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GNOME 3.10 Released

Posted by timothy on from the upwards-or-sideways dept.

kthreadd writes "Version 3.10 of the GNOME software collection has been released. New in this release is improved support for Wayland, the upcoming X replacement. The system status menus have been consolidated into one single menu. Many of the applications in GNOME now features header bars instead of title bars, which merges the titlebar and toolbar into a single element and allows applications to offer more dynamic user interfaces. GNOME now also includes an application for searching, browsing and installing applications called Software. Several other new applications have also been added to GNOME including Music, Photos, Notes and Maps."

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  1. New Applications by lavamind · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Several other new applications have also been added to GNOME including Music, Photos, Notes and Maps.

    Is it just me, or is GNOME picking a completely new default multimedia applications every other release or so? Why can't they run with something for a few years, for a change?

    1. Re:New Applications by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      With every iteration of each Linux flavor, it gets harder and harder to install XMMS.

      And I mean the late 90's XMMS that just works, not the completely different and unusable client-server XMMS2. Or any of the other multimedia disasters that attempt to deliver every imaginable feature - except a basic equalizer and an MP3 codec.

  2. Re:Software by Mike+Frett · · Score: 3, Interesting

    While I don't really like Gnome 3, that new Software Center looks nice and clean. Not bad.

  3. Gnome 3.10 looks good! by thule · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I understand some of the complaints. It get it. But, wow, Gnome is looking really good! It will be interesting to see how this new menu layout works. So far I haven't had any complaints in Gnome 3. I've been using Gnome everyday since it was initially released in the RedHat/Fedora distros. I've had more complaints with the bumps in the road with Fedora over the years than Gnome itself.

  4. Re:MATE RULES! by squiggleslash · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Curious to know people's thoughts on this: how necessary are projects like MATE now that GNOME 3 has a supported-in-the-long-term "Classic" mode?

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  5. Re:MATE RULES! by aardvarkjoe · · Score: 5, Interesting

    now that GNOME 3 has a supported-in-the-long-term "Classic" mode?

    The Gnome developers have a long history of throwing out features and behavior based on a whim. Why would anyone believe that "classic mode" is going to receive long-term support?

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  6. Re:Software by magic+maverick+ · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And they call their browser "Web". Yeah, I've got some troubles with accessing the web. What browser am I using? Eh, it says Web. Yeah, Web... No not Firefox, Web.
    Or searching for how to do something or fix something...

    This is actually a stupid thing, calling their software after generic terms related to the function. Epiphany is a much better web browser name than Web. Synaptic is a much better name for a software install than Software. Etc. Next they'll be re-badging Abiword as Word Processor.

    (I am using a Gnome 3 as I type this. I understand later versions (like 3.8) are better. But I mostly cope with this version, because Ubuntu 12.04 actually works for now, and I don't want to break shit by upgrading.)

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