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GNOME 3.16 Released

Posted by timothy on from the gnome-3:16-signs-for-every-sporting-event dept.

kthreadd writes Version 3.16 of GNOME, the primary desktop environment for GNU/Linux operating systems has been released. Some major new features in this release include a overhauled notification system, an updated design of the calendar drop down and support for overlay scrollbars. Also, the grid view in Files has been improved with bigger thumbnail icons, making the appearance more attractive and the rows easier to read. A video is available which demonstrates the new version.

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  1. agreed (as is Ximian and Red Carpet) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    installed it. Gnome, or rather Ximian's piece of shit installer (Red Carpet?). It uninstalled PAM from my linux box. UNINSTALLED! No accounts were valid for login.

    After copying the RPM to a floppy (thanks you Ximian morons) and getting back in to log in, I was unable to un-install.

    fdisk.

    Thanks you Ximian morons. Do you even test this stuff before you distribute it? And my only option is KDE?

  2. Gotten better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I used to hate GNOME 3!
    I tried out 3.14, and I have to say, it has gotten a lot better.

    Also you can install GNOME shell extensions, to get it more in line with the classic GNOME 2.
    Also you need get a new shell theme. But its possibly to get GNOME 3 pretty nice. :)

  3. Re:OSX by caseih · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And it was a bad idea when OS X did it, and it's still a bad idea. I hope they can be disabled (this is actually a GTK thing, not a Gnome thing). I can see how this is useful on a very small screen with a finger as the pointer. But not a mouse on a desktop. We've really gone backwards in usability on computer desktops generally in the last 5 years. Perhaps this coincides with the rise of the "user experience" field of thought, rather than focusing on intuitive "user interfaces."

  4. Re:Obligatory Discussions by caseih · · Score: 1, Interesting

    So far as I know, gvfs is dependent on udev, not systemd. There are versions of udev still available out there that are not part of the systemd. On systems running systemd, udev is going to be provided by systemd-udev.

    So if you could rebuild your packages with a different udev implementation like udevil, gvfs could be build against it possibly.

  5. Re:Obligatory Discussions by ralphsiegler · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My problem is having anything written by a bunch of hacks who don't understand proper engineering principles, unix philosphy, and systems administration. They are dangerous, their code is dangerous. Already in my testing all manner of issues and problems and lack of ability to troubleshoot has been discovered with that bloated pile of rubbish that is systemd. I've decades of experience in systems admin, systems programming; from various mainframe and supercomputer OS to OS/2 and Unix and VMS. Systemd is by far the worst of the lot for a boot and daemon management system.