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GNOME 41 Desktop Environment Slated for Release on September 22nd, 2021
Submitted by Marius Nestor on Saturday 10th of April 2021 07:46:29 AM Filed under
While some of you out there are still waiting for the GNOME 40 desktop environment to arrive in the stable software repositories of your favorite GNU/Linux distribution, the GNOME Project is already working on the next major version, GNOME 41.
Development on the GNOME 41 release will kick out soon and it will stick to the same routine as in the GNOME 40 development cycle, meaning that public testers will be able to test drive only an Alpha, a Beta, and a Release Candidate.
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Myxer – A Modern GTK Volume Mixer for PulseAudio
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 8th of April 2021 05:20:30 PM Filed under
Myxer is a modern new volume mixer application for the PulseAudio sound server. It’s a lightweight and powerful replacement for your system Volume Mixer written in Rust with GTK toolkit.
Myxer can manage audio devices, streams, and even card profiles. And it offers option to show individual audio channels.
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10 Awesome gedit Text Editor Features to Make You More Productive
Submitted by arindam1989 on Thursday 8th of April 2021 02:10:56 PM Filed under

Here's a list of the top 10 cool gedit features which you probably not aware of, until now. Take a look.
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New GNOME Designs Explore a ‘Bottom Bar’ Layout for GNOME Shell
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 8th of April 2021 01:55:45 PM Filed under
For the past 10 years GNOME shell has been based around a single panel stripped across the top of user’s screens — but is this fundamental feature about to change?
Well, to quell whatever dim intrigue I just stirred: no, it’s not. However, GNOME designer Tobias Bernard, a key architect of the well-received GNOME 40 release, is playing around with a concept in which —get this— GNOME’s famous top bar is moved to the bottom of the screen.
Kind of crazy, huh? It’d be the most major ‘major’ design change made to GNOME Shell since it debuted. After all, the top bar is an anchor in the GNOME Shell experience. It’s where the status menu, notification center, clock/calendar applet, app menu, and oh-so-important Activities button all sit.
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For the past 10 years GNOME shell has been based around a single panel stripped across the top of user’s screens — but is this fundamental feature about to change?
Well, to quell whatever dim intrigue I just stirred: no, it’s not. However, GNOME designer Tobias Bernard, a key architect of the well-received GNOME 40 release, is playing around with a concept in which —get this— GNOME’s famous top bar is moved to the bottom of the screen.
Kind of crazy, huh? It’d be the most major ‘major’ design change made to GNOME Shell since it debuted. After all, the top bar is an anchor in the GNOME Shell experience. It’s where the status menu, notification center, clock/calendar applet, app menu, and oh-so-important Activities button all sit.
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Floating Dock Is the Perfect Dock for the GNOME 40 Desktop
Submitted by Marius Nestor on Thursday 8th of April 2021 12:56:07 PM Filed under
Floating Dock is not a new extension for the GNOME desktop, but it was recently updated by its creator to work on the latest GNOME 40 desktop environment, allowing you to have an always visible (or hidden) dock on your screen for launching apps.
As you may be aware, the GNOME 40 desktop environment comes with a major redesign of the Activities Overview that also moves the dock from left side of the screen to the bottom. For me, that makes navigating much easier, but I have to admit that I miss having an always-on dock.
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Tobias Bernard: Permanent Revolution
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 7th of April 2021 01:55:45 AM Filed under
10 years ago today was April 6, 2011.
Windows XP was still everywhere. Smartphones were tiny, and not everyone had one yet. New operating systems were coming out left and right. Android phones had physical buttons, and webOS seemed to have a bright future. There was general agreement that the internet would bring about a better world, if only we could give everyone unrestricted access to it.
This was the world into which GNOME 3.0 was released.
I can’t speak to what it was like inside the project back then, this is all way before my time. I was still in high school, and though I wasn’t personally contributing to any free software projects yet, I remember it being a very exciting moment.
Also: GNOME Internet Radio Locator 4.0.1 with KVRX on Fedora Core 33
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“Getting Things GNOME” 0.5 released!
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 6th of April 2021 03:32:15 PM Filed under
This release of GTG has been 9 months in the making after the groundbreaking 0.4 release. While 0.4 was a major “perfect storm” overhaul, 0.5 is also a very technology-intensive release, even though it was done in a relatively short timeframe comparatively.
Getting Things GNOME 0.5 brings a truckload of user experience refinements, bugfixes, a completely revamped file format and task editor, and a couple of notable performance improvements. It doesn’t solve every performance problem yet (some remain), but it certainly improves a bunch of them for workaholics like me. If 0.4 felt a bit like a turtle, 0.5 is a definitely a much faster turtle.
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Getting Things GNOME 0.5 To-Do App Released with Recurring Tasks, Performance Improvements
Submitted by Marius Nestor on Tuesday 6th of April 2021 02:04:00 PM Filed under
It's been about nine months since Getting Things GNOME 0.4 was released as a massive update after more than six years of development, and now your favorite personal tasks and to-do app gets another major release, Getting Things GNOME 0.5, bringing user experience refinements, revamped file format and task editor, performance improvements, and killer new features.
The biggest new feature in the Getting Things GNOME 0.5 release is the ability to create recurring (repeating) tasks. This is indeed a must-have feature for any personal tasks, calendar, or to-do app, and I personally can't imagine leaving without it. For those who don't know what recurring tasks are, the feature lets you set automatic reminders (recurrence) for a certain task every day, every other day, as well as weekly, monthly, and yearly.
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6 Reasons Why You Should Upgrade Your Linux Desktop to GNOME 40 Today
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 3rd of April 2021 07:48:59 PM Filed under
GNOME just unveiled its latest release, the GNOME 40 on March 24, 2021. As revolutionary as the jump from V3.38 to V40 has been, the improvements brought together by over 24,000 commits by roughly 822 contributors all across the globe are nothing less than spectacular.
From visual overhauls to performance enhancements, it is one of the biggest updates that GNOME has received since GNOME 3. Let's take a look at a few of the best features and changes that this release brings to the table.
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This new change is more user intuitive as GNOME smartly creates or removes workspaces automatically as per the number of applications open. Additionally, you can also drag and drop your applications across the workspaces and GNOME will smartly rearrange them in a cognizant fashion.
The dock also underwent some minor changes compared to its former version, now allowing the users to have separators to separate user favorite applications and running, but non-favorite applications.
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How to Install GNOME 40 in Ubuntu 21.04 [Testing Only]
Submitted by arindam1989 on Saturday 3rd of April 2021 06:40:39 PM Filed under

A good samaritan created a PPA which you can add and install GNOME 40 in Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo). And this is only for testing the packages.
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