This week, GNOME has published a list with the news that has occurred during the last seven days, but it is somewhat different. Instead of talking to us about many points, and each one with its changes in its own section, the majority of what has happened from May 17 to 24 has been thanks to the STF donation, so it is in the same section. This also means that the explanation of each point is somewhat more concise.
Among the highlights, or at least what has given its name to the owner, we have the GNOME OS installer, that pseudo-operating system from which we can test everything new that is coming to GNOME without touching our main operating system. What comes next is the list with news that have arrived this week.
This week in GNOME
- With a donation from Sovereign Tech Fund:
- Completed refactoring of the Flatpak part of Key Rack.
- Continued porting Baobab from GtkTreeView to GtkColumnView and finished Baobab to use CSS variables for Adwaita named colors.
- Continued work on implementing the portal prototype for testing, updated the portal trigger, and fixed the MR to shuffle things in the configuration before the globalshortcuts part can come in, among other smaller things.
- Continued work on getting rid of formatting.py in Orca, and a host of other minor Orca issues and cleanups.
- Moved the sysupdate configuration to the main sysupdate directory (as part of the extensions) and revised and merged an MR to split debugging into a sysext and a tarball for debuginfo.
- Work has been done on various aspects of tooling for development and testing on immutable operating systems, including putting together a developer story to solicit feedback, and writing a minimalist snippet to generate sysext images.
- Done work on tools to check CVEs in GNOME OS.
- Working on adding USB portal support to ashpd.
- Fixed several small issues introduced in the GNOME Shell high contrast refactoring.
- Work has continued on the mockups of the Open and Save dialogs of the file selector portal, and the symbolic microphone sensitivity icons in Adwaita have been updated to solve visibility problems in the Shell.
- Continued work on notification bundling in GNOME Shell and investigated focus theft prevention.
- In Online Accounts, portability to AdwDialog/AdwAlertDialog has been included and the OAuth2 browser process has been separated.
- In the new installer for GNOME OS, we have established the way the internal components will work (navigation, deciding which page to display next, etc.) and implementing most of the basic page layouts following the layouts.
- More news in GTK CSS variables and libadwaita.
- Snoop 0.3 has arrived. It is now possible to install the Nautilus plugin with a button in the preferences dialog in the flathub version. A new preview dialog now allows you to open a preview of the selected file on the specific line. Thread and memory management has also been revised, which has fixed some random but regular crashes.
- DewDuct is a new application to watch YouTube videos with privacy and for the GNOME Mobile platform. Allows you to search and play videos, import NewPipe subscriptions, and more. It is currently available for Alpine Linux. It was designed with mobile phones in mind. It is currently in beta, but is fully usable. The developer is looking for a design for their icon and suggestions or collaborations are accepted.
- Morphosis is an application they are working on that allows you to convert documents from one format to another. Supports Markdown, DOCX, PDF and many more formats.
- Regarding the project itself, a 5-year strategic plan has been published, available at this link.
And that's been it for this week at GNOME.
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