A new app was added to GNOME Circle: Binary by @fizzyizzy05@tech.lgbt! https://apps.gnome.org/Binary/

Binary makes working with numbers of different bases (like binary or hexadecimal) a breeze. No more counting binary digits on your fingers!

Congratulations! 🎉

Overview of some of the new features in the upcoming GNOME 47 release.

What surprised me was that the author of the feature is an employee of Volkswagen who has worked on this on their behalf.

As part of our outreachy internship program on the GNOME Community Udo Ijibike and Tamnjong Larry (myself) under the guide of our mentors Allan Day and Aryan Kaushik conducted usability tests to evaluate the user experience across three media applications: Decibels (Audio Player), Loupe (Image Viewer), and Showtime (Video Player). Our goal was to identify areas for improvement and enhance the overall usability of these applications to better align with users' natural workflows.

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For this study, we recruited five participants from across the world who were GNOME users but had not used any of the media apps before the study. The participants were from diverse works of life from software developers, students, and a medical doctor, just people who use GNOME regularly. The participants were recruited through social media posts on GNOME's official channels on Twitter and Mastodon.

The biggest change since last release is that we now use the vector-based map by default and the old raster map has also been retired since we wanted to move forward with things like enabling, and relying on clickable POIs directly in the map view so we could the remove the old tedious “What's here?” context menu doing a reverse geocoding to get details about a place (which is also a bit hit-and-miss with regards to how close to where you point the actual result is).

Apart from this other benefits we get (and this has already been mentioned in earlier posts) localized names (when tagged in OpenStreetMap) and finally a proper dark mode with our new GNOME map style.

SaveDesktop can save:

• your icons, fonts, and themes
• your settings
• your backgrounds (including dynamic wallpapers, provided that the same username is retained)
• your installed Flatpak apps and their data
• your Desktop folder in the home directory
• other items related to your desktop environment (e.g., Cinnamon extensions and applets, KDE Plasma widgets, GNOME and Nautilus extensions, etc.)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19327308

Notable changes

• Add experimental color management protocol support
• Use libadwaita for server-side decorations on GNOME (on Xorg and Xwayland apps)
• Let scaling-aware Xwayland clients scale themselves
• Add initial PipeWire explicit sync support

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19239598

Hopefully this means no more blurry Xwayland apps.