Since its “revival”, sushi, the previewer companion for nautilus, has seen a lot of activity.
This wouldn’t have been possible without the contributions and support of Tau Gärtli, who very recently also became a maintainer 🎉
A new implementation of GNOME Boxes (beta) is now available for general testing. It has been reworked from the ground up and has a bunch of new features in the works. You can find more about it on Felipe’s “Future of Boxes” blog post.
I’ve started a blog about my design work in GNOME. Check out the introductory post, and follow the blog for regular updates on my activities during the Sovereign Tech Fellowship.
Bazaar got its 0.9.2 update, mostly improving what happens when you’re not actively using the app. Instead of keeping the full app running, Bazaar now uses a lightweight background daemon process to handle the GNOME Shell search provider and the brand new auto-update system. This reduces the background memory footprint by at least 10 times!
Please donate to Kolunmi if you like these changes.
Updated to NerdFonts v3.5.0, and as a consequence:
Added two new fonts: Annotation Mono and Google Sans Code
New icons like Obsidian and Zsh.
For now, you will have to reinstall all your fonts (expect custom fonts) to update them to the latest version, will think of a better mechanism for the next release.
Concessio is also being rewritten in Vala, making the code very clean and easier to add features and the app very fast.
Whisp v1.4.0 - OCR Text Extraction and French Translation
Whisp is a frictionless, gesture-driven note-taking application designed natively for the GNOME desktop. It eliminates file management and save buttons entirely, acting as a rapid-capture scratchpad for passing thoughts, code snippets, and daily tasks.
This week, Whisp released version 1.4.0, introducing a powerful new feature called “Smart Paste”. By copying an image or taking a screenshot of unselectable text—like a paused video tutorial or a system dialog—and pasting it into Whisp, the app instantly extracts the embedded text. The on-device OCR engine not only grabs the words, but mathematically reconstructs the original indentation and paragraph spacing. The release also includes official French localization and several keyboard workflow refinements.
This update is perfect for developers, students, and researchers who frequently need to digitize structured text from YouTube videos, scanned PDFs, or locked interfaces without ever breaking their keyboard workflow.
I’ve released Tailscale for GNOME 1.0.1, a Shell extension that brings the
Tailscale VPN into the Quick Settings menu: connect and switch accounts, pick an exit node
(with a panel warning when the node you picked stops routing), send and receive files over
Taildrop, and publish local services with Funnel. It stays close to the platform: the file
picker is the XDG portal, revealing a received file goes through org.freedesktop.FileManager1,
and there’s a “Send with Taildrop” entry in the Nautilus right-click menu. With no tailscale
installed it goes inert instead of breaking, and it comes back on its own once the package
is there, with no reload. Available on extensions.gnome.org
for GNOME Shell 49 and 50, in English, French, German and Italian.
Source
The talks from GUADEC 2026 are now available as individual clips on YouTube. Feel free to engage with the videos and share them with anyone who may find them interesting.
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!
