GNOME It has its own philosophy, and a big part of it is simplicity. It contrasts with KDE, a group that offers applications for demanding users. Compared to other apps, Gwenview displays screenshots better, and even allows for editing such as rotating, cropping, and even marking them with symbols, arrows, and more. GNOME isn't going quite as far, but this week they released the first public version of a new app to present screenshots with an improved style.
Before continuing, in case the header image had not made it clear, it must be said that this article is one of the news of the week in GNOME. The following list, in addition to discussing Gradia, also tells us about other changes that have already occurred during the week of May 23-30.
This week in GNOME
- Continuing our voluntary effort to make GNOME Calendar fully keyboard accessible, we have fixed an important bug that was causing focus to disappear when the user attempted to tab into the month view in merge request !576. We have also changed the keyboard and focus behavior within the month view: events can only be cycled through using the arrow keys, focus cannot be exited from the month view using the arrow keys, and entering/exiting the month view can only be done with tab. These improvements will be available in GNOME 49.
- This GNOME Web cycle has received huge improvements and bug fixes:
- UI files converted to Blueprint format.
- The ad blocker now attempts to load a language-specific list in addition to the default.
- The address bar received inline autocomplete.
- The address bar now appears at the bottom in narrow mode.
- The bottom action bar is automatically hidden and shown in narrow mode.
- Reading mode now displays an estimated reading time, based on Firefox's implementation.
- Persistence support for PKCS #11 (smart cards).
- Passwords have been moved from preferences to their own dialog.
- The security popover has been replaced by an adaptive dialog.
- The handling of additional URLs in web applications has changed so that base domains are now compared instead of full domains.
- Ability to close and uninstall web applications from their menu.
- Search now supports case-sensitive and whole-word searches.
- Mute button in the address bar for single-tab pages.
- Support for background portal.
- Bookmark editing mode (Arak).
- The first public version of Gradia has arrived. Gradia is designed to improve the presentation of screenshots on platforms where there is limited control, such as social media. It allows you to add a custom gradient background, add margins, change the aspect ratio, and more. The app is intended for quick edits, primarily of screenshots, and is not intended to be a full-featured image editor. However, it plans to add basic annotation features, such as a free pen mode and an arrow drawing tool.
- Folder Manager is a handy utility for managing application folders in GNOME and Phosh. Developed in Vala using GTK4 and Libadwaita, it follows the GNOME HIG guidelines and offers a clean and modern interface for organizing your application menu. Folder Manager helps keep your application menu organized, improves accessibility, and optimizes your desktop experience. Key features:
- Create and Delete Folders: Create, rename, or delete application folders instantly using an easy-to-use graphical interface.
- Category Autocomplete: When creating a folder, select a category (e.g., Office, Chat, Games) and Folder Manager will automatically include all the apps that belong to that category.
- Manual Management: Manually add or remove individual apps from folders for precise control over organization.
- Filtering and Searching: Easily find apps by name using the built-in search and filtering tools in the interface.
- Designed for GNOME and Phosh: Provides full compatibility with both GNOME Shell and the mobile-first Phosh environment.
- Packet is an app that allows you to send and receive files wirelessly from Android devices using Quick Share, or from another device with Packet. In the latest update, a status indicator displays the connection status, the in-app help has been rewritten to be easier to understand, and an error page is displayed if the app fails to launch, making troubleshooting easier. This update also includes many internal improvements and minor fixes.
- Newelle, the AI ​​assistant for Gnome, has been updated to version 0.9.7, improving performance when reading local documents, adding reasoning support for Gemini models, as well as other minor improvements and updated translations.
- Pipeline versions 2.2.3 and 2.3.0 have been released. Pipeline now hides paid videos from the feed by default, as they are currently unplayable with Pipeline. Pipeline's startup performance has also improved significantly, going from over 3 seconds to under 1 second on my device. Finally, these versions fix several bugs:
- Videos that were sometimes duplicated in the watch later list.
- Videos that started playing in low resolution.
- Error when searching when the result contains videos with more than 2 billion views.
- Errors when getting information about certain individual videos.
And that's been it for this week at GNOME.
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