#249 Quality Over Quantity

May 15, 2026 • 5 Notes • Curated by Felix

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from May 8 to May 15.

GNOME Circle Apps and Libraries

Graphs ↗

Plot and manipulate data

This week we released Graphs 2.0.

It’s been about two years since the last major feature-update, and this is by far our biggest update yet. On a technical level, the code base has known a major overhaul. Importing logic is written in a more modular way, making it possible to add parsers for new data types, and we rewrote a large part of the code-base from Python to Vala, which now stands for the majority of the code.

For the people who follow TWIG, some of this might sound familiar from the announcement of the beta, but we finally added support for some major long-requested changes. Most significantly, we finally have proper symbolic equation-support. Meaning equations now span over an infinite range, and can be manipulated analytically (e.g. doing a derivative of 6x² will change the equation to 12x, and the line will be re-rendered accordingly). Item and figure settings, such as when changing the scaling or limits, no longer block the view of the main canvas. The style editor editor has been redesigned with a live preview of the changes, we revamped the import dialog, and imported data now supports error bars. Equations with infinite values in them such as y=tan(x) now also render properly with values being drawn all the way to infinity and without having a line going from plus to minus infinity. We’ve also added support for spreadsheet and SQLite database files, drag-and-drop importing, improved curve fitting with residuals and better confidence bands, and now have proper mobile support. Since the beta-release we managed to squeeze in some improvements in the code-base, and labels are now concatinated in a smart way based on the screen size, making Graphs more usuable on mobile interfaces.

This release took a long time to get right, but we’re happy to get the new features to the public. Graphs is handcrafted by human hands, which takes more time than LLM-based slop. But the longer manual process does allow us to think through changes, and make intentional decisions with human care. I am very proud to say we are able to deliver something intentional where we can deliver the polish that both Graphs, as well as the users deserve. As always, thanks to anyone involved which includes everyone who has been providing feedback, reported issues, contributed with code, or helped in any other possible way. And of course especially to Christoph Matthias Kohnen who has been maintaining Graphs with me and is responsible for a large part of the architectural changes that made this release possible.

See a more complete list of changes here: https://blogs.gnome.org/sstendahl/2026/05/15/graphs-2-0-is-out/ And get the latest release on Flathub!

Third Party Projects

Anil reports

Codd is now available on Flathub!

Codd is a lightweight PostgreSQL client for GNOME, built with Rust, GTK4, libadwaita, Relm4, GtkSourceView, and sqlx. It focuses on a clean, native, and lightweight interface for working with PostgreSQL databases.

The initial release includes saved connections, SQL execution with syntax highlighting, result tables, query history, table browsing with pagination, filters and editable table cells.

More features are planned, and feedback from real-world PostgreSQL workflows would be very welcome.

Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.anil_e.Codd Source: https://github.com/anil-e/codd

Haydn Trowell says

The latest version of Typesetter, the minimalist Typst editor, brings a bunch of improvements for package and template usage, most notably:

a GUI package manager for installing and removing custom Typst packages and templates;

a template selection popover in the header bar for creating new documents from built-in and user-installed templates;

and an initial set of built-in templates.

Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/net.trowell.typesetter Source: https://codeberg.org/haydn/typesetter/

Alain says

Planify 4.19.2 is out! 🎉

This release brings several new features and fixes across the board.

On the backup side, Planify now supports automatic daily backups — backups trigger at midnight and can be copied to additional folders of your choice, including cloud-mounted directories.

CalDAV keeps getting better: sections are now fully supported via VTODO List prefix, syncing bidirectionally with Nextcloud Tasks, Thunderbird, and other clients. Horde server compatibility is also improved. Past dates can now be selected in the date picker, with dimmed styling and a handy Today pill button to jump back to the current month.

On the UI side, Planify now follows your GNOME system accent color, the Board view inbox section auto-hides when empty, and the multi-select label picker now correctly tracks only the changes you explicitly make.

Several bug fixes land too: calendar events now update correctly when kept open past midnight, task counts in Board view are accurate after drag and drop, and moving tasks between different sources (e.g. CalDAV → Local) now works correctly.

Get it on Flathub! 🚀

New to Planify? It’s a beautiful, open source task manager for Linux with Todoist and Nextcloud sync, built with GTK4 and libadwaita. Never worry about forgetting things again — give it a try!

Christian reports

🎉 Gitte 0.3.0 released!

Gitte 0.3.0 has been released, bringing full merge support, accessibility improvements, a new compact UI mode, and official macOS support.

The new merge workflow allows initiating, resolving, and completing merges directly from within the application. This release also adds a new compact UI mode, multi-selection support in the changed files list, and a release notes dialog with update notifications.

The diff viewer received major improvements as well: diffs in the log viewer can now be selected and copied and large diffs are handled more gracefully.

On the platform side, Gitte now supports macOS thanks to work by René de Hesselle. The app also received new GNOME-style icons by Jakub Steiner, expanded test coverage, CI integration, translation updates, and many internal refactorings and bug fixes.

Get it on Flathub, for macOS or check the source code

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!