We are already at the weekend, and that, in addition to meaning that we are going to have more free time, also means that there are news that have just come out of the oven in the world GNOME (and in KDE). In the article on what happened from February 24 to March 3 we have a couple that I think stand out: one is a new version of Phosh, waiting for GNOME launch your proposal for mobile, the most popular “GNOME Mobile”. The other is one more application that has entered the circle of the project.
There has also been time and space to present other applications, such as Sticky Notes, an application to leave post-it notes on the screen that, to be honest, is part of a type of application that I have never liked in part because it makes my desktop dirty. Hobbies are not cured by doctors. Next you have the News list of what has happened this last week in GNOME.
This week in GNOME
- GNOME Builder now allows you to choose a favorite flatpak installation to use when installing new SDKs and SDK extensions. This installation must include something remote that provides the FlatpakRef needed for its use.
- Chess Clock, a clock for keeping time in chess games, has added support for Bronstein Delay and Simple Delay, two time modes used in chess that, to be honest, I was tipped off by ChatGPT via You.com. These methods cause a player's time to not increase if fast moves are made.
- Elastic has joined the GNOME Circle. It is an application to create spring animations.
- this week has arrived Conjure, a gtk4/libadwaita application that allows you to manipulate images by doing some transformation and filter operations. Modifications are done by ImageMagick and Python's Wand is used.
- Sticky Notes, or Adhesive Notes in Spanish, is now available. It is a simple app that uses libadwaita and allows you to create notes quickly. Notes can contain text with some formatting, such as bold and italics, and up to eight colors can be used to separate them by category. Is available in Flatub.
- Live Captions has been improving its code and has been updated with new features:
- The window can now be automatically kept on top of X11 or on Wayland if you have the script for the GNOME or KWin extension.
- Support for discrete hardware that can reduce accuracy.
- New history window and possibility to export it.
- Tube Converter v2023.3.0-beta1 is the first beta to use the new C# rewrite, but still uses yt-dlp and ffmpeg on its backend. In any case, the app has a much more stable and cleaner architecture, allowing for faster downloads and fewer crashes and crashes. Being in C# also allows it to be used on Windows. Among the rest of the news that this beta includes, we have:
- Added a download progress/speed indicator.
- Replaced the log view button with a button to open the save folder when a download is successful and a button to try again if there are any errors.
- Redesigned download rows to fit better on narrow screens.
- Fixed a UI freeze when downloads are in progress.
- This week Phosh 0.25.0 has been released, and among its most outstanding new features we have a new plugin to configure emergency preferences, and quick settings have been refined:
- Denaro v2023.2.2 has included many tweaks to their user interface, and they have plans to enter the GNOME circle. Among the changes introduced, we have:
- New icon.
- Several improvements at the user experience (UX) level.
- Translations have been updated and added.
- The guide for the port for GNOME Shell 44 has been finished.
- The Weather O'Clock and Auto Activities extensions are now compatible with GNOME Shell 44. In both cases there are cosmetic tweaks.
- Among other miscellaneous news, many GNOME default applications have been translated into Indian.
And this has been all this week in GNOME.
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