Loupe is now available as a preview on Flathub. One of the ideas behind the Incubation process is to enable feedback from the broader community before an app lands in GNOME Core and all features are set in stone. So don’t expect everything to work yet.
Since our last update, we have continued to get some of the more important features done:
Loupe now uses mipmaps in rendering, avoiding rendering artifacts.
We have merged HighDPI support.
I have added an algorithm that detects whether a zoom or a rotate gesture is intended. Quite a tricky task, but necessary for touch gestures to work correctly. However, more work on the rotate gestures is still necessary.
Loupe now uses an algorithm that detects if a transparent image will be too dark to be visible on the default background. In that case, Loupe will choose a lighter background (screenshot below).
And as usual, we have fixed a bunch of issues.
Thanks for everyone contributing feedback and issue reports. Special thanks go to Matthias Clasen and Benjamin Otte for keeping up with all my attempts to break GTK/GDK and Ivan Molodetskikh for the fruitful cooperation in our joint goal to get images on computer screens.
If you have been following Mousai on TWIG, nothing should come as a surprise. After almost two years of development, this version comes packed with exciting new features, including a new sleek and intuitive UI, fuzzy search on the history, recognition cancellation, and MPRIS support. You can now also easily copy the title and artist of any song from the UI, remove individual songs from your history, and seek through the player. And for those times when you don’t have an internet connection, we’ve got you covered. Plus, we’ve fixed a ton of bugs and improved stability across the board, along with a full Rust rewrite.
I spent the last two weeks improving Curtail. Mainly porting it to Gtk 4 and Libadwaita.
I made three new versions to improve the app incrementally with the indispensable help of Maximiliano and Tobias.
It was also the opportunity to add some new features and fixed some bugs.
Chess Clock v0.5 was released! This new release brings a major overhaul to the time control selection screen, simplifying the available presets and emphasizing the manual time entry controls. There’s now only a single button to start the game, and the presets just set the time on the manual time entry.
This week I released Resonance, an intuitive music player application written in Rust & Python with a clean user interface. Resonance lets you effortlessly manage and play your music collection.
Features:
UI updates to reflect currently playing track’s cover art colors
Tube Converter V2023.4.0 is here! This week’s release features the ability to run downloads in the background (taking advantage of GNOME 44’s new background apps API!) as well as many bugs fixed!
Here’s the full changelog:
Added the ability to run downloads in the background (off by default)
Fixed an issue where extra escape characters were added in video titles
Improved the UX of adding a download
Updated translations (Thanks everyone on Weblate!)
Denaro V2023.4.0-beta1 got released this week! We have been hard at work the past month and a half improving Denaro’s stability and adding many many new features to the application. This beta is a continuation of the V2023.3.0-beta series, but since we are in a new month, the beta number was reset.
This beta includes a fix for the random crashing many users were experiencing when working with transactions, finally! It also includes a new preference option to automatically backup account files as CSV files to a specific folder.
We have a few more features left to polish up and are expecting a stable release next week :)
Here’s the full changelog:
Added the ability to customize the decimal and group separators used per account
Added the ability to password protect a PDF file
Added a preference option to automatically backup account files to a specific folder
Fixed an issue where OFX files with security could not be imported
Fixed an issue where QIF files could not be imported on non-English systems
Fixed an issue where editing a transaction with a receipt would crash the application
Updated to GNOME 44 platform and fixed many GTK crashes users were experiencing
The UI is now built using blueprint
Updated translations (Thanks to everyone on Weblate)!
“New Puzzle” greeter for the editor.
• Fully adaptive sizing. Crosswords will shrink to fit available space
• Fix end-of-game bugs where you could still edit the puzzle
• Use tags instead of labels for puzzle-set metainfo
• Enumeration rendering fixes
• Miscelaneous bugfixes
This release marks a change in focus. For the next few months, we are going to work more on the Editor than the game. Stay tuned for more changes!
