This week we made a bunch of progress in planning out the image rendering for Loupe. Not only did we land the first upstream tweak we needed, but we also discussed neat upcoming features in GTK that Loupe can make use of.
I also landed a few minor tweaks.
Added a double-tap gesture on touchscreens for zooming in and out
Added a more natural rubber-band effect for zoom gestures when hitting the maximum or minimum zoom level
Added some space between the images in the sliding view
Fixed some issues for right-to-left text direction
Fixed swipe gesture on touchscreens
Added shortcuts for the Home and End button to got to the first or last image
Just in time for the GNOME 44 API/ABI freeze there was a new gtk-rs release, and new releases of the Rust bindings for various other GNOME libraries. Check https://gtk-rs.org/blog/2023/02/10/new-release.html for the release notes.
TWIG-Bot Last weekend, Gaphor 2.16.0 has been released.
The Model browser now supports multi select
The GUI has been improved: diagram name shows in the header, improvements in spadding, backdrop when no diagrams are opened and icons. Thanks to Tobias Bernard.
The editor’s CSS editor now supports dark mode and variables.
It’s now easier to add top-level packages and diagrams in the model browser.
This week I released Paleta, a simple gtk4/libadwaita app that allows you to extract colors from an image and manage them in palettes. Extraction is done with the color-thief library and palettes are saved persistently. You can get it from Flathub.
After a few months of work, Celeste has been released. Celeste is a file synchronization application, written in GTK, that can connect to a wide variety of cloud providers, including Google Drive, Dropbox, Nextcloud, ownCloud, and WebDAV. More storage types are also planned for the future, including Microsoft OneDrive and Amazon S3.
Dino 0.4 was released. Dino is a secure and privacy-friendly messaging application. It uses the XMPP (Jabber) protocol for decentralized communication. The release adds support for message reactions and replies. We also switched from GTK3 to GTK4 and make use of libadwaita now.
This week, I released a PDF Metadata Editor. Edit the title, author, keywords, creator, producer, creation and modification dates of your PDF documents. You can get it from Flathub.
This week, Gradience version 0.4.0 have been released, this release is a preparation for 0.8.0, the next major release that will bring GNOME Shell theming support and other long awaited features. Version 0.4.0 introduces a CLI interface, some bug fixes and general quality of life improvement changes.
Here are some of the changes:
Added CLI interface, useful for creating scripts or for those who prefer terminal tools (CLI guide available here)
Now Gradience warns user when switching to other presets, if current one has unsaved changes
When running Gradience from terminal, you will see easier to understand error messages, thanks to the new logging facility
Fixed sorting in “Explore” tab of Preset Manager not working with non-English locales
Now Gradience will now internally use hexadecimal color values or RGBA formatted colors if transparency is used
And some other bug fixes and under-the-hood improvements. You can find more detailed changelog here.
As always, the latest release is available to download from Flathub.
Denaro V2023.2.0 is here! Your favorite weekly pizza man is back with a new update for your favorite personal finance manager! In this update, we gave users the ability to add passwords to protect and encrypt their account files, we provided a way for users to transfer money between accounts of different currencies, and we improved the look and feel of the application, as well as many, many other features and enhancements.
Here’s a full changelog:
Added the ability to add a password to an account (This will encrypt the nmoney file)
Added the ability to transfer money between accounts with different currencies by providing a conversion rate in TransferDialog
Added the ability to configure how Denaro uses locale separators in amount fields
Added the ability to copy individual transactions
Added the ability to sort transactions by amount
LC_MONETARY and LC_TIME will now be respected
Added “Help” button to toast notification when there are 0 imported transactions
Recent accounts are now available to select from the TransferDialog
In this new version, the user is able to choose between showing the activities overview or the apps grid when there are no windows in the workspace. In addition, the maximum window check delay limit has been increased from 1 to 10 seconds
Special thanks to Zetta1Reid0 who helped implement this.
Just Perfection GNOME Shell Extension version 23 released with more features such as overview spacing size, screen recording and sharing indicator visibility, switcher popup delay, …
This version named after Spanish painter Francisco Goya.
