Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from April 19 to April 26. GNOME Core Apps and Libraries GTK Cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Matthias Clasen says GTK 4.15.0 is out. This release changes the default GSK renderer to be Vulkan, on Wayland. Other platforms still use ngl. The intent of this change is to get wider testing and verify that Vulkan drivers are good enough for us to rely on. If significant problems show up, we will revert this change for 4.16. You can still override the renderer choice using the GSK_RENDERER environment ..read more

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from April 12 to April 19. Sovereign Tech Fund Sonny says As part of the GNOME STF (Sovereign Tech Fund) initiative, a number of community members are working on infrastructure related projects. Here are the highlights for the past week We welcome Felix in the team ?. Felix is helping towards making Key Rack a viable password manager for the GNOME desktop. We welcome Adrien in the team ?. Adrien is working on the initiative to stop using TreeView to improve accessibility. Sophie started C bindings for glycin. It’s possible to get a ..read more

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from April 05 to April 12. GNOME Core Apps and Libraries GLib The low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK and GNOME. Philip Withnall announces After a lot of preparation, GLib has finally achieved an OpenSSF Best Practices ‘passing’ badge, which certifies that it follows a number of development and security best practices — see https://www.bestpractices.dev/en/projects/6011 GNOME Circle Apps and Libraries Fragments Easy to use BitTorrent client. Felix reports It has finally happened! The long awaited ..read more

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from March 29 to April 05. Sovereign Tech Fund Sonny says As part of the GNOME STF (Sovereign Tech Fund) initiative, a number of community members are working on infrastructure related projects. Here are the highlights for the last two weeks We are thrilled to announce António is joining the team. António is a Nautilus (GNOME Files) maintainer and will work on a FileChooser portal implementation with Nautilus. Georges opened a draft to support printing in WebKitGTK using the Print portal. This allows Epiphany / GNOME Web and other ..read more

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from March 22 to March 29. GNOME Circle Apps and Libraries Brage Fuglseth reports This week Biblioteca was accepted into GNOME Circle. Biblioteca lets you browse and read GNOME documentation wherever you are in a sleek and convenient way. Congratulations! https://flathub.org/apps/app.drey.Biblioteca Warp Fast and secure file transfer. Fina reports Warp 0.7 has been released with QR Code scanning support ?. This feature allows to initiate a file transfer just by scanning a code on the receiving device. Thanks a lot to GNOME Camer ..read more

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from March 15 to March 22. This week we released GNOME 46! This new major release of GNOME is full of exciting changes, such as a new global file search, an enhanced Files app, improved online accounts with OneDrive support, remote login via RDP, improved accessibility, experimental variable refresh rate (VRR) support and so much more! See the GNOME 46 release notes and developer notes for more information. Readers who have been following this site will already be aware of some of the new features. If you’d like to follow the develo ..read more

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from March 08 to March 15. Sovereign Tech Fund Sonny announces As part of the GNOME STF (Sovereign Tech Fund) initiative, a number of community members are working on infrastructure related projects. Here are the highlights for the past week: We have been working hard on helping with and solving last minute issues for GNOME 46. This is the first GNOME release since we started the GNOME STF initiative and are very excited about our work rolling to millions of users. Sophie opened a PR to support git dependencies in the Cargo buildstr ..read more

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from March 01 to March 08. Sovereign Tech Fund Sonny reports As part of the GNOME STF (Sovereign Tech Fund) project, a number of community members are working on infrastructure related projects. Here are the highlights of the last 2 weeks. Accessibility Dorotha joined the team to work on global shortcuts portal for GNOME and better screen reader support on Wayland. Andy landed Spiel support in Orca #182 Speil is a speech synthesis (TTS) API and framework Orca is the screen reader of the Linux desktop Hardware Support Ivan published ..read more

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from February 23 to March 02. Sovereign Tech Fund Sonny reports The GNOME STF team is running too late today for the deadline. Sorry about that, we’ll be back next Friday with 2 weeks worth of updates. Have a great weekend! GNOME Core Apps and Libraries Calendar A simple calendar application. Hari Rana | TheEvilSkeleton (any/all) reports GNOME Calendar 46 beta was released, bringing some exciting changes and additions: Jeff Fortin worked on harmonizing the mini calendar’s week numbers with GNOME Shell. Georges Stavracas ported e ..read more

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from February 16 to February 23. Sovereign Tech Fund Sonny says As part of the GNOME STF (Sovereign Tech Fund) project, a number of community members are working on infrastructure related projects. Accessibility Joanie continued improving the Orca screen reader: Finished removing all pyatspi code ? New Keyhandling/Grabs Event Manager: Add means to pause and clear the event queue: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/-/commit/967a32407 Check for device before adding a grab: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/-/commit/c4a7b391f Re ..read more