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The latest update to the GNOME desktop environment has been released, with GNOME 47 bringing some really quite lovely sounding improvements. I do have to admire how ridiculously clean GNOME looks and feels when using it, even if it's not my preferred desktop.


Pictured - GNOME 47

Some of the changes include:

  • Accent Colours to customize your desktop style some more.
  • Enhanced Small Screen Support.
  • Screencast Hardware Encoding.
  • Faster, More Accurate Rendering.
  • Persistent Remote Desktop Sessions.
  • New style for Dialog Windows.
  • New Open and Save File Dialogs integrated into the Files app.
  • Improved Files app with a better search system, more interface modernizations.
  • Improved Online Accounts system with new features.
  • Lots of bug fixes to GNOME Calendar.
  • Disk Usage Analyzer has a refreshed interface for GNOME 47.
  • An enhanced fractional display scaling feature.

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All the details in the release notes. You can either wait until your chosen Linux distribution updates, or give it a spin using the GNOME OS nightly images.

What's your favourite improvement in GNOME 47?

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based Sep 20
I still dont know if their interface was meant for touchscreen or a mouse lol :p

Either make the top bar & its contents bigger or everything else smaller


Last edited by based on 20 September 2024 at 11:23 am UTC
bonkmaykr Sep 20
Changing a single accent color barely counts as customization. It's so lazy and I think a lot of interface designers miss the entire point when they settle on colors and call it a day.

What happened to GTK2 themes? KDE at least retains it's legacy ricing functionality in some form or another, they're running circles around GNOME, and they'd be doing it harder if KDE theme creators had some more originality.
Pyrate Sep 20
The interface is so clean yet I always feel dirty using it. Just not for me.
Zlopez Sep 20
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My best feature of GNOME 47 is the better support for big resolutions. You can now change the scale of the UI by 25% steps, it was 50% before which didn't work for me.

Otherwise works for me as always. But would like to try KDE 6 as well.
Dorrit Sep 20
Quoting: Zlopezthe scale of the UI by 25% steps
KDE does it in 6.25% increments for some time now.
dpanter Sep 20
It's good to have alternatives. Use whatever you like.
Gnome is not my cup of tea and hasn't been since Gnome 3 started going wrong quite a long time ago now. These days the people behind Gnome have declared war against its users and everyone who dares disagree with their direction. In bewilderment, we can only lament their intransigent attitude.
Raaben Sep 20
I have to use a few extensions to hammer some square pegs into round holes but the overall workflow of Gnome is something I can't get close enough to in other environments.

Quoting: basedI still dont know if their interface was meant for touchscreen or a mouse lol :p

To me, keyboard. Gnome feels far better and faster than trying to point and click/poke everything.
Leahi84 Sep 20
I REALLY don't like gnome. It looks too much like something Apple would make. I'll be sticking with KDE for the far foreseeable future.
amatai Sep 20
I like how GNOME and KDE are radicaly different. I'm leaning on GNOME interface but the point of Linux is having choices.
Linas Sep 20
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Seems like a lot of people dislike GNOME, but I love it. I like how you don't really "use" GNOME, as it just gets out of your way, while at the same time all the important settings like WiFi, power saving, etc. are right there when you need them.

Whenever I think about the description of the old GNOME window manager Metacity, it always makes me feel warm and cozy inside.

QuoteBoring window manager for the adult in you. Many window managers are like Marshmallow Froot Loops; Metacity is like Cheerios.
Yep, sign me up.

It is true that their UI paradigm is not quite 100% refined yet, but at least it is not another rehash of the same thing since Windows 3.1.
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