After two weeks of writing, revising, and trying to make everything as digestible as possible, I finally published “GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days”, where I explain in detail the steps we took to turn GNOME Calendar from an app that was literally unusable with a keyboard and screen reader to an app that is (finally) accessible to keyboard and screen reader users as of GNOME 49!
After coming back from vacation, I was able to make quite a bit of progress this week in Gradia, featuring two new additions.
The first is the much requested cropping tool. It took me some time to figure out exactly what I wanted from such a tool in the context of Gradia, with its background layers, annotations, and all. I finally implemented something that is (hopefully) nice to use.
The second feature is source snippets. It’s designed to make it easier to share a piece of code you’re particularly proud of on social media. It lets you control things like line width, padding, themes, and the like, without having to temporarily adjust those settings in your code editor.
You can download Gradia on Flathub or the Snap Store, for those who prefer that.
In our continued effort to make typing on phones easier and faster stevia (an on screen keyboard for phosh) can now dynamically adjust to the output scale when in portrait mode. This ensures that the on screen keyboard remains at the same physical size independent from the screen’s actual mode and scale. It can also add an empty space below the actual keys to make typing easier on taller phones. The images show the OSK at scale 2.5 and 3.
Flare version 0.17.0 was released. This switches how Flare stores its data to sqlite. This change is not backwards compatible, you will therefore need to relink after updating Flare. This also fixes a bug where contacts were displayed as phone numbers or “Unknown Contact” instead of their name.
