GNOME 51 Beta Released With Many Minor Improvements

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-51-Beta

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umbrella@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 37d
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MrSoup@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 38d (10 replies)

Lately I mostly see only minor improvements when I hear about Gnome updates.

I mean, I like quality of life improvements, but is it me or the project is becoming stagnant over time?

sznowicki@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 38d (9 replies)

I’d call it „mature“. It has its design language and it works. I don’t think GNOME users want some revolution. If we would, we could just move to another environment like Plasma.

Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip · -1 pts · 38d (8 replies)

While thats true, feature suport is still nice to get. Like last I heard there isnt HDR, though maybe I missed that being added.

And we still need the ability to change trackpad scroll speed, which has been in limbo for forever

0xKesh@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 38d (7 replies)

HDR is in, has been in KDE and Gnome for a while now.

Fair enough on TrackPad scroll speed.

Other than that though, what other features do you believe Gnome is missing?

Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 37d (2 replies)

Less of a feature but a major fix in my eyes is the software store not refreshing the view constantly while you're trying to do stuff. From what I understand its not an easy fix though, and is a product of how something is built on the backend or something 🤷🏻‍♂️

umbrella@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 37d (1 reply)
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Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 36d

Oh neat! I didnt know that, thanks! ☺️

astro_ray@piefed.social · 0 pts · 38d (3 replies)

I like the password autofill in android, I would like something like that on gnome.

0xKesh@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 37d (2 replies)

A password manager?

astro_ray@piefed.social · 1 pts · 37d (1 reply)

Does password managers on linux desktop support autofill?

somenonewho@feddit.org · 3 pts · 37d

Depends on what your using/how its set up.

GNOMEs native password manager "Passwords and Keys" has the opportunity to store the Browsers Keyring. So if you store passwords in Firefox/Chrome they get stored in Passwords and Keys (and then auto gilled in the browser).

KeePassXC has a Browser plugin, as long a your password databases is unlocked it will autofill inside the Browser.

Its Linux, so there is not one solution and it won't simply work across all apps.

UnH1ng3d@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 38d (2 replies)

Alternative title: "GNOME 51 Beta released, with no major improvement"

/s 😜

umbrella@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 37d (1 reply)
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UnH1ng3d@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d

Of course 😄 I was only being silly