Last September, along with the release of v43 of GNOME, the project published the first images of his mobile proposal. Under the name of GNOME Mobile (or GNOME Shell Mobile), the team behind the most widely used Linux desktop is preparing its proposal for touch devices, but until that time comes, GNOME for phones and tablets bears the name of Phosh. , and their news often appear in TWIG articles.
It is already known that the development of GNOME 44 has started, but what appears most in this type of posts are news in applications, whether they are from the project (Core), who will be (in the incubator) or who are under its umbrella (Circle). If there is something that stands out, perhaps Wike does, because it has released two updates in one week, or Tube Converter, a regular in these parts.
This week in GNOME
- libadwaita has two types of boxed list rows:
- Spins contain an integrated GtkSpinButton.
- Properties invert the styles of their title and subtitle in the same way as Nautilus (Files) and Loupe.
- Fixed some old issues in GNOME Software, such as PackageKit, and made the form more stylized. It will be available in GNOME Software 44.1.
- Two releases of Wike this week, and what's new together includes:
- Migration to GTK4 + Libadwaita.
- The search input is now always visible. It also includes an indication of the selected language and a button that gives access to the search settings.
- Type to search. Just start typing to find articles.
- New side panel that gives access to the index of articles, languages, bookmarks and history. It can be used in floating or anchored mode.
- Bookmarks with multiple lists.
- New view menu that allows you to change the theme, zoom, font and much more.
- The content view now defaults to the system font.
- customizable design. The user interface now adapts to small screens, such as those of phones.
- Improved status pages (new tab, item not found…).
- Use of flag icons to help identify languages. It can be disabled.
- New print option. It also allows you to export articles using the "Print to PDF" option.
- New app icon.
- Updated translations.
- Video Trimmer v0.8.1 has arrived as a small release that has added keyboard shortcuts, fixed a crash, and added updates for GNOME 44.
- Pika Backup 0.6:
- Add status information to the list of background apps.
- Automatic reconnection and retry of backups in more situations than before.
- Fixed issues with not freeing up space when deleting old files.
- Correctly handle some rare situations like moved backup repositories.
- Document that restoring backups through Files does not preserve access rights.
- They are preparing for a dedicated restoration function.
- gtk-rs: The gtk-rs-core macro properties were released two months ago, and now they have also updated gtk-rs-book.
- ASCII Images 1.2.0 has arrived speaking also French, Russian, Occitan and Italian. Also, the application now remembers the size and state of the window when it is closed, and the file manager can now open images with ASCII Images.
- Tube Converter v2023.4.1 has introduced many fixes for various crashes and crashes on GNOME and WinUI platforms, so the application should now be more stable. It is now also possible to open a downloaded file directly, as well as the download directory.
- The Phosh team has delivered changes to add a menu that appears when you long press the on/off button. The support for the emergency call has not arrived yet, so the button is more muted (colored).
- Login Manager Settings has a new website (this) and repository (this). Also, v3.0 arrived with:
- Option to “Always show the accessibility menu”.
- Option to change the size of the cursor.
- "What's new" section in the "About" window.
- A dialog window to ask for donations that appears once.
- “Donate” option in the application menu.
- Also v31 was released with translations.
- Denaro 2023.4.0 has included a new Dashboard page that allows users to view information about all accounts at a quick glance, the ability to assign colors to groups, and customize the decimal and group separators used per account and will Fixed many issues such as importing OFX and QIF file information and random GTK crashes experienced by users.
And that's been it for this week at GNOME.
Images and content: TWIG.