Is Totem (Gnome Videos) still maintained? As per https://apps.gnome.org/Totem/ latest version is 43 from 2022. Is it going to be removed from Gnome Core apps or replaced with something new?
I didn't turn off my laptop since my screencast demo at #GNOME46 Berlin, and realized i walked away with a piece of @cas 's display with me, forever :ablobcatbongo:
I'm slowly discovering all the nice stuff in #GNOME46 that other #gnome devs have been working on.
My personal favorite so far are the generic Cal/Card/WebDav accounts, for several reasons.
First of all, I use CalDav and CardDav extensively, both personally and at work. Especially my contacts are something that I on one side want to be available on all my devices - and on the other side really want to have control over. I.e. I only want that data on providers I trust.
What I really like about #GNOME46 is that it turned out to be a really good release for old and low-end devices. One of my test devices is Thinkpad T400. That hardware is over 15 years old and is has actually got faster over the last few years - especially this release.
One of my favorite improvements here, headed by Christian Hergert, was the boost to VTE. Terminals using #gtk4 are now much faster and responsive. I mean, damn, even switching tabs doesn't trigger a full redraw!
There were also a bunch of improvements to screen casting, resulting in #GNOME46 being the first release where I can make fullscreen recordings on this device at reasonable speed. I can even play video during recording, as long as hardware decoding is used (only mpeg2 :P).
The video begins with a window of links over top of #Fractal. A link is clicked changing the channel to one with more links and one is clicked opening #GNOMEMaps zooming in on the #GNOMEFoundation's address. Another in the window opens the #GNOME46 release video in #FreeTube, and final one opens a #Jitsi meeting in the desktop application.
We're excited to announce the release of #GNOME46! This release brings many updates and improvements thanks to the hard work of #GNOME contributors. 🎉 https://youtu.be/r_QyRJf3rtQ
GNOME 46 released, with the latest version of the desktop environment bringing a new Ctrl+Shift+F shortcut for file search from any screen, the file app has a dynamic progress view, Online Accounts adds OneDrive support, and much more. https://buff.ly/4co7y9e#GNOME#Linux#DesktopEnvironment#GNOME46
Announcing the program for the GNOME release party on March 30+31 🥳️
On Saturday we're trying something different from previous editions with cooking, talks, etc. It will be a bit of an experiment, but I think it's going to be a lot of fun 🧑🍳️🍲️🥕️
To make up for it we're meeting on Sunday specifically for hacking though :)
I'm really happy about this one because it should improve things for multiple use-cases:
It allows full hardware offloading of fullscreen video playback for cases when the video dimensions don't perfectly match the screen, i.e. up- or downscaling. There are not many clients supporting this yet - but hopefully we'll see more soon, especially #gtk ones.
For anyone following along, this is also finally the blog post where I explain in some detail how the latency tester works and what is shown on the plots.