After six months of development is presented the release of the desktop environment gnome 40 . Compared to the previous issue, more than 24 thousand changes were made, in the implementation of which 822 developers took part. For quick assessment of GNOME 40 features, specialized Live assemblies were prepared on the basis of OpenSUSE and ubuntu , as well as installation image , prepared as part of the GNOME OS initiative. GNOME 40 is already included in the beta version of assemblies Fedora 34.
The project has moved to a new numbering scheme of versions. Instead of 3.40 release published 40.0, which made it possible to get rid of the first digit “3”, which at the current development process lost relevance. Interim corrective issues will be delivered under the rooms 40.1, 40.2, 40.3 … Significant releases will continue to form every 6 months, i.e. In the fall of 2021, GNOME 41.0 will be released. Current numbers are no longer associated with test releases for which Alpha, Beta and RC labels are now used. Version 4.x is decided not to use to avoid confusion and intersections with GTK 4.0.
Basic innovations GNOME 40:
- Significant changes in the organization of work in the interface. The vertical orientation is made on the horizontal – virtual desktops in the review mode (Activities Overview) are now located horizontally and displayed in the form of a continuously scrolled left right chain. Horizontal orientation is recognized as more intuitive than vertical.
On each desktop, shown in the review mode, the available windows are clearly represented, which are additionally equipped with an application icon and heading appearing when hovering. Dynamic panning and scaling when the user interacts with the sketches of windows in the overview mode.
