GNOME Shell & Mutter Reach Their 3.30.1 Milestone

[Candy]

Application Menus to be gone

https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2018/10/09/farewell-application-menus/

try 3.30, it is noticeably faster and lighter than previous version, with that said i was able to run 3.28 on a i5-5200U laptop with 8GB without issues

It's a quite demanding game! Oh, wait..

[Wilfred]

Things I would like to see:

• Wayland, Wayland, Wayland improvements.
• WireGuard support in NetworkManager.
• JavaScript ES6 class in template that generates code in gnome-shell-extension-tool.
• Flatpak support for Web (Epiphany).
• Further improvements to gitg.
• Wayland support for Synaptic (package manager).

Please, speed improvements and no weird stalls or crashes are more important.

[davidbepo]

Which is still quite a lot, but the problem is not so much Shell's memory usage by default, it's the fact that it starts to use more memory if you add a couple of extensions. This laptop is 2018 hardware with a very good i5 CPU and 8 GB of RAM, but with a couple of extensions, GNOME Shell 3.28 became unusable for me so I switched back to other DE's. And mind you: this is on Solus, which is very, very optimized.

try 3.30, it is noticeably faster and lighter than previous version, with that said i was able to run 3.28 on a i5-5200U laptop with 8GB without issues

[Zyklon]

"Optimized"

[Vistaus]

where do you get that 16 gb from? im running it with 8 gb and at boot it only uses 1gb

Which is still quite a lot, but the problem is not so much Shell's memory usage by default, it's the fact that it starts to use more memory if you add a couple of extensions. This laptop is 2018 hardware with a very good i5 CPU and 8 GB of RAM, but with a couple of extensions, GNOME Shell 3.28 became unusable for me so I switched back to other DE's. And mind you: this is on Solus, which is very, very optimized.

[Michael]

There's a typo in the article, I'm pretty sure that GNOME 3.30 was released at the beginning of September, not February

You are right... No idea where my mind was at, obviously it is September.

[Krejzi]

There's a typo in the article, I'm pretty sure that GNOME 3.30 was released at the beginning of September, not February

[uid313]

Things I would like to see:

• Wayland, Wayland, Wayland improvements.
• WireGuard support in NetworkManager.
• JavaScript ES6 class in template that generates code in gnome-shell-extension-tool.
• Flatpak support for Web (Epiphany).
• Further improvements to gitg.
• Wayland support for Synaptic (package manager).

where do you get that 16 gb from? im running it with 8 gb and at boot it only uses 1gb

'Only' 1GB? KDE after boot uses about 460MB. It's probably thanks to C++. It seems higher level languages are usually crap.