with:
- Added a new web service to download the lyrics of a song.
- Added support for opening a folder with Tagger from the file manager.
- Added a “Select all files” button next to the search bar.
- Redesigned the Lyrics dialog where you can only use unsynced or synced lyrics for a file and not both.
- Fixed an issue where album art was not read from some OPUS files.
- Fixed an issue where Tagger would crash on Tag to Filename if the tag contained an invalid filename character.
- Fixed an issue where Tagger would mark files as unsaved even if there were no changes.
- Updated translations.
- Phosh's libcall-ui library has been uploaded to GTK4 and libadwaita.
- Denaro v2023.9.1 has arrived with:
- A currency conversion tool has been added to Denaro, accessible from the main menu. This tool is also integrated into the transfer dialog when currency conversion is required.
- Fixed an issue where dates in the IncomeExpenseOverTime chart were overlapping.
- Fixed an issue where access to account settings would sometimes get blocked.
- Translations have been updated and added.
- Crosswords 0.3.11 is the new version of the crossword game and has arrived with:
- Initial version of the Crossword Editor available for download on flathub. This version uses GNOME Builder's libpanel to achieve a similar look.
- Support for creating Barred-style crossword puzzles in the editor.
- The crossword player now supports acrostic crosswords. This was the result of a successful GSOC project.
- Numerous critical bug fixes and improvements.
- Updated Looking Glass Button and WiFi QR Code extensions with new features, and Colosseum and krypto to support GNOME 45.
And that's been it for this week at GNOME.
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