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Collect items for GNOME 45 release notes

This issue is for tracking items of interest for the GNOME 45 release notes. Please feel free to edit the issue directly or make suggestions in the comments. Changes can be big or small - we want to know every change that might be of interest or an enhancement for either users or developers.

For users

Shell

Adwaita icon theme

Initial setup

  • Improve information about data collection (clarify that no personal info is collected), set privacy settings to off if switches aren't visible, don't show ABRT switch if distro name is missing: GNOME/gnome-initial-setup!204 (commits)

New core apps

Loupe and Snapshot 🎊

Settings

Software

Document Scanner

Has been ported to GTK4.

Maps

  • Zoom buttons moved from the header bar to overlaid buttons shown over the map.
  • New button to indicate direction and orientate the map to north.
  • Ability to explore nearby points-of-interest in the search popover
  • Replace legacy GTK message dialogs with libadwaita toasts
  • Rewrite the routing sidebar to use an AdwOverlaySplitView, enabling better adaptive support, including touch screen swipe gestures to open and close the sidebar

New app styling and adaptive behavior

New visuals and adaptive behaviour for apps (https://blogs.gnome.org/alexm/2023/06/15/rethinking-adaptivity/). So far adopted in:

  • Console
  • Text Editor
  • Calendar
  • Characters
  • Clocks
  • Contacts
  • Disk Usage Analyzer
  • Files
  • Fonts
  • Tour
  • Web

Tracker issue is GNOME/Initiatives#41

Files

Web

Now uses AdwTabOverview

Calendar

Performance improvements

Work by Christian, enabled by having frame pointers in Fedora and GNOME OS.

Blog post: https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2023/07/28/how-to-use-sysprof-again/

Connections

Connections has gained the ability to copy/paste text, images and files for RDP connections - GNOME/gtk-frdp!23 (merged)

Calculator

Weather

Console

Other

For developers

Libadwaita

https://blogs.gnome.org/alexm/2023/06/15/rethinking-adaptivity/

Two new types of list rows:

libspelling

https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/libspelling

Typescript

There's now a Typescript SDK extension: https://github.com/flathub/org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.typescript. There's also a GNOME Builder template: https://gitlab.gnome.org/BrainBlasted/gnome-typescript-template/ .

Libpeas

Now supports Javascript plugins: https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2023/06/02/gjs-plugins-for-libpeas-2-0/ . Through this, Javascript can be used to write GNOME Builder plugins.

libdex

"Libdex, an async/await/futures library for GLib based applications, gained support for performing async I/O on traditional file-descriptors in the public API. This was always available internally and utilizes io_uring on Linux. Additionally, a number of new GIO abstractions were provided for GDBusConnection and GSubprocess. Fixes were also added to improve GObject Introspection integration."

Libmks

https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/libmks/-/releases/0.1.0. Libmks provides a “Mouse, Keyboard, and Screen” implementation for QEMU utilizing the D-Bus display device. It supports importing DMA-BUF into GdkTexture with damages for more efficient rendering as part of a GTK 4-based application.

Glib

GLib has just acquired an internal list of pending GTasks, for debugging what’s going on in your app using gdb. Use it by calling print g_task_print_alive_tasks() in gdb. See GNOME/glib!3404 (merged)

Edited by Allan Day