Papers 50.2 and 49.7 were released this week with a (unusually high) number of bug fixes. Notably, several fractional scaling issues should be fixed thanks to the work of balooii, including both performance and display issues.
The upcoming version of Libadwaita now supports binding properties to CSS Classes and vice versa, making it easier to dynamically toggle CSS classes on widgets. This will be available in the upcoming GNOME release.
We published a blog post with update from the Circle Committee. We are addressing our current review backlog, our new AI policy, new handling of submission issues, earlier reminders about outdated runtimes on Flathub, and new benefits for Circle projects.
A new version of Exercise Timer was released! This is a quality-of-life update for this simple app for high intensity interval training. Most notably, the training page has been updated with a custom progress indicator. Minor updates include an Undo option for deleted trainings and an update to the latest GNOME runtime.
Get Exercise Timer from Flathub: https://flathub.org/en/apps/xyz.safeworlds.hiit
Resources has been accepted into the GNOME Incubator, with the goal of eventually replacing the current System Monitor in GNOME Core. You can try the current development state via the nightly Flatpak or on GNOMEOS.
If you find any issues or regressions compared to the current System Monitor app, please report them in the Resources issue tracker. The potential inclusion into Core is tracked under App Organization. Distributions are encouraged to package the app and report any issues they foresee with a possible transition to Resources.
Congrats and big thanks to nokyan for writing and maintaining this app!
This week I released Java-GI 1.0.0-RC1. As the version number suggests, this is the first step towards a “stable” release. With multiple cool apps already on Flathub, like Speed of Sound and Subsound, and several more in active development, I figured it’s time for backward compatibility and API stability.
Notable improvements in this release are:
Support for non-UTF8-encoded filenames
Specialized exception types (deriving from GErrorException)
Improved Windows support
Bug fixes around memory management, class instantiation and nullability annotations.
Always wanted to build a GNOME app, using your Java (or other JVM language) skills? Give Java-GI a try!
Nucleus version 3 is released! Nucleus is a periodic table app.
This update brings a theoretical indicator to Ununennium, as well as some updated properties for Ununennium. French and Italian translations were added and the app was updated to the GNOME 50 runtime as well.
I want to thank everyone who opened a request or sponsored the project. All this time, the main features I shipped came from user requests. The most important ones: broadcast, a keyboard passthrough mode that disables the app shortcuts so they go straight to the remote desktop, Windows scripts, and a wizard for an easy start with predefined custom commands. I use all of this every day and it genuinely makes life simpler - which was the whole idea behind the project.
Gitte, a simple Git client for GNOME built with GTK4, libadwaita and Relm4, just got its 0.5.0 release! 🎉
The headline feature this time is commit and tag signing. Gitte now supports GPG, X.509 and SSH signing, validates signatures right in the commit log, and ships a dedicated “Signing status” window that walks you through setting everything up. Encrypted signing keys are handled via a new gitte-askpass helper, and every relevant dialog (commit, merge, revert, create tag, …) gets a per-action override switch so you can decide whether to sign on a case-by-case basis. The default respects the repository configuration.
On top of that, the commit message, revert and create tag dialogs were overhauled, dialogs now carry descriptive subtitles for better discoverability, and there’s a new Ctrl+O / Cmd+O shortcut to open a repository. Under the hood Gitte moved to the new git2 API, switched from polling to IO-event-based refreshes, and gained a Cornish translation (thanks to Flynn Peck!).
