GNOME is working in its own desktop/mobile graphical environment, but currently the most popular based on GNOME it's Phosh. It has become so widespread and makes such a good impression that the project behind this very popular desktop has put it under its umbrella, and talks about it in its weekly articles with all the news they introduce. This week They have spoken of two, and both are interesting.
First, what appears when receiving a call has been redesigned. Now prevents parts of the window from sticking out when button labels go past two lines. The second is a novelty in Phosh 0.21.0 that comes along with Phoch 0.21.1, and that is that it has been added experimental support for lock screen widgets. For example, notifications can appear when there is a new version of Phosh available and the possibility to install it from the same notification.
Other news this week in GNOME
- Pika Backup now helps with excluding files when they are unnecessary to save or are too large to backup. The new dialog also offers the option to exclude a single file instead of an entire folder.
- Amberol 0.9.1 has arrived with:
- Support for ReplayGain metadata in audio files; Amberol allows you to automatically follow the volume recommendation for the track and album if the metadata is available.
- Support for external cover files in the same directory as a song.
- Shuffle play is now more reliable, and adding songs to a shuffle playlist doesn't mess up the existing order.
- Lots of UI tweaks, metadata loading fixes, and translation updates.
- Komikku is a manga reader, and after several months of work he is close to finishing his re-base to GTK4 and libadwaita. The preview version can now be installed from the flathub beta repository. What's new in the latest version:
- UI update to follow the GNOME HIG as much as possible.
- The library now has two display modes: Grid and Compact Grid.
- Faster display of the chapter list, whether there are few or many chapters.
- Complete rewrite of Webtoon's reading mode.
- Modern “About” window.
- Graciance is now available on Flathub. What's new from v0.2.0 to v0.2.2:
- Added preferences window to manage flatpak overwrites.
- Added backup function for gtk.css to prevent loss of current user settings.
- Various improvements have been made to the user interface.
- New version of Geopard, a gemini browser:
- Added the ability to reload the current page.
- Prettier formatting of list items.
- Fixed an annoying bug where text selection would sometimes turn a paragraph into a title, temporarily.
- Fixed a crash when overriding the app theme.
- Fixed being unresponsive when loading a large page.
- Complete rewrite of the gemini parser to make it more robust and improve handling of edge cases.
- Login Manager Settings 1.0 has reached the flathub beta repository.
- The GNOME implementation of the file choice portal now remembers the last folder used by an application.
And that's been it for this week at GNOME.