#3 Documentation and Libraries

July 30, 2021 • 15 News • Curated by Thib

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from July 23 to July 30.

Core Apps and Libraries

Libadwaita ↗

Building blocks for modern GNOME apps using GTK4.

Alice (she/her) says

libadwaita now supports .flat style class for header bars, as used in applications like Solanum or Breathing

Tobias Bernard says

Libadwaita window shadows are now softer and way nicer looking (merge request).

Text Editor ↗

Text Editor is a simple text editor that focus on session management.

Allan Day says

In Text Editor, Christian Hergert changed the preferences to a sidebar, and added a style schema option

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor/-/commit/b413feb1acf54e6bbc802d708a9a5eb00d44ea1f

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor/-/commit/6fd8d4b47f39a7bd7689c54f544ce26384d1ff57

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor/-/commit/bc86cac531cc86d0c35162a42bfb77610dfc83a3

Allan Day announces

Also in Text Editor, Christian did a round of bug fixing and added keyboard shortcuts for zooming - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor/-/commit/ed44e9b08565421d9234e2d7e0844d35ce24d40c

Software ↗

Lets you install and update applications and system extensions.

Allan Day reports

Adrien Plazas and Jakub Steiner added a new icon set for system components - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/merge_requests/868

Allan Day announces

This week in Software:

Adrien Plazas cleaned up the updates list and made it adaptive - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/merge_requests/855

Adrien also gave the preferences window a modern style - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/merge_requests/860

Milan Crha fixed a bug where the launch button took a long time to appear after app installation - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/merge_requests/857

Adrien Plazas announces

I made application screenshots scale to the window’s width - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/merge_requests/867

Maps ↗

Maps gives you quick access to maps all across the world.

Corentin Noël says

In libshumate, James Westman implemented support for rotating a Map: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libshumate/-/commit/c54ed6c66b72a2d8016319c5c991a4c6a506109c

Connections ↗

A remote desktop client.

Allan Day announces

Felipe Borges landed various improvements to the Connections user experience:

Made it possible to connect and switch to multiple connections at the same time - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/connections/-/merge_requests/78

Added error messages and error handling when connecting - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/connections/-/merge_requests/79

Improved the design of the new connection popover - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/connections/-/merge_requests/77

Documentation

Emmanuele Bassi says

The new developer documentation website is up at developer.gnome.org. The old API references are available at developer-old.gnome.org.

Circle Apps and Libraries

Martín Abente Lahaye reports

GNOME Circle accepted two new apps this week. We’re happy to welcome Podcasts and Wike!

Kooha ↗

A simple screen recorder with a minimal interface. You can simply click the record button without having to configure a bunch of settings.

SeaDve announces

GIF and MP4 video formats support has been added in Kooha. Recording with GIF doesn’t require post-processing, which makes it much more efficient than a typical GIF recorder.