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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. Don't waste your time with GNOME 3.6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It still sucks. Stick with MATE.

  2. Re:Happily running KDE by SomeKDEUser · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Same thing when you are forced on OSX. Seriously, KDE has the best window manager bar none. How no one has gone postal on the MS and apple folks responsible for that part of their respective interfaces s a mystery to me.

  3. Re:After years by GigaBurglar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because sometimes people cannot be bothered, wasting so much time and energy, tweaking and fiddling with things they would rather 'just worked' . I know Linux pretty well but I actually can't be bothered with trivial desktop shit - I'd rather that stuff just worked out of the box. It's not that I can't - I just can't be bothered..

  4. Re:Amazing! by quippe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Modal dialogs are indeed "forced on people"; anytime an eclipse modal dialog pops up (popped as I am on lxde now), I couldn't move it away to see what I needed to see on the main window, it was "glued", cut&paste out of question. I could fix the missing focus-on-hover installing a tweak plugin; but to fix this one, it was not enough you need to launch gconftool, which obviously is something I could cope with, but it's out of question for the average user. It's indeed one of most broken design decisions I have ever seen in my life.