After six months of development presented Issue of desktop-renovation ugnome 43 . For quick assessment of GNOME 43 capabilities, specialized Live devices based on opensuse and installation image , prepared as part of the initiative of Gnome OS. GNOME 43 is also already included in the experimental assembly fedora 37.
in new issue :
- A reduced menu of the system state that offers a block with buttons for the rapid change in the most commonly used settings and evaluate their current state. Of the other new capabilities of the state menu, the addition of the user interface style is mentioned (switching between dark and bright topics), a new button for creating screenshots, the ability to choose a sound device and a button for connecting via VPN. Otherwise, all previously available functions are available in the new menu of the system, including activation of access points through Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and USB.
- The translation of applications to the use of GTK 4 and Libadwaita libraries, which offers ready -made widgets and objects for building applications corresponding to the new recommendations of Gnome Hig (Human Interface Guidelines) and capable of adaptively adapt to screens of any size. In GNOME 43, applications such as a file manager, maps, logs viewer, Builder, console, initial setting master and parental control interface are transferred to Libadwaita.
- The Nautilus file manager is updated to the GTK 4 library. An adaptive interface is implemented that changes the layout of widgets depending on the width of the window. The menu reorganization was carried out. The design of windows with the properties of files and catalogs has been changed, a button was added to open a parent catalog. The layout of the list with the search results, recently open files and marked files has been changed, and the location of each file has been improved. A new discovery dialogue is proposed in another program (“Open with”), which simplifies the choice of programs for different types of files. In the repayment mode, the context menu for the current catalog is simplified.
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