Last Saturday, Bazaar was updated to 0.8.0 with the ability to install .flatpak bundles. We created a fancy new dialog so people can better understand what happens when they install one. We also added the ability to remove app caches directly from within the sizes dialog and reworked the app install animations.
Feel free to leave your feedback on the GitHub repo!
You know those text snippets you need to save, that quick idea you want to write down, or a link you need to hold onto but don’t want to open a heavy app for? This is Draft.
This new version brings:
Estonian and Brazilian Portuguese Translations (thanks to our community!).
Keyboard shortcuts for formatting options.
Under-the-hood performance fixes and minimal spellchecking support.
Since the first Flathub release, several new features and improvements have been added:
Secure password storage using the system keyring
SQL script generation for tables
A Table Inspector for inspecting columns, data types, defaults, constraints, indexes, foreign keys and triggers
Additional table action options
Spanish translations have also been added recently, thanks to fvtronics.
Codd is a lightweight PostgreSQL client for GNOME, available on Flathub.
Feedback, bug reports, and feature ideas from PostgreSQL users are very welcome.
Gitte is a GTK4/libadwaita Git interface for the GNOME desktop, written in Rust.
This version introduces a mainline concept: you can now mark a branch as your project’s mainline and use it as a reference for merged-checks, filtering, and a brand-new “Sync with mainline” action that rebases your branch and fast-forwards it in one step. The commit log also gained a filter to only show commits not yet in the mainline.
Working with changes got more flexible: you can now revert commits straight from Gitte, partially stage untracked files, toggle an additive selection mode in the changed files list, and ignore whitespace in diffs. Staging and unstaging are now available via context menu, Enter, and double-click, and you can create a branch directly from any commit in the log.
The UI received a lot of polish. The push and pull dialogs are now visually distinguishable and show their targets in tooltips, “ahead/behind” is rendered as text instead of arrows, popovers no longer claim unnecessary width, and several diff styling glitches are gone. Checking out a branch now creates a detached HEAD, with switching as a separate, explicit action.
This release also brings a long list of fixes around macOS shutdown and keyboard shortcuts, keyboard navigation, files without trailing newlines, now respects fetch.prune = true in the pull dialog, and various small papercuts.
Here comes Fractal 14.rc. This release candidate comes with a fair amount of quality of life improvements:
The sidebar room filter has been improved: Enter goes to first room result, and there’s an empty state when no results match the term.
The performance of the room list has also been improved, it should be mostly noticeable for accounts that have joined a lot of rooms.
Informative events (Unable to decrypt, server notices…) are now styled differently to reflect their special nature and differentiate them from regular text messages that anyone can send.
Calls are rendered in the timeline and incoming calls trigger a notification. We still don’t support calls, but at least now you know when someone is calling and can open another client to answer.
As usual, this release includes other improvements, fixes and new translations thanks to all our contributors, and our upstream projects.
GNOME Damned Lies has received a few improvements this week!
Focusing on the issues identified for the next GNOME 51 release, we implemented the auto-closing feature for translations pushed through a merge request. This way, a background job regularly checks the status of the merge request (GitLab instances and Github.com are supported) to auto-close workflows.
We also updated the look and feel of the vertimus workflows to use more native Boostrap base style and removed the custom CSS that was used to render the action history, easing the maintenance.
In addition to that, we added support for Codeberg.org projects. Only direct pushes are supported at this time, because we need to implement the plugin to open/check merge requests on Forgejo software. We are on our way to also support Freedesktop’s GitLab instance soon.
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!
