A new maintenance version of elementary OS has been released.
Hera Updates for March, 2020
Fresh on the heels of the AppCenter for Everyone Remote Sprint, we still managed to push out a good amount of updates over the course of March (and early April), bundled up in an OS 5.1.3 update. Let’s dive into what’s new.
Code
We continued our quest to make Code the best editor for elementary OS this month. A file’s Git status now shows in its tooltip in the project sidebar, making it easier to understand what the status icons mean—especially if you’re colorblind or just don’t remember. We also added an option for explicit case-sensitive find/replace for those times when you want to find or replace the word foo but not Foo.
Files
We landed several fixes for Files this month. We corrected a “New Folder” shortcut label, fixed navigation with back/forward context menu items, ensured the path bar shows the correct path when closing a tab and at startup, fixed several small issues when renaming a file, and omitted file:// in certain user-facing places. We also fixed a few rare freezes and crashes.
Panel & Indicators
We spent some time this month pushing out updates to Panel itself along with many of the indicators. Importantly, we fixed the panel interfering with certain display setups, like when a secondary display is above the primary display—multi-display users rejoice!
System Settings
We updated the Universal Access settings to deduplicate some settings found elsewhere as part of our Curb Cuts effort. For example, dwell clicking is now in the Mouse & Touchpad settings, and transparency and text size are now in Desktop settings. If you’re ever unsure where a setting might be, System Settings has great search for individual settings from both the Search entry inside the app and from the Applications Menu.
Desktop
We released an update for Gala—the component that displays multitasking and manages windows—that includes keyboard shortcuts in the secondary-click context menu for title/header bars. This is a part of our ongoing Keyboard Shortcut Discoverability project which aims to make keyboard usage more contextually-learnable in elementary OS.
…and more!
Saving event reminders should be more reliable in Calendar, plus event participant details will be ellipsized if too long, and events should no longer be accidentally rescheduled when editing their title.
Hera Updates for March, 2020
