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GNOME 42.rc announced
The release candidate for version 42 of the GNOME desktop environment, whose beta version
was announced on February 22, 2022 , has been announced by Javier Jardón . Jardón stated
that the GNOME Project is proud to announce the availability of GNOME 42.rc; reminding
that it should not be forgotten that this is a test version and should be used for testing
purposes only, he asked the testers to report the errors they detected.
Noting that he recommends the user to enjoy this test version as quickly as possible,
Jardón said; He said that the final version is scheduled to be released this week.
Jardón said that no changes can be made to the source code due to code freezing; stated
that the translation and documentation work could continue without the approval of the
publishing team.
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The GNOME developers released release candidate of gnome 42, and in it, GNOME 42 will be released
on March 23, 2022.
Javier Jardón today announced the general availability of the Release Candidate (RC)
for the upcoming GNOME 42 desktop environment for public testing.
Since GNOME 42 beta, developers have added the ability to take screenshots of the current
window using the Shift + PrntScrn keyboard shortcut, the ability to switch workspaces
using the Home and End keys in the activity overview, and the ability to cancel ongoing
update downloads in GNOME Software when power is off.
The system is low and G722 is the preferred encoding for SIP calls in the new GNOME Calls
app.
The GNOME 42 Release Candidate is also improving gnome-bluetooth to allow the GNOME Shell Bluetooth
menu to appear at the expected time and to make the call key available for Bluetooth
LE MIDI devices.
GNOME Boxes has received the ability to recommend the latest OS versions for download as they
become available in osinfo-db.
Furthermore, the Fingerprint dialog apparently returns to the GNOME Control Center user accounts
page, the GNOME calendar gets more timezone fixes when importing events, and the GNOME
Shell now features better CSS shaders and GNOME Builder, which gets updated templates
for C and JavaScript, Python, and Vala, as well as improving CMake integration.
Last but not least, GNOME's initial setup now supports the new GNOME 42 dark theme preference
via libhandy, GNOME now prioritizes full matches in search results and checks for updates when
switching between a metered network connection to an unspecified one, GNOME Maps gets updated
OSM definitions POI for OSM editing, scheduled numbers for time labels in public transit
itinerary displays, and improved setting for the initially selected date in the public
transit routing calendar tool.
Those who want to try out the GNOME 42 Release Candidate can use the GNOME OS installer image,
which you can install in an EFI-enabled virtual machine, such as GNOME Boxes from Flathub,
or download a rolling release development distro such as Fedora Rawhide.
openSUSE Krypton, which includes the latest packages.
Advanced users can also compile GNOME 42 RC using the official BuildStream project snapshot
they can download, or standalone source packages.
However, try to keep in mind that this is a preview version, so do not install it on
a production device!
The final version of GNOME 42 is expected later this month, on March 23, 2022.
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Gnome 42 Release Candidate: The new desktop for Linux is almost ready
The new Linux desktop Gnome 42 , which will follow Gnome 41 on March 23 and already comes
with numerous applications based on the free GUI toolkit GTK in version 4, can now be tried
out with the first release candidate.
There are numerous optical and technical innovations to be discovered.
Even the release candidate is too late After the first beta was slightly delayed,
the developers wanted to release the first release candidate of the free desktop on March
5th before the final version of Gnome 42 is due to appear on March 23rd.
But the first preview has also been postponed by a few days and is therefore only now available
for download via the official project sources .
Gnome 42 road map status date
Gnome 42 Alpha January 8, 2022 January 17, 2022 ✓
Gnome 42 beta February 12, 2022 February 22 ✓
Gnome 42 Release Candidate March 5, 2022 March 13 ✓
Gnome 42 Final Release March 23, 2022 On the other hand, the developers want to
hold on to the release of Gnome 42 on March 23, as the Gnome project has recently assured
several times.
New GTK 4 apps for Gnome 42 GTK 4 is implemented using the Libadwaita
1.0 library and already includes the following apps in the recently published Gnome 42 Release
Candidate:
New GTK 4 tool in Gnome 42 Gnome calls
Gnome bluetooth Gnome Calculator
Gnome Disk Utility Gnome Clocks
Gnome Maps nautilus
For the first time with Gnome 42 Beta , which was released on February 22nd, the new screenshot
and screencast function made its way into the free desktop and replaced the old screenshot
tool.
In addition, a completely revised and more user-friendly OSD ("On-Screen-Display") provides
information about the volume and display brightness of the system.
The command line console replaces the Gnome Terminal and the text editor will in future
take the place of the UTF-8 compatible free text editor gedit , while the handling of
resources such as the main memory is said to have been significantly optimized.
A consistent appearance In addition to porting the GTK 4 apps, the
developers have also focused in particular on the appearance of the open desktop for
Linux, BSD, Unix and Unix-like systems.
For the first time ever, Gnome offers a system-wide light and dark appearance, as well as numerous
new features designed to make the overall desktop look even more consistent.
Both topics can be applied permanently or used by means of a configurable day/night
plan.
If desired, automatic synchronization of the background image is also provided.
The new accent colors are intended to better highlight important buttons on the desktop,
while Gnome 42 is intended to be darker than Gnome 41 overall.
Fedora 36 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with Gnome 42
The first Linux distributions with Gnome 42 are Fedora 36, ​​which is to appear as
a direct successor to Fedora 35 with Gnome 41 in the spring of this year, and Ubuntu
22.04 LTS , which follows Ubuntu 20.04 LTS .
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