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#180 Image Editing

• Curated by Felix

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from December 20 to December 27.

GNOME Core Apps and Libraries

Image Viewer (Loupe)

Browse through images and inspect their metadata.

Sophie 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ (she/her) announces

Image editing including crop, rotate, and flip has been merged into Loupe. Currently, only PNG images are supported. Support for JPEGs is in the works. There is a list of open issues for the current implementation. You can support my work financially on several platforms.

Third Party Projects

Sebastian Wiesner says

A new release of TurnOn is available. The new release adds network scanning: When scanning is on TurnOn now finds devices in the local network and offers to save them so that it can later turn them on.

TurnOn is a small GNOME utility to turn on remote systems such as NAS devices with Wake On LAN. It’s available from Flathub.

Vladimir Kosolapov says

Netsleuth 1.1.0 is here! This update introduces a search provider for GNOME Shell, command-line interface and new calculable values.

The calculation history now stores up to 20 entries, allowing for quick retrieval of specific IP addresses directly from the GNOME Shell search.

For those who prefer a console experience, the command-line interface enables performing the same calculations as in the graphical version.

This update also introduces two new calculable values — “IPv4 Mapped Address” and “6to4 Prefix”.

Check it out on Flathub!

Fractal

Matrix messaging app for GNOME written in Rust.

Kévin Commaille reports

🎶 Vive le vent ! Vive le vent ! Vive le vent d’hiver ! 🌲 And vive Fractal 10.beta! While everyone is resting for the holidays, we thought you could use a new release. It focuses on improvements and bug fixes, including:

  • Videos were often not playing after loading in the room history, this was fixed, and we also show properly when an error occurred.
  • Computing the size of media messages was slightly wrong, which meant that sometimes a grey line would appear below them. We rebooted the code and that problem is gone!
  • Our CSS file was a bit too big for our taste, so we decided to make use of SASS and split it.
  • We were downloading too many different sizes for avatar images, which would fill the media cache needlessly. We now only download a couple of sizes. This has the extra benefit of fixing blurry or missing thumbnails in notifications.

As usual, this release includes other improvements, fixes and new translations thanks to all our contributors, and our upstream projects.

It is available to install via Flathub Beta, see the instructions in our README.

As the version implies, there might be a slight risk of regressions, but it should be mostly stable. If all goes well the next step is the release candidate!

If you have a little bit of time on your hands, you can try to fix one of our newcomers issues. Anyone can make Fractal better!

GNOME Websites

Felix announces

Thanks to Brage Fuglseth (he/him), thisweek.gnome.org now supports the OpenGraph protocol, which means you can now get rich social media preview cards on sites that support it (e.g. Mastodon, Discourse, Reddit).

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!