It's been a long time since GNOME he invited the developers to get a little closer to them. Since then, there have been at least two levels or positions for applications: in the first are the applications developed by the same project, and among them we could have the screenshot tool that came along with GNOME 42; in the second are those that are part of its circle (GNOME Circle); and already in a third level would be all the others.
This week, GNOME has had the pleasure of announcing that they have accepted another application into their circle: Workbench. It is an application for learning and prototyping with the technology of GNOME, or in other words, a development environment specially designed to work with the project's software. Next you have the News list that they have included in this their 63rd week of TWIG.
This week in GNOME
- Workbench 43 has arrived, and it has made it directly to the GNOME circle with this news:
- Show inline errors in the CSS.
- Blueprint 0.4.0.
- VTE 0.70.0.
- Now use AdwAboutWindow.
- Fixes unresponsiveness when working with large Blueprint files.
- Various bug fixes and crashes/crashes.
- It already uses the GNOME 43 platform/SDK.
- NewFlash, the feed reader, has released v2.0.1 to fix a database migration issue. In addition, development of v2.1 has started with more fixes and two new features already confirmed:
- Tags are now displayed in the item list as well. So now you can directly see which article has which tags assigned.
- A simple sharing mechanism. Nothing fancy with logins etc. Just an autogenerated URL. But this means that we can easily add our own sharing service.
- Kooha 2.2.0, with new features like:
- New area selection interface inspired by GNOME Shell.
- Added the option to change the frame rate through the UI.
- Improved flexibility of delay settings.
- A preferences window has been added for easy configuration.
- Added var. send KOOHA_EXPERIMENTAL to display experimental (unsupported) encoders such as VAAPI-VP8 and VAAPI-H264.
- The following experimental (unsupported) encoders have been added: VP9, AV1, and VAAPI-VP9.
- Unavailable formats/encoders are now hidden in the UI.
- Fixed broken audio on long recordings.
- Gaphor 2.12.0 has arrived with these new features:
- GTK4 is now the default for Flatpak.
- The save folder is remembered between save actions.
- The functionality of the state machine has been extended, including support for regions.
- The partition resizing keeps the actions in the same swimlane.
- Activities (behaviors) can be assigned to classifiers.
- Stereotypes can be inherited from other stereotypes.
- Many GTK4 fixes: rename, search, instant editors.
- Many translation updates.
- Tagger v2022.9.2 has been released with these new features:
- Added support for downloading tag metadata from MusicBrainz.
- Fixed an issue where Tagger would not allow opening more than about 1024 files.
- Fixed an issue where the Chromaprint thumbprint contained an extra unicode character.
- The MusicFile model used by Tagger has been restructured to be faster and better support a large music library.
- Various user experience improvements (Tagger should be much faster and more responsive).
- Komikku 1.0.0 reaches its first version with the 1 in front with the "port" to GTK4 and libadwaita already finished:
- UI update to follow the GNOME HIG as much as possible.
- The library now has two display modes: Grid and Compact Grid.
- Faster display of the chapter list, whether there are few or many chapters.
- Complete rewrite of Webtoon's reading mode.
- Modern “About” window.
- Added 'Landscape Zoom' setting to Reader.
- Add 'Max Width' setting to Reader.
- Added Grisebouille.
- Updated MangaNato, Mangaowl and Read Comic Online.
- Updated translations to French, German, Spanish and Turkish.
- Fractal 5.alpha.1 is already being tested.
And this has been all this week in GNOME.
Images: week #63 of TWIG.