The GNOME project announced release of GNOME 3.20, latest stable release of popular desktop environment. GNOME 3.20 is named 'Delhi as a recognition to this year's GNOME.asias organizing team.
This release of GNOME comes with several major features and refinements to provide a better user experience. GNOME 3.20 is a result of 6 months of development effort contributed by 870 developers across the globe.
According to official release announcement, following are major highlights of this release.
This release of GNOME comes with several major features and refinements to provide a better user experience. GNOME 3.20 is a result of 6 months of development effort contributed by 870 developers across the globe.
According to official release announcement, following are major highlights of this release.
Read complete release announcement in GNOME blog.
- OS upgrades can now be installed using Software
- Wayland support has improved significantly, with kinetic scrolling, drag-and-drop, and middle-click paste
- Keyboard shortcuts and gestures can be easily learned with new shortcut overlay windows
- Privacy controls have been improved with per-application location access
- Quick access to media controls directly from the shell
- Searching in Files has been much improved
- Builder can now build XDG-Apps, a new cross-distro framework for building and distributing desktop applications. These can also be installed directly from GNOME Software