I will be presenting remotely at GUADEC 2025 in Brescia, Italy! 
I'll be talking about my journey with the Drum Machine app, how it became part of GNOME Circle, and how the GNOME community supports developers in bringing their ideas to life.
@gnome @gnomeapps
#GUADEC2025 #GUADEC #GNOME #GNOMECircle #OpenSource #GTK #Linux
Binary 5.3 has just been released as a small update. It comes with many translation updates and a few small updates.
Development hasn't been too active lately due to uni work and personal issues. I'm hoping to work on it a lot more over the summer and hopefully past that. In the mean time, get it now on flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.fizzyizzy05.binary
Seeing horrible things in a Gnome Logo.
#Keypunch 6.0 is out! Learn what's new on my blog:
https://blogs.gnome.org/bragefuglseth/2025/04/05/keypunch-6-0/
I've been accepted as a speaker at @LAS to talk about GNOME Circle. I was excited to travel to Albania and have my talk there but the Linux App Summit hasn't been answering any of my emails! Since I'm from Iran, I really need an Invitation Letter to be able to get my visa (e-visa) since Albania does not give visas to Iranians so easily, and it needs lots of paperwork (and also no embassy in Iran). I emailed LAS on 11th March...
I'm excited to share that Drum Machine is now officially on the @gnome translation platform! This is a big step forward in making Drum Machine accessible to users worldwide. You can contribute translations via Damned Lies: https://l10n.gnome.org/module/drum-machine.
#Eyedropper 2.1.0 has been released, featuring
- RGB decimal notation
- support for global shortcuts
- a new way to directly enter colors, without picking them first
Download the new version on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.finefindus.eyedropper.
Today #Bustle was accepted into #GNOMECircle. Bustle lets you visualize and analyze D-Bus activity with detailed sequence diagrams. Congratulations!
Learn more on the Apps for GNOME website: https://apps.gnome.org/Bustle
I’ve published a string freeze announcement for #Fretboard and #Keypunch:
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/upcoming-keypunch-and-fretboard-releases/27773?u=bragefuglseth
They will both get new releases in two weeks.
The Authenticator app (https://apps.gnome.org/Authenticator) is super convenient to have when signing into various GNOME web services using GNOME's SSO service. Unfortunately, it's not that straightforward to set up additional 2FA apps for GNOME SSO due to subpar UX on Keycloak's side.
Because of that, I've written a section in the GNOME Project Handbook explaining how to do it: https://handbook.gnome.org/infrastructure/accounts/managing-accounts.html#manage-two-factor-authentication.
One of the features I'm most excited about in the upcoming release of Graphs is the proper handling of equations with an infinite canvas.
Equations can be changed, and operations on equations will change the equation itself accordingly instead of just adjusting the data. We also still support generated data from an equation.
This, and much more to come later with our next major release :)
Iotas has been accepted into GNOME Circle! Iotas aims to provide distraction-free note taking, and lets you sync your notes across devices with Nextcloud.
Learn more on the Apps for GNOME website:
We just released version 1.8.4 of Graphs.
- Upgraded to the GNOME 47 runtime, giving us proper accent colour support.
- Improved rubber band selection, which now has rounded corners for instance.
- Fixed some issues with equation parsing with nested parentheses.
You can get it on Flathub. Meanwhile we’re working hard on the next major release, which includes proper equation support with an infinite canvas, a new style editor and much more.
Churned out yet another mega issue for tracking GNOME Circle apps that are still on the GNOME 46 runtime, as it’s on track to reach end-of-life about one month after the release of GNOME 48. All affected maintainers have also been notified about this either in the GNOME Circle room on Matrix or directly in their apps' repositories.
Finally took some time to fix one of the biggest issues with #Eyedropper, not being able to use it without first picking a color. Of course, color picking is still available (see the eyedropper button in the headerbar).
A new update for Exercise Timer was released today! With a number of visual improvements that I hope to pave the road for GNOME Circle adoption.
Additionally, translations for Tamil, Portuguese and Estonian has been added by the members of the community.
The new version is available on Flathub!
Adéntrate en el mundo del RSS con NewsFlash: https://nosgustalinux.es/2024/12/adentrate-en-el-mundo-del-rss-con-newsflash/
The GNOME Circle Commitee is happy to report that every app currently part of GNOME Circle is now based on either the GNOME 46 or the GNOME 47 runtime!
I just released a new version of #Hieroglyphic, this version replaces the classification algorithm with a machine learning model trained on the data previously used to classify symbols, improving classification speed and overall accuracy (although some symbols are now classified less accurately due to lack of good training data).
To improve the training data, it is now also possible to submit recognized symbols (this is opt-in).
After almost a year since the last release, a new version of #Eyedropper is now available.
It now features a color editor, allowing to directly modify picked colors, a new warning page for unsupported systems (Thanks to @bragefuglseth for the illustration) and a rewritten color conversion backend.
The new version should be available on Flathub soon.
