2023-08-31 18:49:40
The GNOME Project today announced the release and general availability for public testing of the beta version of the upcoming series of desktop environments. GNOME 45 scheduled for the end of September 2023.
GNOME 45 beta is here about five weeks later from the alpha version and further improves the GNOME Control Center (Settings) app, which seems to be the star of the next major release. In the beta version of the GNOME Control Center there are several fixes for memory leaks and accessibility tags, along with ports of multiple config rows for the new widget. AdwSwitchRow.
The Settings app in GNOME 45 beta has a reorganized Privacy panel that contains all sub-panels under a single category, makes the new About panel more compact, and adds a description to the Date and Time panel to explain the new “Clock and Calendar”. “. options and adds a banner to indicate when the system is offline in the Online Accounts panel so that you don’t create any new accounts until you reconnect to the Internet.
New Privacy panel in GNOME 45
The Users panel was also updated to show the “Other Users” section only when there are users to display, make the entire panel unresponsive when the user doesn’t have permission to change the various options there, and address focus issues reported by users when to select an avatar image from a file.
The Printers panel has also been updated, now using the “card” style for printer entries.
GNOME’s file manager, Nautilus (Files), now uses a new navigation view and a flat header bar for the Properties window, no longer switches to View mode when browsing files, no longer adds search to the history stack, and optimizes view performance when selecting or deleting many files.
GNOME Shell 45 beta received the ability to load extensions as modules, a new camera indicator, a new option in Quick Settings for keyboard backlighting, the ability to run “perf” tests as external scripts, support for the Key library for get a preview of the keyboard layout, and a better Light style variant.
The new Loupe image viewer application to be introduced as part of the GNOME 45 release was renamed Image Viewer and received compatibility with JPEG-XL , a revamped print dialog, sandbox for SVG rendering, a new custom style for drop targets, and improved navigation. of images in SMB shares, improved touch screen gestures when zooming, as well as excessive swipe gestures.
In addition, GNOME 45 beta improves the application GNOME software with better error notifications for failed GPG checks, support for disabling UI animations based on user accessibility settings, and improved upgrade mechanism for packages that require removal of other packages to satisfy dependencies.
The new version of GNOME Software also offers better support for distributions Debian GNU/Linux y Ubuntu by forcing them to always use the built-in GNOME Software dialog instead of the software repository dialog provided by the respective GNU/Linux distribution.
GNOME System Monitor has been updated to use the term “Terminate” to terminate processes instead of “End”. GNOME Calculator now offers better left/right cursor key handling, has an improved toolbar that uses the Adwaita library, and brings several improvements to the Flatpak version.
GNOME 45 beta also updates the terminal emulator from the gnome console with a new preferences window to set a custom font and alter the behavior of the bell, the ability to zoom with Ctrl+Scroll, better keyboard support for managing tabs, telnet as “remote” type, labels for tabs on switchers and various fixes for notifications, drag and drop, separating and closing tabs, and the user interface.
New GNOME Console Preferences dialog for changing fonts and terminal bell.
Last but not least, the GNOME Connections app now allows users to close the onboarding dialog by pressing the Esc key, improves desktop resizing, and adds support for the clipboard channel.
Also, the GNOME Maps app now always shows phone numbers as links in the build. Flatpak offers better responsiveness for multiple screens and touch gestures to open the sidebar, and once again shows animations when going to new places and showing routes.
GNOME 45 beta also updates the component xdg-desktop-portal-gnome with new features such as input capture portal support, clipboard portal support, the ability to restore remote desktop sessions, and the ability to communicate over an EIS socket for remote desktop sessions.
The default GNOME setup also received a couple of changes, including the ability to always show the Accessibility menu, support for disabling some irrelevant GNOME Shell features, and support for the Key library as a new runtime dependency to show previews of GNOME shells. keyboard layout.
Other than that, the GNOME Logs app received accelerator and UI improvements, the GNOME Text Editor app now allows you to set “Plain Text” in the language selection dialog and no longer shows keyboard shortcuts in the tooltip, and Mutter gets support for YUV formats. KMS threads and input capture support compatible with Wayland “libei” and emulated input library.
GNOME 45 beta is available for public testing as part of various development distributions such as Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) or Fedora 39 Rawhide. You can even install it on Arch Linux by following it’s tutorial . However, please note that this is a preview version and is not suitable for production use.
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