GNOME's Glycin Continues Being Built Out, Papers Ready For Document Viewing

Written by Michael Larabel in GNOME on 5 July 2025 at 06:27 AM EDT. 19 Comments

It was another exciting week in the GNOME space to kick off July.

This Week in GNOME is out with their latest issue to highlight all of the interesting GNOME desktop developments. Some of this week's highlights include:

- With GNOME 49, GNOME Papers is replacing Evince as the preferred document viewer. Papers brings GTK4 toolkit support and other modern features over Evince.

- Continued work phasing out GdkPixbuf for image loading directly in favor of using the modern Glycin that is written in Rust. Glycin is safer, supports more features and image formats, and should perform faster too.

- Libadwaita has a replacement for the deprecated GtkShortcutsWindow with the new AdwShortcutsDialog. Also new is AdwShortcutLabel to replace GtkShortcutLabel.

- Increased accessibility on GNOME Calendar.

- Phosh 0.48 released with a new lock screen plug-in and other improvements, including updates to its Wayland compositor now re-based to using wlroots 0.19.

More details on the latest GNOME improvements for the week via This Week in GNOME.