This week in GNOME brings exciting updates to various apps, including the introduction of public transit directions in Maps and a feature-packed release of the task management application, Planify. Let's explore these updates and other notable developments in the GNOME project from August 23rd to August 30th, 2024.
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Maps, the GNOME application for exploring maps worldwide, now supports Transitous, offering public transit routing through a crowd-sourced approach backed by the MOTIS search engine.
This enhancement will significantly improve the app's navigation capabilities, particularly for users who rely on public transportation.
Planify 4.11.0 Supercharges Task Management
Planify, a popular GNOME task management application, received a major update with version 4.11.0, introducing a plethora of new features and improvements:
1. Improved Organisation and Focus:
Collapsible sections and task counters per section provide a cleaner and more organized view, while pinned tasks stay prominently at the top.
2. Enhanced Task Tracking:
An overdue task indicator on the "Today" button and a dedicated completed tasks view sorted by date enhance task tracking and management.
3. Streamlined Workflow:
New quick add keyboard shortcuts for tags, projects, and reminders, along with improved drag and drop functionality, streamline task creation and management.
4. Enhanced Accessibility and Preferences:
Markdown preference, improved keyboard navigation, and the ability to create sections directly from Quick Add enhance accessibility and user customization.
5. Performance and Synchronization Improvements:
Planify 4.11.0 boasts design and optimization enhancements for faster performance and reduced resource consumption. Additionally, Nextcloud synchronization sees improvements, addressing previous bugs.
GNOME Circle Welcomes Tuba and Formalizes Review Process
GNOME Circle, a collection of applications that adhere to GNOME's human interface guidelines, welcomed Tuba, a Fediverse client, into its fold. Tuba's inclusion expands the GNOME ecosystem's social networking capabilities, allowing users to connect and interact on the decentralized social web.
Furthermore, GNOME Circle formalized its review procedure, aiming for increased transparency and consistency. This involves "control reviews" and "group notices" to maintain the quality and adherence to guidelines within the Circle community.
Other Notable Updates
- GLib, a core GNOME library, will introduce support for sync/async/finish introspection annotations in its upcoming unstable release (version 2.83.0). Additionally, efforts are underway to improve GLib's debuggability on Windows CI machines, ensuring smoother operation on Windows and similar platforms.
- Blueprint, a markup language for creating GTK user interfaces, released version 0.14.0. This update features improved decompiler support, syntax enhancements for string arrays and accessibility relations, and various quality-of-life improvements.
- A new third-party application, Concessio, aims to simplify the understanding of Unix file permissions, particularly for new Linux users.
- A new stable release of JSON-GLib (version 1.10.0) introduces a comprehensive conformance test suite for improved JSON parsing, a new "strict" option for JsonParser, and various documentation enhancements.
GNOME Latam 2024
Mark your calendar! The GNOME community is gearing up for GNOME Latam 2024, scheduled for October 25th and 26th at the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia.
This event aims to celebrate and expand the GNOME community in Latin America, featuring talks and activities in Spanish and Portuguese.
And, that's all for this week in GNOME. The GNOME project continues to evolve with new features, improvements, and community events. Stay tuned with us for more updates about GNOME!
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