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What's New In GNOME 3.18

Posted by timothy on from the slicker-and-slicker dept.

prisoninmate writes: In this release, GNOME improves the general user experience for users and new developers alike. GNOME 3.18 adds a feature called "Automatic Brightness," which, when enabled, it will make use of your laptop's light sensor to dim or increase the screen's brightness depending on the surrounding lighting. GNOME 3.18 also improves the touch screen experience, especially when selecting and modifying text, implements a new view in the Nautilus (Files) sidebar, which collects all the remote and internal locations in a single place.

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  1. Re:Ah, no lessons learned from Windows 8 by DrXym · · Score: 5, Funny

    GNOME works great on a desktop. There are also lots of extensions that add stuff like task bars, app launchers etc.

  2. Re:GNOME 3.x worsens the general user experience by Pseudonymous+Powers · · Score: 1, Funny

    GNOME 3 sent me to OSX.

    You say you wanna know what Gnome 3 ever did to me? Gnome 3 sent me to a foreign land to fight a war I didn't start with people who never did me no wrong. It made me do terrible things, things I still can't talk about, not with anyone, not with God, not even with the Devil. It feels like part of me is still over there. It probably always will. That's what Gnome 3 did to me, Sonny Jim.

    Seriously, though, Gnome 3 sucked the last time I looked at it. And by "the last time", I likely mean both the first time and the last time. Trust is a delicate thing. When you sleep with your spouse's best friend or add a "charms bar" to your UI, there's a good chance you won't ever really get back to where you were.