After six months of development published desktop medium gnome 49 . To quickly assess the capabilities of GNOME 49 proposed specialized live-based live-based live. href=”https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/gnome:/Medias/images/iso/?p=gnome_next*”> openSuse and installation image , prepared as part of the initiative of Gnome OS. GNOME 49 is also already included in the experimental assemblies ubuntu 25.10 and
in new release :
- The video player is used by default showtime , which will now be now Serve under the name Gnome Video Player instead of the Totem video player (Gnome Videos). The showTime program has a minimalistic interface displayed on top of the contents and hidden during viewing. Typical control elements, full -screen mode, change in playback speed, showing subtitles, switching between sound paths and options for subtitles, turning the image on the screen and the creation of screenshots are supported. Unlike Totem, using GTK 3, the GTK 4 and Libadwaita.
- included a new disclosure of documents papers , which comes under the name Document Viewer instead of Evince. papers is the EVINCE fork, created last year with the aim of substantial modernization of the code base. Of the key differences in Papers, porting to the library GTK4, involvement of Rust language when developing, significant modernization of execution, increased productivity and integration of funds for certification digital signature. Otherwise, Papers is close in terms of functionality to EVINCE and also allows you to view, search and announce documents in PDF, DJVU, TIFF and comic book archives (CBR, CBT, CBZ, CB7). At the same time, Papers stopped support for DVI format and Windows platform, many EVINCE internal widgets are replaced by standard GTK widgets, the use of the Papersd background process was discontinued, and a separate panel with instruments for adding annotations has been removed.
/Reports, release notes, official announcements.