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GNOME 41 - The first step towards a GNOME Platform?
tilvids.comWanna get your own Linux server? Visit https://www.linode.com/linuxexperiment for a 100$ credit !, Get your Linux desktop or laptop here: https://slimbook.es/en/, GNOME 41 has just been released. While it doesn't bring as many visual changes as GNOME 40 did, there are still loads of stuff to talk about, especially if you consider that GNOME is now taking steps to become a platform, not just a desktop, so stick around till the end to hear my thoughts on this.
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00:00 Intro
01:38 GNOME Software
03:59 Desktop changes
06:52 Applications Changes
08:18 The GNOME Platform
OK The first BIG thing is GNOME software, the App Store of GNOME. The homepage has also been vastly improved, with big colorful headers for featured apps, a list of categories with nice artwork, and some editor's picks to showcase specific applications.
The application detail pages also have received a lot of love. There is a lot more info, presented in a much more user friendly way, with big tiles. You'll find the download size, or a safety level determined by which permissions the app can access.
You'll also get a tile to let you know on which devices the app will work well, including desktop, mobile or tablets, and an age rating. The version history is better laid out, and you get some nice info about the app's license and open source status, which is really nice.
Finally, you get some links to the project's website, translations, bug tracker, help, or even donations, and the user reviews at the bottom. Oh, and you also get a lot more space for these screenshots.
Desktop
You now get a lot more options to change how this layout works, though, as the work to port GNOME Tweaks settings into the main settings app continues.
You'll find a new mutitasking settings panel, with a bunch of options. The first one is the ability to disable the hot corner for the activities view. You can also disable the tiling of windows when moving them to a screen edge, useful for multi-monitor setups when you want to just whip windows between displays.
Workspaces can also be configured to be dynamic, as in
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