#214 Managing Tasks

August 29, 2025 • 9 News • Curated by Felix

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from August 22 to August 29.

GNOME Core Apps and Libraries

GTK ↗

Cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.

Emmanuele Bassi reports

The new stable release cycle of GTK, 4.20, is now available in time for GNOME 49. Relevant improvements for this development cycle:

• YUV support in the video playback widget
• Better rendering for symbolic icons
• CSS media queries for color scheme and contrast
• Path intersection
• Rely on portals for session management
• Accessibility improvements for entries, file selection dialogs, and more
• Better support for Wayland, macOS, Android, and Windows

GNOME Circle Apps and Libraries

Tobias Bernard says

Last week Wordbook by Mufeed Ali was accepted into Circle! It’s a super handy offline dictionary for looking up English terms if you’re not sure about the definition. Congratulations!

https://apps.gnome.org/Wordbook

Third Party Projects

Sepehr Rasouli says

Sudoku v1.2.0 is here!

• You can now remove your last added note with Backspace
  • — thanks to @tahairavani

• The delete button now removes all notes in a cell
• Clue cells are now less transparent than entry cells for better readability
  • — thanks to @retpoison
• How to Play has been reworked for clarity
• Sudoku dialogs now have smoother transitions
• Fixed: Arrow directions were reversed in RTL (right-to-left) contexts
  • — thanks to @alexandervanhee
• Additionally, Sudoku is now available in Dutch and Persian! Thanks to @AlexanderVanhee and @MirS0bhan.

Install it from Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.sepehr_rs.Sudoku

kolunmi announces

Bazaar is now available on Flathub!

Bazaar is a new Flatpak store for GNOME with an emphasis on bringing Flathub to the desktop! It features an efficient interface with fun animations, download queuing, Flathub download statistics graphs, live-search capabilities, and more. Additionally, while not available by default in the Flatpak version, Bazaar supports a highly customizable app curation page which can be configured by distributors.

One of the main goals of the Bazaar project is to expose users to the possibility of funding their favorite FOSS developers through donations. My hope is to strengthen this wonderful ecosystem and eventually provide a completely seamless experience to software management on the Linux desktop!

Check it out on Flathub. Thanks for reading!

Alain reports

Planify 4.13.4 – New Features & Improvements ✨

We’re excited to announce the release of Planify 4.13.4, packed with new features, UI refinements, and important bug fixes that make your task management experience smoother than ever.

🔥 Highlights

• Font Size Selector – You can now adjust the font size inside the app for better accessibility and reading comfort.
• New Recurring Options – Added support for weekday/weekend recurring tasks, giving you more flexibility when scheduling.
• “Today” in Scheduled View – A new Today section helps you quickly see what’s due today alongside upcoming tasks, improving weekly planning at a glance.
• Smarter Quick Add – Planify now remembers the last used project in Quick Add, speeding up task creation.
• Markdown Support in Task Titles – With the new MarkdownProcessor, task titles now render inline code and markdown styling for clearer task descriptions.
• Keyboard Shortcuts Help – Added a handy popover in the task dialog to discover shortcuts for priorities, labels, projects, and reminders.
• Adaptive Windows (Partial Support) – Initial improvements for small screens make Planify more comfortable to use across different window sizes.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Polishing

• Fixed duplicate sync at startup, avoiding unnecessary background processes.
• Improved drag-and-drop animations and fixed the issue where items couldn’t be reordered at the end of a list.
• Fixed attachment opening failures with stronger validation and error handling.
• Improved shortcut handling so characters like @, !, and p1–p4 can be typed literally in task titles.
• Back button in the right sidebar now only appears when a parent task exists (removing duplicate “close” behavior).
• Day change detection is now more reliable, even after suspending or closing the laptop.

⚡️ With these updates, Planify becomes faster, smarter, and easier to use — whether you’re planning your week, writing detailed markdown notes, or simply managing daily reminders.

✨ You can now download Planify directly from Flathub.

🌐 We also have a brand new website! Visit us at useplanify.com to learn more.

Phosh ↗

A pure wayland shell for mobile devices.

Guido says

Phosh 0.49.0 is out:

In phone shell the upcoming events plugin can now filter out days without events, the thumbnails in the media player widget have been improved and lock screen’s keypad and the overview’s search bar use a bit of alpha blending now. The Wayland compositor phoc gained some sysprof support and the on screen keyboard now scales better to different phone sizes in portrait mode.

There’s more, see the full details at here

Gir.Core ↗

Gir.Core is a project which aims to provide C# bindings for different GObject based libraries.

Marcel Tiede announces

GirCore 0.7.0-preview.2 got released. It features new bindings for GstApp and librsvg. Additionally signals on interfaces are now available in the bindings, some bugs got squashed and a new convenience method to retrieve a region of GLib.Bytes data as a ‘ReadOnlySpan’ was added.

If you are interested to write a GObject / GTK based app in dotnet (C# / F#) feel free to checkout the GirCore website.

Fractal ↗

Matrix messaging app for GNOME written in Rust.

Kévin Commaille announces

Our latest stable release had a regression where sending media with the unauthenticated endpoints was failing. Fractal 12.1 fixes it, and provides a couple other papercut fixes.

This version is available right now on Flathub.

If you want to help us avoid regressions like that in the future, you could use Fractal Nightly. You could even get rid of our remaining bugs yourself!

Shell Extensions

Just Perfection says

The Just Perfection extension version 35 has been released with GNOME Shell 49 support, a new feature to disable window menu and some bug fixes.

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!