#209 GUADEC 2025

July 25, 2025 • 9 News • Curated by Felix

Update on what happened across the GNOME project during the last two weeks from July 11 to July 25.

GUADEC 2025 is currently ongoing! You can find more details on events.gnome.org.

GNOME Core Apps and Libraries

GTK ↗

Cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.

sp1rit says

We have managed to find & circumvent the bug in the Adreno Android driver that was causing the GTK OpenGL renderer to break.

This means that GTK should now work with GL rendering for users with an Adreno GPU (i.e. Qualcomm SOC) on Android.

Calendar ↗

A simple calendar application.

Hari Rana | TheEvilSkeleton (any/all) 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️ says

After two weeks of writing, revising, and trying to make everything as digestible as possible, I finally published “GNOME Calendar: A New Era of Accessibility Achieved in 90 Days”, where I explain in detail the steps we took to turn GNOME Calendar from an app that was literally unusable with a keyboard and screen reader to an app that is (finally) accessible to keyboard and screen reader users as of GNOME 49!

https://tesk.page/2025/07/25/gnome-calendar-a-new-era-of-accessibility-achieved-in-90-days/

Third Party Projects

Alexander Vanhee reports

After coming back from vacation, I was able to make quite a bit of progress this week in Gradia, featuring two new additions.

The first is the much requested cropping tool. It took me some time to figure out exactly what I wanted from such a tool in the context of Gradia, with its background layers, annotations, and all. I finally implemented something that is (hopefully) nice to use.

The second feature is source snippets. It’s designed to make it easier to share a piece of code you’re particularly proud of on social media. It lets you control things like line width, padding, themes, and the like, without having to temporarily adjust those settings in your code editor.

You can download Gradia on Flathub or the Snap Store, for those who prefer that.

Phosh ↗

A pure wayland shell for mobile devices.

Guido announces

In our continued effort to make typing on phones easier and faster stevia (an on screen keyboard for phosh) can now dynamically adjust to the output scale when in portrait mode. This ensures that the on screen keyboard remains at the same physical size independent from the screen’s actual mode and scale. It can also add an empty space below the actual keys to make typing easier on taller phones. The images show the OSK at scale 2.5 and 3.

Parabolic ↗

Download web video and audio.

Nick reports

Parabolic V2025.7.0 is here! This release contains some new features and bug fixes.

Here’s the full changelog:

• Redesigned the Windows app using WinUI 3
• Added the ability to change the application’s translation language
• Added the ability to remember video and audio formats individually for each file type
• Fixed an issue where pressing enter in the download dialog would not start the download
• Fixed an issue where configuration files were not stored properly for the portable Windows build
• Fixed an issue where downloads did not pause and resume on Windows
• Fixed an issue where there would sometimes be leftover separators in the downloads list on GNOME
• Fixed some elements of the GNOME UI as we get closer to joining GNOME Circle
• Updated yt-dlp

Flare ↗

Chat with your friends on Signal.

schmiddi says

Flare version 0.17.0 was released. This switches how Flare stores its data to sqlite. This change is not backwards compatible, you will therefore need to relink after updating Flare. This also fixes a bug where contacts were displayed as phone numbers or “Unknown Contact” instead of their name.

Shell Extensions

axet announces

New system monitor gnome shell extension. Simple UI. Compact view. Based on gnome system monitor. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/8272/system-monitor/

GNOME Foundation

steven says

2025-07-12 Foundation Update

• new treasurers!
• pmOS joins the Advisory Board
• donate.gnome.org gets better
• Framework Computer & Slimbook, our new friends
• Annual Report and GUADEC talk
• “It’s Not 1998”
• Office Hours

https://blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/07/12/2025-07-12-foundation-update/

steven reports

2025-07-18 Foundation Report

• Annual Report
• 501c3 nonsense
• “Hackers”
• A rant about retaining capital in non-profits
• Private spaces for Community Health
• Preliminary board/officer assignments
• Banking: resilience & bookkeeping
• GUADEC cometh

https://blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/07/21/2025-07-18-foundation-update/

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!