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GNOME 46 released

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GNOME 46 released

[Posted March 20, 2024 by corbet]
Version 46 of the GNOME desktop has been released. "GNOME 46 is code-named 'Kathmandu', in recognition of the amazing work done by the organizers of GNOME.Asia 2023." Significant changes include a new global search feature, enhancements to the Files app, improved remote login support, and more.
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GNOME 46 released

Posted Mar 20, 2024 23:14 UTC (Wed) by intgr (subscriber, #39733) [Link]

An interesting change is that GTK has two new renderers: ngl (the new default) and vulkan. https://blog.gtk.org/2024/01/28/new-renderers-for-gtk/

Posted Mar 21, 2024 8:59 UTC (Thu) by cdamian (subscriber, #1271) [Link]

The "Variable refresh rates (VRR)" experimental feature could also be interesting in the future.
Maybe I'll move to Wayland after all :-)

GNOME 46 released

Posted Mar 21, 2024 10:26 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

Headless sessions - yay!

GNOME 46 released

Posted Mar 21, 2024 10:44 UTC (Thu) by mbiebl (subscriber, #41876) [Link]

The changes in fractional scaling look interesting. Looking forward to give this a try.
I currently run a multi-monitor setup: one 4K with 175% scaling and a second with 150% scaling.
This doesn't work that well under GNOME unfortunately, especially with 3rd party applications.
Although I'm long time GNOME user, I've switched to KDE/Plasma because of that.

GNOME 46 released

Posted Mar 21, 2024 13:57 UTC (Thu) by WhatsInAName (guest, #128037) [Link]

Is it usable at long last?

Global search at last

Posted Mar 22, 2024 14:19 UTC (Fri) by Herve5 (subscriber, #115399) [Link]

That's basically the only thing I missed, years ago, when I abandoned Apple -the capacity to just type some words and fin ALL documents related to them, be it text, music, books from my library software, whatever.
At this moment I'm happily using Recoll for this, which is quite impressive (able to scan pdfs inside archived emails, or attachments within notes from my Joplin notetaker...) but it's a very good idea to raise this higher into a generic Linux...

Global search at last

Posted Mar 22, 2024 14:56 UTC (Fri) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link]

I remember doing a talk about Beagle (related to GNOME) some 20 years ago. It was pervasive desktop which was supposed to just find everything related to the current context. Not sure what's the status now, all my search needs are satisfied by `locate` and ripgrep.

Global search at last

Posted Mar 23, 2024 9:55 UTC (Sat) by swilmet (subscriber, #98424) [Link]

There is still the website: https://beagle-project.org/

Was it integrated/installed by default with some distributions?

Sometimes GNOME developers have great ideas, but then for some reasons the project doesn't get the spotlight and several years later it is abandoned.

Global search at last

Posted Mar 23, 2024 16:47 UTC (Sat) by denials (subscriber, #3413) [Link]

GMOME's current solution for desktop search is Tracker (https://tracker.gnome.org/overview/) and it has been for quite a few years.

I think Beagle was part of the Ximian Desktop effort led by Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza. Given that Ximian was purchased by Novell in 2003 and Beagle stopped being an active project in 2006, maybe it ceased to be a priority for the corporation, and/or maybe GNOME opted to go on a different technical direction.

I couldn't quickly find a story about the Beagle -> Tracker transition but I'm sure it's out there, somewhere :)


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