GNOME has published the article about the news that has been in his circle in the week from February 21 to 28. It is not a very extensive list, perhaps there are not many notable news, but one that is interesting is a new extension for GNOME Shell that will allow you to block content throughout the system, something that in English is known as system-wide.
In addition, and as it could not be otherwise, there has been mention of new versions of applications, both our own and those of the circle. The difference between the two is that there are some that are the project's own, while those of the circle live under its umbrella. Let's say that they are adopted. Let's go with the List of new items this week.
This week in GNOME
- The GNOME desktop portal now supports the global shortcuts interface. Applications can register shortcuts across the desktop, and users can edit and revoke them through system settings.
- Work on keyboard monitoring support in Mutter, Orca and libatspi is complete. This means that Orca shortcuts will finally work, including Caps Lock as the Orca key, under Wayland, closing one of the last big blockers to the full transition away from X11.
- libmanette has been moved to gi-docgen.
- Both GTK and mutter now support the cursor shape protocol. This will improve theme and cursor size consistency, as well as interoperability with other compositors.
- Televido 0.5.0 is now available on Flathub. It's a German TV viewing app. The most notable change is that it now uses a built-in browser based on Clapper.
- Gameeky 0.6.5 is now available, with full Dutch and Hindi translations. Additionally, the GNOME runtime has been updated and some rendering issues have been fixed.
- Archives 0.4.0 is out with the ability to archive a right-clicked link, all links in text selection, and all links on a web page individually. Additionally, you can now open ZIM files via Kiwix. Lastly, a search bar has been added to search the page, progress bars have been redesigned, and all third-party tools have been updated to their latest versions.
- Blocker is an extension that allows users to easily enable system-wide content blocking. Behind the scenes, it uses a program called hBlock to change the computer's DNS settings so that it doesn't connect to domains known to serve ads, trackers, and malware. This content blocking strategy has its limitations, and you can read more about them here. here.
And this has been all this week in GNOME.
Information: TWIG.