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GNOME 3.28 'Chongqing' Linux Is Here (betanews.com)
BrianFagioli writes: GNOME 3.28 is the latest version of GNOME 3, and is the result of 6 months' hard work by the GNOME community. It contains several major new features, as well as many smaller improvements and bug fixes. In total, the release incorporates 24105 changes, made by approximately 778 contributors.
The Project explains, "GNOME 3.28 comes with more beautiful things! First, and most significantly, GNOME's default interface font (called Cantarell) has undergone a significant update. Character forms and spacing have been evolved, so that text is more readable and attractive. Several new weights have also been added -- light and extra bold -- which are being used to produce interfaces that are both modern and beautiful. Other beautiful things include GNOME's collection of background wallpapers, which has been updated to include a lovely set of photographs, and the selection of profile pictures, which has been completely updated with attractive new images to pick from."
Unfortunately, you can't just click on a button and upgrade to GNOME 3.28 today. Actually, for the most part, you will need to wait for it to become available for your operating system. Sadly, this can take a while. Fedora users, for instance, will have to wait for a major OS upgrade for it to become available.
The Project explains, "GNOME 3.28 comes with more beautiful things! First, and most significantly, GNOME's default interface font (called Cantarell) has undergone a significant update. Character forms and spacing have been evolved, so that text is more readable and attractive. Several new weights have also been added -- light and extra bold -- which are being used to produce interfaces that are both modern and beautiful. Other beautiful things include GNOME's collection of background wallpapers, which has been updated to include a lovely set of photographs, and the selection of profile pictures, which has been completely updated with attractive new images to pick from."
Unfortunately, you can't just click on a button and upgrade to GNOME 3.28 today. Actually, for the most part, you will need to wait for it to become available for your operating system. Sadly, this can take a while. Fedora users, for instance, will have to wait for a major OS upgrade for it to become available.
What the fuck is Chongqing and what does it have to do with GNOME or Linux? The more important question is how many trans or non specific gender developers does GNOME have?
In case anyone is wondering about the name, Chongqing is China's fourth municipality, and was apparently the location of the GNOME.asia conference last year. This will save you from having to Google it.
"GNOME 3.28 is here!"
"... you will need to wait for it to become available ..."
It's not here. I am GUI blocked. Much sad!
Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfucker.
Do I need systemd to run it?
Have these things called compilers. They can build the bloody SRPMs and then use those to build installable RPMs any time they bloody well like. That is the difference between Real Linux Users (who CHOOSE whether to wait or not, and who understand that their decision is a CHOICE) and those who believe that open source means you have to wait for a vendor.
I emphasize this again. There is nothing wrong with waiting. As long as it is a CHOICE. If you feel that it is sensible to wait, or that you don't want to take the time, that is perfectly fine. That is choosing. It is one of the three Great Powers that open source gives.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Keep up the good work, almost looks like OSX! Soon!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chun_King
The article seem to be mostly on how much nicer it looks. But it is 2018 the roll of the PC is very different then it was in 1998 or even in 2008.
Back 10 years ago. The PC was the persons primary computing device for all things work and fun. We needed an attractive desktop environment as it would be one of our main views into the system. However even in 2008 most of our computing is via Web Sites. Back in 1998 when we used mostly application and installed mountains of applications on our PC's The UI and how well to use the Operating System was extremely important.
Mobile Technology has taken the place of much of our personal computing. The average person can go days or weeks without having to use a traditional PC. The PC has moved from its job as a Personal Computer to a Workstation where we use it for actual work (and High end games). For this type of work, we need the OS to take a step back from saying Hey look at me how cool of an OS I am, to a place to showcase the application(s) needed to be ran. Features need to be focused on bringing the application running to the attention of the user when they need it, and keep many applications well organized so we don't get bogged down by clutter.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Who gives a shit about the system font? How about fixing display resolution independence, so I can have a 4k display next to a WXGA display without one showing everything stupidly tiny, or the other one showing everything fischer-price huge. Yeah, I know, install a gnome plugin that increases font size - except that does nothing for window components or non-text things you may want to display.
This is a problem that OS X and Windows solved fucking YEARS ago, and it's still fucking horrible in Gnome.
Is it good that updates are getting so picky about forward and backward dependencies? is this meant to improve our experience or to limit/collimate our choices ? Gnome and this LinRegistry ( I forget the name at the moment) seem intent to narrow the options. Would it be better in the long run for all distributions to be in lock-step at some level, or is diversity healthier? is forward / backward compat ibility a thing of the past? Is outflanking even possible any more? Perhaps its time to re-evaluate what Freedom means these days?
Time for a new Political party in the US (or two!) One is off the rails Other cant pony up a leader.
You have the source so fix it yourself n00b!
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
When I roll a PC today I get mostly much the same odd results as when I rolled a PC in 1998 - it nearly always lands with one of the larger sides facing up, and very rarely on end. Its still poor at fulfilling its role as a dice.
I wonder how tall the terminal title bar is. I use Debian7 at work at the size of those is really annoying (and CSS styling does not work with that Gnome version).
I know some absolutely love Linux desktop, but frankly my experience over the years is that its a second class OS in many ways and a very good OS in a few. I only wish Linux desktop was more on function, less on looks.
Because Gnome was perfect except for the fonts and the fucking wallpaper.
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Gnome 3 changed in a way that removed things that I had become used to, eg the ability to create a set of desktops 3 by 4 and then do some tasks in specific desktops. Yes: you can have multiple desktops but only move up & down -- hard to use; no option to do it the way that I want.
Fonts and desktop backgrounds. I'm glad those items are top of the line there. Too bad Gnome is still unusable and weird.
Gnome didn’t get it right in the 2.x days (remember the spatial file manager fad), and 3.x just keeps on gnackering it. I’ll keep with mate, an xul web browser and a systemd free init.
There are way too many "beautiful" words in TFA. Maybe this is why Gnome sucks nowdays - it looks perdy but it is practically unusable.
n/t
Can I get the top bar mirrored on both of my monitors like I want yet? I tried plug-ins, but they are all in the "kinda doing what I want, but not really" category, so I installed Unity 7 on my Ubuntu 17.10 after about a month of trying to use Gnome Shell. Also: Alt+Space, X you *expletive removed*.
"Everybody's naked underneath" -- The Doctor
I care even less about the "great selection of desktop backgrounds."
Hmm... seems like something I might have expected to come from Microsoft: "You need to upgrade to Window XX to get this new interface". Since when did the user's choice of desktop become an operating system decision? Not that distribution packagers give a crap about what users want but, IMHO, the desktop software ought to get pulled out of the "/usr/..." tree and placed under "/opt/desktop/..." and be updatable on the user's schedule and not require a damned OS upgrade (except when there are underlying library dependencies).
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First, and most significantly, GNOME's default interface font (called Cantarell) has undergone a significant update.
You updated the font? Can't wait to hear about the subsequent and less significant changes.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
I wish more fonts would use a normal written lower case a and not the kind you'd see on a typewriter, I'll just have to change away from cantarell anyway
It mostly stays out of the way and does what it should, and others who don't normally use Linux have no issues navigating it when they come over
Yes! Any time I see a new Gnome version announced I check the pics to see if the title bars and widgets are still uber big. Running Gnome on my laptop makes it feel "old", so I stick with Elementary which has sized their components to fit my screen in a much nicer way. C'mon Gnome... The thinking probably has to do with installing Gnome on tablets, which I'm sure is happening everywhere even though I've never seen it.
After 6 months of development: "First, and most significantly, GNOME’s default interface font (called Cantarell) has undergone a significant update."
Woo Fucking Hoo.
Have they given us the ability to change the position, size or timeout of the onscreen volume notification? That would be worth the wait.
For this will make sure that Linux in the desktop will continue to spin its wheels. Why is this a good thing? Because my XFCE linux desktop does all that I need, quickly and efficiently, and by virtue of the fact that, thanks to Gnome (and, to a lesser extent, KDE) Linux in the desktop will remain a non-entity, the bad guys will carry on neglecting it in their attacks. Thanks, Gnome people, for your invaluable contribution to make sure that the Linux desktop remains secure and safe.
I had to setup a computer a few weeks ago, and decided to give gnome another shot. This would be the first time using it in 5+ years. I was looking for something convenient, so I wanted it to work out.
It was just a bit too user friendly. Why is it so hard to change the default terminal? Why is the nautilus menu so counter intuitive? Why, after installing an application with the gnome package manager thinger, can I not find my new application in the list of installed apps? I mean, even windows will search around the file system in various folders of convenience and show relevant results if what you're typing isn't found.
I can't remember what the last straw was, but I installed xfce (again) and never looked back.
great DIVERSITY of desktop backgrounds
vtwm is the original "twm" window manager that came with X windows. vtwm is the virtualized form, with a modest box in one corner showing multiple panels one can select and get a different screen with different X applications running on it. This is much cheaper and more reliable than running multiple physical displays,. it's incredibly lightweight by modern standards, it contains none of the confusing debris that Gnome insterts by default to suck away your CPU and RAM,
I'm sick to death of developers trying to re-invent the wheel. and create paradigm shifts of user interaction that *no one else in the world wants* and that break working tools. Keep It Simple, Stupid!!!!
Every example on the link showed only one window open. Sorry, that implies that they think I'm using a smartphone. I can't tell without additional checking, but it looks as if it's unusable for my use case, as I normally have several windows open in different applications. Even if this is possible at the moment in this release, I have a hard time trusting that they will keep the capability around. They've arbitrarily made changes too often in the past...and it's clearly not something they're interested in.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
"So it is written--so it shall be done!
Thus spake the queen of Chong, whose final word always became law.
I'd rather see fractional scaling in Wayland but you know, font weights and backgrounds really matter.
Why does that presentation of the software sound like it was written by Thump? And more importantly will it make me as stupid and ignorant if I use it?