GNOME 41 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New.
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The GNOME Project announced today the release of the GNOME 41 desktop environment as the
latest and greatest update to this popular graphical interface for GNU/Linux distributions
on desktop and mobile.
Six months in development, GNOME 41 is here as a hefty update and the first major release
after GNOME 40 with new features like a new power mode setting in the Power settings panel
of the GNOME Control Center called Performance, which will be available on hardware that supports
this feature. The Performance mode increases CPU performance to allow your apps and activities
to run faster.
“Power modes can now be quickly changed from the System Status menu, and Power Saver
mode has been enhanced, so that the screen dims and fades more rapidly when it is active.
Power Saver will also automatically turn on when the battery level is low,” said the
GNOME devs.
On top of that, GNOME 41 introduces initial support for apps to request a particular power
mode. For example, this could be very useful for power-hungry applications and games to
request the Performance mode.
Also new in the GNOME Control Center is a Multitasking settings panel that gives you
control over window management and workspace multitasking options like the Activities hot
corner, Active Screen Edges, the ability to show workspaces on all displays, choose between
dynamic or fixed workspaces, and restrict app switching to the current workspace when
using the Super+Tab keyboard shortcut.
Moreover, a new Mobile Network settings panel is present in GNOME 41 to allow you to configure
mobile network connections like 2G, 3G, 4G, and GSM/LTE. Of course, these will only be
available on supported hardware and replace the previous mobile network settings.
GNOME 41 also ships with new and updated apps. For example, the new Connections app offers
users a modern and easy to use remote desktop client supporting both VNC and RDP connections.
On the other hand, the Music app received a new UI design with larger artwork, a new
album view with a play button, redesigned player bar, improved artist list to includes
images, and new welcome artwork.
Also revamped is the GNOME Software app, which now features redesigned settings, a new set
of categories for browsing and exploring apps, an updated Explore view to make it easier
to discover apps, redesigned Details pages with bigger screenshots and new information
tiles, better OS upgrade banners, as well as more attractive layouts in the Installed
and Updates views.
Among other noteworthy changes, GNOME 41 brings support for creating encrypted .zip archives
in the Nautilus (Files) file manager, the ability to import events from .ics files in
the Calendar app, better window resizing (especially for mobile devices) in the Calculator app,
and improved support for dark mode, better handling of unresponsive websites, and faster
pinch to zoom in the Epiphany (GNOME Web) web browser.
Last but not least, there are the usual performance improvements and bug fixes to make GNOME faster,
as well as more stable, reliable, and flexible. For example, the screen will now update faster
on Wayland in response to keyboard and pointer input, the system-level multi-touch gestures
are now more consistent and reliable, a new default GL renderer in GTK 4 provides faster
rendering and reduced power consumption, and a new Adwaita wallpaper.
The GNOME 41 desktop environment will soon be available in the stable software repositories
of many popular GNU/Linux distributions, such as Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, openSUSE Tumbleweed,
and others, most probably before the first point release, GNOME 41.1, hits the streets
on October 30th, 2021. Meanwhile, check out the official promo video with the highlights
of this release in action!
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