We are pleased to announce the official release of GNOME 3.36: “Gresik”. Version 3.36 contains six months of work by the GNOME community and includes many improvements, performance enhancements, and new features.
Highlights from this release include visual refreshes for a number of applications and interfaces, particularly noteworthy being the login and unlock interfaces.
The release notes provide a more detailed overview of the changes.
Beware of the GNOEM, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
The lock screen is so pretty I now spend hours just gazing at it.
On the sad note, as with every new Gnome release, half the extensions are now broken.. Not 100% Gnome fault, apart from the whole extension mechanism being a bloody unsupported hack, that is. But mostly that extensions are third party and those thirds prefer to party than to update. I don’t use many, if at all, but a few of my colleagues had to disable or remove them.
It’s ridiculous that you need extensions to do some very basic things, and a tweaking tool to accomplish others
But but but… the visuals are so pretty! Fix bugs? Nah, who needs that. Just make it look nice.
I’ve been having this discussion for so long I should have this saved somewhere, but till then, hope I don’t miss anything:
I don’t have any issue with Gnome not including a feature or a configuration out of the box. They have a vision and they stick to it, and part of this vision is simplifying the user experience to the minimum, focusing on the 20% features that 80% use and all that. I think it’s a valid choice, I like what they’re doing. I’ve never been a huge Gnome 2 fan and I’ve loved Gnome 3. I also don’t use many extensions, if at all. To me and my use case, Gnome is a perfect solution. If someone wants configurability, there are other options, and there’s always the Gnome source to hack and add stuff.
However, since they decided to allow extensions, they should’ve committed to it. This means a solid, stable API, not a hack that its mostly unsupported and usually breaks every other release (and don’t get me started about themes). The whole Gnome concept screams “either do it right, or don’t do it at all”, so extensions just stick out like a sore thumb.
allegedly there are major performance improvements in this release. anyone can verify this?
Haven’t noticed anything either slower or faster than usual.
Who cares about a slow tablet UI like Gnome when you can use a proper desktop like KDE or Xfce?
Agreed!