Khalid Abu Shawarib improved the discoverability of the custom folder icon feature in Files. Now there is an edit button and also, if a custom icon is set, a quick reset button.
This was a side effect of porting a few dialogs away from deprecated GTK dialog APIs
Loupe nightly now uses the first alpha version of Glycin 1.0 to load images. This brings stricter sandboxing for image loaders when used outside of Flatpaks. It also limits the memory usage of loaders to avoid many accidental or malicious out of memory scenarios. The memory limitation is not available in Flatpaks yet.
I added drag-and-drop support to Fragments, and implemented a new (optional) setting which automatically moves the torrent file to trash after adding it.
Matthew Dennis made Phosh’s bottom bar smaller so there’s more space for apps like video players on your phone - especially in landscape. The screenshot features livi a little video player targeting mobile:
Since the summer we’ve been working hard on the next release of Graphs. A full announcement of the next stable release will follow soon, but we want to give it a bit of time to do some more testing and final polish to make sure the next stable release is the best it can be. In the meantime, I’m happy to announce an official beta version which is feature-complete, and encourage anyone to give it a spin!
Some of the highlights of this upcoming release include, but are not limited to:
A major UI overhaul with the new GNOME 45 widgets
Brand new style previews
Curve fitting
Touchpad gestures are now supported on the canvas to zoom and pan the view.
Translations are now hosted on Weblate. Click the link if you want to contribute to translations. Currently we’re missing strings for Spanish and German, but help with other languages are always welcome as well.
To install the beta, follow the instructions on our Github page. Stay tuned for a full announcement for the stable release somewhere in the upcoming weeks!
This week I published Fretboard 5.0. It may not arrive in wrapping paper, but this timely release still includes some nice gifts:
An enharmonic indicator that lets you see when chords have more than one possible name
Automatic chord name formatting, turning your sloppily typed “bb maj7” into a beautiful “B♭maj7”
More consistent keyboard shortcuts
Enhanced accessibility for screen readers
German and Swedish translations, making Fretboard available in a total of 13 languages
If you would like to come with suggestions, report bugs, translate the app, or contribute otherwise, feel free to reach out! Download Fretboard on Flathub.
Version 0.11.0 of Flare got now released. This release brings many important fixes for bugs which made previous versions pretty much unusable for new devices. This includes a fix for syncing contacts, but also a fix for linking recently breaking. This release also includes many UI improvements, like an improved setup window which introduces users to Flare, lets them choose between using Flare as a linked device or as a primary device (this is currently still disabled as it still needs more extensive testing) and gives further information on what important bugs are still in Flare and how to get in contact. There were also many more minor UI improvements and also updates to the newest GTK and libadwaita versions.
You may have noticed that the last release of Flare was quite some time ago (about 4 months). This was due to aforementioned issues we had with contact syncing and linking; those first required upstream fixes and those fixes furthermore introduced some regressions which also needed to be fixed. This required in total eight beta releases for everything to be (hopefully) fixed.
That’s all for this week!
See you next year, and be sure to stop by #thisweek:gnome.org with updates on your own projects!
