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Seems like a solid bunch of iterative improvements!
FRACTIONAL SCALING!!! FINALLY!!!
Huh? Gnome has had fractional scaling for ages.
All it takes is changing a gconf setting.
The option was there, but it wasn’t ready for every day use. The permanence impact was significant. The couple times I tried it, it was practically unusable. The UI also showed a warning about performance when you enabled it
/shrug
I’ve been using it on my multiple monitor setup for well over a year with no noticeable performance impact.
Not officially. And it has been broken.
It’s been working flawlessly for me for quite some time, but I guess other people’s mileage may vary.
Oh, it was a bitch for me. Lol
I just spent literally 3 days of my spare time trying to deal with scaling. I ran Linux on the desktop for 15 years. Had to switch to Mac for a while and then back to Windows for a while. Laptops with 4K screens turned out to be an interesting challenge when I finally came back. I had run gnome For most of my history with Linux.
After a few days of fighting with scaling and trying to locate working plugins for things I wanted, I swapped over to KDE. My screen scaling and multiple display resolutions workwd perfectly out of the box and everything that I was trying to find plugins for was already there.
It’s taken me since the early 00"s but I might have become a KDE convert.
Kde is my daily driver. Has been for 6 years now. I try gnome here and there just to see how it’s progressing. It sucked badly on a 14" laptop with 1440 screen I have. So glad scaling is fixed now
Yeah when I used to run gnome, It was just super minimalistic and a couple of extra options. Katie was like the cockpit of a fighter jet with switches and options just thrown everywhere. But now it seems like KDE has kind of cleaned up the options. I know Miss still struggling to get basic features not to break in between versions. I would have imagined by now that they would have brought some of the plug-in features in or at least made the APIs not break every time.
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So weird randomly seeing the name of my home city.
You live in the city of “Introducing?”
That’s pretty cool.
If it’s anything like the city of Introducing where I live, the next town over is Regretting.
Stop bullying him. Of course it’s called Notes
Riga is awesome :-) waves from accross the baltic sea
Amazing city. I want to go back!
When can we (if ever) expect that auto-tiling thingy?
There’s no timeline or roadmap at this stage, but it’s definitely 46+ material and likely to take multiple cycles. There are individual parts of this that could be worked on independently ahead of the more contingent pieces, for example tiling groups or new window metadata. Help in any of these areas would be appreciated.
https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/07/26/rethinking-window-management/
Wow. Moving the windows that don’t fit in the current workspace to a new one is such a simple idea that might turn out to be incredibly effective. I love that Gnome exists to challenge the established design patterns and try to replace them, even though I’m not actively using it.
When I first started using Gnome I found it to be a nightmare precisely because of that, so I added a bunch of extensions to change the workflow back to the Win95 UX that practically everybody else still uses.
Then, after someone recommended it to me, I tried the stock Gnome workflow. It was awful at first. But after a few days it just ‘clicked’ and I was like damn this workflow is amazing. And now I can’t go back.
It just makes sense and works in a way that’s IMO more efficient and less clunky once you get past the expectation that all OS UX should work like Microsoft’s UX.
I’m glad that KDE is putting in groundwork for their own (optional) ‘activities’ view, because I seriously miss it anytime I’m not using Gnome.
Yep, I am SO waiting for that. Saw the demos, thought “yes plz” immediately.
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Ubuntu using Snaps might be more of an issue than Gnome 44 vs older version. Not?
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I recently installed Debian with Gnome on a laptop, and the UI is miles and miles better than what it was ~7 years ago. It used to feel old and like a knockoff of Windows XP or something. Now I only want to use Gnome on Linux. Huge credit to the Gnome team for all of these UI improvements they’ve been making, it’s a serious amount of work gone into things.
I’m loving that new activities indicator! way better than just saying “activities”
I had an extension that disabled it because it was pretty useless but now I’m definitely gonna leave it enabled
Wow, up until now I had only seen all these changes in separate posts (the change to the activities button, some compositor changes, a few tweaks to Gnome Files/Nautilus, cursor tweaks, tweaks to Gnome Software, exposing a few more settings, making loupe the default image viewer, and a bunch of other changes) and I thought Gnome 45 was going to be a very small release.
But now I see all of them listed together, I’m a lot more enthusiastic. This all adds up to a pretty good release.
This is super exciting! As mundane as it sounds, I’m especially hyped for the pointer optimizations. No more laggy cursor on my older machines. :)
So fractional scaling is useful now? Or it’s still blurry mess?
It’s starting to look really good.
