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#171 Point of Interest

• Curated by Felix

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from October 18 to October 25.

GNOME Core Apps and Libraries

Maps

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

mlundblad says

Maps now has a redesigned UI for editing points-of-interests in OpenStreetMap, using libadwaita widgets, and AdwDialog.

GLib

The low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK and GNOME.

Philip Withnall announces

Jialu Zhou has renamed the methods in GUnixMountEntry in GLib so they can be introspected properly (previously they couldn’t be used easily from introspected languages); see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/4337

GNOME Incubating Apps

Pablo Correa Gomez announces

Qiu Wenbo implemented using colors for highlight annotations in Papers! This was an often requested feature made possible due to the new mockups, and lots of refactoring under-the-hood

Pablo Correa Gomez reports

@omthorat implemented the new annotation window mockups in Papers, giving annotated documents a great new appearance! You can get the latest development snapshot in gnome-nightly

GNOME Circle Apps and Libraries

Warp

Fast and secure file transfer.

Fina says

Warp 0.8 was released today. Warp allows you to securely send files to each other via the internet or local network by exchanging a word-based code, or scanning a QR code.

This release features quite a few stability improvements for QR code scanning, and lots of translation updates! The flatpak release was updated to the latest runtime and now supports accent colors.

Biblioteca

Read GNOME documentation offline

Akshay Warrier reports

Biblioteca 1.5 is now available on Flathub!

The notable changes in this release are:

  • Updated Flatpak runtime to GNOME 47
  • Added gom documentation
  • Updated various library docs (libportal 0.8.1, vte 0.78, libshumate 1.3.0, libspelling 0.4.2)
  • Added support to persist window size across sessions
  • Removed irrelevant context menu entries in the webview

Amberol

Plays music, and nothing else.

Emmanuele Bassi announces

Amberol 2024.2 is now available on Flathub! Amberol is a small music player with no delusions of grandeur, focused on the task of playing your local music in the simplest way possible. In this new release you’ll find:

  • support for external album cover images named folder (in both PNG and JPEG image file formats) in the same directory as the songs
  • the file selection dialogs used to add songs and folders will start from the XDG Music directory, if one is set
  • an updated MPRIS implementation, dropping the unmaintained mpris-player crate in favour of the mpris-server one
  • an updated playback implementation, using the GstPlay API instead of the deprecated GstPlayer
  • various style updates to reflect the changes in libadwaita UI elements
  • lots of localisation updates

As usual, you can install Amberol from Flathub.

Third Party Projects

Konstantin Tutsch says

Lock is now available on Flathub! Lock is a graphical front-end for GnuPG (GPG) making use of a beautiful LibAdwaita GUI.

Process text and files:

  • Encryption
  • Decryption
  • Signing
  • Verification

Manage your GnuPG keyring:

  • Generate new keypairs
  • Import keys
  • Export public keys
  • View expiry dates
  • Remove keys

Download on Flathub.

Hari Rana | TheEvilSkeleton says

Upscaler 1.4.0 was just released! Upscaler is an app that allows you to upscale and enhance images, be it your photos, digital art, and more.

This release introduces scaling factors, allowing you to upscale between a factor of 2 and 4. The image loading system has been reworked to decrease overall memory consumption. The preview image now has a drop shadow to better make the image distinguishable. Lastly, it fixes a bug where small window sizes made the preview image disappear.

Miscellaneous

Alice (she/her) announces

I blogged about implementing Steam Deck gamepad support in libmanette: https://blogs.gnome.org/alicem/2024/10/24/steam-deck-hid-and-libmanette-adventures/

GNOME Websites

Allan Day reports

GNOME’s wiki was officially retired this week. Its functions have already been replaced by other sites and, if you do need information from the old wiki, a static archive of the site is still available at wiki.gnome.org.

For more information, see the wiki the migration guide.

Events

Kristi Progri announces

We’re excited to announce that registration for GNOME ASIA 2024 is now open! For more details, feel free to check out our blogpost: https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/10/23/registration-now-open-for-gnome-asia-2024/

GNOME Foundation

Allan Day reports

The GNOME Foundation Board is looking for input on the future of GUADEC. Please comment on the Discourse thread with your opinions on where GUADEC should be located, and what its focus should be.

That’s all for this week!

See you next week, and be sure to stop by #thisweek:gnome.org with updates on your own projects!