#267 A New Era

September 25, 2026 • 19 Notes • Curated by Brage

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from September 18 to September 25.

Third Party Projects

Titouan Real announces

Era is a new calendar app for mobile and desktop that grows with your needs. It’s simple and calm for everyday use, while powerful features remain available when you need them. Use Era in a small window alongside other apps for multitasking, or switch to fullscreen for complex planning. It syncs your events with most online providers and continues working when you’re offline.

This week Era’s first beta version was released on Flathub, following more than a year of development. Download Era from Flathub now and report any bugs you can find.

For those interested in the technical details, Era is written in Rust and built with libadwaita for the GNOME desktop. We’re also working towards Android support and an APK is available from the CI pipeline. Under the hood, Era uses an extensible, modular calendar backend. It currently integrates with Evolution Data Server, while an experimental peer-to-peer backend based on p2panda is also available in devel builds.

Contributions are welcome, whether through code, testing, translations, or design. Check out the repository and join the conversation on our Matrix channel: https://matrix.to/#/%23era:gnome.org to get involved.

Particular thanks go to Philipp Sauberzweig for working on the design, as well as to everyone that helped me across the GTK, Libadwaita, Rust ❤️ GNOME and other communities!

Tanay announces

Deep Dive - Submerge into Deep Focus

This week I launched Deep Dive my second app after Whisp, Deep Dive is an active productivity timer built for the GNOME desktop. Based on the concept of “Submerging,” it operates on the principle that deep work requires strict boundaries. When you start a timer, you go underwater where distractions cannot reach you—you either finish the dive, or you deliberately “Give Up” and surface early.

You can choose between a Pomodoro Session or a Timer Session but that is not it -

Other Features Include :

  • Submerge Mode: Locks the timer, completely preventing you from pausing or skipping your focus session.

  • Break Overlays: Forces you to step away with a full-screen overlay during your scheduled screen breaks.

  • Do Not Disturb Integration: Automatically silences system notifications while you are submerged in a work block.

  • Project Tracking: Securely logs your focused time against specific projects locally on your device with graph based Stats

  • User Customizability: All of this is customizable from length of the Pomodoro to Break Limits even Notifications

Deep Dive is now officially available on Flathub:

Website: https://tanaybhomia.github.io/DeepDive/ Flathub: https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.tanaybhomia.DeepDive Repository: https://github.com/tanaybhomia/DeepDive Support me : https://tanaybhomia.github.io/donate.html

Feedback is always welcome.

Capypara says

This week I updated Field Monitor. Field Monitor is a remote desktop client designed for GNOME that is optimized for connecting to virtual machines. It’s now more stable and performant than before and it’s UI has been simplified. It now also supports direct QEMU/D-Bus connections for configured KVM/QEMU libvirt VMs.

Download on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/de.capypara.FieldMonitor

Will Warner announces

Quadrapassel 51.0 has been released!

Here’s what is new:

  • Added the Cornish translation
  • Updated translations: Lithuanian, Russian, Belarusian, Czech, Ukrainian, Georgian, Chinese (China), Slovenian, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese, Kazakh, Hungarian
  • Fixed a bug where blocks would not stop moving if the game lost focus
  • Fixed a bug where game keys wouldn’t work once if they were pressed before to starting a game
  • Added a -1 difficulty, where the level never increases
  • Modernized the ‘Game Over’ view
  • Modernized the game themes and removed the tango and tango flat styles
  • Changed the game stats to use cards
  • Replaced the ‘Appearance’ dialog with an ‘Appearance’ page in the preferences

You can get Quadrapassel on Flathub.

Will Warner also announces

Solitaire 51.0 is out!

Here’s what is new:

  • Added the Polish and Finnish translations
  • Updated translations: Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese (China), Georgian, Kazakh, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Cornish, Georgian
  • Made target card stacks dim
  • Made cards show different cursors
  • Fixed bug where redoing a move would not run the solver
  • Changed the game save feature to allow up to 4 saves at a time
  • Improved focus, dragging, and selection indication
  • Moved the appearance selector to the preferences, and improved its layout
  • Made the new game button save the current game and always move to the game selection
  • Moved unfinished games to a new section
  • Moved the undo and redo buttons to the menu
  • Changed the window color to have better contrast
  • Fixed a crash when the waste was clicked while empty in the Pyramid game
  • Changed the pyramid game rules to only require the pyramid to be empty for a win

You can get Solitaire on Flathub

Rat Cornu says

ratic music player had small improvements the past weeks with the new releases 0.4.2 and 0.4.3! The musics in the queue can now be reordered, and a small menu button is next to them to perform some actions, like going to the music album, or showing a dialog with the music tags. A right click on a music on the main view also open the same menu. Moreover, a noticeable change in the settings occurred, making clearer what picking a music does. Other small things has been fixed. You can check the new versions on flathub, on the repo, or even come discuss with us on our matrix room! Thanks again for all the people that contribute to the localization on weblate!

ckappgit says

AkiZip, our GTK4 archive front-end manager written in Python, has been updated to 0.4.0 on Flathub!

You can now process multiple files at once instead of being restricted to single-file operations.

A core maintainer has also returned to active development to help move the project forward.

Additionally, the security vulnerability fixed back in version 0.3.4 (GHSA-pxfq-f5pr-6crv) has now been officially assigned CVE-2026-92699.

Update AkiZip on Flathub and check out the repository!

Links: GitHub: https://github.com/AkiZip/AkiZip Flathub: https://flathub.org/en/apps/top.akizip.akizip

Alexey Volkov announces

Tailor - Create Bootable Drives

A tailor stitches - this one stitches OS images onto your flash drive

Recently launched Tailor - application for bootable USB creation without hunting .iso on internet.

Tailor has own OS catalog, using osinfo-db base. Pick OS family, edition, version, arch, then click ‘Create Bootable USB’. Image downloads (stays cached for rewrite later), Tailor checks checksums and starts writing.

GTK/Adwaita does not mean that Tailor is Linux-only: it is available on Windows too!

Tailor is now officially available on Flathub:

Repository: https://altlinux.space/qualimock/Tailor Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/org.altlinux.Tailor Windows builds: https://altlinux.space/qualimock/Tailor/releases

Feedback is always welcome.

Lanséria says

New week, new update! Hello everyone, this week I’ve updated PedantiK to version 1.7.0, with two features : hints and list of previously guessed words.

You can now reveal random words in the page to help you if you get stuck, and all your guesses will be shown in a sidebar, allowing you to review what you’ve already guessed!

Thank for the community to suggesting these ideas! And have fun :D

xjuan reports

Casilda 1.6 Released!

A simple Wayland compositor widget for GTK 4

This release includes Clipboard and Drag&Drop integration with the host compositor.

You can read more about it at blogs.gnome.org/xjuan/2026/09/24/casilda-1-6-released/

Release Notes:

  • Add DnD and clipboard support
  • Add support xdg_foreign protocol
  • Fix modifiers in pointer button press events
  • Add keyboard Caps/Num/Scroll Lock support
  • Fix popup of popup crash
  • Fix maximized/fullscreen state handling
  • Fix modifiers flags creation (Evgenii Danilin)
  • Drop cursor surface listeners when the surface is destroyed (Evgenii Danilin)
  • Close dup’d plane FDs when a dmabuf import fails (Evgenii Danilin)
  • Advertise a valid output scale to avoid a scale-0 assert (Evgenii Danilin)
  • Unref the wayland GSource (Evgenii Danilin)
  • Meson config cleanup (Val Packett)
  • Use gtk api for snapping to device pixel grid

Давид Султаниязов says

ReadySet 0.13.1

The modular application for installing and initializing the ReadySet system was already mentioned in TWIG #233, and we’re back to tell you what we’ve done in the meantime.

New plugins

ReadySet has started to acquire built‑in plugins for convenient use in various distributions:

  • date-and-time — selecting the date, time, and time zone, including auto-selection by language;
  • software — adding ThirdParty repositories: Flathub, proprietary solutions, and so on;
  • network — configuring Wi‑Fi and the computer’s name on the network;
  • privacy — privacy settings. For now, this only includes enabling automatic geolocation detection;
  • license-agreement — accepting the license agreement.

ReadySet is already in use!

Now ReadySet is used in some systems of the ALT Linux family — ALT Mobile (a system for mobile devices), ALT Regular Gnome (a regularly updated image), and ALT Atomic Onyx (an atomic distribution with GNOME).

Currently, it is used as a master for initial setup for these systems, and later it is planned to use it as an installer for ALT Atomic systems — the development of the plugin has already begun.

Adaptive interface

The main improvement to the interface was the enhancement of adaptability. ReadySet can operate in three modes depending on the screen size and format:

  • for tablets and portable set‑top boxes — a horizontally elongated small screen;
  • for mobile devices — a vertically elongated small screen;
  • for computers — a large screen.

Some widgets have been moved to the libcase library, which other projects will be able to reuse.

Architectural changes

ReadySet now supports various operating modes:

  • installer — a mode for use as an installer;
  • initial-setup — a mode for the initial setup wizard;
  • existing-user — a mode for additional configuration during updates and the introduction of new functionality.

Special attention has also been paid to integration with GDM for running in kiosk mode and seamless transition into the system immediately after the initial setup is completed, without the need to re‑log in as the user.

For developers

For testing in CI/CD, images are built based on ALT Atomic Minimal with GNOME and Phosh, with ReadySet added; these can then be installed on a virtual machine to test functionality.

In the future, it is planned to create a knowledge base so that other distribution developers can integrate ReadySet into their ecosystem.

dabrain34 reports

🎉 New Release Announcement: GstPipelineStudio v0.6.0 🎉

It’s a great pleasure to announce the release of GstPipelineStudio version 0.6.0! This release adds an auto-suggest engine that proposes the next element to connect to your pipeline, brings GstPipelineStudio to three languages and moves the interface to libadwaita.

Highlights:

  • Auto-suggest engine proposing the next element to add
  • Caps typing with typefind and demuxer caps discovery
  • Open Media URI dialog for uri-property elements
  • Pipelines list view and multi-node rubber-band selection
  • Read-only graph mode during playback
  • Translations for French, Spanish
  • Reworked UI with libadwaita dialogs and GraphView themes
  • Category badges and media-type colors on elements
  • GStreamer 1.28.7, GTK 4.22.4 and libadwaita 1.9.2
  • HTTPS support bundled on Windows and macOS
  • Rework the GStreamer log handler

Participants:

  • Stéphane Cerveau — maintainer and main contributor
  • Dillon Hemphill
  • Translations contributed through Weblate

🚀 Upgrade Now!

To get the latest version of GstPipelineStudio, visit the project’s page and check out the Changelog for more details.

Happy streaming! 🎬📡

Bilal Elmoussaoui reports

I have released a new beta version of oo7 crates in preparation of it adoption in the wider linux distribution communities. You can find more details at https://github.com/linux-credentials/oo7/releases/tag/0.7.0.beta

Shell Extensions

swink announces

Now Playing Card puts a little equalizer in your top panel. Click it for cover art, seeking and controls. It works with any player: Spotify, browsers, whatever. Install it and forget about it. It took about a month from first commit to store. The idea took an evening. The rest went to cover art, because every player sends it differently.

Get it: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/10736/now-playing-card/ Source: https://github.com/epogonii/nowplaying-card

swink says

Wisp, a GNOME Shell extension that brings snapper into the top bar.

On most btrfs systems snapper keeps taking snapshots in the background, yet restoring from one usually means dropping to the terminal. With Wisp you can list your snapshots, check what changed since any of them, pull back individual files, or roll the entire system back, all from the panel.

Get it: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/10755/wisp/ Source: https://github.com/epogonii/wisp

somepaulo says

The Weather Or Not extension has been updated for GNOME 51. The code has been almost completely rewritten to use underlying functionality already available in Shell instead of recreating them. Generally, the extension now works much more clearly than before.

On the user facing side of things, there’s now a smooth transition when weather data changes and a spinner for when data is first loaded on boot, on location change or after a long time without a connection. Stale weather data gets dimmed after an hour with no successful updates.

Last but not least, accessibility has been improved with proper support for detecting keyboard presses and for the reduced motion setting.

The new version has already been approved and is live on EGO..

Miscellaneous

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

The “3. Probabilistically Automated” label has been appointed throughout the GNOME/ namespace on GNOME GitLab, for labeling tickets/issues and merge requests that use artificial “intelligence”. This new label describes itself as the following:

Major or total reliance on “AI” / LLMs / stochastic parrots to generate code or bug reports. Usually accompanied by a lack of proper testing, and writing reports or finalizing patches based on plausibly sounding intended behavior rather than correctness of code.

We decided to use “probabilistically automated” as the label to avoid anthropomorphizing artificial “intelligence”.

The discussion took place in the Calendar Matrix room, with contributors from different projects (specifically, Document Scanner and Nautilus). Calendar already used the “Probabilistically Automated” label but only internally, which was also announced on GNOME Discourse. Document Scanner was the second one to use the label in the project by recreating the label, and one of the Nautilus developers was looking into recreating the label for Nautilus. Since this was a lot of duplicated effort, we decided to appoint it throughout the GNOME/ namespace, so every project that bans AI contributions can also use this label. The only thing that needed to be done was to tweak the wording and then appoint it.

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!