Yesterday, February 14th, GNOME Project published a new note about the new features that have occurred in the last week, specifically from the 7th to the 14th of the month. Perhaps the most notable is one that will arrive in about a month, as the grouped notifications for GNOME 48 have already been merged. In a video available at the link that we will provide at the end of this article, we can see how this long-awaited feature will behave.
Basically, in GNOME 48, when you receive a notification, it will appear in the notification center, as always. But from the second one onwards, they will overlapFor example, a Telegram notification will appear separately, but from the second one onwards they will be on top of each other. If there is more than one and what we have is a group, what will be seen will not be just a banner for the notification; we will see the first one and others below it.
Other news this week in GNOME
- After 5 years of development, GNOME has implemented dynamic triple buffering in Mutter. This adds an extra buffer to improve fluidity when the compositor is unable to keep up with the refresh rate, reducing frame skipping and improving the smoothness of animations, especially in high load situations, such as when opening the GNOME Shell overview.
- In Contacts, spacing has been improved to better match other GNOME apps, and the birthday editing lines and dialogs have been redesigned to look better and work better on mobile devices.
- This week, Drum Machine has been accepted into the app circle. It is an application to play drum patterns.
- SemantiK There were two releases this week: 1.4.0 and 1.5.0. Both include improvements, code refactoring, translation improvements, and language selector improvements. More language packs will be created soon.
Even more
- Various improvements to the Hex Colordle, Playlifin Voyager, PedantiK and Reddy apps, all from the same developer.
- GirCore version 0.6.2 has been released. It introduces support for .NET 9 and modernizes the internal binding code, resulting in better integration of the garbage collector and the removal of reflection-based code. As a result, there are several breaking changes. A new beginner-friendly tutorial was contributed and can be found on the main page. See the release notes for more information.
- Fractal 10.1 fixed two issues: some rooms would get stuck in an unread state even if they had been read, and joining or creating a room could cause the app to close unexpectedly.
And that, together with an invitation for Papers at GUADEC 2025, that's been all this week in GNOME.
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