It's been quite a busy week in the GNOME world in preparing for GUADEC, the GNOME Foundation Executive Director stepping down, and lots of interesting technical achievements -- in part thanks to Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) funding for various initiatives. Some of the highlights for the week that were shared by This Week in GNOME include:
- Work on the Nautilus file chooser portal has wrapped up.
- The XDG-Spec proposal for App Intents has been revived. The aim here is for preference ordering for applications implementing the same intents. An intent in this context is an application providing a certain type of functionality such as a calculator or file manager.The Intent-Apps spec is derived from the MIME-Apps spec.
- The new Key Rack app that hopes to replace Seahorse has added the ability to change the keyring password as well as UI / keyboard accessibility improvements.
- Continued progress on USB Portals support.
- A merge request has been opened for a more adaptive GNOME Shell overview for small monitors/displays.
- Sysext-utils is a new project started by Codethink in collaboration with GNOME Foundation and STF funding to make it easier to build and test system components on immutable operating systems.
- GNOME has started a reward vulnerability reports and fixes program for €500 to €10,000 depending on criticality.
- Libadwaita has added a new spinner widget.
- The support for transforming sRGB to HDR outputs has landed.
- Showtime is now available on Flathub as a modern GNOME-oriented video player that hopes to replace GNOME Videos.
- Holly Million is stepping down as the GNOME Foundation Executive Director .
See This Week in GNOME for the latest details on these interesting changes and other accomplishments in working toward the GNOME 47 release due out in September.