to launch GNOME 3.8 and get to speak another bit of news that will bring is the fifth version stable of the desktop environment. We do this by following the article published by one of its developers, in which we review some of the changes that are about to fall.
For example, speaking of the new scroll bar with integrated preview will look GNOME Documents , internally also improves and becomes purely GTK + application, to benefit in areas such as performance and accessibility.
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configurations, one of the black spots 3/Shell GNOME experience, the control center module for region and language has been revamped, and the network module can now create multiple configurations known as wired profiles , among others.
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GNOME Shell, seems to have finally discovered the wheel and right click on the wallpaper display a context menu that provides access to options and change the image, on the tray notifications, clean messages and access the options (the action will still work with a long press of the left mouse button).
Activities also change in GNOME 3.8 and the first thing you see when entering them will be a list popular applications , as an “automatic bookmarks”.
The final version of GNOME 3.8 will arrive later this month If all goes well and bugs open, especially those referred to as “blockers” are corrected in time . Meanwhile you can try the latest development version (7.3.90 GNOME) via Live CD.