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Happy birthday GNOME ! ( Happy Birthday GNOME!)
Yes, the GNOME community is proud to celebrate this important milestone.
Announced to the world on August 15, 1997 by then-college students Miguel de Icaza and
Federico Mena Quintero, the GNOME desktop environment is 25 years old today.
Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena Quintero presented GNOME in 1997 as: “We want to
develop a free and complete set of user-friendly applications and desktop tools, similar to
CDE and KDE, but entirely based on free software.”
The aim of “completely free software” was quite important, hBoth Icaza and Quintero
felt that the nonfree Qt toolkit used by KDE restricted redistribution and removed the
barriers they wanted to be downloaded.
GNOME using the GTK toolkit instead; It also covered software written in languages ​​other
than C++ and Python that Qt needed at the time.
GNOME code would be released under the GNU GPL and redistributed would be truly free.
It is stated that 43 stable versions have been released since the first version of GNOME
1.0 in 1999, while the latest GNOME version is said to be GNOME 42.3 , which was released
in July of this year .
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GNOME 43 Beta released full of news
And the GNOME Project has announced the availability of GNOME 43 beta.
Check out what's new in this snapshot and see how to try it out.
The GNOME Project turns 25 today and to celebrate the anniversary of its birth, the development
team has released the beta version of the upcoming series of GNOME 43 desktop environments
for public testing.
Nine days late from its official release date, GNOME 43 Beta is here as the second development
milestone following the release of GNOME 43 Alpha, which kicked off the GUADEC 2022 conference
that took place last month in Guadalajara, Mexico to shape the future of the next major
release of the GNOME desktop environment.
What's New in GNOME 43 Beta
As expected, GNOME 43 Beta is packed with new features, including more improvements
to WebExtensions support and a new "Take Screenshot" context menu entry for the Epiphany web browser,
the ability of the GNOME Boxes virtual machine manager to fetch systems.
recommended remote address operating systems, 5G WWAN connection support for the Control
Center Cellular page, and support for privacy screens on the View page.
The new GNOME Console terminal emulator has been ported to GTK4/libadwaita and comes with
improved handling of custom shells/commands, drag-and-drop fixes with local URIs now being
converted to regular filesystem paths, as well as detection of links from man page , keyboard
shortcuts, clipboard oddities, build with Clang, and various auxiliary data updates.
The calling app received improved launch times, scrolling performance against large call histories,
and a “Send SMS” action in the history popover.
In addition, the Disks app received several improvements in Flatpak, and the initial GNOME
configuration was finally ported to GTK 4 and libadwaita.
The GNOME Shell, which is the most important part of the GNOME desktop environment, now
comes with a new quick settings panel that replaces the system combo menu, improved on-screen
keyboard, improved app grid navigation, space background shadow workspace and improved acting
overview animation.
It also features a new device switcher for the volume sliders, the ability to load only
extensions that support the current session mode, support for updating extensions only
with Extension Manager installed, a tighter access portal dialog and the ability to use
the same format in screencast and screen capture filenames.
On the other hand, Mutter window and composite manager received forward scan support for
GPUs without modifier support, support for multiple monitor forward scan, single pixel
buffer support, ARGB fallback if XRGB is not supported, cursor visibility in X11 when using
only tablets as input and basic color scheme support for server-side decorations.
The GNOME 43 Beta release also includes the full set of standard and companion wallpapers
in SVG and WebM formats for better compression and resolution, as well as 4K square formats
targeting widescreen, 4:3 and portrait screens.
The next development milestone for the upcoming GNOME 43 desktop environment is the Release
Candidate (RC), which is scheduled for early September.
Until then, you can test the GNOME 43 Beta release if you download the GNOME OS installer
image and run it in an EFI-enabled virtual machine, such as the GNOME Boxes version available
on Flathub.
The GNOME 43 Beta release also marks the start of UI, feature, and API freezes, and the String
announcement is now also in effect ahead of the String freeze that begins later this month
on August 27th.
The final release of GNOME 43 is scheduled for September 21, 2022.
How to install try this GNOME snapshot To beta test the GNOME 43 beta, you can use
the installer image , the 43 beta branch of the Flatpak runtimes from the Flathub beta,
or the official snapshot of the BuildStream project, which you can download here .
Source packages are available here for Linux OS maintainers who want to integrate the upcoming
desktop environment into their GNU/Linux distributions.
However, keep in mind that this is a pre-release version, intended primarily for testing purposes.
Being a beta version, you should expect a lot of bugs and missing features.
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GNOME 43 Beta Released With More GTK 4 Porting, Other Desktop Improvements
The beta of GNOME 43 is now available for testing ahead of the stable release next month.
GNOME 43 Beta was just released with the latest batch of open-source desktop enhancements
and more GTK 4 / Adwaita porting.
Some of the GNOME 43 Beta highlights include:
- Faster start-up times and scrolling performance for the GNOME Calls app.
- Support for the dark color scheme with the DConf Editor.
- The Epiphany web browser removed PDF.js, adds various WebExtensions features, and other
updates.
- GJS is shipping various new JavaScript features from SpiderMonkey 102.
- Adding the new GNOME 43 desktop backgrounds.
- GNOME Console has been ported to GTK 4 and Adwaita along with other improvements to this
new GNOME Terminal replacement.
- WWAN 5G connection support to GNOME Control Center's Cellular area.
There is also now support for privacy screen configurations from the GNOME Control Center.
- GNOME Initial Setup has been ported to GTK 4 and Adwaita.
- GNOME Logs has been ported to GTK 4.
- UI updates and other enhancements to GNOME Software.
- Many performance improvements around document loading in the GNOME Text Editor.
There are also desktop integration improvements, UI re-coloring improvements, and more.
- The Nautilus file manager has seen improvements for main window elements on smaller screen
sizes, plug-in changes, modernizing the properties window, and other tweaking.
- GNOME Mutter improvements including direct scanout improvements, high resolution scroll
wheel support, single pixel buffer support on Wayland, and more.
- GNOME Shell improvements including better overview animation performance, improved app
grid navigation, improved on-screen keyboard, and more.
Downloads and more details on the GNOME 43 Beta via the release announcement.
We're now under the feature, UI, and API freezes.
The GNOME 43 stable release is expected on 21 September.
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GNOME 43 beta is available for testing The GNOME Project released the beta version
of GNOME 43 on its 25th birthday, bringing many enhancements and bug fixes.
The GNOME Project has released the beta version for the upcoming GNOME 43 desktop environment.
The beta version was released on the exact day of the first day of GNOME’s development
has begun, 25 years ago.
The final version of GNOME 43 is expected to be released on the 21st of September; there
will be a release candidate at the beginning of September as well.
Approximately three weeks after the release of GNOME 43 alpha, the GNOME Project delivers
the beta release of the popular desktop environment.
It was released yesterday, the 15th of August, which also marks the 25th birthday of the
GNOME Project.
The beta comes with many new features and enhancements.
A long list of changes GNOME 43 beta takes additional steps with
GTK4/Adwaita porting on gnome-console, gnome-initial-setup, and sysprof components of the desktop environment.
WebExtensions support has received some improvements alongside GNOME Boxes, which is now capable
of fetching operating systems from remote addresses.
GNOME Calls has now improved scrolling performance with large call histories, Epiphany web browser
removes PDF.js, and GJS comes with additional JavaScript features because of its updated
base, SpiderMonkey 102.
GNOME Control Center’s Celluar section now supports WWAN 5G connections and GNOME Software
receives some improvements to its interface.
GNOME 43 beta desktop environment comes with translation updates for many of its components,
and it has some new wallpapers as well.
You can see the long list of the changes in the GNOME Project’s announcement as well.
The stable version of GNOME 43 is expected to be released on the 21st of September this
year.
You can download and install GNOME OS to test the new features and report them to the developers.
We remind you that GNOME 43 is currently in beta state and it will definitely have some
bugs.
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