Download Tools

GNOME 3 18 Released See What s New

Changes in GNOME 3.18

• improved touchscreen support: its now easier to select, cut, copy and paste text using a touchscreen, via new popovers and also, the handles used to adjust text selections have been made bigger;
• Kinetic scrolling (scrolling feels physical) is now handled by GTK+ - this should fix this type of scrolling if it didnt work for you previously. Furthermore, a new auto-scroll feature has been added (to activate it, press the scrollbar with the right mouse or touchpad button);
• the latest GTK+ 3.18 includes new typographic features such as colored underlines, letterspacing and translucent font colors as well as support for custom font maps and font options;
• various Wayland improvements, including HiDPI support (as well as HiDPI cursor support), support for copy, paste and drag and drop between windows, including between two Wayland apps and between Wayland and X11 apps, GTK+ OpenGL support under Wayland and more. Also, its now possible to use multitouch gestures such as pinch to zoom and rotate with a touchpad (previously, they were only available with a touchscreen);
• Bluetooth sharing has been merged into the main Bluetooth settings, so it is easier to find;
• The animation of progress spinners has been made super smooth.

GNOME applications

• the files places sidebar, displayed in the Files app and in open and save dialogs, has been reworked and it now includes a new location, called "Other Locations", which provides a useful overview of local and network locations;
• the copy/move dialog is now in the form of a button on the Files toolbar which shows progress information along with more information when pressed;
• improved folder creation as well as file and folder renaming - these now use dialogs and popovers (according to the release notes, these changes were introduced following user testing results);
• search as you type has been added to the open and save dialogs;
• placeholders are now displayed when folders are empty, or when no search results are found;
• recursive search is now automatically disabled when searching remote locations, in order to prevent performance problems;
• theres a new option in Dconf (org > gnome > nautilus > preferences) which allows disabling recursive search. When disabled, the search will only look for files and folders in the current directory, ignoring subfolders.
• recent files lists have been improved, and now show the full location of each file;
• Google Drive integration (which I already mentioned above).

• Maps is now able to indicate your direction as well as location. It is also possible to enter latitude/longitude coordinates or a geoURI;
• Web, the GNOME browser is faster and also, the screen will no longer automatically lock when you are watching a fullscreen video in Web;
• Builder has a new workspace system which allows different panels to be added and removed, a new appearance for the pop-up command bar, a new shortcuts window (to open it, use Ctrl + Shift + ?) as well as a new plug-in system which allows plug-ins to be written using Python 3, C or Vala;
• the collections dialog has been greatly improved in Documents, with a better layout and easier renaming and deletion;
• the layout of the Logs application has been improved, so that it is more efficient and easier to read. It is also possible to select which boot to view logs from;
• GNOMEs IRC application, Polari, has received paste service integration along with other improvements such as a better first run experience, improved feedback for connection errors and better indicators for new messages;
• Boxes includes a new list view with more details about your boxes along with other improvements.

GNOME Builder

Getting GNOME 3.18

---

Originally published at WebUpd8: Daily Ubuntu / Linux news and application reviews.

Available link for download

How To Install GNOME 3 20 In Ubuntu GNOME 16 04 Xenial Xerus

How to upgrade to GNOME 3.20 in Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade

$ sudo apt dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
 grilo-plugins-0.2-base grilo-plugins-0.2-extra libmutter0g
The following NEW packages will be installed:
 gir1.2-geoclue-2.0 gir1.2-grilo-0.3 gir1.2-lokdocview-0.1 grilo-plugins-0.3
 grilo-plugins-0.3-base grilo-plugins-0.3-extra libcamel-1.2-57 libgexiv2-2
 libgrilo-0.3-0 libgspell-1-1 libjpeg62 libmutter0h libreoffice-gtk3
The following packages will be upgraded:
...................

How to revert the changes and go back to GNOME 3.18 in Ubuntu GNOME 16.04

sudo apt install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging

---

Originally published at WebUpd8: Daily Ubuntu / Linux news and application reviews.

Available link for download

How To Get Chrome To Support Installing GNOME Shell Extensions From The GNOME Extensions Repository

extensions.gnome.org integration for Google Chrome

extensions.gnome.org Chrome integration also works with Vivaldi

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ne0sight/chrome-gnome-shell
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chrome-gnome-shell

---

Originally published at WebUpd8: Daily Ubuntu / Linux news and application reviews.

Available link for download

How To Easily Create AppFolders In GNOME Shell Using GNOME AppFolders Manager Or GNOME Software

Create and edit GNOME Shell app folders with GNOME AppFolders Manager

Once youve added the applications you want to an app folder, click the save button. Thats it! Heres a custom GNOME application folder I created using GNOME AppFolders Manager:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gnome-appfolders-manager

Add applications to app folders using GNOME Software

---

Originally published at WebUpd8: Daily Ubuntu / Linux news and application reviews.

Available link for download

GNOME 3 20 Released With Various Refinements And Application Updates

Changes in GNOME 3.20

• Wayland improvements that should provide a usable day to day experience, including: kinetic scrolling, drag-and-drop, application startup notification, middle-click paste and more;
• Cantarell, the default GNOME font, has received lots of improvements for this release and overall, the text has a far better appearance, with more harmonious and consistent letters at all sizes, as well as new supported character sets, like Vietnamese, Cyrillic and Devanagari;
• theres a new option that allows displaying the battery charge percentage in the GNOME Shell Top Bar. This can be found in dconf Editor: org > gnome > desktop > interface > show-battery-percentage;
• GTK+ CSS theming has had a major overhaul, which should result in easier theme writing and more dynamic interfaces;
• gspell, a new spell-checking library for GTK applications, has been introduced with GNOME 3.20 and is already used by Gedit;
• xdg-app, the cross-distro framework for building and distributing desktop apps on Linux, has matured for the 3.20 release and it includes xdg-app-builder, a tool that makes it easy to build apps, along with other important changes such as support for creating single-file application bundles and more. More info available in the GNOME 3.20 release notes for developers.

GNOME applications

With GNOME 3.20, the Software application now supports upgrading to new major versions of the operating system, along with other changes, such as support for user reviews, support for xdg-app and Limba bundles and more:

• a new, more compact preferences dialog;
• new settings to show action to create symbolic links and to permanently delete files and folders, as well as recursive search settings (to search in subfolders: local only, all locations or never);
• extra zoom level in the list and grid views;
• display available / remaining space for drives listed in Other Places.

• the application now supports pasting images directly into chats;
• server properties are now accessed from the sidebar;
• added support for traditional IRC features, such as tab completion for IRC commands, the ability to open IRC links, support for the /msg command and more;
• Polari can now handle server passwords;
• improved look and feel, with a restyled input bar and new text animations;
• more.

• support for advanced we-based graphics and audio, with WebGL and Web Audio;
• feedback when visiting non-HTTPS sites has been improved;
• new tabs now inherit browsing history when opened from a link (this restores behavior that was lost in a previous version);
• the cookies dialog has a built-in search now.

• the application now allows adding and editing place information from OpenStreetMap;
• place popovers now include more information, like phone numbers or website address;
• the application now supports adding custom layers using common mapping file formats like GeoJSON, KML and GPX;
• added support for printing route directions;
• the application now supports exporting maps as PNGs;
• a new scale ruler was added;
• the app can now open links prefixed by "geo:".

image via chergert

• the app now supports building xdg-app bundles and within a JDBuild environment;
• a new multi-process plugin framework, which adds a wide rage of functionality to Builder, including auto indenters, autocompletion providers, tools, services, search providers, version control systems and more;
• overhauled application preferences;
• autocompletition is now faster and supports fuzzy matching;
• a new To Do plugin was added to track to do items;
• improved VIM emulation;

• Nibbles comes with updated artwork as well as a new retro arcade style, along with a new game screen and better high scores integration;
• the quick add popovers used in GNOME Calendar now allow selecting the calendar to which you want to add the event to;
• tasks in the scheduled view are now grouped under date headings in the To Do application. To Do also includes a new plugin system which will allow the app to integrate with various online task managers (but no plugins are available for now);
• Documents app now allows listing the documents by name, date or author
• Boxes application was updated to automatically create a snapshot after creating a virtual machine;
• GNOME Games now supports MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) and Neo-Geo Pocket.

 

GNOME 3.20 video

Getting GNOME 3.20

---

Originally published at WebUpd8: Daily Ubuntu / Linux news and application reviews.

Available link for download