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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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.I feel the same way, but assuming COSMIC gets all of the functionality I use in GNOME, it seems like a great alternative to switch to. Very batteries-included. I spent days setting up Sway and in the end I went back to GNOME because it has more features I need and I don't need to work for them.
COSMIC is not (yet) as pretty as GNOME, but much better for multi-monitor setups and general productivity. GNOME is shocking when you have multiple monitors. Even KDE handles it better, and it's still not great.
I REALLY don't like gnome. It looks too much like something Apple would make.GNOME takes the good decisions from macOS and cuts out the bad ones.
- You can edit the file path in Nautilus, you can't in Finder
- Window buttons in the top right, not the top left, but you can choose!
- Has real, reliable window tiling! The basic stuff is enough for 90% of people. (macOS finally got basic buggy tiling after 41 years this week)
- Combines Mission Control, Launchpad, and Spotlight into a single key and manages to make it less confusing.
- Has a keyboard shortcut you can map for moving windows to specific workspaces.
- Let's you choose between App tabbing and Window tabbing. You can have both if you want! macOS only lets you page through your open Apps when you hit Command+Tab, and you need to hit Command+~ to page through open windows of the _current_ application, not all windows.
- GNOME has a real Maximise button that doesn't break the usefulness of workspaces. Need I say more?
- GNOME actually hides the dock completely unless you access the Activity Overview so you don't accidentally hover over it. Much improvement for productivity.
- With GNOME 47, Nautilus supports 1-click open when you're uploading files to Firefox for example! Ah, efficiency, finally. Finder only supports double-click open all the time :(
- Nautilus also supports adding bookmarks for SSH virtual filesystem shortcuts. Super handy for locally streaming from one computer to another. If you haven't gotten it already, my point is that Finder sucks. It's awful, horrible, no-good software. I used to be able to say "at least it has tabs!" but now Windows File Explorer has tabs so that's not an advantage anymore.
- The UI is prettier and easier to understand than macOS, without nearly as many hidden options. Did you know Finder doesn't even have a context menu option for "Moving" a file? That's right, you need to copy the file, and move it by hitting Command+Ctrl+V! Or how about the Display settings where you need to hold down a key on your keyboard to expose hidden options?! macOS is full of hidden options like this that are just bad design. GNOME hides some stuff, like extra keyboard shortcuts for workspaces (arrgh!), but the list is much smaller.
- The Info menu in Finder sucks. It's a jumbled mess of far too much text and too small! The Properties menu is very legible in Nautilus. Once again, Finder sucks.
Yeah, GNOME doesn't have a system tray, and that sucks, but I love everything else about it. And I also love Nautilus, which got much love and attention in GNOME 47. Definitely my favourite part of this update next to accent colours and XWayland native scaling.
I also like KDE and COSMIC. I'm not picky :)
Well, I'm glad you like it! I'll stick with KDE. To each their own.
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I REALLY don't like gnome. It looks too much like something Apple would make. I'll be sticking with KDE for the far foreseeable future.
As someone who has also used quite Apple Devices a lot, I would love if Gnome would act and feel like macOS, however they just imitate iPadOS which I would _never_ like to use on a normal computer. (Ditching the menubar is one - if not the - worst offense one can make in computer usability.)
Both are just too restricted, and while looking nicely are not self explanatory, you have to look for every feature...
So as an (also) Apple (macOS) user I clearly prefer Plasma, or xfce.
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But I sincerely hope that Cosmic have success to finally have option to another decent Wayland DE
Exactly how I feel. Looking forward to the fedora spin they'll be launching with 42.
Last edited by Jarmer on 21 September 2024 at 3:46 pm UTC
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To me there seems to be just a fundamental misunderstanding from the gnome team about the dimension of ... a screen. You know. The thing you use this software on. I have NEVER understood it. I simply can never use it because of this.
Every single screen on earth is a horizontally wide screen. So gnome puts a gigantic bar across the entire top of the wide screen, which is like 95% unused empty space. For what reason? And then puts ANOTHER horizontal bar across the bottom with apps on it with HUMONGOUSLY GIGANTIC icons for .... reasons?
So they squish the usable space vertically FAR more than it needs to be. And without using hacks / extensions you can't configure it to a single panel on the left or right or top or bottom (but I admit I haven't used it in a long time so not sure if recent updates have changed it).
On vanilla Gnome, you only have a slim top bar; the bottom app bar is an extension (I don't use and don't like personally) that a lot of distros have installed and enabled by default.
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I REALLY don't like gnome. It looks too much like something Apple would make. I'll be sticking with KDE for the far foreseeable future.
KDE looks too much like something Microsoft would make :P
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walther von stolzing Sep 22
but to even get the file path to display in Finder you need to head to the command line.
View -> Show Path Bar displays the file path just above the status bar.
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pleasereadthemanual Sep 22
The first answer I found with a search engine was a stackoverflow post with a command, but it's good to know there's actually a way to do this in the UI.but to even get the file path to display in Finder you need to head to the command line.
View -> Show Path Bardisplays the file path just above the status bar.
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To me there seems to be just a fundamental misunderstanding from the gnome team about the dimension of ... a screen. You know. The thing you use this software on. I have NEVER understood it. I simply can never use it because of this. [...]That is one of the things that distub me the most about GNOME – it seems hellbent on wasting my screenspace.
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