Thanks to the outstanding work of Felipe Borges and Jakub Steiner, the Mouse & Touchpad panel has received a gorgeous facelift, with animations exemplifying what the preferences of the panel do. It also received a redesigned behavior test dialog, and a new “Pointer Assistance” preference that controls the mouse acceleration profile.
The GNOME Shell team has been busy finishing up some major changes to quick settings this week: Thanks to @fmuellner and Georges Stavracas (feaneron) GNOME Shell quick settings now have subtitles, the bluetooth toggle got a submenu to allow for quickly connecting to devices, and we show a list of apps that are running in the background.
since GTK has recently added support for better texture filtering, AdwAvatar now looks better with scaled images when using GdkTexture as a custom paintable. Apps using custom paintables will have to update their code separately to get the same result.
Thanks to Jordan Petridis GTK Demo and Widget Factory are now available for aarch64 in the GNOME nightly flatpak repository. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Nightly
GNOME Contacts 44.beta has been released! This is an exciting new release with some cool new stuff:
Contacts can now be shared with a QR code thanks to Hendrik Müller, which allows for a simple and easy way of passing on contact information across devices
Birthdays on a leap day will now get a birthday reminder on February 28 in non-leap years thanks to Ruben Schmidmeister
The main menu has been renamed to follow the GNOMEHIG (kudos to Hari Rana (TheEvilSkeleton)!) and now contains an action item to export all contacts
Added support for multiple keyboard shortcut that were previously missing, like <Ctrl>F, <Ctrl>,, <Ctrl>Enter and more
It was previously impossible to remove a birthday from a contact, which has now been fixed
Some translation issues were found and solved with the help of Sabri Ünal
A bug where some title buttons where shown twice when using left-aligned title buttons has been fixed with the help of Markus Göllnitz
Commandline tagging is back - the Tracker 3.5.0beta release fixes some issues in the tracker3 tag command, and adds test coverage to guard against future regressions.
Aviator 0.2.0 has dropped! This update includes a newer version of SVT-AV1 with defaults that more effectively tune for visual quality & support for film grain synthesis applied as a filter at decode time, a progress bar, a Stop Encode button, support for more buttons in the header bar, a stereo downmixing switch for audio, AdwAboutWindow, and more! You can read more about Aviator here
I released a new version of Oh My SVG featuring the new icon by Sam Hewitt and several design and quality of life improvements. Get it on Flathub: https://beta.flathub.org/apps/re.sonny.OhMySVG
Relm4 0.5, an idiomatic GUI library based on gtk4-rs, was just released with many improvements.
Since the first beta release, we have extended the support for asynchronous code, added widget templates, more tooling and a lot of other improvements. You can find more information about the release in the official blog post.
Tube Converter is in the process of being rewritten in C#. The rewrite brings a more stable backend to Tube Converter with support for download progress and better preformance when running multiple downloads. We hope to have our first beta released on Sunday, once a WinUI version is complete. Check out the progress here !
Hello everyone! It’s been a while since the last update on our GTK4 rewrite of Cawbird.
Sadly the biggest news is not the recently completed rework of the session system, which should handle interaction better. Instead it is that Twitter has banned all third-party clients. As a result, we have dropped the backend for the Twitter 2.0 API. Instead being a multi-platform client, the focus is now on Mastodon alone.
Anyway, apart from the rework done for sessions, there were a few additions lately:
The user profile page now shows when a link was verified by Mastodons servers.
Thanks to IBBoard, posts can now be liked and reposted in the client.
Initial support for hiding sensitive content.
I know there weren’t news about this rewrite in the last months, but I hope I can share more news soon!
Many GNOME projects make use of the internal translation system Damned Lies, but there are also a lot of projects that don’t, including GNOME Circle apps. Because these projects can be easily looked over, I made an overview of them with links to their translation systems.
The GNOME Foundation staff wants to increase communications with the wider GNOME community. The plan is for us to take turns writing updates here to let y’all know who we are and what we are doing.
Greetings! I am the Director of Operations for the GNOME Foundation. After spending last week at FOSDEM and State of Open Con, this has been a catch up week for me: going through the mounds of paper on my desk, working on GNOME’s financial records, prepping invoices for the advisory board, handling tax forms, paying bills, and other not-exactly-exciting-but-essential-stuff.
Volunteer opportunity:
GNOME will be hosting a booth at SCaLE in Pasadena March 10-12. If you are in the Los Angeles area, we could use your help with staffing our booth. Contact info@gnome.org or zana on matrix to help.
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!
