Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from June 06 to June 13.
GNOME Releases
Adrian Vovk announces
The GNOME Release team is pleased to announce that we have decided to move forward with the removal of GNOME’s X11 session. To that end, we have disabled the X11 session by default at compile time, and have released an early GNOME 49.alpha.0 to get this change into distributions like Fedora Rawhide. The feedback we hear back will inform our next steps. Please check out Jordan’s blog post for more details.
GNOME Core Apps and Libraries
Adrian Vovk reports
Core components of the GNOME desktop, like GDM and gnome-session, are actively undergoing modernizations that will increase GNOME’s dependency on systemd. To ensure that our downstreams are aware of this change and have time to prepare, the GNOME release team has written a blog post explaining what is changing, why, and how to adapt. Please see Adrian’s blog for details.
Glycin ↗
Sandboxed and extendable image loading and editing.
Sophie 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) says
Glycin, GNOME’s new image loading library that is already used by our Image Viewer (Loupe), can now also power the legacy image-loading library GdkPixbuf. This will significantly improve the safety of image handling and provide more feature in the future. The article Making GNOME’s GdkPixbuf Image Loading Safer contains more details.
Third Party Projects
nozwock announces
Packet has received several updates since the last time. Recent improvements include:
- Desktop notifications for incoming transfers
- The ability to run in the background and auto-start at login
- Nautilus integration with a “Send with Packet” context menu option
As always, you can get the latest version from Flathub!
justinrdonnelly reports
Hot on the heels of the debut release of Bouncer, I’ve released a new version. Critically, this version includes a fix for non-English language users where Bouncer wouldn’t start. And if your non-English language happens to be Dutch, you get an extra bonus because it now includes Dutch translations thanks to Vistaus! Bouncer is available on Flathub!
Alexander Vanhee reports
Gradia has received a major facelift this week, both in terms of features and design:
- A new background image mode has been added, offering six presets to choose from, or you can bring your own image!
- A new solid colour background mode is now available, most notably including a fully transparent option. This allows you to ignore the background feature entirely and use Gradia purely for annotations.
- Introduced an auto-increasing number stamp tool, useful for creating quick guides around an image.
- The app now also finally persists the selected annotation tool and its options across sessions.
You can grab the app on Flathub.
Semen Fomchenkov says
Hello everyone! This week, at ALT Gnome and the ALT Linux Team, we’re happy to announce that Tuner is now available on Flathub!
This process took us longer than expected, as the Flathub team had concerns about the minimal functionality of the base Tuner app. As a result, the Flathub build of Tuner also includes the TunerTweaks module, which provides basic GNOME customization features across different distributions.
New Features in Development
We are actively working on expanding the functionality of plugins and adapting Tuner to various environments. Here are some of the features we are currently finalizing or developing and plan to include in future releases:
- The ability to manage installed plugins directly from within Tuner, such as hiding unused ones without uninstalling them, and viewing information about plugin authors.
- Improved API for modules to simplify the creation of basic modules and allow for more extensible functionality (already used in the Flathub build and in the TunerTweaks module).
- Support for complex page structures, enabling more advanced modules with custom menus and submenus in the interface (thanks to the GNOME Builder team for the inspiration).
All current changes are available on the project page in ALT Linux Space
Documentation and Community
We recently launched a dedicated Matrix room for Tuner, which you can join here: Tuner Matrix Room
Once we complete major API changes in Tuner, we plan to update the module development documentation and present it as a community-driven Wiki project. We’ll be sure to notify you once it’s ready!
Pipeline ↗
Follow your favorite video creators.
schmiddi says
Pipeline version 2.4.0 was released, making it easier to curate your video feed. Adding filters was simplified to remove videos from your feed, by adding a context menu to videos for filtering out similar videos. Based on the uploader and title of this video, you will be prompted which part of the title you want to filter on. You can now also hide videos from your feed which you already watched. Your video history is of course stored locally, and you can turn off keeping the history if you want.
Shell Extensions
Just Perfection says
We’ve updated the EGO review guidelines for clipboard access. If your extension uses the clipboard, you need to update the metadata description and follow the new guidelines.
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!
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/06/twig-204/