GNOME has published a new post with this week's news, this time covering the period from May 2nd to 9th. They started by talking about new staff additions, then moved on to what interests us most here: new applications and all kinds of software related to the project. What's striking is one departure and one arrival, or in other words, one application that will replace another.
Although GNOME, as a project, includes some applications by default, not all distributions that use GNOME also use all the software it offers. For this reason, Ubuntu continues to use programs like its own application store and not GNOME Software. This week, they proposed a change that we will see in v49 of the desktop: Video Player, named Showtime will replace Totem as the default video player. The following is a list of the other changes.
This week in GNOME
- The first version of Typewriter is now available on flathub. For now, it's a basic Typewriter editor with a built-in live preview, template browser, and export dialog.
- DistroShelf is finally available on flathub: «Sometimes, there are certain programs that aren't available on your favorite distro… They're available for Ubuntu, but you don't want to reinstall your OS just for that program. It allows you to run containers that are highly integrated with your host system, using DistroBox. In other words, it allows you to install that program you want, inside an Ubuntu container. Then, you can use the program as if it were installed on your real distro! The program will see all your folders, all your devices… just as you'd expect. But you can run more than just Ubuntu containers! You can run virtually any distro you want. I use it to run a development environment with the latest and greatest tools, inside an Arch Linux container.«.
- Parabolic V2025.5.0 has arrived with: added display of a format's file size if available, fixed an issue where file paths were not truncated correctly, redesigned the Qt application for a more modern desktop experience, and updated yt-dlp to fix some website validation issues.
And that's been it for this week at GNOME.
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