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GNOME 3.6 Released

Posted by samzenpus on from the get-it-while-it's-hot dept.

kthreadd writes "Gnome 3.6 is out. The announcement reads: 'The GNOME Project is proud to present GNOME 3.6, the third update to the 3.x series. This latest version of GNOME 3 includes a number of new features and enhancements, as well as many bug fixes and minor improvements. Together, they represent a significant upgrade to the GNOME 3 user experience.' Andreas Nilsson, President of the GNOME Foundation, said: 'The GNOME Foundation is proud to present this latest GNOME release, and I would like to congratulate the GNOME community on its achievement.' He described the release as 'an important milestone in our mission to bring a free and open computing environment to everyone.' New applications include Clocks and Boxes. Clocks is a world time clock, which allows you to keep an eye on what the local time is around the world. Boxes allows you to connect to other machines, either virtual or remote. For developers there's the new GtkLevelBar widget in GTK+, and GtkEntry can now use Pango attributes."

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  1. Switched to Mate desktop, not going back. by Picass0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Adios Gnome.

      mate-desktop.org

  2. Re:Amazing! by AchilleTalon · · Score: 4, Informative

    I must admit there is much more innovation in this release of Gnome than in the iPhone5.

    --
    Achille Talon
    Hop!
  3. Re:Happily running KDE by SomeKDEUser · · Score: 4, Informative

    kwin is fully scriptable -- how much more power do you need than per-window/window class/app rules?. Also, it only does its job of managing windows, and the rest is taken care of by the desktop. Enlightenment is a wm+launchers+set of apps but refuses to admit it would like to be a DE like XFCE. They can't admit that because OMG BLOAT!

    xmonad is a very interesting experiment, which some people find great. But these are the same people who think that the purpose of X is having more terminal windows open at the same time -- or their spiritual descendants.

  4. Re:Don't waste your time with GNOME 3.6 by jcarr · · Score: 5, Informative

    You post should be reworded:

    Attention all linux users: This is the solution you have been looking for!

    I installed it 10 minutes after seeing your post. This is what you have been looking for if you want a linux workstation again. I've been using XFCE4 for a year or so. Mate worked correctly on top of ubuntu 12.04. It has the polish that Andy Hertzfeld put into nautlius. The original look and feel is back. It's really excellent. This is the bar to start from.