
Matthias wrote about the new release, "This is another exciting release for GNOME, and brings many new features and improvements, including redesigned notifications, a new shell theme, new scrollbars, and a refresh for the file manager. 3.16 also includes improvements to the Image Viewer, Music, Photos and Videos. We are also including three new preview apps for the first time: Books, Calendar and Characters. The login screen is now using Wayland by default."
The GNOME 3.16 changes at a component level have already been talked about in dozens of Phoronix articles. Some of the items that interest me the most are the GTK+ improvements with OpenGL support and a Mir back-end and better Wayland support, the Shell feeling more polished, better Wayland support across the board, UI refinements, Wayland for the GNOME log-in screen, and much more.
My GNOME 3.16 experiences so far have mostly been via the development state of Fedora 22 and it's been going great: it feels like a more polished experience of GNOME 3.14 and the Wayland state seems good enough for day-to-day use.
The official GNOME 3.16 release announcement can be read via the gnome-announce-list.
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