GNOME Circle got a larger update on its app criteria and review procedures. We now have a more detailed and updated checklist that also allows maintainers to check their apps before submitting them to GNOME Circle.
In the about two years of existence of the GNOME Circle initiative, the review process developed more and more into a cooperative process of maintainers, reviewers, and the broader community working together to get good apps into a awesome shape for joining the GNOME Circle. We hope that the new procedures will help us in continuing this process.
We finally made a public Matrix channel for GNOME Circle available under #circle:gnome.org. The channel will receive sporadic @room notifications for important updates and changes within Circle. But it is also open to general questions and discussions about GNOME Circle. All GNOME Circle maintainers are asked to join the room to receive the notifications.
Blueprint 0.4.0 is out! This release changes the compiler to use .typelib rather than XML .gir files, which speeds up compile times. Also, multi-step lookup expressions are now supported.
The first stable release of Atoms (1.0.2) is available on Flathub! Atoms is an application that allows you to access multiple distributions at the same time without actually installing them. Under the hood uses proot, a user-space implementation of chroot and others. The following distributions are currently supported in Atoms: Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, AlmaLinux, AlpineLinux, Centos, Debian, Gentoo, RockyLinux.
Support for opening multiple files. You can now open multiple files at once and select multiple files to edit. Useful for mass-applying tags to albums, etc.
Support for OGG/FLAC cover art with mutagen’s vorbiscomment support.
…as well as some new translations and various other minor fixes and improvements.
I’m announcing the second release of Eyedropper. Eyedropper is an easy-to-use color picker and formatter. Just pick a color from the screen and view it in different formats. This release adds a new history list, the option to hide unwanted formats, as well as support for XYZ and CIELAB models. You can download the latest release from github page.
We are introducing Library Mode. Library Mode is a new way to access programs installed in your bottles.
At first your library will appear empty. Open a bottle and choose the program you want. Then, from the context menu, press “Add to My Library” to add the game in the library. Covers are automatically identified and downloaded from SteamGridDB. We are still working on the ability to add covers manually.
The Legacy Tools section has been re-organized with more specific and intuitive names, eliminating the noise that more advanced users (who this section is aimed at) might have encountered.
There are many other changes and improvements in this release. Below are some noteworthy ones, for all others, please refer to the GitHub organization.
Library mode is now a stable feature and enabled by default
Dependencies “copy_file” action now creates the path if not exists (see maintainers docs.)
Opening a bottle, a dialog is shown if the runner is not installed
The C: drive is now marked as persistend in the Drives section and cannot be edited by the user
All dialogs can now be closed pressing Escape
The dark mode switcher is now available only for system which doesn’t support the standard
Simplification of “Legacy Tools” section, thanks to @Knebergish
Minor UI improvements, thanks to @TheEvilSkeleton, @orowith2os, @marhkb
Fix a bug in the template system, was trying to unpack a partial one
Fix a bug in setting overrides for old-structured program entries
Fix a bug in vmtouch management
Fix a bug in the WineCommand interface which was causing a crash if the executable path is not accessible
Fix a bug in the Steam Manager, was generating wrong shortcuts when the program name has spaces in it
Fix long names in library mode
Fix a bug in bottle creation, sometimes it created a symlinks loop in the userdir
Fix a bug in the crash dialog, the similarity check was set too high resulting in no similar reports
Version 20 of the Burn-My-WindowsGNOME Shell extension has been released. It includes four new retro-styled pixel effects! One of them is inspired by the legendary screen transitions of the original Doom video game. Watch the full trailer https://youtu.be/MLM7iFdGqvM
A new version of Night Theme Switcher, my GNOME Shell extension for automatically switching the desktop’s color scheme at sunset and sunrise, has been released! It brings support with GNOME 43 and integrates with its new Dark Mode quick setting, and has new Czech, Greek and Japanese translations thanks to the community.
