Bazaar 0.7.1 released
The App Store software for Flatpak, known as Bazaar, has released version 0.7.1. This update brings several noticeable changes across its interface and underlying operations.
One visible shift is the adoption of a new market stall icon to represent the app store itself. The developer portal, Flathub, has also removed its branding styling from the user-facing codebase, giving Bazaar a cleaner overall appearance. Updates to the Pride flags within the system now use horizontal designs where applicable.
For users reading app descriptions before installing, there's an improved feature: text selection can now span across paragraph breaks in those listings. This makes it easier to find specific details without forcing separate scrolls for each section of copy.
Performance and efficiency gains are part of this release too. The code that parses YAML configuration files now supports anchors and aliases, a useful simplification for complex setups. Disk cache writes have been drastically reduced by skipping entries proven not to have changed over time, which likely saves system resources.
User experience is addressed with features like the background status indicator appearing in a new popover. This provides more visible feedback about processes running behind the scenes. A new app permission system offers users finer control over application access to data and specific capabilities, potentially improving privacy management for those installing Flatpak apps via Bazaar.
Visual improvements aim to make the interface look smoother. For example, animations used during app switching (like comets) no longer produce jarring effects when opening or closing windows. Several other visual hiccups have reportedly been smoothed out behind the scenes as well.
Release New Icon! · kolunmi/bazaar
0.7.1 Here are the main changes: New market stall icon Remove Flathub styling Add horizontal versions of pride flags Text selection in app descriptions can be made across paragraph breaks Support
