GNOME 3.8 Released
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Oct 20, 2024
Oct 20, 2024
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The GNOME Project has finally released GNOME 3.8 today. GNOME 3.8 is the result of 6 months of hard-work 35936 contributions by around 1K people. This latest version of GNOME 3.8 is delivering Faster Interface,New Application,Major New features to enrich the GUI Interface with small bug fixes & enhancements.
Some New Features of GNOME 3.8 :
- Application Launcher :
New Application launching view is designed.It includes "Frequent" Tab which includes most recently used application list.
The other tab "All" includes all installed applications & new group of applications with in it.
- Privacy & Sharing :
The group of new privacy & sharing setting are introduced to make Gnome more secure than ever.The privacy option under settings has been re-tweaked.
Using new privacy settings you can control who has access to what files,tracking the activity & how much information on the screen should be visible.
- Classic Mode :
The new feature for the people who loved old-school panel-up layout.Unlike other, it's really not forked but it's been built entirely using Gnome technologies inside the Gnome 3.So, while using classic mode you're not going to lose the new features which you always lose in forked ones.
How cute !
- Revamped Search :
Searching from "Activities" has been revamped with new search settings.The new search settings provides the control over the order of the of application in the search list.
You can tune the result pops under "settings" pane.
- Details :
Around 58-62 smaller bugs were fixed, resulting in new animation transitions, improved visuals & usability fixes. These bug-fixing/improvement was part of "every detail matter" initiative - GNOME craves for Perfection,No shit!
- Web :
The engine of the default Gnome browser a.k.a Web has been changed to WebKit2 making broswer faster & more secure.
-WebKit2 includes new plugin system thus making Web to support Flash.
-The Toolbar includes new "Tab" button
-Page search interface revamped
-"Undo close tab" option has been added. How convenient!
- New Applications :
Two applications - Desktop weather App & New Note-Taking Applications are introduced.
- Documents :
Document management app has impressed me by far with Google Docs/Google drive integration.
The Page layout has been improved with nice looking documents & dual page mode.Also including navigation within application making browsing of the documents easier.
- Some Other Noticed Updates :
- "Files" have been improved which includes some options within it for viewing it as "view files" & "folders within tree".
- Support for creating & modifying RAID Arrays.It is capable of shutting off the disk & a new selection mode for performing actions for multiple tasks.
- "Super+N" key has been added which allows you to focus on notification when it is popped, allowing chats using Empathy quite easy.
- Using shortcut "Super+M", Message tray is popped on the screen.A notification panels allows you to tweak the GUI of GNOME 3.8 further as you want.
Gosh! I love GNOME.
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