GNOME Settings volume levels page received a change to fix applications inputs and outputs being hard to distinguish. This change separates the applications with outputs and inputs streams into separate lists, and adds a microphone icon to the inputs list.
Thank you to Hari Rana and Matthijs Velsink for helping me with my first MR, and Jeff Fortin for nudging me to persue this change!
Nautilus now supports Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert for copying and pasting files, matching the behavior of other GTK applications, browsers, and file managers like Dolphin and Thunar. These CUA keybindings were previously only functional in Nautilus’s location bar, creating an inconsistency. The addition also benefits users with keyboards that have dedicated copy/paste keys, which typically emit these key combinations. These shortcuts are particularly useful for left-handed users and also allow the same bindings to work across applications, file managers, and terminal emulators, where Ctrl+Shift+C/V are typically required. The Ctrl+V paste shortcut is now also visible in the context menu.
In https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/4900, Philip Chimento has added a G_GNUC_FLAG_ENUM macro to GLib, which can be used in an enum definition to tell the compiler it’s for a flag type (i.e. enum values which can be bitwise combined). This allows for better error reporting, particularly when building with -Wswitch (which everyone should be using!).
So now we can have enums which look like this, for example:
The API to access information about GNOME projects has moved from apps.gnome.org to static.gnome.org/catalog. Everything based on the old API links has to move to the new links. The format of the API also slightly changed.
The 2 Wallpapers GNOME extension is a neat tool that changes your wallpaper whenever you open a window. You can choose to set a darker, blurry, desaturated, or completely different image, whatever suits your preference. This extension was designed to help you focus on your active windows while letting your desktop shine when you want it.
The main idea behind this extension is to allow the use of transparent windows without relying on heavy processing or on-the-fly effects like blur, which can consume too much battery or GPU resources.
Tulip Blossom from Project Bluefin has been working on building bootc images of different Linux systems, including GNOMEOS. To ensure bootc users have the best experience possible with our system, Jordan Petridis and Valentin David from the GNOMEOS team are working on building an OCI image that can be directly used by bootc. It is currently a work in progress, but we expect to land it soon. This collaboration is a great opportunity to expand our community, contributor base and share our vision for how to build operating systems.
Note that this does not represent a change in our plans for GNOMEOS itself; It will continue using the same systemd tools for deploying and updating the system.
In Ignacy’s update on his Digital Wellbeing work this week, you might have noticed he shared the progress of his work in a complete system image. That image is based on GNOMEOS and built on the same infrastructure as our main images.
This shows the power of GNOMEOS as a development platform, especially for features that involve changes in many different parts of our stack. It also allows anyone with a machine, virtual or physical, to test these new features easier than ever before.
We hope to further improve our tools so that they are useful to more developers and make it easier and more convenient to test changes like this.
Another weekly Foundation update is available this week, with a summary of everything that’s been happening at the GNOME Foundation. It’s been a mixed week, with a Board meeting, ongoing finance work, GNOME.Asia preparations, and digital wellbeing planning.
As part of the Digital Wellbeing project, sponsored by the GNOME Foundation, there is an initiative to redesign the Parental Controls to bring it on par with modern GNOME apps and implement new features such as Screen Time monitoring, Bedtime Schedule and Web Filtering. Recently the child account overview gained screen time usage information, the Screen Time page was added with session limits controls, the wellbeing panel in Settings was integrated with parental controls, and screen limits were introduced in the Shell. There’s more to come, see https://blogs.gnome.org/ignapk/2025/11/10/digital-wellbeing-contract-screen-time-limits/ for more information.
That’s all for this week!
See you next week, and be sure to stop by #thisweek:gnome.org with updates on your own projects!
