GNOME desktop enthusiasts are in luck because its latest version, GNOME 3.24, has been released with a number of improvements. As you know, Ubuntu 17.04 will already incorporate this new desktop and will facilitate from now on the developments that are made on this system.
The reason for this change is the new LTS version of GTK that will force to migrate several of the most popular applications, such as GNOME Calendar, Totem (the video player) and GNOME Disk and to patch others such as GNOME Weather or Nautilus, always thinking about the benefits that this migration will bring to the system as a whole.
GNOME 3.24 is already among us with a lots of improvements that will make your migration to this environment worthwhile.
Night Light
The first of the functions is Night Light, a blue light filter for our team which allows, through the detection of sunrise and sunset, to reduce the emissions of this type of light in our equipment. This reduces potential eyestrain for users and helps them sleep better.
By default this function is not enabled, so in the environment we must access System Settings> Display> Night Light.
GNOMEShell 3.24
The next improvement that the GNOME 3.24 update introduces is over the system's own shell. From now on, the display of the date and time will It will also show the weather of our town. It is a small snippet included in a box that shows the climate and the thermal sensation that is experienced in our environment.
In addition, the visual aspect of notifications has been improved so that they are more visual and we do not miss any notice. The multimedia control bar has had its header bar removed and improved its controls to facilitate user actions. And finally, the WiFi connections menu will update automatically when we display it, something that would seem logical to do every time the user launched it, but it was not.
Applications
There are many applications that have been improved after the GNOME update. To highlight among them are:
- Nautilus: Error resolution, performance improvement and system response.
- Photos: The performance of the thumbnail grid has been improved with a change in the environment that generated them. Photo information now shows GPS location data.
- Calendar: Ahopra has a vision for weeks and there is the option to use drag-and-drop between tasks each day.
Source: OMG Ubuntu
And a main advance for Linux environments, in my opinion, in fact for me, the most essential: The detection of double graphics with Optimus technology and the possibility of starting, with a simple right click of the mouse, with the dedicated graphics card or integrated 🙂 Something that is really already necessary. And the battery saving is very noticeable (tested in Fedora 25 for what I indicate later).
One note, Fedora 25 I don't know how but it was already implemented before Gnome 3.24, but all distributions benefit from this advance. Then, it is assumed that at the moment it will only go with free drivers (nouveau, radeon), but then they want to be able to choose the proprietary drivers. Somewhat logical, Linux is synonymous with "freedom to choose", and I really do better with proprietary drivers.
As an appreciation, it is a benefit from which the Rolling Release distributions will drink. Why? because the system, with each kernel update, was forced to manually recompile the drivers, something that could be broken in front of our stunned face, but managing the desktop everything, in theory, will be consistent and automatic.
Bottom line: I'm going to install OpenSuse Tumbleweed as soon as it is released!
I hope this information can serve to complete the good article above me 😉 Greetings Linuxer @ s!
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