GNOME Updates#
July 29 - August 05#
These are all the major updates across the GNOME project.
Core Apps and Libraries#
Photos#
You can set picture as your background / lockscreen as GNOME Photos now uses Wallpaper portal.
GNOME Web#
GNOME Web got some new features.
- You can now take screenshots by pressing Shift + Ctrl + S.
- It is also possible to do this through context menu
Solanum#
Solanum is a pomodaro timer for GNOME desktop.
It can now reset sessions without restarting the app.
NewsFlash#
NewsFlash is a program designed to complement an already existing web-based RSS reader account.
It gained support for Nextcloud News. It supports API v1.3 and will be available on next release 18.1.1.
You can create tags & tag articles now in one step without a single click.
Amberol#
Amberol 0.9.0 is available now. It supports fuzzy searching inside playlist, lot of bug fixes in code, style, and dependencies that deal with loading metadata, and translation updates.
Get it on Flathub.
Third Party Projects#
Loupe#
A simple image viewer application written with GTK4 and Rust.It now shows file properties. This info is based on basic file properties and exif data.
Lobjur#
It is a simple GTK4 client for https://lobste.rs/.
Features:
- Browse the hottest and most recently active stories
- View the comments of each story
- Browse stories by tag, by domain, or by user.
- View some information about the user who just commented below that awesome story
This is the first application on Flathub to use ClojureScript and GTK.
Ear Tag#
Ear Tag is a simple music tag editor which can be used for editing single files, rather than entire music collections.
Get it on FlatHuband the code here.
Documentation#
Two new tutorials on GNOME developers documentation website:
GNOME Shell Extensions#
ReadingStrip#
ReadingStrip is an extension for Gnome-Shell. It works as a reading guide for computer and this is really useful for people affected by dyslexia. It hides the previous and the next one. It’s already used in education projects at schools, it puts the attention on screen but it’s also really useful for programmers and graphic designers who want to check their works.