#199 One More Week...
May 9, 2025 • 8 News • Curated by FelixUpdate on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from May 02 to May 09.
GNOME Foundation
steven announces
We have our first Foundation Report since I joined as ED! I hope these are less verbose and less rambling in the future… and also less focused on the minutiae of what I spent my week on. With each passing week, they will (hopefully) come to encompass more of what’s going on at the Foundation, at a higher level. For now, I’m meeting many, many lovely folks and finding out just how hard everyone is working.
Internships
Felipe Borges announces
We are happy to announce that five contributors are joining the GNOME community as part of Google Summer of Code 2025!
This year’s contributors will work on backend isolation in GNOME Papers, adding eBPF profiling to Sysprof, adding printing support in GNOME Crosswords, and Vala’s XML/JSON/YAML integration improvements. Let’s give them a warm welcome!
In the coming days, our new contributors will begin onboarding in our community channels and services. Stay tuned to Planet GNOME to read their introduction blog posts and learn more about their projects.
If you want to learn more about Google Summer of Code internships with GNOME, visit gsoc.gnome.org.
GNOME Core Apps and Libraries
Video Player (Showtime) ↗
Watch without distraction
kramo says
Video Player (codenamed Showtime) is replacing Videos (Totem) as GNOME’s default video player.
It will be included in GNOME 49, but it can already be installed from Flathub.
Third Party Projects
Jan Lukas says
I’ve released the first version of Typewriter to flathub. It is a, as of now, basic Typst editor with built-in live preview, template browser and export dialog. If you’re interested in a local-first Typst experience come join and contribute code and ideas.
ranfdev announces
I’m announcing that DistroShelf is finally available on flathub ! Sometimes, there are certain programs that aren’t available on your favorite distro… They are available for Ubuntu, but you don’t want to reinstall your OS just for that program.
* DistroShelf enters the chat *
It enables you to run containers that are highly integrated with your host system, using distrobox. In other words, it lets you install that program you want, inside a Ubuntu container. Then, you can use the program as if it were installed on your real distro! The program will see all your folders, all your devices… as you expect.
But you can run more than simple ubuntu containers! You can run pretty much any distro you want. I use it to run a development environment with the latest and greatest tools, inside an arch linux container.
Try it while it’s hot!
Parabolic ↗
Download web video and audio.
Nick says
Parabolic V2025.5.0 is here!
This release contains a complete redesign of the Qt/Windows app that features a much more modern experience.
yt-dlpwas also updated to the latest version to fix many website validation issues and some other features/fixes were added.Please note, as many of you may have seen already, development of Parabolic and the set of Nickvision apps has slowed down. This is due to me starting a new full-time job and thus leaving only the weekends for me to work on these projects. This does not mean I am stopping development, it just means that releases, updates, and fixes will unfortunately take longer now. I appreciate all of your support and patience for these updates. Any C++ developers who would like to work on the projects with me as well are more than welcome too and are encouraged to reach out to me on Matrix!
Here’s the full changelog:
- Added the display of the file size of a format if it is available
- Fixed an issue where file paths were not truncated correctly
- Redesigned the Qt app for a more modern desktop experience
- Updated yt-dlp to fix some website validation issues
GNOME Websites
Felipe Borges announces
It’s alive! Welcome to the new planet.gnome.org!
A few months ago, I announced that I was working on a new implementation of Planet GNOME, powered by GitLab Pages. This work has reached a point where we’re ready to flip the switch and replace the old Planet website.
This was only possible thanks to various other contributors, such as Jakub Steiner, who did a fantastic job with the design and style, and Alexandre Franke, who helped with various papercuts, ideas, and improvements.
As with any software, there might be regressions and issues. It would be a great help if you report any problems you find.
If you are subscribed to the old Planet’s RSS feed, you don’t need to do anything. But if you are subscribed to the Atom feed at https://planet.gnome.org/atom.xml, you will have to switch to the RSS address at https://planet.gnome.org/rss20.xml
Miscellaneous
Sid says
GNOME GitLab now uses macOS runners sponsored by MacStadium for managing our macOS CI pipeline. The setup consists of 2 Mac mini (M1, 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD) along with Orka (Orchestration with Kubernetes on Apple) virtualization. This is a significant bump in hardware specs compared to the current solution, allowing us to run more builds simultaneously. Thanks to MacStadium for sponsoring this infrastructure upgrade!
For more details refer to https://blogs.gnome.org/sid/2025/04/27/macstadium-sponsors-gnome-macos-ci-infrastructure/.
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!