Builder now allows you to choose a preferred Flatpak installation to use when installing new SDKs and SDK extensions. That Flatpak installation must include a remote providing the necessary FlatpakRef to be used.
Chess Clock added support for the Bronstein delay and simple delay timing methods. These methods prevent a player’s time from increasing by playing fast moves, as is possible with increment time control.
This week I released Conjure, a simple gtk4/libadwaita app that allows you to manipulate images with various transform & filter operations. Manipulation is done with the popular image processing library, ImageMagick with python bindings from Wand.
Hello everyone! This week, Sticky Notes was released. It’s a simple libadwaita app that allows you to quickly jote down ideas in notes. Notes contain text with some formatting (bold, italic, underline and strikethrough) and every note can be assigned one of 8 pastel colors to categorize notes. You can get it from Flathub
I’ve also been working on improving the april-asr library so hopefully more open-source apps can make use of live speech recognition. There are now C# and Python bindings available. I’m not calling them stable yet, but they should be usable. Open an issue if you have any problems or suggestions!
Tube Converter V2023.3.0-beta1 is here! This is the first beta featuring the new C# rewrite. It continues to use yt-dlp and ffmpeg in its backend, however, the application now has a much more stable and cleaner architecture, allowing for faster downloads and fewer crashes. The C# rewrite also makes Tube Converter available for Windows! This work couldn’t have been possible without the help of @fsobolev and @DaPigGuy ❤️
Here’s the changelog:
Tube Converter has been rewritten in C#. With the C# rewrite, Tube Converter is now available on Windows!
Added download progress/speed indicators
Replaced the View Log button with an Open Save Folder button on successful download and a Retry Download button on error
Redesigned download rows to better fit small screens/mobile devices
Fixed UI freeze while downloads in progress
The beta is available on flathub-beta:
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub-beta https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepoflatpak install flathub-beta org.nickvision.tubeconverterflatpak run org.nickvision.tubeconverter//beta
For translators: Please update all translations on Weblate before Friday, March 3 2023, to be included in the stable release.
This week we released phosh 0.25.0 featuring a new plugin to configure the
emergency preferences as shown on the lock screen by Chris Talbot and a style
refresh updating the settings menu by Sam Hewitt:
Weather O’Clock and Auto Activities extensions received support for GNOME Shell 44.
Along with their respective releases, there were also some visual refinements and bug fixes.
While my job title proudly says “DevOps Engineer”, it really means I’m doing a little bit of everything everywhere. This week has been almost entirely wasted on playing the cat & mouse game with a spammer attacking gitlab.gnome.org. As the part of remediation steps, I ended up disabling external authentication providers like Google, limiting the possibility to create or fork repositories without SSH key configured, and applied on the behalf of GNOME Foundation for Akismet enterprise plan for better spam detection. I have also started banning such abusive accounts instead of outright removing them, and currently the situation seems to be under control.
GNOME has been accepted to the Fast Forward program by Fastly. Infrastructure changes are not live yet, but we will finally have proper zero downtime upgrades of the underlying servers, as we will no longer rely on DNS-based round-robin traffic distribution, and gain the support for IPv6, including Flathub’s website.
Over at Flathub, we’re tying various loose ends related to the upcoming beta version launch. I don’t want to spoil too much as we’re closer to the finish line than we’ve ever been since the first commit 2 years ago, but you can already poke around at beta.flathub.org to see what’s coming.
New interface translations for Hindi language have been done for GNOME Characters, GNOME Calendar, GNOME Clocks, GNOME Weather, Console, Calls, GNOME Initial Setup, GNOME Tour, GNOME Display Manager (GDM), Sound Recorder, libshumate, gnome-bluetooth, xdg-desktop-portal-gnome, libadwaita, Dialect and Solanum. (Translations did not exist for these software)
GNOME Shell and Yelp got a lot of previous translations corrected, and new translations added after accumulation of new strings due to being inactive for past 8-9 years. GNOME Shell and Yelp are fully translated now.
All these translation works are making their way into GNOME 44 release.
GNOME Foundation has been accepted as a GSoC 2023 mentoring org!
We are glad to announce that once again the GNOME Foundation will be part of Google Summer of Code. We are interested in onboarding new contributors that are passionate about GNOME and motivated to become long term GNOME developers!
