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#linuxdesktop #gnome #gnome47 #linuxdistro #linux

Timecodes:
00:00 Intro
00:38 Sponsor: SquareSpace
01:42 Accent Colors & Visuals
05:57 Under the hood
09:06 Application Changes
13:09 Settings
14:14 Conclusion
16:09 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers
17:11 Support the channel

You can head over to the Appearance settings and select one out of 9 different colors for your GNOME. The color you picked is used for action buttons, toggles, radio buttons, and the like, some links colors, and in the GNOME shell for some buttons, quick settings, and selected items.

KDE apps didn't follow the color I set in GNOME. Apps made using GTK but not libadwaita, also didn't apply the color. GTK 2 applications didn't grab that color. GTK 3 applications also didn't. Most annoyingly, no libadwaita app installed through Flatpak followed that accent colour either.

Another visual change is for titlebars: apps using X11, or XWayland will now get a libadwaita themes titlebar, even if the app doesn't use client side decorations.

There are also changes to some modal dialogs, in the GNOME shell, like the restart and shut down dialog, and in various places in apps and settings, for example the new folder dialog, or the "delete file" dialog.

GNOME 47 also has a lot of under the hood changes. First, it improves support for HDR, bit it's still all completely experimental. The Window Manager and the Shell themselves are also now completely X11 independent. Wayland support improved as well, with experimental support for the session management protocol. Mutter, the compositor, will also now support the DRM lease protocol, which means VR headsets are now supported under Wayland in GNOME, and you can expect some performance improvements as well, notably for mouse cursor movements, which no longer require redrawing the portions of the screen where the cursor moves.

You'll also now have hardware accelerated screen recordings in GNOME.

The file manager gained a new sidebar. Nautilus also now has a "network" view, instead of having to navigate to "other locations" to find it. Nautilus will also now be used as the file picker / save dialog inside of other apps,.

GNOME Web, also called Epiphany, now lets you automatically fill in fields inside web pages, and it now has a privacy report. Web also now lets you import passwords and bookmarks from CSVs. The bookmarks interface also received some love, you get a clear button in the address bar now, and you can turn off touch navigation gestures, as in swiping left or right with 2 fingers to navigate back and forward.

GNOME Maps gained dark mode support in its tiles so the map is also dark now, and you can now see public transport icons on the map, for supported networks.

GNOME Calendar has seen a lot of work of this time around, with a reworked event details pop-up, read only calendars now can't be edited in the event editor dialog, and the add calendar dialog was also tweaked to be clearer. They also fixed 50 different bugs in there.

As per the settings, there's a new, modernized "user add" dialog, you also gained a new option in the Accessibility panel, to activate windows when hovering them, and it's now possible to preview keyboard layouts in the input sources dialog of the keyboard settings. A few dialogs were also turned into subpages, so there shouldn't be as many little windows popping up when navigating the settings.

On Online Accounts, there's now the ability to autocoinfigure email accounts for IMAP and SMTP, Microsoft 365 accounts now siupport mail, calendar, and contacts, webDav has better autoconfig, and the desktop will send you a notification when an accounts need your attention to fix something.

On Accessibility, the screen reader received a few improvements, notably paving the way for the better accessibility framework in Wayland.