#220 Exemplary Snake

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Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from October 03 to October 10.

GNOME Core Apps and Libraries

Libadwaita ↗

Building blocks for modern GNOME apps using GTK4.

Alice (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 reports

the new sidebar widgets have had a few additions the last 2 weeks:

  • AdwSidebar items can now have tooltips, a context menu and a drop target
  • AdwViewSwitcherSidebar has the same search API as the regular sidebar now (:filter and :placeholder)
  • Both types of sidebars can now activate items when hovering them during a drag-n-drop operation, same as view switchers. AdwSidebarItem has API for disabling that, as sometimes it’s unwanted

Third Party Projects

JumpLink announces

Learn 6502 Assembly v0.6.0 is out!

Learn 6502 Assembly is a modern, native GNOME application that provides a complete learning environment for 6502 assembly language programming.

This update adds an all-new Examples section with ready-to-run 6502 assembly programs, including Snake and a Stack example! You can now even share your own code examples directly from within the app, this will open a GitHub pull request automatically.

Grab it on Flathub

Phosh ↗

A pure wayland shell for mobile devices.

Guido announces

Phosh 0.50.0 is out:

The phone shell itself got updated to work with GNOME 49. The compositor gained workspace support and the on-screen keyboard now deletes complete words on backspace long press, better handles partially deleted words (when using the presage completer), automatically swaps punctuation and space after completing words and got a slight visual refresh.

There’s more, see the full details at here

Parabolic ↗

Download web video and audio.

Nick says

Parabolic V2025.10.2 is here! This release contains new yt-dlp supported plugins and some bug fixes.

Here’s the full changelog:

  • Added support for the nsig decryption yt-dlp plugin
  • Added support for the srt_fix yt-dlp plugin
  • Added the ability to see exact yt-dlp error during validation
  • Fixed an issue where incompatible OPUS audios would be selected on Windows
  • Fixed an issue where no formats were available when preferred codecs were set

OS-Installer ↗

A (third-party) generic OS-Installer that can be customized by distributions.

Peter Eisenmann says

OS-Installer version 0.5 was released this week featuring these changes:

  • Working translations independent of system languages
  • Slideshow support, shown during installation
  • Support for more scripting languages, e.g. Python and Lua
  • Simpler disk/partition selection with expander rows
  • Improved output terminal, copying support
  • Config can be passed as CLI parameter
  • Extended and simplified config options
  • Faster search for timezone and region lists
  • Internal refactorings for a cleaner code base
  • Added translations (Farsi, Hebrew, Kabyle, Tamil, Vietnamese) and updated existing translations

Many thanks to all translators and everyone providing feedback! Special thanks to Clayton Craft for fixes and extra motivation ✨

Feel free to reach out in our Matrix chat for support.

Miscellaneous

aleasto says

Canonical has announced the release of Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” featuring GNOME 49.

GNOME Foundation

Allan Day reports

A weekly update is available with highlights from the GNOME Foundation. This week’s post covers membership requirement changes, Digital Wellbeing progress, Board meeting preparation, and more.

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/2025/10/twig-220/