Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from June 13 to June 20.GNOME Core Apps and LibrariesMaps ↗Maps gives you quick access to maps all across the world.mlundblad announcesMaps now shows localized metro/railway station icons in some locationsSettings ↗Configure various aspects of your GNOME desktop.Matthijs Velsink announcesWe ported the GNOME Settings app to Blueprint! UI definition files are much easier to read and write in Blueprint compared to the standard XML syntax that GTK uses. Hopefully this makes UI contributions more approachable to newcomers. In any case, reviewing UI changes has gotten quite enjoyable already! Settings is one of the first large core apps to make the switch (together with Calendar), and Blueprint is still considered experimental, but the experience has been great so far. Small missing features in Blueprint have not been dealbreakers.Many thanks to Jamie Gravendeel who did most of the work and together with Hari Rana motivated us to consider the port in the first place! We’d like to thank James Westman as well for creating Blueprint and making the whole porting process so straightforward.Calendar ↗A simple calendar application.Hari Rana | TheEvilSkeleton (any/all) 🇮🇳 🏳️⚧️ announcesGNOME Calendar received a nice visual overhaul, thanks to the code contributed by Markus Göllnitz, which the design was led by Philipp Sauberz and Jeff Fortin. You can find the really long discussion on GitLab. This should hopefully make Calendar work better on smaller monitors thanks to the collapsible sidebar.Afterwards, Jamie Gravendeel ported the entirety of GNOME Calendar to Blueprint. This should hopefully make it easier for everyone to contribute to Calendar’s UI.GLib ↗The low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK and GNOME.Ignacy Kuchciński (ignapk) saysThere was recently an interesting improvement in GLib, that makes sure your Trash is really empty, by fixing a bug resulting in leftover files in ~/.local/share/Trash/expunged/. For more information, check out https://ignapk.blogspot.com/2025/06/taking-out-trash-or-just-sweeping-it.htmlThird Party Projectsbjawebos reportsIn my spare time I like to take photographs. I use different cameras with different characteristics and therefore different purposes. Most of these cameras use film as the image carrier medium. It happened a few weeks ago that I wanted to use a camera and wondered whether it had film in it or not. I was of the opinion that there was no film inserted and I opened the back of the camera. What can I say, of course there was film inside. It wasn’t much damage, I lost about 3-5 pictures. Nevertheless, I had to find a solution and since I wanted to learn more about GTK4/libadwaita and Rust anyway, I combined these two topics.So here is the application for photographers who no longer know whether a film is inserted. The application is called Filmbook and is divided into 4 sections. The first tab “Current” shows a list of cameras with inserted films. The “History” tab shows which cameras were loaded with which films. In addition, the camera-film pairs can be marked as developed. The third and fourth tabs show the cameras and films.The application is currently in a sufficiently stable state and I would like to test it extensively on my Pinephone Pro under Phosh to explore the weaknesses of the current design. In addition, my goal is to get in touch with other photographers to gather their ideas and needs.So, if you feel addressed, get in touch with me. Here are a few important links:Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/page.codeberg.bjawebos.FilmbookIssues: https://codeberg.org/bjawebos/filmbook/issuesFediverse:https://procial.tchncs.de/@bjaweboshttps://pixelfed.social/adabojohannes_b reportsThis week I released a new version of BMI Calculator. Now it includes german, italian and dutch translations.The app remembers the last entries and you can choose the color scheme.You can install the app from Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.johannesboehler2.BmiCalculatorPipeline ↗Follow your favorite video creators.schmiddi saysVersion 2.5.0 of Pipeline was now released. Pipeline now displays a random splash text when reloading the feed. This tells users about random facts about Pipeline, showcases some features and also advertises some other great alternative YouTube clients. Examples include:Did you know? The first commit of Pipeline was 1566 days ago.Feature Spotlight: Seeing something you don’t like? You can hide videos from your feed based on the title and uploader of the video.Also try: NewPipe.A useless feature? Pretty much. But I enjoyed coding it and maybe some people will enjoy reading the splash texts I came up with.This release also adds debug information to the About window, which will possibly help me debug issues by knowing your versions of dependencies and the most important settings. This release also fixes minor bugs, like some buttons being hidden in a narrow layout in the video page, the description of YouTube videos containing escaped characters, and that a video will not be added to the watched list if Pipeline is closed while it is still displayed.Fractal ↗Matrix messaging app for GNOME written in Rust.Kévin Commaille reportsWe released Fractal 11.2 which updates the matrix-sdk-crypto dependency to include a fix for a high severity security issue. It is available right now on Flathub.GNOME Foundationsteven saysA week late to TWIG, but almost on time for the blog, it’s this week’s Foundation Report: Elections, GUADEC, ops, infra, fundraising, some fun meetings, and the ED gets another feedback session.https://blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/06/14/2025-06-14-foundation-report/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!