2y ago

GNOME 45 Release Notes

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GNOME Release Notes

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2y ago

Introducing GNOME 45, "Rīga"

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2y ago

Introducing GNOME 45, “Rīga”

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Seems like a solid bunch of iterative improvements!
FRACTIONAL SCALING!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!
- I just spent literally 3 days of my spare time trying to deal with scaling. I ran Linux on the desktop for 15 years. Had to switch to Mac for a while and then back to Windows for a while. Laptops with 4K screens turned out to be an interesting challenge when I finally came back. I had run gnome For most of my history with Linux.
  After a few days of fighting with scaling and trying to locate working plugins for things I wanted, I swapped over to KDE. My screen scaling and multiple display resolutions workwd perfectly out of the box and everything that I was trying to find plugins for was already there.
  It's taken me since the early 00"s but I might have become a KDE convert.
  
  I love the idea of kde. I want everything and the kitchen sink thrown at me. I love all the kids applications. It looks pretty.
  My issue is the overhead. It's slow and clunky. And it uses too much vram which is not ideal while I'm stable diffusioning.
  Also bugs. I feel like it's so close to what I want but just can't land it.
  
  Kde is my daily driver. Has been for 6 years now. I try gnome here and there just to see how it's progressing. It sucked badly on a 14" laptop with 1440 screen I have. So glad scaling is fixed now
- Huh? Gnome has had fractional scaling for ages.
  All it takes is changing a gconf setting.
  
  The option was there, but it wasn't ready for every day use. The performance impact was significant. The couple times I tried it, it was practically unusable. The UI also showed a warning about performance when you enabled it
  
  Not officially. And it has been broken.
So weird randomly seeing the name of my home city.
- You live in the city of "Introducing?"
  That's pretty cool.
  
  If it's anything like the city of Introducing where I live, the next town over is Regretting.
- Amazing city. I want to go back!
- There’s no timeline or roadmap at this stage, but it’s definitely 46+ material and likely to take multiple cycles. There are individual parts of this that could be worked on independently ahead of the more contingent pieces, for example tiling groups or new window metadata. Help in any of these areas would be appreciated.
  https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/07/26/rethinking-window-management/
  
  Wow. Moving the windows that don't fit in the current workspace to a new one is such a simple idea that might turn out to be incredibly effective. I love that Gnome exists to challenge the established design patterns and try to replace them, even though I'm not actively using it.
- Ubuntu using Snaps might be more of an issue than Gnome 44 vs older version. Not?
I recently installed Debian with Gnome on a laptop, and the UI is miles and miles better than what it was 7 years ago. It used to feel old and like a knockoff of Windows XP or something. Now I only want to use Gnome on Linux. Huge credit to the Gnome team for all of these UI improvements they've been making, it's a serious amount of work gone into things.
- I recently tried gnome and then untried it with the uninstall button for making stupid fucking design decisions I need to jump through hoops to turn off.
  I rented Superman 64 once when I was a kid. Using gnome was like that.
  
  I'd be curious which design decisions you thought were awful and were difficult to turn off? I've always though UIs across all OSes are very inflexible (e.g. on a Mac, you can't change command-tab to alt-tab, and can't cycle same-app windows without a separate keybind), so I'm not usually surprised when things are difficult to disable.
  My only negative experience with Gnome was not seeing which apps were open at a glance (need to alt-tab and tile all windows). This is mainly a "what I'm used to" kind of thing though.
I'm loving that new activities indicator! way better than just saying "activities"
- I had an extension that disabled it because it was pretty useless but now I'm definitely gonna leave it enabled
This is super exciting! As mundane as it sounds, I'm especially hyped for the pointer optimizations. No more laggy cursor on my older machines. :)
So fractional scaling is useful now? Or it's still blurry mess?
It's starting to look really good.

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