Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from February 27 to March 06.GNOME Core Apps and LibrariesCalendar ↗A simple calendar application.Hari Rana | TheEvilSkeleton (any/all) 🇮🇳 🏳️⚧️ reportsEveryone, rejoice 🙌Georges livestreamed himself reviewing and merging accessibility contributions in GNOME Calendar again, specifically the entirety of merge request !564, which introduces keyboard-navigable month cells. As a result, as of GNOME 50, GNOME Calendar’s month view will be fully navigable with a keyboard for the first time in its history!Here’s a quick explanation of how to navigate:When tabbing between events, focus moves chronologically. This means that focus continues to move down until there are no event widgets overlaying the current cell. Then, focus moves to the topmost event widget in the next cell or row. Tabbing backwards with Shift+Tab moves in the opposite direction.On the last event widget, pressing Tab moves the focus to the adjacent month cell. Conversely, pressing Ctrl+Tab on any event widget has the same effect.Pressing an activation button (such as Enter or Space) displays the popover for creating an event. Additionally, pressing and holding the Shift key while pressing the arrow keys selects every cell between the start and end positions until the Shift key is released, which displays the popover with the selected range.The only high-level goal that needs work now is conveying these information with assistive technologies properly.Both merge requests !564 and !598 took us almost an entire year to explore various approaches and finally settle on the best one for our use case. Everything was done voluntarily, relying solely on support from donors and those who share these posts, without any financial backing from other entities. In contrast, most, if not all, calendar apps backed by trillion-dollar companies still don’t offer proper keyboard navigation across their views. In many cases, they haven’t even reached feature parity. If it is not too much trouble, please consider funding my accessibility work on GNOME. Thank you! ♥️GTK ↗Cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.Emmanuele Bassi reportsGTK 4.22.0 is now available for application developers! Lots of changes happened in this development cycle:a new SVG-based format for symbolic icons, including state-based animationsGtkSvg, a paintable that renders (animated) SVG efficientlyGtkAccessibleHypertext, an interface for accessible object containing linksGTK now relies on the settings portal, under Waylandimproved language filtering in the font selection dialoga new reduced motion setting, complete with media query, for controlling the amount and type of animations in widgetsGskRenderReplay, a new API for replaying render nodesthe backdrop-filter CSS property is now supportedGtkPopoverBin is a new widget that you can use to show a popover menu on a widgetGTK 4.22 is going to be available in the GNOME 50 run time.Python Bindings (PyGObject) ↗Python language bindings for GNOME platform libraries.Arjan reportsPyGObject 3.56.0 has just been released. Major features include: better integration with GObject’s lifecycle (do_constructed, do_dispose), a simpler way to deal with Python wrapper objects, and cleanup of legacy code.A write-up of the most important changes can be found at https://pygobject.gnome.org/news/pygobject-3-56.html.This is a stable release, so you can find it on PyPI, as well as the GNOME download server.Third Party ProjectsRonnie Nissan announcesThis week I released concessio v0.3.0 adding support for umask conversions. This was a requested feature. I also added umask explanition to the help dialog. Hope you will like it.You can get Concessio from FlathubAns Ibrahim saysMemento, the movie tracking app, got updates this week with version 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:IMDb rating support in movie details and refresh flowLocalization improvements, including French translationsUI and navigation polish, plus layout fixesAlso highlighting the original 1.0.0 features:Watchlist management with search, sorting, and paginationPlay history tracking with date, place, and optional commentsMovie details with cast/crew and external linksDashboard and top-people insightsMarcel Tiede announcesThere is a new community project Maui.Gtk that integrates GTK via the GirCore C# bindings as a linux backend for Microsoft’s MAUI.Rat Cornu saysratic is a new music player in construction, built with gtk-rs and relm4. The first version was released this week, with:Support of most music filesSort and group by album, artist, full-text searchingDynamic blurred background with light/dark modesA music queue with several play modesSupport of MPRIS controlsInternationalization support using weblate (currently only english and french)It still misses a lot of features, but it will continue to grow in the following weeks, so do not hesitate to test it, open an issue or even come talk with us in the matrix room!Ronnie Nissan announcesJust today I published Embellish v0.7.0. This version adds support for custom fonts.Add a custom font using a url pointing to a zip or tar.xz fileExport all the custom fontsImport custom fonts either from a file or by copy pasting them in the import dialogThe import dialog using GtkSourceView to color highlight the json dataTip: you can add any font, not just NerdFonts making Embellish a really useful tool in my biased opinion.You can get Embellish from FlathubParabolic ↗Download web video and audio.Nick reportsParabolic V2026.3.0-beta1 is here!This release contains many new features, fixes and a new macOS build of the GNOME app! We are asking all users to help test this release and the new macOS build, if possible (as I personally do not own a Mac so I rely on users in the community to work with me in testing). Thank you for any help in advanced! 😃Here’s the full changelog:Added macOS app for the GNOME version of ParabolicAdded Windows portable version of ParabolicAdded the ability to specify a preferred frame rate for video downloads in the Parabolic’s settingsAdded the ability to automatically translate embedded metadata and chapters to the app’s language on supported sites. This can be turned off in Converter settingsAdded the ability to update deno from within the appAdded thumbnail image preview to add download dialog and downloads viewAdded failed filter to downloads viewImproved selection of playlist video formats when resolutions are specifiedImproved selection of playlist audio formats on Windows when bitrates are specifiedImproved cropping of audio thumbnailsImproved handling of long file names, they will now be truncated if too longRemoved unsupported cookie browsers on Windows. Manual txt files should be used insteadUpdated yt-dlpThat’s all for this week!See you next week, and be sure to stop by #thisweek:gnome.org with updates on your own projects!