#222 Trip Notifications

October 24, 2025 • 10 Notes • Curated by Felix

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from October 17 to October 24.

GNOME Circle Apps and Libraries

Railway ↗

Travel with all your train information in one place.

Railway version 2.9.0 was released. This release allows you to get notifications about the current status of the trip, including for example when you will need to transition to the next train, when a train is running late, or when a departure platform changes. It also fixes an error with DB not working anymore. We also updated to the GNOME 49 runtime.

Third Party Projects

ranfdev reports

A new release of DistroShelf has been published! As always, you can get it from flathub

Added support for exporting binaries: You can just type the command and DistroShelf will resolve the binary path inside the container, then make it available on your host system. This is great if you have an immutable OS. You can install all your terminal utilities in a distrobox and export them from here

Save and restore main window size between sessions

Added keyboard shortcuts for common actions

Added qterminal and deepin terminal support

Fixed issues regarding distrobox creation, where some switches weren’t working

Many other small quality of life changes and bugfixes

lo announces

I have released Nucleus version 2! This update brings translation support for the periodic table info, support for radioactivity, some info fixes for Vanadium, Cadmium and Promethium, as well as the ability to search elements by symbol. The app has also been updated to GNOME 49 and ported to the new shortcuts dialog so you can see the newly added search shortcut.

Get the app and see the full changelog on Flathub: https://flathub.org/en/apps/page.codeberg.lo_vely.Nucleus

Crosswords ↗

A crossword puzzle game and creator.

jrb says

GNOME Crosswords 0.3.16 was released! Read the details at the release announcement.

This version contains the culmination of the hard work our GSoC and Outreachy students have done over the summer. There are two notable end-user features in this release. First, the game now has printing support. This feature involved a major reworking of the rendering system and hundreds of changes across the code base, resulting in a high-quality printed puzzle.

In addition, the Editor now has a significantly improved word suggestion widget. This updated widget will only recommend words that fit with existing letters in an area.

You can get it at flathub (editor)

Shell Extensions

Ravener reports

Hey everyone!

I’ve just published my first GNOME Shell extension: 1440 https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/8696/1440/

This extension is inspired by the macOS app https://1440app.com/ It shows an indicator in the panel, counting down the minutes until the day is over, by default, that’s until midnight, but you can change that time to suit your schedule.

The extension supports GNOME 45 to 49

CodeMonkeyIsland announces

Hello Everyone Published my first gnome extension: minimized-windows-buttons! Especially Microsoft Windows users get confused in gnome, when they minimzie a window, and it just “disappears”. To help those poor souls a bit, here is an extension to make them feel less lost. It creates a Button on the bottom of the main screen for each minimized window and “maximizes” it again on click.

link: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/8657/minimized-windows-buttons/

pendagtp announces

Hi everyone!

I’ve create a GNOME Shell extension: Hide dash in Overview This is a lightweight extension with no configuration needed - just enable or disable it. As the name suggests, it does only one thing: it hides the Dash (also often called the Deck in the Overview.

This extension supports versions starting v45

I originally made this for myself, but I hope it will be useful to others as well

Other similar extensions and why I made mine:

Hide-dock-in-overview - Archived

Hide Dash - Only works with v3.x

Dash to Dock - Great, but to many features and need customization, idk if it’s possible but I suppose

Link: hide-dash-in-overview

Filip Rund announces

Hi everyone! I’m super excited to have my first GNOME Extension published. I called it In Picture, because it moves and resizes Picture-in-Picture windows according to preferences, optionally keeping them always on top. I initially made it for myself, because PiP windows kept spawning in the middle of the screen and not “always above” (average Wayland experience 😁). And since it works, I figured why not share it with others? You can check it out here.

V says

Hi everyone! 👋

I just released Ordo, a GNOME 48 Shell extension that moves the window control buttons (minimize, maximize, close) from each window’s titlebar to a single location on the top panel. It keeps the buttons minimal, always at the top-right, and works well with tiling extensions like Forge.

You can find it on GNOME Extensions here: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/8686/ordo/

GNOME Foundation

Allan Day says

Another GNOME Foundation update is available this week, with news items from the last week. These include an increase in donations, a new accountant, and GNOME.Asia 2025 preparations.

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!

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