GNOME has published the weekly note on the news that has appeared in their circle from March 8th to 15th. Between applications, libraries, and events, this week they introduced a new application, so new that it was only introduced to us and, therefore, it is neither official from GNOME nor in their circle.
On another note, there was also room to talk about the fact that the GNOME Internship Committee and Open Source Community Africa have joined forces to organize this year's GNOME Internship Preparatory Bootcamp. They also reminded us that registration for GUADEC, which will take place from July 16th to 24th, will open tomorrow, in addition to registration for the Linux App Summit 29. You'll find more information in the link provided at the end of these lines. What remains is to talk about the news this week in the form of software.
This week in GNOME
- libadwaita 1.7.0 It is now available.
- Déjà Dup Backups has arrived with two new features: it's now possible to define a remote Rclone as your backup storage location. This significantly expands your cloud options, although some external Rclone configuration is required, and Restic is now the default tool for fresh backups (instead of Duplicity). This should be faster and enable some future features (likely to be enabled only for flatpaks).
- The developer of Apostrophe has begun working on mobile phone support.
- LPTK is a new stateless password manager, compatible with LessPass, written in Rust and powered by GTK. By default, it's a completely offline tool that generates passwords based on your input. It stores no information and is based on the same-in, same-out principle, so simply remembering your master password can generate passwords for any site. However, it also offers the ability to connect to a server (like Rockpass) so you don't have to remember the options you entered for each site. You can download the app directly from Flatub.
- The latest release of Breezy Desktop—a GNOME XR desktop solution—is now available in open beta for users of the most popular makes and models of XR headsets. Breezy Desktop lets you add multiple virtual monitors to your desktop, projected in front of you on the headset, allowing you to look around to see each desktop individually. Zoom on Focus mode will automatically zoom in on the currently facing display, and Follow mode lets you bring the focused display to the center and have it follow you, while other displays lag behind. These features can be quickly toggled on and off using keyboard shortcuts. For more information, visit: this Reddit link to see how it works.
And this, added to the fact that PyGObject 3.52.2 has been released, has been everything this week in GNOME.
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