Gregory's ServerNew releases proposed for AppCenter and Code. This release of AppCenter includes offline updates and huge performance improvements, shout-outs to @meisenzahl. Code release has new color schemes, tiles on tiny displays, lots of bug fixes 🎉
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 Couple tiny fixes trickling in still, but OS 7 is for the most part finished. Release announcement coming very very soon! Just merged this in AppCenter. Get info when an app isn’t fully translated in your language OS 7 is out and already gets tons of feedback. I’m seeing lots of branches being proposed as well. This month’s updates is gonna be juicy! New AppCenter release in the next day or two with fixes for a crash on category view and with a new Flatpak repair feature And I’m getting into showing Flatpak permissions in AppCenter finally: https://github.com/elementary/appcenter/pull/2007 Shoutouts to @lenemter for going through and cleaning up Gala’s issue tracker and fixing lots of little issues, glitches, improving performance, etc Files app menu landed so that’s for sure going out in this month’s updates! There’s also a branch to fix some focus issues in the save file dialog that should land. Lots of little goodies. Keep those reports coming in :) Been chewing on this for a while but just filed so I don’t forget about it https://github.com/elementary/sideload/issues/150 Did a few branches today based on my previous indicator prototyping https://github.com/elementary/wingpanel-indicator-sound/pull/248 https://github.com/elementary/wingpanel-indicator-sound/pull/247 https://github.com/elementary/wingpanel-indicator-sound/pull/246 Here’s another good easy win https://github.com/elementary/wingpanel-indicator-network/pull/258 Network device disambiguation was merged! I fixed some issues with the circle toggle branch this morning. Gonna work on some more code cleanups there as well. Circle buttons was merged into the sound indicator. Here's a screenshot with my outstanding branch for chunky sliders! Working on a rewrite of the widget we show in the panel for networking so that it shows all active connections including things like VPN and hotspots etc. long ways to go but feeling good about progress! As part of updating some docs to include how to activate app actions from your desktop launcher, I created a PR to update our code example. It's a full flatpak app you can build to see how app actions work! https://github.com/vala-lang/examples/pull/6 Getting places on this network indicator stuff. Need some cute icons and then we can start doing more serious testing Folks who use VPNs, how serious is being disconnected? Should it be a red slashy or is that too aggressive? Poll below: Folks who use VPNs, how serious is being disconnected? Should it be a red slashy or is that too aggressive? See images above Okay, it's ready to be tested I think! If you use a VPN or especially multiple VPNs, give this branch an install and restart and comment on github if you have issues :) https://github.com/elementary/wingpanel-indicator-network/pull/268 Spent some time updating some of the network indicator icons and cleaning up old unused ones. Really proud of all the work done in this area this month. Also shoutouts to @lenemter, the upcoming release of Gala fixes 15 reported issues so far, the oldest of which dates back to 2017. Really great work digging through old issues, modernizing the code base, etc Shoutouts to @alexm and the @gnome community in general, it looks like the next version of LibAdwaita will be able to detect when you’ve already intitialized Granite in your app and it’ll skip loading styles. Necessary for us for shipping GNOME Web, but just generally nice for any apps who want to support both GNOME and elementary platforms Toggle all the things! Did some icons for cellular networks here as well. Should ultimately be able to show devices with pretty complex ranges of network devices in a more compact area and provide more state information Redid the landing page for https://docs.elementary.io/develop/ and updated the (very outdated oops) AppCenter submission docs 🎉 Got some of our taxes paid and tagged a new Granite release today to unblock the GNOME Web 44 work and I think that’s what I’m capable of today. Still recovering from surgery. There are several other juicy releases queued including over a dozen bug fixes for Gala, the new app menu in Files, all that network indicator work, Gtk 4 port of Portals, and more! Like seriously gonna be a great updates month. So hang tight :) Happy Tuesday! Releases are building. I’ll get a blogpost up soonish. Still recovering and sitting in an office chair too long hurts 😅 I’m so bored right now, I made a draft of a thing. So much room for activities https://github.com/elementary/wingpanel-indicator-session/pull/174 Fixed a couple reported errors with new network menu. Update should go out imminently. Thanks for filing issue reports ❤️🎉 Shoutouts to @alexm GNOME Web 44 will now use elementary styles on elementary OS. Now it’s my turn to give it lots of love, but the path is paved! Fixing these issues will mean much better support for LibAdwaida widgets in general so it’s a huge win for anyone writing GTK apps who wants to make them look good on elementary OS :) https://github.com/elementary/browser/discussions/82#discussioncomment-5196435 I think taxes are all paid. It looks like our mastodon cross poster is no longer working so I hooked up Buffer and queued up some posts there. Gonna try to get the social media marketing machine turning more. Non-product tasks are not my favorite but they need doing. Made some good progress on supporting Adw.PreferencesWindow in the style sheet. Still a lot to go but the basics are there :) https://github.com/elementary/stylesheet/pull/1245 Did a thing to make sideloading more obvious during onboarding. I really want to get away from this “curated” term https://github.com/elementary/onboarding/pull/190 Shoutouts to leolost2605 for figuring out the fix for this elusive issue! Goes to show the hardest part of bug fixing is often figuring out what’s going wrong, writing the fix can be just a single line! https://github.com/elementary/mail/pull/825 Started the process of moving Granite-specific styles into Granite. This should make things easier to maintain and improve and ensure styles are loaded correctly for Granite apps https://github.com/elementary/granite/pull/639 Working on some documentation updates. Updated the Notifications section and added a code sample: https://docs.elementary.io/develop/apis/notifications I complained last week about non-development tasks and then got slapped in the face this week haha. Shoutouts to @davidmhewitt for switching our docker containers to use GitHub container registry and updating CI for >100 repos Cleaned up our documentation for Glib.Action including screenshots and added a new Popovers section! https://docs.elementary.io/develop/writing-apps/popovers It's a rainy day so I decided to have some fun today and work on Onboarding a bit. Here, I'm using Gtk.CSS to build this icon with the system's default wallpaper and logo etc. So if a distribution supplies its own icon, that will be used etc. All very adaptive to make Pantheon usable on other distros Several improved screens in the next version of Onboarding. This early access screen in particular is just way cleaner now. Sidenote: I also think I am really in favor of bumping up window corner radius from 6px to 9px. Thoughts? Needs some cleanup and stuff, but this is functional yay Also, color blindness filters soon?? https://github.com/elementary/gala/pull/1595 Writing documentation is so rewarding for me because it’s like taking years of picking up little tricks and distilling that into something that can fast forward someone else and I just love that. Anyways, small updates to the section on including custom icons: https://docs.elementary.io/develop/apis/gresource Lots of great work happening in Gala lately. Bug fixes, performance improvements, and the team is working on updates for Mutter 44 that includes future support for mixed DPI and fractional scaling 👀 https://github.com/elementary/gala/commits/master Planning to publish March updates post tomorrow, meanwhile more work in Onboarding to make a fat release next month. This time, replacing the guest session’s warning dialog https://github.com/elementary/onboarding/pull/205 This month’s updates looking good for new designs and new features. On top of all the recent work in Onboarding, several branches landed in Desktop Settings including new hot corner actions and a setting to dim the wallpaper in dark mode. Lots of improvements for Code. The team is still really hammering away on Gala. Plus Web 44 landed, and there’s been a number of fixes and improvements to Mail. Really impressed with the momentum going on right now Getting excited for this next Mail release. Landed a branch to bring back lots of keyboard shortcuts in the composer. Leonhard is working on better offline support. Making lots of progress towards Gtk 4 porting. Lots of good stuff happening! |
Drop it next week or naw?