Category: Planet Python
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Please help test (and fix) GTG’s GTK 4 port
We need to determine when it would be “safe” to merge our core rewrite & GTK 4 port to GTG’s main code repository. This is how you can help
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Getting Things GNOME 0.6 released
Yes, ladies, gentlemen, and seemingly-dead plants, it’s happening: after over 10 months of incremental work from the community, we are now releasing version 0.6 of our favorite personal productivity app, Getting Things GNOME. This release comes with some new features, lots of code improvements, many bugfixes and UX refinements (I am told that the “Better…
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GTG 0.6 release candidate
Today we are publishing a “release candidate” version of Getting Things GNOME 0.6. You can either try it out directly from the git master version (by running launch.sh; see the general instructions), or from the testing package available on Flathub’s “beta” repository, separately from the standard stable flathub/flatpak release you may already be running. To…
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The Software Upgrade Treadmill and Life’s crazy chain of dependencies — an epic tale about Firefox, GTG, Python, and Linux distros
Modern software update cycles now happen at a breakneck pace, and it can be a challenge for users to keep up. Life’s chain of dependencies to get back on track when a piece of your workflow breaks can be daunting. This epic tale illustrates the invisible struggle.
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“Getting Things GNOME” 0.5 released!
It is time to welcome a new release of the Rebuild of EvanGTGelion: 0.5, “You Can (Not) Improve Performance”! This release of GTG has been 9 months in the making after the groundbreaking 0.4 release. While 0.4 was a major “perfect storm” overhaul, 0.5 is also a very technology-intensive release, even though it was done…
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A new data format has landed in the upcoming GTG 0.5
Here’s a general call for testing from your favorite pythonic native Linux desktop personal productivity app, GTG. In recent months, Diego tackled the epic task of redesigning the XML file format from a new specification devised with the help of Brent Saner (proposal episodes 1, 2 and 3), and then implementing the new file format…
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Blogging about Python desktop apps improvements on Planet Python
Hi, fellow pythonistas! Before I start publishing future Python-related posts to this aggregator, I would like to shortly introduce myself and the reason for this blog’s presence on the planet. I am a business management consultant, but I am also, in my spare time, an independent free & open-source software developer, designer and maintainer who…
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Spooky GTG features to try out for Halloween 2020
Are you an irresistible creature with an insatiable love for the dead… bugs? Well, grab your bug hunter crossbow, because we need you to test some big technological changes in GTG so that we can confidently release version 0.5 sometime soon (way before the year end, ideally). Synchronizing your tasks across devices using CalDAV A…
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Rebuild of EvanGTGelion: Getting Things GNOME 0.4 released!
We are very proud to be announcing today the 0.4 release of Getting Things GNOME (“GTG”), codenamed “You Are (Not) Done”. This much-awaited release is a major overhaul that brings together many updates and enhancements, including new features, a modernized user interface and updated underlying technology. Beyond what is featured in these summarized release notes…
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Pitivi 0.95 — Enfant Suisse
Hey everyone! It’s time for a new Pitivi release, 0.95. This one packs a lot of bugfixes and architectural work to further stabilize the GES backend. In this blog post, I’ll give you an overview of the new and interesting stuff this release brings, coming out from a year of hard work. It’s pretty epic…