GNOME 47.2 Officially Released with Various Bug Fixes and Improvements - 9to5Linux
GNOME 47.2 Officially Released with Various Bug Fixes and Improvements - 9to5Linux
GNOME 47.2 is now available as the second maintenance update to the latest GNOME 47 "Denver" desktop environment series.
Great for my 128Gb RAM laptop
Fun fact, roughly half of gnome-shell codebase is written in JavaScript.
Oh that's why cinnamon (fork of Gnome 3) uses a ton of JavaScript.
I know that extensions are mostly written in js, but why codebase? Any legacy reason I wonder?
From what I can gather
- JS is system agnostic, doesn't require compilation or multiple dependency binaries, as opposed to say Python.
- JS is widely understood, could get more contributors.
- JS is a good enough scripting language made with UI stuff in mind.
I also see people lamenting that lua wasn't chosen, so there's that.
Is it up to the level of quality and features of KDE yet?
People like you confuse me. Do you want gnome to be the same as KDE? If so why? KDE already exists. Whats the point of having multiple DEs if they arent different?
I don't actually care about gnome, so much as about gnome being the default for most distros when kde is just better at everything a de and a unix-like system should do. Gnome is just... restrictive. Do it their way or you can;t do much of anything. And most annoyingly, the file dialogues are shite!
Roughly the quality of KDE 4.1