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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. Re:What good is it, if nobody adopts it? by jallen02 · · Score: 5, Funny

    So there we have it, the foot bothers you ;)

    Couldn't you have just said, "The foot bothers me?" :)

    Jeremy

  2. Re:What good is it, if nobody adopts it? by Skeezix · · Score: 5, Informative
    Ummm, something tells me the GNOME guys would be better off spending their time making the desktop more marketplace-friendly and user-friendly versus adding yet more and more crap no one will ever use into the API.

    People are using the API's. Much of the improvements to Gtk+ and GNOME for version 2 involve making the platform and desktop accessible to more users. This includes better internationalization and rendering of text, accessibility (a major project being headed up by Sun Microsystems). This has been a very important emphasis of this release. Other improvement in the configuration system, component model, etc. allow developers to write more powerful applications quicker. And these are being used.

    Making the GUI easier for first-time Linux users, which was the whole point of GNOME in the first place, wasnt it?

    This has been a major focus of the GNOME Project for GNOME 2 and beyond. Check out the GNOME Usability Project and the GNOME Usability mailing list.

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  3. The 'primary' - define and discuss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dispite desparate attempts of the linux user base to move to alternatives and avoid wholesale changes to the linux userspace, distribution leadership and paid developers continue their push toward 'unification and control'.

    When gnomish developers develop on macs to produce a desktop centric operating system in the hope of capturing the windows/mac market, where mac users are happy with macs, windows users are happy using windows and all the linux users go anywhere else the question becomes 'who is going to use it?'

  4. Primary desktop environment? by andy16666 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "the primary desktop environment for GNU/Linux operating systems"

    Well, well, aren't we full of ourselves...

  5. 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. :)

  6. 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."

  7. Re:Obligatory Discussions by RabidReindeer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, but Gnome 2 was usable. Gnome 3 switched me to Cinnamon.