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Top 10 Features in GNOME 3.8

GNOME Shell Spruces Itself Up with Tweaks, Features, and Fixes

By Joey-Elijah Sneddon under List, News March 27, 2013Share

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The latest iteration of the popular GNOME desktop, version 3.8, sees release today – but what are notablechanges and improvements should you be looking out for?

Here’s a list of our 10 favourite changes – in no specific order – new to this release.

10: App Launching Made Easier

Opening apps in GNOME Shell has always been easy to do, but tweaks to the Application Overlay in this latestrelease makes it even quicker still.

When viewing the Application Overlay you’ll now find two tabs at the bottom – ‘Frequent Apps’ and ‘All’.

‘Frequent’ groups your most used apps together in one page, meaning you don’t have to go search them out orremember to pin them to the launcher.

‘All’, meanwhile, shows all your installed apps, including new ‘groups’ of apps.


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Frequently Used Apps Are Now Available More Frequently

9: New App Previews

3.8 brings two new application ‘previews’ to the desktop – a desktop weather app called ‘Weather’ (imagine that,

eh!) and a new note-taking app called ‘Bijiben’.


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Two New GNOME Apps Debut

8: Clocks App

‘Clocks’ is another new app on the GNOME desktop. Now stable and included as a default application in this latestrelease, Clocks allows you to add and preview world times, add alarms, and make use of a stopwatch and a timer.


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Clocks – A New GNOME App

7: All The Tweaks

No run-down of notable new stuff would be complete without mention of the raft of minor but vital ‘papercut’ fixesthat the GNOME team have been dutifully seeing to during this cycle.

Over 60 such bugs have been fixed, new animations introduced, and usability problems solved.

Subtle Updates That Make A Big Difference

6: Privacy Options


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Privacy is a hot potato topic on the Linux desktop right now. Ubuntu has included a range ofconfigurable Privacy settings in its last few releases, but it’s only with 3.8 that GNOME follows suit.

Options for adjusting what appears on the lock screen; what activity is tracked; and how long temporary files arekept around for can all be accessed behind the new Privacy tile in Settings.

Privacy Settings

5: Documents <3 Google

Google Docs Can Now Be Edited Directly from Documents

‘Documents’, the default document management app on the GNOME desktop, gains a number of interace tweaksthis release – as well as some seriously cool Google Docs/Drive integration.

Documents can now:


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Open PDF files from Google DriveEdit Google Docs from within the app itselfShare Documents via Google Docs

4: Web Changes

At Last – A ‘New Tab’ button in Web

Web, the default web-browser in GNOME, also gets a boat-load of updates. Including:

‘New Tab’ button added to toolbarPrivate-browsing modeNow Supports Adobe FlashImproved page search interfaceUndo tab close action

3: Improved Search

The Activities Overview has given its search results view a bit of an overhaul, with application-specific searchresults displayed.

Search Your Contacts, Apps, Files, and Documents from the Activities Overlay

You can fine tune the results that appear by tweaking the option inthe ‘Search’ settings pane in Settings (formally


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known as ‘System Settings’)

Don’t want ‘Documents’ appearing? Turn it off. Want files and folders to appear first? Move them to the top.

Adjust Search Settings to Suit Your Workflow

2. Classic Mode

Miss the ‘panel up, panel down’ desktop layout of old? GNOME 3.8 has you covered with their new Classic mode.

The best thing about Classic mode is that it’s wholesome GNOME. It’s not a fork but built with GNOME 3technologies – so you’re don’t lose out on any of GNOME’s great features. Everything from the App Menus and theMessage Center to the GNOME Shell activities overlay are included and accessible.


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The New GNOME Classic Mode

1: Notifications

Accessing GNOME’s Messaging Tray is easier in this release thanks to the addition of two new keyboard shortcuts:

Super+M - Opens and closes the message traySuper+N - Expands a notification when displayed

Furthermore, a new Notifications Settings pane allows you to choose which apps show notifications, what sort ofnotifications they show, and where. Handy stuff!


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Joshua Kiley • 23 days ago

In case anyone was wondering about the seemingly strange name of the new notebook

application next to the very aptly named "Weather" application; Bijiben 笔记本 [Bǐ jì běn] is the Mandarin

Chinese word for "Notebook" 140

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Joey-Elijah Sneddon • 23 days agoModerator > Joshua Kiley

That's great to know! 48

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tezcat • 7 days ago> Joshua Kiley

which sounds like "B-G-Ben" 1

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PhantomTurtle • 23 days ago

This looks amazing, great job by the GNOME developers for improving GNOME shell. 105

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ElectricPrism • 22 days ago> PhantomTurtle

I'm excited to try out the new features, I got worked up thinking they finally added custom

24 hour time to the clock so I could have it read:

2013.03.27 14:00 PST

QQ. 7

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Jon A. • 23 days ago

Dang, GNOME. You done good. 92 4

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Dinu Samoteeffsson • 21 days ago> Jon A.

there´s one thing i am wondering about the gnome, the guys took out all of the functionality

and usability of the old gnome and added a nicer icons(its original icons sucked, .. always, i agree)

now, they are adding with every release one by one, one by one, the old usability with the nicer

icons and people are astonished.. yes gnome and unity you did an awesome job!! 9

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arch_is_awesome • 21 days ago> Dinu Samoteeffsson

Yes, and the same thing happened to KDE. The first releases of 4.x were not so

great but now they have restored old functionality. 5

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