Gnome 3.12 Released

#1

Post by bkor » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 6:10 PM UTC

Re: Gnome 3.12 Released

#2

Post by dmix » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 6:40 PM UTC

Looks great. I've been extremely happy with Gnome UI after switching from OSX. It's fun being able to play with a desktop that is constantly improving on a rolling-release platforms like Arch Linux, where new updates stream in constantly. Instead of having to wait a year or more for big waterfall releases like OSX (Mavericks was also pretty disappointing).

My only complaint is how every gnome upgrade the majority of gnome shell extensions break and the dev community is really slow to update them.

Re: Gnome 3.12 Released

#3

Post by exacube » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 6:42 PM UTC

I still don't understand why they insist on removing window-based task management when they continue to use window-based applications and workflows, so I will continue to complain about this

Re: Gnome 3.12 Released

#4

Post by hhsnopek » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 6:44 PM UTC

So these updates are only available for Ubuntu 14.04 and other flavors? I'm unable to upgrade from 3.10 to 3.12

Re: Gnome 3.12 Released

#5

Post by emehrkay » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 6:48 PM UTC

So it is pronounced "ga-nome" and not "nome"? Interesting.

It looks good too, I like the way modals open from a thin line to its full size.

Re: Gnome 3.12 Released

#6

Post by gtirloni » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 6:52 PM UTC

dmix wrote: post #2

Looks great. I've been extremely happy with Gnome UI after switching from OSX. It's fun being able to play with a desktop that is constantly improving on a rolling-release platforms like Arch Linux, where new updates stream in constantly. Instead of having to wait a year or more for big waterfall releases like OSX (Mavericks was also pretty disappointing). My only complaint is how every gnome upgrade the majority of…

Just the fact that people need a ton of shell extensions to make it barely usable is a problem in itself. The fact that they break (and some are let to rotten) after every major release is just to beat a dead body.

Just a few weeks ago I tried Gnome 3 again (again!) and it still sucks as a productivity environment. I have better things to do. But as a geek, I'll be checking Gnome 3 again maybe in a year or more. No holding my breath for any surprises.

Re: Gnome 3.12 Released

#7

Post by rcthompson » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 6:53 PM UTC

They talk about better Hi-res (i.e. "retina") display support. Does anyone have a screenshot or video of this working?

Re: Gnome 3.12 Released

#8

Post by GhotiFish » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 6:55 PM UTC

hhsnopek wrote: post #4

So these updates are only available for Ubuntu 14.04 and other flavors? I'm unable to upgrade from 3.10 to 3.12

I think these updates are available for everyone, I just don't think ubuntu is going to do it for you until a later release.

Re: Gnome 3.12 Released

#9

Post by GhotiFish » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 6:56 PM UTC

exacube wrote: post #3

I still don't understand why they insist on removing window-based task management when they continue to use window-based applications and workflows, so I will continue to complain about this

I'm confused, what's window based task management?

Re: Gnome 3.12 Released

#10

Post by ssprang » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 6:59 PM UTC

emehrkay wrote: post #5

So it is pronounced "ga-nome" and not "nome"? Interesting. It looks good too, I like the way modals open from a thin line to its full size.

Yep, just like GNU: https://www.gnu.org/pronunciation/pronunciation.html