GNOME Added Many New Features This Year Amid Foundation Woes

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
    • 67377

    GNOME Added Many New Features This Year Amid Foundation Woes

    Phoronix: GNOME Added Many New Features This Year Amid Foundation Woes

    The GNOME desktop environment had a vibrant 2024 with landing many new features, continuing to refine its (X)Wayland integration, apps like Ptyxis as a modern terminal taking off, and more. From the software side 2024 was great for GNOME while over on the GNOME Foundation side they had to deal with coping from running a recent deficit and also their executive director departing after less than one year...

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  • Topolino
    Phoronix Member
    • Jun 2024
    • 116

    #2
    2024 has been a great year. Canonical is 100% back on upstream desktop development and Debian maintenance.

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    • Britoid
      Senior Member
      • Jul 2013
      • 2172

      #3
      If only they had employed a Shaman for foresee their financial woes.

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      • Britoid
        Senior Member
        • Jul 2013
        • 2172

        #4
        Originally posted by Topolino View Post
        2024 has been a great year. Canonical is 100% back on upstream desktop development and Debian maintenance.
        100% of nothing is still nothing.

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        • lostfound9000
          Junior Member
          • Dec 2024
          • 4

          #5
          I run xfce here and there across production to access controlled web services.

          I run Fedora/gnome as my primary dev environment (VM on my corp laptop) the interface is the most beautiful I've ever come across.

          Corp recently upgraded our laptops from Win10 to Win11, why are Micro$oft not aware of great interfaces like gnome's -> how do they evolve their products so poorly?

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          • zoli111
            Junior Member
            • Dec 2024
            • 2

            #6
            I hope they can do something about the terminal situation. Gnome-terminal is still on GTK3 but has the most features. Gnome-console already uses the GTK4 stack and is responsive, which is great for the three mobile users, but its settings dialog is almost empty. Ptyxis is not even in the Arch repos. And that name is... I mean it can stay if the .desktop file has a generic name and only the executable is called ptyxis. I guess this will happen because GNOME does this with their other applications.

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            • Mez'
              Senior Member
              • Mar 2009
              • 1176

              #7
              They added a few, removed dozens. Became less usable, like it does every year.

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              • Espionage724
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2024
                • 385

                #8
                Still can't log-in consistently with GNOME 47 (F41 and Ubuntu 24.10), since late Fedora 38: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org...ogin/118415/39

                Maybe that might get mysteriously fixed in 2025

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                • logical
                  Phoronix Member
                  • Dec 2016
                  • 79

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Espionage724 View Post
                  Still can't log-in consistently with GNOME 47 (F41 and Ubuntu 24.10), since late Fedora 38: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org...ogin/118415/39

                  Maybe that might get mysteriously fixed in 2025
                  ?
                  I haven't experienced any issues like you describe with Fedora 41 whether logging in locally or via Kerberos.

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                  • Espionage724
                    Senior Member
                    • Sep 2024
                    • 385

                    #10
                    Originally posted by logical View Post

                    ?
                    I haven't experienced any issues like you describe with Fedora 41 whether logging in locally or via Kerberos.
                    Lucky

                    I had no such issue F21 to F38 Workstation/GNOME. Then an "update" happened on Fedora late F38, continued all of F39-40, and still into F41. I hopped after F38 and it eventually came to openSUSE and Ubuntu GNOME editions, so now I have no reliable Linux distro to use.

                    I don't know what it's about (zero useful log messages), tried everything imaginable all in that thread, and just chalk it up to continuous lowering of QA on Linux. I typed this on Windows 10

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