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.
Hm, #GNOME46 s new remote login option via the rdp protocoll is a huge step up from the last version. Beign able to connect without having to log in first helps me a lot...
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.
Friends of energy efficiency - the Light Video 0.1.0 #Flathub update is out, build with #gtk4 4.14 and #GStreamer 1.24.1.
This should be the first app targeting the #linux / FDO desktop enabling Wayland video offloading (think zero-copy playback) by default. In many cases (actually more than I expected) this can improve battery lifetime - and on low-end devices even playback performance - significantly.
This is kinda a technology preview in order to see if we can ship features like this enabled by default in a lot more apps in the ecosystem.
Thus I'd be very super happy if you'll try it on lots of hardware - be Intel/AMD laptops or ARM64 devices (with V4L2 stateless decoders, such as most #LinuxMobile devices).
Chances that you really hit a zero-copy path are highest with a recent #Wayland compositor - i.e. if you are using #GNOME46, #kde6 or a recent version of #sway, #weston, #cosmic etc.
A new Fretboard update is on its way to Flathub! This one is mainly to keep it up-to-date with the latest and greatest platform improvements. In fact,the rest of its updates during the 46 cycle might end up only being translation updates (unless I decide to go down the merciless enshittification route, that is 😈)
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
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.