The latest update to the GNOME desktop environment has been released, with GNOME 47 bringing some really quite lovely sounding improvements. I do have to admire how ridiculously clean GNOME looks and feels when using it, even if it's not my preferred desktop.
Pictured - GNOME 47
Some of the changes include:
- Accent Colours to customize your desktop style some more.
- Enhanced Small Screen Support.
- Screencast Hardware Encoding.
- Faster, More Accurate Rendering.
- Persistent Remote Desktop Sessions.
- New style for Dialog Windows.
- New Open and Save File Dialogs integrated into the Files app.
- Improved Files app with a better search system, more interface modernizations.
- Improved Online Accounts system with new features.
- Lots of bug fixes to GNOME Calendar.
- Disk Usage Analyzer has a refreshed interface for GNOME 47.
- An enhanced fractional display scaling feature.
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All the details in the release notes. You can either wait until your chosen Linux distribution updates, or give it a spin using the GNOME OS nightly images.
What's your favourite improvement in GNOME 47?
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Schattenspiegel about 3 hours ago
Quoting: Raaben... To me, keyboard. Gnome feels far better and faster than trying to point and click/poke everything.But you can do that with just about every DE out there, meanwhile, I never managed to figure out how to even navigate the weird menu system with keyboard only in GNOME. Or are you using the console to get things done?
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Quoting: SchattenspiegelQuoting: Raaben... To me, keyboard. Gnome feels far better and faster than trying to point and click/poke everything.But you can do that with just about every DE out there, meanwhile, I never managed to figure out how to even navigate the weird menu system with keyboard only in GNOME. Or are you using the console to get things done?
That was specifically about if Gnome was for mouse or touch, of course you can do that in other DEs. I just find the flow of Gnome feels better in general, esp if you like to heavily use the keyboard.
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Quoting: RaabenI have to use a few extensions to hammer some square pegs into round holes but the overall workflow of Gnome is something I can't get close enough to in other environments.
Quoting: basedI still dont know if their interface was meant for touchscreen or a mouse lol :p
To me, keyboard. Gnome feels far better and faster than trying to point and click/poke everything.
What exactly is the GNOME workflow? From what I've seen it's basically what I've got going here in LXQt+awesome: workspaces dedicated to tasks, very keyboard focused, minimal distractions,... with the difference that I can have different workspaces on either of my monitors (so I can have my development workspace on my left monitor and my communications workspace on my right monitor) and switch them independently.
Although the GNOME keyboard shortcuts feel kinda insane to me: Alt+F2 to show a command runner? Why isn't that Mod4+F2? I need all my non-super shortcuts for editing tasks (e.g. Alt+F2 to put cursors on every instance matching a regular expression), so I don't understand when environments pollute the non-super keyboard shortcuts (for another example: Alt+Tab, which I use to complete variable names).
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Quoting: tmtvlQuoting: RaabenI have to use a few extensions to hammer some square pegs into round holes but the overall workflow of Gnome is something I can't get close enough to in other environments.
Quoting: basedI still dont know if their interface was meant for touchscreen or a mouse lol :p
To me, keyboard. Gnome feels far better and faster than trying to point and click/poke everything.
What exactly is the GNOME workflow? From what I've seen it's basically what I've got going here in LXQt+awesome: workspaces dedicated to tasks, very keyboard focused, minimal distractions,...
Probably similar. I just like how most everything is in the overview and the defaults are mostly sane to my use. I've played with Awesome and other WMs but ultimately I'm too lazy to get them where I want them.
QuoteAlthough the GNOME keyboard shortcuts feel kinda insane to me: Alt+F2 to show a command runner? Why isn't that Mod4+F2? I need all my non-super shortcuts for editing tasks (e.g. Alt+F2 to put cursors on every instance matching a regular expression), so I don't understand when environments pollute the non-super keyboard shortcuts (for another example: Alt+Tab, which I use to complete variable names).
Is there something stopping those binds from being changed?
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