Contacts can now import and export contacts in the vCard format (usually recognized by their .vcf file extension). This was the most popular feature request in the Contacts issue tracker for quite a while, so this should make quite a few people happy 😁
Calls now allows sending SMS from the call history 🎉
and starts up faster and has more fluid scrolling with large histories of more than 1k entries (which should especially help on weaker hardware) \o/
This week, a new version of GJS was released for GNOME 43.beta.
It pulls in the JS engine from Firefox 102, bringing such APIs as Object.hasOwn() and Intl.supportedValuesOf(). With contributions from Evan Welsh, Chun-wei Fan, and myself.
It’s now possible to use GObject.BindingGroup.prototype.bind_full() with JS functions. Previously this method was unusable in JS. Thanks to Florian Müllner.
Gio.FileEnumerator is now iterable, both synchronously (with for-of or array spread syntax) and asynchronously (with for-await-of). Thanks to Sonny Piers.
Adwaita Manager was significantly redesigned, Thanks for hard work of @0xMRTT who maked it real and @daudix-UFO for providing design mockups.
Adwaita Manager is a tool that allows you to customize Libadwaita applications and the adw-gtk3 theme with simple UI, as well with Material You Palette generation from wallpaper, Thanks @avanishsubbiah for porting Monet engine to Python!
The name was changed to Gradience to remove any confusions. The project still available at the same URL
Also, @ArtyIF has migrated Adwaita Manager to Adwaita Manager Team, which allowed to add new maintainers, @0xMRTT, @daudix-UFO and @AndroGR.
More amazing changes will come in near future!
Note: Adwaita Manager is NOT an official GNOME app, the name will change in v0.2.0
Pages on the GNOME Developers Documentation website now have a link to let you easily view and edit the source text in GitLab; if you spot an issue, or if you want to improve the documentation, you can now do that directly from your web browser.
This week the port of the whole getting started tutorial to Vala on developer.gnome.org was merged and is now available online! Also the widget template tutorial was ported thanks to Vojtěch Perník .
