The GNOME project today announced the stable release of GNOME 46 “Kathmandu”, the latest update of its hugely popular open-source desktop environment. And what an update it is. I ran through the best GNOME 46 features earlier this week. Suffice to say there’s a lot of improvement across all areas of the user experience. “This six-month effort wouldn’t have been possible without the whole GNOME community, made of contributors and friends from all around the world,” GNOME says of the release. “Developers, designers, documentation writers, usability and accessibility specialists, translators, maintainers, students, system administrators, companies, artists, testers, the local GNOME Asia […]

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GNOME 46 is out on March 20 and and the update will be the centrepiece of April’s Ubuntu 24.04 release — but are you wondering what sort of improvements it brings? Well, I gotcha’ covered, innit. In this post I run-through the best GNOME 46 features, changes, and usability tweaks. And there’s a fair bit, from super-charged new search features in the Nautilus file manager to streamlining in the Settings app, support for remote login over RDP, and some small yet approachable buffs to to the way notifications behave. If this round-up leaves you itching to experience the assorted benefits […]

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Support for accessing Microsoft OneDrive files through Nautilus is planned for GNOME 46, which is due for release next month. GVfs (GNOME virtual filesystem) provides a number of backends that allow SFTP, SMB, HTTP, MTP, WebDAV and other mounts/shares to be accessed through the Nautilus file manager (i.e. as folders and files you can open, move, edit, etc). That tech already offers a Google Drive backend (which is setup via the Settings > Online Accounts panel). On the way is OneDrive support, thanks to a revived effort utilising the MS Graph API library (and a related task to add the […]

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