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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.
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.
Indeed. Gnome was one of the first pieces of software to bake in an artificial dependency on systemd, at the direct request of Poettering himself.
That single dependency is what railroaded systemd into all of the major distros.
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.
You clearly haven't understood what the GNOME project is about. It's about aesthetics.
It's a project driven by a bunch of failed web "developers", who have absolutely no grasp of "productivity" or "usability". Hence the focus on looks and politics.
As for your "analysis" of the "average" user it's just plain wrong. First of all, an "average user" does not exist, thus any UI made for an average will be a UI made for nobody and just be a gigantic fail.
Secondly, It doesn't matter if your "average" user doesn't use a regular computer for weeks, or even years. A computer is not a device for someone who needs it sometimes, it's a device for someone who needs a computer. Frankly I don't get your drift at all: Who the hell fires up his or her computer to stare at the interface in the first place (except apparently for the people at Microsoft, who apparently think you own a computer to run Windows on it, and little else)? Your tie-in with mobile makes even less sense considering that GNOME are the clowns who have been leading on the FOSS side in trying to "mobilify" the desktop. KDE at least had the great sense to implement functionality to switch your UI depending on your current needs.
GNOME is dead. It's a two bit desktop by megalomaniacal, egocentrical two bit people who can't code and can't stand one bit of competition or dissent. They don't care about their users, to the extent that they don't even really support themeing because it messes up their "identity". The users they once had doesn't give a shit about GNOME; the "average user" hasn't even heard of them - they're still stuck on Windows which came pre-installed on their computer and as far as they know is needed for a computer to even work.