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New applications: Boxes, that was introduced as a preview version in GNOME 3.4, and Clocks, an application to handle world times. Updated looks for Disk Usage Analyzer, Empathy and Font Viewer. Improved braille support in Orca .
GNOME Shell is the graphical shell of the GNOME desktop environment starting with version 3, [5] which was released on April 6, 2011. It provides basic functions like launching applications and switching between windows .
Cinnamon-Settings, included since May 2013 (version 1.8 onwards), combines the functionality of GNOME-Control-Center with that of Cinnamon-Settings, and made it possible to manage and update applets, extensions, desklets, actions, and themes through Cinnamon-Settings. Gnome-Screensaver was also forked into what is now called Cinnamon-Screensaver.
GNOME 3 pre-releases used a 2.91.x versioning scheme. [13] The first beta version of GNOME 3 was debuted on February 23, 2011. [14] Having shipped GNOME as its default graphical environment on Ubuntu since its debut, Canonical initially collaborated on development, but eventually became disillusioned, and halted their efforts. [15]
openSUSE 11.0 was released on 19 June 2008. It includes the latest version of GNOME and two versions of KDE (the older, stable 3.5.9 and the newer 4.0.4). [53] [54] It comes in three freely downloadable versions: a complete installation DVD (including GNOME, KDE 3, and KDE SC 4), and two Live CDs (GNOME, and KDE SC 4 respectively).
The second release candidate, of version 8.4, the last before the stable release, was released on June 4, 2021. [21] The high version number is based on the designation of RHEL. Rocky Linux is a clone of RHEL, which is also binary-compatible and is already supported by numerous large, financially strong sponsors. [ 22 ]
GNOME Software is a utility for installing applications and updates on Linux.It is part of the GNOME Core Applications, and was introduced in GNOME 3.10. [3]It is the GNOME front-end to the PackageKit, in turn a front-end to several package management systems, which include systems based on both RPM and DEB.
The most notable was the new text entry widget, which was introduced in version 1.8. The new widget supported icons inside the text area and reduced the screen space needed to present information, while improving GNOME integration. [26] The next major milestone was version 2.14, which was the first to follow GNOME's version numbering.