This week, the most outstanding novelty of those that have taken place in the universe GNOME has been that they have released a new version of Phosh. Until GNOME Mobile reach more devices and do it in a stable version, Phosh is the most reliable mobile GNOME. This week Phosh 0.29.0 has arrived, and it brings new features such as improvements in how notifications are displayed on the lock screen.
For everything else, everything mentioned is related to an application, be it one that is under the GNOME umbrella, and official applications are protected under it, those that are in the incubator and those of its circle, and others from third parties, which are applications from independent developers who were encouraged by TWIG (This Week In GNOME) to share their work. What you have next is the News list that have taken place in the week that has gone from June 30 to July 7.
This week in GNOME
- Gaphor 2.19.1 has arrived this week, a maintenance release that has introduced many small improvements and bug fixes. There are parts of the interface that have been updated to use new GTK4 elements. On the other hand, threads for associations have been added and thread objects can now be connected to join or fork nodes.
- Cartridges 2.0 has arrived with two new fonts: Legendary and Flatpak. The occasion has been used to make UX improvements and the backend has been completely rewritten allowing for faster imports, much better error handling and makes adding fonts much easier so many more to come soon .
- New XNUMXrd party app called Luminance, which allows changing screen brightness, including external displays, and supports DDC/CI. The app is kept simple on purpose, and it integrates very well with the GNOME desktop. It also has a command line interface (CLI) to adjust the brightness via scripts or keyboard shortcuts. It is available in AUR for Arch Linux users and in DEB and RPM packages.
- After two weeks of development, List 44.6.7 is now available. Its main novelty is that the drag and drop option has been added, which allows tasks to be moved easily. It also includes:
- Added a smooth fade effect at the top of the task list.
- The task list now scrolls when a new task is added.
- Added a button to scroll to the top.
- Minor UI changes and improvements.
- Aviator 0.4.1 has arrived with:
- The SVT-AV1 custom fork used in the Aviator has been updated, promising up to 40% speed improvement for the slower, higher quality presets.
- Added a new “Crop” option to switch between cropping and scaling the resolution.
- The internal parameters of SVT-AV1 have been adjusted to improve the perceptual quality between 0,3 and 0,8%.
- Phosh 0.29.0 is now available. This version adds improvements in the selection of audio devices and notifications of calls in progress. When Phosh has information about a device's notches it can avoid placing UI elements there and suspend can be enabled from the system menu. Notifications can now take up more space on the lock screen and they've made a bunch of robustness fixes to the emergency info preferences plugin.
- Parabolic v2023.7.1:
- Fixed an issue where CPU usage was high during download due to excessive logging.
- When downloading a playlist with metadata embedding enabled, the position of a media will be written to the track property of the tag.
- Fixed an issue where the Validate button was sensitive during validation, causing an error if the button was tapped multiple times.
- Updated translations.
- IPlan 1.8.0 has arrived with these changes:
- Scroll up and down option for task rows.
- Fade effect to move between projects.
- Improved date format.
- Alignment of pop-ups and reduction of the width of the calendar navigation buttons to adapt them to the format of the phone.
- Code refactoring, bug fixes and UI improvements.
- New app: Fretboard lets you find chords by clicking on their names and tracing them on an interactive guitar fretboard.
And this has been all this week in GNOME.
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