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Gnome 42 Released

60 points| bwindels | 4 years ago |release.gnome.org

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panick21_|4 years ago

I haven't used this yet, but I want to say I just love GNOME. Its fantastic, been using it for a decade. Thanks to everybody involved!

Koshkin|4 years ago

Since they changed the desktop UI (UX?) Gnome has felt somewhat alien and even cringy to me. Nonetheless I have been using it for years just because in Debian it happens to be the default; after my recent switch to Slackware which doesn't include it, I started using KDE, and now I feel right at home.

Shadonototra|4 years ago

https://release.gnome.org/42/console-screenshot.webp

When distro maintainers ship with poor font configurations, the world have to suffer with blurry fonts (specially on dark backgrounds)..

Everyone should pick the freetype2 patches from ChromeOS, it makes a huge difference

sph|4 years ago

It's because of low resolution screens. The secret to have silky smooth fonts on modern distros (i.e. Fedora) is to run at 2x scaling and turn off hinting. The various freetype2 patches have been integrated in modern toolkits (and GTK doesn't use freetype2 anymore)

https://imgur.com/u3HBF6n

zajio1am|4 years ago

There is a way to improve font sharpness with current freetype2 by setting variable:

  FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35
Unfortunately, default behavior for freetype2 is blurry.

peakaboo|4 years ago

I want this so bad. Hopefully it comes into Arch quickly.

There has been rumours that theming may be dead though? Appearently it's harder to theme things in Gnome 42 but I don't know why.

happymellon|4 years ago

It isn't. Just hacking things together rather than actually following the instructions will be harder.

jmrm|4 years ago

I'm pretty happy to see how Gnome and KDE grow to be so polished and good looking.

rayiner|4 years ago

Does gnome’s new RDP support work on Wayland?

tapoxi|4 years ago

Yes. I'm actually not sure if it works in X though...

stuxnet79|4 years ago

Looks great! Will the next Ubuntu LTS be bundled with Gnome 42?

PhilippGille|4 years ago

Kind of:

> Ubuntu 22.04 includes the bulk of the recent GNOME 42 release plus a number of apps and libraries carried from GNOME 40 (and earlier). Why this mix? Well, GNOME 42 features a lot of GTK4 & libadwaita ports of many core apps. Ubuntu didn’t feel like they’d get enough testing before its April deadline so held back.

> The good news is that a good chunk of GNOME Shell 42 is included in Ubuntu 22.04, including an updated GNOME Shell desktop, its new screenshot tool, a backport of the new ‘Privacy’ panel in the Settings app, and the latest version of the Nautilus file manager.

Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/01/ubuntu-22-04-release-fea...