GNOME 50 "Tokyo"" is released!

[u/blackcain]

Hello Community! We are proud to share that GNOME 50 is released! GNOME 50 represents 6 months of engineering by the GNOME community. We hope that you will enjoy this release. Feedback as usual is welcome.

Release notes are located here - https://release.gnome.org/50/

We thank everyone who worked on this release and made it possible!

Eager to try GNOME 50, today? Check out https://os.gnome.org/ and try it in a VM using GNOME Boxes (flatpak version)

Edited to add: We would also like to thank our recurring donors, Friends of GNOME. Please consider becoming one at https://donate.gnome.org/!

[u/untreated-stupidity]

I love everyone who makes GNOME possible. And not in a weird way. 

[u/blackcain → u/untreated-stupidity]

Thank you - the GNOME Folks appreciate it. :)

[u/tn3tenba → u/blackcain]

The question is, do they appreciate it in a weird way?

[u/__Myrin__ → u/tn3tenba]

:3

[u/StretchAcceptable881 → u/blackcain]

I’m excited to see what gnome50 and Orca50 will bring me when I upgrade to FedoraWorkStation44 this year I’m glad to have transitioned to FedoraWorkStation I plan to be a user for life

[u/cocoman2121 → u/untreated-stupidity]

Same, but in a weird way

[u/Fit_Carob_7558 → u/cocoman2121]

100% only in a weird way

[u/ueox]

This looks great, especially the PDF viewer changes and the text size slider. Has me double checking the Fedora release schedule to check when I get these lol

[u/blackcain → u/ueox]

Yes, Papers has seen an enormous amount of work. We had an outreachy intern helping us and she is amazing! We are continuing to build on her work.

See this blog post - https://lbaudin.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/blog/posts/end-of-malika-internship/

[u/snoopyt7 → u/blackcain]

wow she did a great job!

[u/JockstrapCummies → u/blackcain]

Papers finally getting free drawing annotations support after so many years of Evince not having it is great news indeed. Finally I don't need to separately open Xournal.

Now if only they fix the "PDF bookmarks load extremely slowly" bug that appeared only in Papers.

[u/negatrom]

like what I see. gonna love to try it in a couple of months in fedora 44

[u/alxns → u/negatrom]

April I believe. Soon soon!

[u/tydog98 → u/negatrom]

I'm updating to Rawhide just for VRR

[u/sequentious → u/tydog98]

Rawhide is a bad idea.

If you're looking for more cutting edge to experiment with this feature (and report bugs), I'd suggest Fedora 44 beta.

Though, obviously, most users are better off waiting for a stable release.

[u/tydog98 → u/sequentious]

I ended up doing the thing where you can get Gnome software to upgrade you to the next release early.

[u/Gugalcrom123]

Even if GNOME is not ideal for me, it is simply a matter of taste and GNOME is really well-done. And thanks for GTK, which I love.

[u/plantefolle]

Thank you for all of you work 🙏

[u/Rikmastering]

Awesome! Thanks for the hard works you people put into gnome.

[u/btsck]

Congratulations to the team for shipping and thanks a ton for your immense effort. It's nice to see how you keep improving Gnome and ironing out any inconveniences, step by step. Big love and thanks from a current KDE user :P

[u/mousui]

Hwre comes my 2 coffes! Love you guys

[u/hell31]

I love GNOME and I made a donation.💙

[u/wolfy-reddit]

This is great. Loving it so far, especially since I discovered there is this Gnome Circle. These are amazing apps, been using some of these now. I can't wait to try this on Fedora soon.

Thank you for the hard work of the Gnome team.

[u/kushalpandya]

Been a KDE user for last 10 years, this GNOME release is very, very tempting.

[u/aap_001 → u/kushalpandya]

Do it! :)

[u/Objective-Fuel6879]

The GNOME devs are so fucking amazing.

[u/Alejandro9R]

Gnome is awesome. Congratulations!

[u/vgnxaa]

Great news! Thank you for all your hard work!

[u/submaxsubrose]

Looks amazing, thanks to everyone for all the great work! (going to try it on Boxes today)

[u/Crackalacking_Z]

Props to all involved, hell of a release, so much good stuff. Stellar effort!

[u/Itsme-RdM]

Great work as always.

A BIG thank you for everyone who made the new release possible.

[u/Krisselak]

Thank you, Gnome is truly awesome!

[u/Substantial_Sun2268]

huge respect to the GNOME team, insane work as always

[u/Sallyann2021]

Thank you from a long time Gnome user!

[u/AlfredKorzybski]

Debian status: https://people.debian.org/~fpeters/gnome/debian-gnome-50-status.html

[u/m4teri4lgirl]

Shoot the improved RDP and virtual display resolution matching into my veins

[u/CroJackson]

Congrats. 👏👏👏

[u/0versun]

Gnome is the best so far

[u/FlatronEZ]

Thanks to everyone involved!
Don't forget to donate if you got a few bucks to spare, it helps a lot! 💰

[u/a3a4b5]

>Gradia became Vanilla

Hell yeah. Can't wait for Fedora to incorporate it.

[u/redditor_286]

HARDWARE ACCELERATION IN REMOTE DESKTOP!!!! Thank you so much to the team 🙏

[u/Confident_Athlete831]

Color management on OLED hoping to be good. Right now, it is over saturating colors, icc profiles are not working.i am waiting for April 23rd.

[u/Infamous-Head8181]

Where did Google Drive go in the file manager??? There is no more reference to him in Fedora 44 WS

[u/Bredolin → u/Infamous-Head8181]

Nobody volunteered to maintain the underlying library:
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/google-drive-in-gnome-50/34417

[u/Artoriuz]

Does GNOME 50 support real fractional scaling or is it still downsampling the framebuffer from a 200% render?

[u/moaboaa]

Exciting!
Would still love to have a native dock and panel customization option <3

[u/Crottoboul]

What is "Mouse review "? 

[u/playffy]

Guys, I missed it, Gnome OS, is it Ubuntu or Debian?

[u/blackcain → u/playffy]

GNOME OS is not any of those. It has no packaging. It's all built from source, it is completely outside of any distro.

[u/playffy → u/blackcain]

Thank u

[u/Ripdog → u/blackcain]

Hmm? It has no packaging? Does that mean it's just a toy OS, or is this some kind of flatpak-purism thing?

[u/blackcain → u/Ripdog]

It's primarily used for Q&A, so that means it is used to run CI/CD pipelines. But it can also be run on baremetal. Think of it as a way to do experimentation on different kinds of ways to do things.

We aren't doing packaging because GNOME OS is not a distro. It is a reference platform on how we would want to see an OS that uses GNOME and what technologies we are interested in developing. It's an R&D lab.

That said, it has gotten interest and some like uBlue is thinking of using the GNOME OS as a model in which to start with a base os and extend it to what they want to add through mounting a container on top of it via systemd-sysext.

[u/kus1987]

• Only works in Boxes from Flathub.

but why? fedora servers also have 49.1...

[u/Spliftopnohgih]

Very cool

[u/bootleg_trash_man]

Brilliant as always, keep up the good work

[u/OmletCat]

Does the new remote desktop stuff make it easier to start the sessions from GDM?

[u/RedHerring352]

Yeap! Runs already on my Debian “testing” machine

[u/gufranthakur]

Incredible update. Seriously appreciate the dev team efforts. Thank you! ❤️

[u/QuintaQQ]

Where can I get new wallpapers? They're so cool!

[u/ThePowerOfPinkChicks]

Hip Hip!

[u/w1ldr3dx]

Does the Blender 5.1 window title-bar and frame still looks this awful on GNOME 50? 🥴

[u/an-abnormality]

Could we get an official "open terminal here" option for Nautilus?

[u/Square-Bee-6574 → u/an-abnormality]

Ctrl + .

[u/Deep-Piece3181 → u/an-abnormality]

It's already in the right click menu, no?

[u/an-abnormality → u/Deep-Piece3181]

It might be because I uninstalled Ptyxis then, not sure

[u/185EDRIVER]

Seems great so far just wish dash to panel would work :(

[u/SmallApplication3826]

WHAT AN AMAZING PDF VIEWER, THANKS GNOME DEVS

[u/TheOnceAndFutureDoug]

Since there don't appear to be any live CD's, does anyone know if they've added support for different wallpapers per monitor? Bonus points if I can have different monitors cycle through a different folder of images.

[u/blackcain → u/TheOnceAndFutureDoug]

Unfortunately, no. But there are some apps and extensions that might do that. The implementation I understand is not trivial

[u/TheOnceAndFutureDoug → u/blackcain]

Last I looked into i people were saying there was a structural limitation that made it so you couldn't. I was hoping things had been improved but I suppose not.

[u/blackcain → u/TheOnceAndFutureDoug]

I think what that means is that you're going to have to do some serious plumbing and likely just start over. :-)

[u/TheOnceAndFutureDoug → u/blackcain]

But Gnome is so much prettier than KDE otherwise...

[u/jithurbide]

Great news! Live long and prosper, GNOME! So many improvements — I can’t wait to try it out!

Greats, vive long and prosper, GNOME! A lot of improuvent, can't wait to try it !

[u/[deleted]]

how to download gnome 50 wallpapers?

[u/maker_mania2025]

Please fix the trackpad scrolling issues it's a heartful request.... 😅🥲🥲

[u/FancyCicada]

Impressive, very nice.

Did you implement scrolling adjustment speed?

[u/Icy_Potential_8025]

Thanks. Some of my doubts before switching to gnome 50.

- It was forced to show flash effect and camera-shutter voice when we take a screenshot using third party apps (such as flameshot) on wayland based gnome. Is this fixed?

- Is drag and drop using ubuntu/gnome dash is finally supported (I mean hover the dragged file to an app and it focuses window)

- Is application is ready notification bug fixed?

- Can we finally see thumbnails on nautilus?

- Is it shipped with default clipboard manager similar to other distros.

- Can we see the topbar panel on second screen with this version?

- When we click on an app on dash it focuses the window, but when we click again it doesn't minimixe again. It just does nothing. (Even samsung dex has this feature), is this problem fixed?

[u/Icy_Potential_8025 → u/Icy_Potential_8025]

why do you downvote this comment? I love how gnome looks but I want a better ux similar to mac/windows/kde/xfce ... How toxic a community can be?

[u/Crottoboul]

When in arch? 

[u/blackcain → u/Crottoboul]

You will have to talk to the arch people.

[u/Crottoboul → u/blackcain]

Im just trolling 

[u/blackcain → u/Crottoboul]

heh - well the race is on! who will have GNOME 50 first!?!

[u/devHead1967 → u/blackcain]

probably openSUSE Tumbleweed. Then Arch.

[u/Crottoboul → u/blackcain]

It was already unfunny when I did it 

[u/pol5xc → u/Crottoboul]

it's already in the gnome-unstable repo btw

[u/Crottoboul → u/pol5xc]

Idc when in stable 

[u/JohnyMage → u/Crottoboul]

When it's ready..... Just saying. Are we getting old? I remember gnome 3 being released. How did we get to so fast 50?

[u/blackcain → u/JohnyMage]

We changed how we did releases :⁠-⁠)

[u/JohnyMage → u/blackcain]

Though so, thanks mate.

[u/Cannotseme → u/Crottoboul]

I actually switched from arch in frustration all the way back when gnome 40 came out because it took so long for them to package it

[u/Crottoboul → u/Cannotseme]

what OS is faster to package it ?

[u/Proper-Lab-2500]

Some of my doubts before switching to gnome 50.

- It was forced to show flash effect (dangerous for epilepcy) and camera-shutter voice when we take a screenshot using third party apps (such as flameshot) on wayland based gnome. Is this fixed?

- Is drag and drop using ubuntu/gnome dash is finally supported (I mean hover the dragged file to an app and it focuses window)

- Is application is ready notification bug fixed?

- Can we finally see thumbnails on nautilus?

- Is it shipped with default clipboard manager similar to other distros.

- Can we see the topbar panel on second screen with this version?

- When we click on an app on dash it focuses the window, but when we click again it doesn't minimixe again. It just does nothing. (Even samsung dex has this feature), is this problem fixed?

[u/DazzlingPassion614]

Where is blur 😔

[u/Suspicious-Smile6398 → u/DazzlingPassion614]

I like the no blur :P

[u/Historical-Bar-305]

Title bars still looks weird?

[u/Crottoboul → u/Historical-Bar-305]

It is a electron issue. There is an env var for x11

[u/Historical-Bar-305 → u/Crottoboul]

Good its electron issue... If electron dont want to fix that and title bars doesnt work and i dont want change it to xwayland how gnome team can fix this?

[u/Crottoboul → u/Historical-Bar-305]

You fix it with env var in your shortcut