Topic: GNOME

A screenshot of the GNOME Papers app showing a PDF document being annotated with freehand ink drawings and added text boxes.

Papers adds handwriting & text annotations in latest Nightly builds

Papers gains new PDF annotation tools, including ink, text boxes and improved form support, now available in GNOME Nightly builds.

4 February 2026

Ubuntu 26.04 Will Look More Like Vanilla GNOME Shell

Ubuntu's Yaru theme will closely follow the vanilla GNOME Shell design in the upcoming 26.04 release, as its developers aim to reduce the maintenance burden.

9 December 2025

GNOME 49 Officially Released, This is What’s New

A new version of the GNOME desktop environment has been released with new default video and document apps, Lock Screen features, and more - exciting!

17 September 2025

GNOME’s Tetris Clone Quadrapassel Drops a Huge Update

Quadrapassel 49 modernises GNOME’s Tetris clone on Linux with GTK4, adds touch support, and improves scoring and gameplay for casual gamers.

15 September 2025
GNOME 49 glass

GNOME 49: New Apps, Lock Screen Features & Design Changes

GNOME 49 brings new apps, lock screen media controls, multi-monitor brightness controls, file manager changes and fractional scaling improvements.

12 September 2025
Wayland and X11 logos overlaid on GNOME and Ubuntu logos

Ubuntu 25.10 Drops Support for Using GNOME on Xorg/X11

Ubuntu 25.10 drops GNOME Xorg support, moving to Wayland-only desktop sessions. Learn what's changing, who's affected, and what to do about it.

10 June 2025

GNOME Dropping X11 Support May Complicate Next Ubuntu LTS

GNOME is looking to jettison X11 session support - as soon as this year, which may impact Ubuntu's plans for its next long-term support release.

22 May 2025

GNOME Replace Totem Video Player with Showtime

Roll credits on Totem, roll camera on Showtime — GNOME developers have officially cast a new video player in GNOME 49, out in September. Per an upstream merge, GNOME has formally replaced the aged GTK3 Totem video […]

9 May 2025
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GNOME 48: The Best New Features

Aloha, GNOME 48 — a new version of the GNOME desktop environment is out with a swathe of new features, UI buffs, and technical integrations that will have plenty of folks clamouring to upgrade. GNOME 48 […]

19 March 2025
Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin

Ubuntu 25.04’s New PDF Viewer App is Now Rolling Out

Earlier this year Ubuntu announced plans to replace document viewer app Evince with Papers, a modern GTK4/libadwaita fork1 of the former, in Ubuntu 25.04—today, the swap was made official. Papers is a fork of Evince […]

5 March 2025

GNOME’s Website Just Got a Major Redesign

GNOME rolled out a huge revamp to its official website today, and I have to say: it’s a solid improvement over the old one. The official GNOME website has an important role, serving as both […]

12 February 2025
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GNOME 48 Introduces New Default Adwaita Fonts

GNOME 48 uses a new default UI and monospace font, though this typographic turnabout won’t impact Ubuntu users directly. If you feel a sense of deja vu it’s because GNOME tested a font switch before, […]

2 February 2025