Gnome 3.26
One of the most popular desktop environments among the Linuxera community has been updated to a new version with new and better changes and above all that it has given much to talk about, if so, we are talking about Gnome.
Gnome is renewed in its new version 3.26 with code name "Manchester" and it is not to show off, the environment celebrates its 20 years and this new update the developers took great pains and were punctual as they have been doing every semester with their updates.
Meanwhile the development team comments on this:
"We are pleased and proud to announce GNOME 3.26, the latest major GNOME release," Manchester ", a few weeks after we celebrated GNOME's XNUMXth birthday at GUADEC, we announced the release. As always, the GNOME community did a great job offering cool features, completing translations, and refining the user experience. Thanks!"
Gnome 3.26 Features
Among the highlights of this new version, is its control center that we have already been talking about in the daily versions of Ubuntu 17.10 you can see more about it here.
Gnome 3.26
Another point to talk about and that many will find fabulous is that emojis are integrated into the environment and these can be inserted in messages, chats, documents and other places. Great, don't you think?
Another section that received improvements was the search, in this improved design, response time and above all, the option to search for system actions is added, such as shutting down, suspending, locking the screen, logging out and changing the user.
Gnome 3.26 search
The tool Gnome Tweak Tool has changed the name to Tweaks and three new settings have been added:
- Switch to move the window buttons to the left or right
- Disable option while typing for touchpads
- Option to show battery percentage on top bar.
If you want to know more about it, you can consult the list of changes in the following link
well if what you mean is to change the desktop, it is not very difficult. And putting the icons and putting folders as you please is a wonder ...
I don't like it, a lot of resources for nothing, they should bring mate in all and focus on tools
Hello Neste Bellier.
He sent you a cordial greeting, everyone has their tastes, there are those who prefer to optimize resources, there are others who prefer to have an attractive visual appearance and many others who like both.
In my case, I am one of the latter. Although you can optimize Gnome, but the comment is still respectable.
Gnome Shell is very cool and elegant, but it uses too many resources, instead of its developers beautifying it more, they should take care of the consumption of resources, which in my opinion is excessive and unnecessary. I use Debian with the Mate desktop because the Gnome did not allow me to move fully, and something that I look for in an operating system is fluency