Gnome 42 Released

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Post by bwindels » Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 4:04 PM UTC

Re: Gnome 42 Released

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Post by Shadonototra » Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 5:21 PM UTC

https://release.gnome.org/42/console-screenshot.webp

When distro maintainers ship with poor font configurations, the world have to suffer with blurry fonts (specially on dark backgrounds)..

Everyone should pick the freetype2 patches from ChromeOS, it makes a huge difference

Re: Gnome 42 Released

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Post by frenkel » Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 5:37 PM UTC

Intro video: https://youtu.be/du-2QpWbiLU

Re: Gnome 42 Released

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Post by peakaboo » Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 6:04 PM UTC

I want this so bad. Hopefully it comes into Arch quickly.

There has been rumours that theming may be dead though? Appearently it's harder to theme things in Gnome 42 but I don't know why.

Re: Gnome 42 Released

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Post by panick21_ » Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 6:34 PM UTC

I haven't used this yet, but I want to say I just love GNOME. Its fantastic, been using it for a decade. Thanks to everybody involved!

Re: Gnome 42 Released

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Post by Koshkin » Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 6:49 PM UTC

panick21_ wrote: post #5

I haven't used this yet, but I want to say I just love GNOME. Its fantastic, been using it for a decade. Thanks to everybody involved!

Since they changed the desktop UI (UX?) Gnome has felt somewhat alien and even cringy to me. Nonetheless I have been using it for years just because in Debian it happens to be the default; after my recent switch to Slackware which doesn't include it, I started using KDE, and now I feel right at home.

Re: Gnome 42 Released

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Post by peakaboo » Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 7:07 PM UTC

Koshkin wrote: post #6

panick21_ wrote: post #5

I haven't used this yet, but I want to say I just love GNOME. Its fantastic, been using it for a decade. Thanks to everybody involved!

Since they changed the desktop UI (UX?) Gnome has felt somewhat alien and even cringy to me. Nonetheless I have been using it for years just because in Debian it happens to be the default; after my recent switch to Slackware which doesn't include it, I started using KDE, and now I feel right at home.

For me KDE is too buggy. Always issues with everything from the indexer going nuts to random theme clutches etc...

Re: Gnome 42 Released

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Post by rayiner » Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 7:10 PM UTC

Does gnome’s new RDP support work on Wayland?

Re: Gnome 42 Released

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Post by kup0 » Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 7:11 PM UTC

peakaboo wrote: post #7

Koshkin wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since they changed the desktop UI (UX?) Gnome has felt somewhat alien and even cringy to me. Nonetheless I have been using it for years just because in Debian it happens to be the default; after my recent switch to Slackware which doesn't include it, I started using KDE, and now I feel right at home.

For me KDE is too buggy. Always issues with everything from the indexer going nuts to random theme clutches etc...

I've definitely had a bunch of weird KDE quirks on multiple distros (Kubuntu, KDE Neon, etc). Nothing huge for me but still annoying. I do tend to prefer it over Gnome, but I am thinking of changing

Re: Gnome 42 Released

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Post by zajio1am » Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 7:16 PM UTC

Shadonototra wrote: post #2

https://release.gnome.org/42/console-screenshot.webp When distro maintainers ship with poor font configurations, the world have to suffer with blurry fonts (specially on dark backgrounds).. Everyone should pick the freetype2 patches from ChromeOS, it makes a huge difference

There is a way to improve font sharpness with current freetype2 by setting variable:

  FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35

Unfortunately, default behavior for freetype2 is blurry.