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GNOME 45 Release Candidate Arrives with Last-Minute Changes - 9to5Linux

9to5linux.com GNOME 45 Release Candidate Arrives with Last-Minute Changes - 9to5Linux

The Release Candidate milestone of the upcoming GNOME 45 desktop environment series is now available for public testing.

The final release of the GNOME 45 desktop environment is expected on September 20th, 2023.

Not long to go now. :)

I always look forward to new Gnome releases, and I still switch back and forth between Plasma and Gnome all the time...

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KDE: we have compositor crash recovery in testing

Gnome: we broke the extension interface, again
- XFCE: we added some format options for the clock
  
  Xfce went gtk3 yet?
- There isn’t an extension interface beyond load/unload. It is arbitrary JavaScript injected into the shells process. No stable api existed.
  
  You can dislike that but it’s also why extensions can do literally anything and are very powerful.
  
  not just that, the Just Perfection dev argued that they (extension devs) much rather have that instead of an API because the API wouldn't be as flexible/free
- I was always a GNOME guy. Not sure why really, maybe it was the state of KDE3 vs GNOME2. Never really looked at KDE again and assumed there is a reason all the popular distros pick GNOME. then 3 years ago I tried KED, and was blown away. Now I’ve completely flipped my position on it.
  
  Well kde4 was also a trash fire
  
  What would you describe as the main difference?
- KDE: we have compositor crash recovery in testing
  
  I've been using GNOME on Wayland for over 5 years and I can't recall it ever crashing. Hangs and freezes, yes, but not a full crash. I guess the fact that users feel the need to track "crash recovery" as a feature is indicative of KDE's stability.
  
  I've been on Gnome for few a months now, and have already had plenty episodes of it freezing, or crashing, or not coming back out of sleep, or dropping to the login screen with all my programs gone.
  
  KDE is nowhere near as bad as it used to be for bugs and instability.
  
  Don't get me wrong, IMO Gnome is still substantially more stable and bug-free, but you'd be surprised how much more stable Plasma has become over the past year.
  
  And unlike with Plasma 4 and early Plasma 5, for Plasma 6 KDE actually seems to want to have it be a fairly stable system on release. They're moving in the right direction.
  
  For me Gnome on Wayland crashes when KDEnlive crashes and takes down the whole desktop.
- The other day I was on KDE on steam deck desktop mode and could not wake from sleep, not sure if it's a KDE thing or steam os thing though.
  
  Could be either. KDE has never been as mature as GNOME, and I say this as a KDE fna <3
- If you need to use extensions that completely break your user experience each GNOME iteration, just don't bother using it.
  
  But vanilla GNOME completely breaks my user experience each boot...
Nice, they added the new activities button!

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