Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from April 17 to April 24.

GNOME Core Apps and Libraries

Libadwaita ↗

Building blocks for modern GNOME apps using GTK4.

Alice (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 says

libadwaita demo runs on android now, and apk files can be grabbed from CI

Alice (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 reports

AdwSidebar and AdwViewSwitcherSidebar now allow adding widgets above and below their content. This can be used to add things like account switchers

Third Party Projects

Haydn Trowell says

Kotoba, a fast, fully offline Japanese–English dictionary, is now available on Flathub.

Key features:

• Flexible search: Look up words using kanji, kana, rōmaji, or English meanings
• Responsive results: Matches appear almost instantly
• Detailed entries: Readings, meanings, example sentences, and usage notes where available
• Smart conjugation handling: Recognizes inflected verb and adjective forms and maps them to their base entries
• Bookmarks: Save words to review later
• Fully offline: Works without an internet connection

Get it on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/net.trowell.kotoba

Antonio Zugaldia says

Stargate is a new Java and Kotlin library that gives JVM applications access to XDG Desktop Portals on Linux.

• Full coverage of the portal spec, including Global Shortcuts, Remote Desktop, Notification, and Settings.
• Adds system tray icon support via the XDG Status Notifier Item specification.
• Ships with a demo app built using Java GI, the GTK/GNOME Java bindings (come say hi at #java-gi:matrix.org ).

Available on Maven Central. More at https://github.com/zugaldia/stargate .

Bilal Elmoussaoui reports

goblint has received a lot of work lately. Supporting 22 new rules since the last update and a webpage displaying the list of the rules and the available per-rule configurations https://bilelmoussaoui.github.io/goblint/ . The page can include an extensive documentation like the following https://bilelmoussaoui.github.io/goblint/#use_g_autoptr_inline_cleanup but that is the only rule having that for now.

Jan-Michael Brummer reports

Take control of your health with Blood Pressure 1.0.0.

Released just a month ago, this powerful yet easy-to-use app helps you track systolic and diastolic blood pressure as well as pulse with precision. Visualize your progress through clear, intuitive charts and gain valuable insights with in-depth statistics based on ESH/ESC guidelines.

Log measurements effortlessly with date, time, and optional notes, explore your history at a glance, and benefit from comprehensive analysis designed to support better health decisions. It’s available on Flathub: https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.tabos.bloodpressure

Nathan Perlman says

After a few months of on-and-off development, Rewaita v1.1.2 has finally been released!

For anyone who doesn’t know, Rewaita is a customization tool for applying colour schemes to Adwaita and GNOME.

What’s new:

• Finally added proper Firefox support, and is also compatible with the Firefox Gnome Theme for those who use it.
• More customization options, including three more window control themes, and a new colour scheme (Gruvbox Hard).
• Now includes an option to force light text in the app overview, which might be useful to blur-my-shell users.
• Some quality of life improvements like a better user guide, and bug fixes with significantly less crashing.
• Added Chinese Simplified translations.

Thanks to everyone who helped out with this release! Available on Flathub as always, as well as the AUR. More at https://github.com/swordpuffin/Rewaita .

Solitaire ↗

Play Patience Games

Will Warner reports

Solitaire 50.1 has been released! I want to thank everyone who contributed to this update. Firstly, to the translators who created translations for the app within the first two weeks of it being on Damned Lies. Second, to everyone who submitted and commented on issues, I appreciate your help.

Here’s what changed: • Added translations: Brazilian Portuguese, Cornish, Kazakh, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Russian • Added categories to the desktop entry • Added all of the missing Aisleriot card themes except for Guyenne Classic • Fixed a bug where re-deals weren’t decremented upon undoing them • Fixed a bug that allowed one too many re-deals • Clarified the uses of the solver in the preferences • Added a ‘Display the Winnability Warning’ option to the preferences • Made the theme refresh when the theme selector dialog is closed • Adjusted the brand colors to not clash with the window colors • Added spacing between cards and margins for the playing area • Added a ‘New Game’ option to the ‘Impossible to win’ dialog • Added a fail-safe for GTK not handling drags correctly on X11

Get it on Flathub

Pipeline ↗

Follow your favorite video creators.

schmiddi reports

Pipeline version 4.0.0 was released this week! This release overhauls downloading videos. Instead of depending on an external program to download videos, Pipeline now has downloading videos built-in. This also includes watching downloaded videos directly in the application. Besides that, you can now inspect your watch history in the application. There were further minor additions and improvements, which you can read about in the changelog of this release .

Note that this release also contains a breaking change for Pipeline users using external video players: By default, the Flatpak on Flathub does not have the permission to spawn external video players anymore. If you want to continue using external players instead of the built-in video player, you will to manually grant Pipeline this permission, as detailed in the preferences dialog of Pipeline or in this wiki page .

Parabolic ↗

Download web video and audio.

Nick reports

Parabolic V2026.4.0 is here!

This release contains many bug fixes, new features and design improvements making Parabolic an even better app! This release also includes a new macOS version of Parabolic - expanding our userbase!

A huge thank you to everyone who has tested and reported bugs throughout this development cycle. ❤️

Here’s the full changelog:

• Added macOS app for the GNOME version of Parabolic
• Added Windows portable version of Parabolic
• Added the ability to toggle super resolution formats in Parabolic’s settings
• Added the ability to specify a preferred frame rate for video downloads in Parabolic’s settings
• Added the ability to toggle immediate audio or video downloads separately
• Added the ability to automatically translate embedded metadata and chapters to the app’s language on supported sites. This can be turned off in Converter settings
• Added the ability to update deno from within the app
• Added thumbnail image preview to add download dialog and downloads view
• Added failed filter to downloads view
• Added total duration label to playlist items view
• Improved Parabolic’s startup time by using NativeAOT compilation
• Improved selection of playlist video formats when resolutions are specified
• Improved selection of playlist audio formats on Windows when bitrates are specified
• Improved cropping of audio thumbnails
• Improved handling of long file names, they will now be truncated if too long
• Removed unsupported cookie browsers on Windows. Manual txt files should be used instead
• Fixed an issue where download progress did not show correctly
• Fixed an issue where the preferred video codec was ignored when a preferred frame rate was also set
• Fixed an issue where the exported M3U playlist file would contain duplicate entries
• Fixed an issue where credentials would not save on Linux
• Fixed an issue where batch files were unusable on Linux and macOS
• Fixed an issue where uploading a cookies file did not work on Windows
• Fixed an issue where time frame downloads would not complete on Windows
• Fixed an issue where certain video formats would process infinitely on Windows
• Updated yt-dlp

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!