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#195 Typed Weather

• Curated by Felix

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from April 04 to April 11.

GNOME Core Apps and Libraries

Weather

Show weather conditions and forecasts.

Chris 🌱️ says

GNOME Weather has been ported to from JavaScript to TypeScript! This makes it the second TypeScript app in GNOME Core after Audio Player. If you want to see the changes involved, check out the merge request.

GLib

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

Philip Withnall announces

Support for file handles in nested containers has been added to gdbus call by Julian Sparber in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/3624. This should make it easier to test some of the portal D-Bus APIs using gdbus call.

GNOME Circle Apps and Libraries

Solanum

Balance working time and break time.

Chris 🌱️ says

Solanum 6.0.0 is out with the following changes:

  • The timer’s text now scales with window size. You should now see larger text at larger window sizes
  • You now have the option to make Solanum go fullscreen when a break starts
  • Notifications are now appropriately dismissed when resuming the timer
  • We now ship branding colors in our app data
  • Miscellaneous metainfo improvements
  • Various code modernization updates
  • Miscellaneous translation updates

We also now follow the system accent color!

Keypunch

Practice your typing skills

Brage Fuglseth (he/him) announces

This week I released Keypunch 6.0, with more realistic results, extended language support, and a brand new feature called frustration relief. Learn more on my blog.

Third Party Projects

larma reports

Dino 0.5.0 has been released! This release features improved file transfers and two completely reworked dialogs. Full release blog post: https://dino.im/blog/2025/04/dino-0.5-release/

Jeffry Samuel reports

Alpaca, an Adwaita app to chat with local and online AI models will release version 6.0.0 this saturday (April 12) with a lot of new features https://github.com/Jeffser/Alpaca/discussions/678 thanks

Sebastian Wiesner reports

A new release of Picture Of The Day is available. This release improves navigation between multiple Bing images with a new overlay toolbar, adds toolbar buttons to open and save the current image, and fixes some embarrassing crashes and locale issues.

Picture Of The Day is a small GNOME utility to get a fresh daily wallpaper from various sources. It’s available from Flathub.

JumpLink announces

Last week I introduced my first app Learn 6502 Assembly on Flathub, and this week I’m happy to announce a update to version 0.2.0.

This new version focuses on improving the learning experience with:

  • Help features to make code editing easier for beginners
  • Better game controls and display for mobile devices
  • New tools to examine your code, including a disassembler and memory viewer
  • File management to save and load your programs
  • Various usability improvements, including automatic pause when switching screens

The app continues to provide a complete learning environment for 6502 assembly language with an interactive tutorial, code editor, debugger, and visual game console.

دانیال بهزادی reports

As the northern hemisphere welcomes spring with Nowruz - the Persian New Year symbolizing renewal and rebirth - we’re proud to announce Carburetor 5.1.0, your gateway to a more free and private Internet. This update blossoms with improvements timed to honor fresh beginnings.

What’s New?

  • 🌐 Enhanced Locale Support: Resolved issues for English and several other language users for a smoother experience
  • 🎨 GNOME HIG Compliance: Refined interface elements that enhance usability and integrate naturally with GNOME design standards
  • 📖 Refined Messaging: Updated text across the app for clearer instructions and better user guidance

Nowruz: A Time for Digital Renewal

Just as Nowruz celebrates nature’s rebirth by washing away winter’s dust, Carburetor helps cleanse your digital footprint. In a world where surveillance dims the light of free expression, this release reaffirms our commitment to ensuring everyone enjoys secure, unfiltered access to the Internet.

francescocaracciolo reports

Newelle 0.9.0 has been released

  • 🔈 Added TTS support for Groq and OpenAI compatible APIs
  • 🎙️ Added Whisper.CPP support with model manager for speech recognition
  • 📃 Added a new API for extensions to create and manage RAG indexes
  • 🧠 Improved the model selection popup
  • 🔢 Improved LaTeX rendering
  • 🚀 A ton of performance improvements and refinements

Newelle is an advanced AI Linux assistant for Gnome. You can download it from Flathub.

Cleo Menezes Jr. reports

The first release of Serigy is now available! Serigy is a proof of concept for a ‘clipboard pinner’ for GNOME.

Watch a brief video on how to use Serigy.

Get it on Flathub

Flare

Chat with your friends on Signal.

schmiddi says

Flare 0.15.16 was released this week. As the last TWIG entry of Flare was already over a year ago, and there have been 19 releases in the meantime, I’ll quickly summarize what happened in that year:

  • Four fixes for being unable to link the device, or using Flare as a primary device.
  • Four fixes making receiving messages more reliable.
  • Two fixes for issues when sending messages and images.
  • Fixes for two security issues.
  • Two fixes for rare crashes.
  • Two performance improvements.
  • Six UI bug fixes and minor UI improvements.
  • Quite a few more minor things, which you can read in detail in the changelog

As you can see, the focus with Flare has mostly shifted towards stability recently. This should lead to major improvements in the actual day-to-day usability of Flare. So if you tried out Flare before but abandoned it due to issues regarding stability, you should maybe try out Flare again after the recent improvements.

But this of course leads to a stagnation in the features being developed. I don’t expect the priority of stability over features to change in the upcoming months as I will very likely be pretty busy and therefore won’t be able to implement new features myself. Merge requests for new features and other improvements are of course still welcome, so if you have an idea for a feature you want and know some Rust and GTK, feel free to review the contributing guidelines and developer documentation and send over a merge request.

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!