Pods is a frontend for podman. It uses libadwaita for its user interface and strives to meet the design principles of GNOME.

Features

• Accent colors are now properly supported. (#804, #807, #809, #811)
• All dialogs have been ported to AdwDialog to be more adaptive. (#810)
• Containers are now represented by cards in the container panel. (#778)
• The image search has been completely revised and is now much more streamlined. In addition, the tags of an image are suggested. (#758)
• Port mappings can now be configured when creating pods. (#772)
• Enable searching for container and pod processes. (#747)
• Killing container processes is now supported. (#748)
• The image search results now have an "verified" icon if an image is official. (#761)
• Logs are now sent to both std and syslog. (#763)
• Make it possible to create privileged containers. (#753)
• Better handling of empty states when selecting images, pods and volumes for a container to be created. (#769)
• Unification of status and health status in the container row. (#774)
• The recently introduced libadwaita Spinner now replaces all gtk Spinners. (#802)

Fixes

• All remaining processes are now closed after a container terminal exits. (#744)
• Streams are now closed correctly so that they do not run forever when the user changes the connection. (#764)
• A bug was fixed where the content of the container log page was initially too large. (#769)
• Stop filtering out containers, pods and volumes by default. (#770)

Improvements

• We now use appdata to construct the about dialog. (#743)
• Improve performance by utilizing the SignalListItemFactory::setup signal. (#745)
• Port GtkTreeView to GtkColumnView. (#746)
• After the last connection has been removed from the page with the connection selection, the home page is displayed again. (#760)
• The same background color is now used for list views as for the window. (#769)
• We have moved the banner from the bottom to the top in the container log page. (#769)
• Some titles have been shortened. (#769)
• We now use AboutDialog instead of AboutWindow. (803)
• Various style improvements (#741, #757)

mpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.

We are excited to announce the release of mpv 0.39.0, with more than 5 months of development since the last version. This release brings numerous improvements and fixes across nearly all components.

Key highlights:

• A new select.lua script, allowing users to easily choose files from playlists, tracks, chapters, output devices, and more.
• A native replacement for autoload.lua has been implemented. See --autocreate-playlist in the manual.
• NVIDIA RTX and Intel VSR scaling are now supported via the d3d11va filter.
• Media controls are now supported on Windows.
• Track selection has been improved, especially for multi-component languages like fr-CA.
• A new fifth page has been added to stats.lua, displaying track information.
• Compatibility with dmabuf-wayland has been significantly enhanced.
• Multi-touch support has been introduced.

I'm using Gnome 46 with Loupe as an image viewer. Can this tool perform simple functions like rotating, resizing, or cropping? I haven't been able to find a way to do this yet. Or should I use something else?

A bit last-minute this time, but we have a hackfest/release event coming up next weekend in Berlin feat. @postmarketOS, @p2panda, and more!

> GNOME 46.5 is now available as the fifth maintenance update to the GNOME 46 desktop environment series with more bug fixes and improvements.

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> GNOME 46.5 is here five weeks after the GNOME 46.4 release and fixes smartcard logins, adds user permissions to new Wi-Fi connections for restricted users, fixes the showing of pending PAM messages on the login screen, and fixes the “Locate Pointer” accessibility option when the “Reduce Animation” option is turned on.

> It also fixes several issues in the Mutter window and composite manager, including drag and drop between X11 and Wayland clients, drag and drop from grabbing pop-ups, EGLDevice support, frozen cursor on some hybrid machines, tablet input in maximized windows, frozen cursor after suspend, using modifiers on multi-GPU setups, propagating tablet device removals to clients, and touch window dragging with pointer lock enabled.

I'm pleased to announce a new GNOME 47-ready version of Komikku (1.59.0) 🚀 It is already available in the Flathub store.

https://flathub.org/apps/info.febvre.Komikku

New benefits:

• System accent colors (GTK, Libadwaita)
• New open/save file dialogs (GTK)
• New spinners (Libadwaita)

> 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.)