ConnexionBazaar Sets Out its Stall with a New App Icon, New Features
If you use Flatpak apps on Ubuntu you likely already use (or at know of) Bazaar, a GTK4/libadwaita frontend that makes it easy to search, manage and update apps available on Flathub. Bazaar is updated frequently (I’ve covered some updates in my monthly Linux App Release Roundup series). Over the past few weeks, the app has been updated with more improvements, features and design tweaks – some rather obvious! For instance, Bazaar now has a new app icon: The redesign adopts a market stall motif: striped awning over a selection of goods on display (a circle, triangle, and square riffing […]
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