GNOME developer Georges Stavracas wrote an in-depth blog post the other day to inform the GNOME, Linux, and Open Source communities about the upcoming improvements and new features coming to the GNOME Calendar apps.
Now that some of us are already enjoying the recently released GNOME 3.22 desktop environment, the GNOME developers are hard at work to improve the GNOME apps and core components by either adding new exciting features and technologies or improving existing ones.
GNOME Calendar is a very important piece of software, it’s the default calendar app for the GNOME Stack, but it can be used independently on any other GTK-based desktop environment. For the GNOME 3.22 cycle, it already received some much-needed enhancements, but more goodies will be coming later in the year.
A first technology preview of the GNOME 3.24 desktop environment should be out for early adopters and public testers in late October as GNOME 3.23.1, and you’ll be able to get a taste of GNOME Calendar’s new sidebar, Week View, and Attendees features. The calendar management workflow will see some improvements as well.
“Based on Renata’s usability testing results, we’ll improve the way people manage calendars by changing its workflow. We’ll use this opportunity to finally implement the initial setup wizard, which we have mockups for quite some time now,” says Georges Stavracas. “We’ll also turn the calendar management dialog into a wizard-like dialog.”
The Year View will be greatly improved
Another important part of the GNOME Calendar that will receive great improvements for the GNOME 3.24 cycle is the Year View, which might be transformed into a GtkFlowBox-based widget that can be shared all around. Also, the months in Year View will no longer differ from those of the Calendar.
Right now, you can read Georges Stavracas’ entire blog announcement to get yourself familiar with the upcoming features and improvements of the GNOME Calendar app, and wait for the first pre-release version to come in October, hopefully bringing as many of these exciting new changes as possible.
