We have just entered pride month, and GNOME has started his weekly news article talking about it. The celebrations extend throughout June, which will also cause us to see many rainbows in images such as those of Linux project logos on social media avatars. But what interests us here and now It is that list with things that are about to come to one of the most used desktops in the Linux world.
In the week from May 31 to June 7, they created more visible CVE reports for gnome-build.meta, in addition to changes in the generation of said reports. This was done taking advantage of the STF donation, and, among other things, it will improve security, at least your information. What comes next is the list with news that has been this week.
This week in GNOME
- With the STF donation they have made general improvements to the GNOME platform, Flatpak, accessibility, secrets and interoperability.
- They have published an article about recent work on GTK to modernize their CSS engine and what that means when using GTK and libadwaita. This this article.
- Showtime has been accepted into the GNOME incubator. It is an application that aims to replace Totem, the application that currently takes care of videos in GNOME. The incubator is where they put the apps that are expected to become official soon, and it would replace Totem because it seems that they have abandoned its maintenance.
- Railway has greatly improved their code on the backend. Furthermore, you are now not limited to the HAFAS API and it is now possible to test the Swiss SBB via search.ch.
- They have published another article talking about the changes in Rust, which is this article.
- Exhibit is a new application for viewing 3D models powered by F3D. Among what it does:
- Support for many file formats, including glTF, USD, STL, STEP, PLY, OBJ, FBX, Alembic and many more.
- Numerous rendering and visual adjustments.
- HDRI or color background.
- Export render to image.
- Drag and drop files.
- Installs mimetype and icon for supported file types.
- Desing – 2D CAD For GNOME has received an update with many changes, including:
- Manage text and line styles from the preferences window.
- Update the text and line style from the properties window.
- Highlight design entities on mouseover.
- Fix opening files as arguments, e.g. 'open with' from file explorer.
- Improved selection highlighting of the Crop and Zoom commands.
- Correction of behavior when no command has been executed.
- Prevent selection of elements on locked or frozen layers.
- Correct ortho and polar settings when entering point data.
- Updated the Rotate command to fit the regular workflow.
- Underline the shortcut letter of the command options.
- Use a consistent message for commands with options.
- Remove custom buttons from the layers window header bar.
- Internal use of RGB colors for all color definitions.
- DXF true color support.
- Fixed an issue where layers were updated with an incorrect status when editing layer data.
- Draw entities using the correct color when they are part of a block, supporting the “ByBlock” color.
- Addition of the Block command, which allows the creation of blocks.
- Addition of the Explode command, which allows blocks to be decomposed into primitive entities.
- Added the Hatch command and common hatch patterns.
- Update to the latest GNOME development kit icons.
- Add the Purge command, which clears unused blocks, layers, and linetypes.
- Show hints for invalid commands.
- Keypunch is a new application with which we can practice our typing skills by creating pseudo-text in a language of our choice.
- Day Progress is an extension where we put the start and reset (end) times and it shows a progress bar of the current time.
- Papers now includes support for floating zoom buttons.
And this has been all this week in GNOME.
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