GNOME 46 Released With Improved Search, Experimental VRR & More Polish

[botipua22]

I am on GNOME 44 and happy. Will upgrade to Fedora 39 from 38 when 40 is released. Another PC is on Ubuntu 22.04 with GNOME 42, and it's also fine. GNOME version upgrades are quite incremental these days, though that's not necessarily a bad thing. Wish this Mutter bug was fixed already: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1627

[George99]

Hmm, trying to connect to Microsoft 365 gives:

We're unable to complete your request


unauthorized_client: The client does not exist or is not enabled for consumers. If you are the application developer, configure a new application through the App Registrations in the Azure Portal at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=xxxxxxx

[r1348]

Phoronix: GNOME 46 Released With Improved Search, Experimental VRR & More Polish

The GNOME project has announced the much anticipated release of the GNOME 46 desktop...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-46-Released

The status is that text scaling scales text.

[Okki]

You mean grandma wouldn't intuitively know to hit CTRL-L ? Yes that was stupid, glad they finally fixed it.

Grandma (and 99.999% of the population) isn't going to type the path herself. GNOME's default solution was perfect for them. For the remaining 0.001%, GNOME had to assume that they were sufficiently experienced users to use a keyboard shortcut, so that they already had their hands on the keyboard to type the path, rather than using the mouse to change mode and then typing the path on the keyboard...

So, in the end, the haters were too stupid, but that's all right, they'll now be able to foolishly switch between their input devices 🙂

[spicfoo]

Hmm, trying to connect to Microsoft 365 gives:

Try https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome...8#note_2055714. More details at https://ondrej.holych.net/whats-new-...-for-gnome-46/

[mirmirmir]

More Polish?

I also wondered why one's nationality is relevant here...

[timofonic]

I also wondered why one's nationality is relevant here...

It's a joke with the "Polish" word, nothing bad intentional...

[ehansin]

The best feature: you can just click on the path bar in Nautilus to type a path like every single other file manager ever. GNOME devs have been taking their anti-insanity meds!

macOS Finder walks into the room and says, "Hold my beer!" Yeah, I know, macOS - but just saying.

[dkasak]

Nice I've been playing with Fedora 40 beta on a dev VM, and it's looking damned fine. Still waiting for the new gnome-remote-desktop stuff to land in Fedora so I can test out Gnome over RDP. This will be very handy for some of our "IT experts" running Macs who need to run some in-house Linux desktop apps.

[Myownfriend]

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Forcing a touch interface? Just click, bro. Not that hard. There's a reason why there's now pointer events on the web instead of just mouse or touch events. Pointer events combine touch and mouse events because a mousemove/touchmove, mousedown/touchstart, mouseup/touchend are generally used at the same time for the same purposes.

You don't want to or can't touch your screen? Then use your mouse. You're not forced to do anything. Got a lot of people with a victim complex on here about software they don't use. Gnome is a hell of a lot better than any interface you'd create.