Introducing GNOME 46, “Kathmandu”

"Get your own letter!"

KDE probably.

Gathmandu lol
- KathmanGNU

Built-in OneDrive and RDP support. No apps needed. I like the sound of that.

Nice. The improvements to Nautilus (Files) are welcome, but it's still the the reason why I'm leaving Gnome for KDE, anyhow. I can't stand Nautilus.

You can change the default file manager. I've been using Nemo for years because Nautilus was pretty bad. Once I update I'll have to re-evaluate and see what I think.
It's a real shame that Nautilus doesn't have a built in split view, I always love that when I try Dolphin.
- Nautilus used to have Split pane mode

Congratulations to all involved!

The RDP improvements are huge. If only KDE supported remotely logging into a session that wasn’t already logged in on Wayland.

What a great looking release. I'm most excited that we finally have proper caldav/carddav support built in!

With VRR as an experimental feature at least. Finally!

Very excited to try it out once fedora ships it. Gnome may not add the most stuff every update but by god it is the smoothest desktop on linux

Maybe on 40 with a bit of luck
- I don't think there's luck to it, F40 would be delayed if GNOME wasn't ready.
- It's already on the testing build: https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/gnome-shell/gnome-shell/fedora-40-updates-testing.html

I am using GNOME with Fedora and NixOS on multiple machines. I sincerely thank the hard work of maintainers and contributors.

Seems like a fantastic release. Well done to all involved.

Release on Arch when?

KDE6 took a week or so, didn’t it?
- GNOME on Arch is a special thing. Unlike KDE and other DEs, GNOME arrives in like 3-4 weeks after the official release
It's already in extra-testing so I expect it to come soon, unless its dependency on util-linux-libs-2.40rc2, which is currently in core-testing, slows it down.

I just nuked last night my fedora system running gnome and fresh installed Kde. Awesome timing.

I did the same a month ago... Still no regrets.

Looking forward to updating and trying it.

What I wish for in the future: -ability to have your Thunderbird calendar displayed in the Gnome shell calendar without going through Evolution -a better guided tour for newcomers as it’s easy to miss a lot of the features offered -automount easily my kDrive cloud via WebDAV

Otherwise I love Gnome even if I’m looking forward to customizing a Plasma 6 VM.

When in Tumbleweed?

Much sooner than on Arch
- KDE Plasma 6 made it to Arch about a week before Tumbleweed. Tumbleweed is also still using Xorg by default for Plasma 6. That said both had it in their repos withing 2 weeks of release. Is there some history here for Gnome on Arch?
These updates land on testing quickly, however due to the several packages updated at once, they all need to be tested by volunteers, and only when all of them are signed it's pushed out of testing

Smiling over Gnome at Kathmandu, the capital.

Nice

Kathmandu is where we're going to, baybeeeeeee!!