It's the weekend, and that, among other things, means that project news has been released. GNOMESome of them are part of the desktop, others are official apps, others are part of their circle, and others, well, are close to their scene. What they published a few hours ago was what happened during the week of March 21st to 28th, and you'll have it after the cut.
In a point that has to do with GNOME, but not so much with its software, the project has announced that registration for the next GUADEC is now open. If any readers are interested, you can find out more at this link. Now yes, let's go with the news this week.
This week in GNOME
- Glycin, the new image loading and editing library, now allows you to specify the storage format for image data needed by an API user. If Glycin is used with GTK, this has always been done automatically. However, for other use cases, it is now possible to specify a limited set of formats that the API user supports. Support for loading image data from a GInputStream or GBytes instead of a GFile has also been added. These features are important for adopting Glycin in other areas, as we look to replace GdkPixbuf to make image loading more secure and enable more features such as HDR image support and support for more image formats.
- Sysprof can now filter samples by brand. This allows for statistically relevant data on what is being run when a specific brand is running and, consequently, allows for better data analysis. You can find more information here.
- This week, Arduino support was merged into GNOME Builder, providing integration with the arduino-cli for compiling and uploading sketches to Arduino-compatible boards. The new feature will be available in Builder Nightly and includes a graphical interface for managing libraries and platforms and selecting compilation/upload options. It also provides a template for starting a new Arduino project.
- This Week Bustle was accepted into the GNOME Circle. Bustle allows you to visualize and analyze D-Bus activity with detailed sequence diagrams.
- Warp 0.9 was released with support for direct file upload via "Open With..." from Files. QR code scanning has also seen improvements, utilizing the new QR code feature in the Camera app.
- Eyedropper 2.1.0 has been released, with:
- RGB decimal notation.
- support for global shortcuts.
- a new way to enter colors directly, without choosing them first.
- New version of oo7-cli, with the ability to interact with sandboxed application keychains or any keychain file on your system.
- TypeScript type definitions for GNOME Shell 48 released. The TypeScript type definitions for GNOME Shell 48 have been updated. This release improves TypeScript support for writing GNOME Shell extensions.
- Field Monitor has just arrived. It's a remote desktop client focused on accessing virtual machines. It has first-class support for adding Proxmox or QEMU/KVM hypervisors, but it can also connect to any server that implements one of the SPICE, RDP, or VNC protocols. It can also open RDP or Virt Viewer files.
- Picture Of The Day is a new app to get a picture of the day as your daily wallpaper, from NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day, Bing, Wikimedia, or Simon Stålenhag artwork.
- Fractal 11.beta now available:
- New shortcuts Ctrl + Page Up and Ctrl + Page Down go to the previous/next room in the list.
- The media cache will be cleared periodically.
- The page listing user sessions has been overhauled, with details moved to subpages for a less cluttered feel, paving the way for a new feature.
- A couple of minor cosmetic changes have also been introduced:
And this has been all this week in GNOME.
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