gnome-desktop

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gnome-desktop
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Version: 3.28.2 / 3.30.0 Beta 2 updated
Upload Date: 16 Aug 18
Developer: The Gnome Project
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 83

Rating: 3.5/5 (Total Votes: 2)

gnome-desktop is an open source and completely free package that contains the libgnome-desktop library, the gnome-about program and desktop-wide documents, which are essential components of the for the GNOME desktop environment.

Not the GNOME desktop environment

Despite its common name, the gnome-desktop package does not provide or manages the actual "desktop" component of the GNOME project, which is a job for the Nautilus project, GNOME’s default file manager and desktop manager. It should also not be confused with the GNOME desktop environment.

Instead, this package only provides the GNOME About dialog, the desktop-wide documentation and the libgnome-desktop library. It is a core component of the GNOME desktop environment, without with the entire GNOME project will not function properly.

Getting started with gnome-desktop

Usually, end-users shouldn’t install the gnome-desktop program separately from GNOME, as it won’t work and it’s installed by default with each new installation of the popular desktop environment.

The package provided here should be used by advanced Linux users who want to tweak it for their computer architecture, as well as Linux distribution developers who want to install the package from sources.

Once installed (see below for manual installation instructions), the gnome-about and the respective GNOME documentation will be accessible to all users of the desktop environment. It has been successfully tested with 32-bit and 64-bit GNU/Linux operating systems.

Installing gnome-desktop

To install the gnome-desktop package on your GNU/Linux system, download it from the dedicated download section above, save the file somewhere on your computer, unpack it and extract its contents.

Open a terminal emulator, navigate to the location of the extracted archive files with the ‘cd’ command, run the ‘./configure && make’ command to optimize and compile the software, followed by the ‘make install’ command as root or with sudo to install it system wide.

What is new in this release:

  • Fix various wall clock regressions
  • Fix regressions from intltool removal
  • Fix regressions introduced by g_autoptr usage

What is new in version 3.29.3:

  • Fix memory leak
  • Updated translations

What is new in version :

  • Change default Japanish input source to KCC
  • wall-clock: respect new clock-show-weekday setting
  • Remove some obsolete API's in thumbnailer
  • Modernize autotools configuration a bit
  • Translations updates

What is new in version 3.27.1:

  • Change default Japanish input source to KCC
  • wall-clock: respect new clock-show-weekday setting
  • Remove some obsolete API's in thumbnailer
  • Modernize autotools configuration a bit
  • Translations updates

What is new in version 3.26.0:

  • Translation updates.

What is new in version 3.25.4:

  • Fix uninitialized memory in the thumbnailer (#78
  • Add default input source for fr_BE

What is new in version 3.25.3:

  • gnome-bg: Handle exif orientations (#516177)
  • Translation upates

What is new in version 3.25.2:

  • thumbnail: Update documentation

What is new in version 3.24.0:

  • Always prefer the backend-provided preview in thumbnails (#738503)
  • Use ibus-libzhuyin as default input method for Simplified Chinese (#772674)
  • Deprecated gnome_desktop_thumbnail_scale_down_pixbuf (#775991)

What is new in version 3.23.3:

  • Always use external gdk-pixbuf thumbnailer (#768064)

What is new in version 3.23.2:

  • Translation updates.

What is new in version 3.23.1:

  • Translation updates.

What is new in version 3.22.0:

  • Use udev's hwdb to query PNP IDs (--disable-udev to disable this)
  • Remove dependencies on xrandr and xext

What is new in version 3.21.4:

  • Use udev's hwdb to query PNP IDs (--disable-udev to disable this)
  • Remove dependencies on xrandr and xext

What is new in version 3.21.3:

  • Translation updates.

What is new in version 3.20.2:

  • Fix a compiler warning in gnome-rr

What is new in version 3.19.2:

  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.17.3:

  • Fix build of installed-tests
  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.16.2:

  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.16.0:

  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.14.2 / 3.16.0 Beta 1:

  • Drop libgsystem dependency (#680326)
  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.15.4:

  • Modernize gtk-doc use (#742479)
  • Fix memory handling in GnomeRR and language code (#742111, #742569)

What is new in version 3.15.3:

  • Fix mutex handling in thumbnailing code (#740666)

What is new in version 3.15.2.1:

  • Fix thumbnailing failures due to internal cleanups (#684026)

What is new in version 3.15.2:

  • Add installed tests (#737140)
  • Recognize builtin monitors in Dell machines (#740289)
  • Improve thumbnail handling (#684026)
  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.14.2:

  • tests: Remove unused code in gtk-reftest (#737123)
  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.15.1:

  • languages: Use a more broadly compatible locale codeset suffix (#710412)
  • Remove unused code in gtk-reftest (#737123)
  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.14.1:

  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.11.5:

  • wall-clock: Replace ratio with colon on non-UTF-8 locales (#722664)

What is new in version 3.11.4:

  • More new gnome-rr api
  • Drop using glibc internal headers
  • Docs for thumbnailers
  • Idle monitor fixes
  • Use newer libgsystem internally

What is new in version 3.11.2:

  • gnome-rr: Improve debug output
  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.10.2:

  • Translation updates.

What is new in version 3.11.1:

  • Add gnome_rr_output_get_min_backlight_step() API.

What is new in version 3.10.1:

  • gnome-bg: Fix memory leaks (#709271)
  • gnome-bg: set error when parsing XML file that's not a slide show (#708877)
  • languages: Obtain supported locales from "locale -a" output (#698383)
  • thumbnailer: Bail if no pixbuf loader could be created (#709819)
  • thumbnailer: Support loading thumbnails from remote locations (#708824)
  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.8.4:

  • Initialize gettext before constructing a wall clock (#699325)
  • Update pnp.ids from upstream hwdata (#699730)
  • Fix crash when XRRSetCrtcConfig() fails (#703034)
  • Prevent a crash with unknown language/country codes (#705885)
  • Ensure strings from xkeyboard-config are UTF-8 (#703247)
  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.10 Beta 2:

  • gnome-rr: don't assume 'default' means built-in (#706738)
  • gnome-rr: Read back new backlight value after changes (#706729)
  • idle: Use mutter api instead of direct X clals (#706006)
  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.10 Beta 1:

  • gnome-rr: Add api to get physical size
  • gnome-rr: Add async constructor
  • gnome-rr: Port to mutter dbus api (#705510)
  • xkb: Prevent a crash (#705885)
  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.9.5:

  • xkb: Ensure strings are UTF-8
  • gnome-rr: Fix a crash
  • gnome-rr: Be more careful when parsing EDID
  • wall-clock: Initialize gettext
  • gnome-bg: Objects without a filename are not slideshows
  • gnome-xkb-info: Fix memory leaks
  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.8.3:

  • Fix a memory leak (#701326)
  • Fix compile-time warning on x32 (#700548)
  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.9.1.1:

  • gnome-xkb-info: Don't store duplicated layouts in locale tables
  • idle-monitor: Make per-device monitor fallible
  • wall-clock: Move ratio from msg id's to translations
  • idle-monitor: Allow multiple watches per alarm
  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.8.2:

  • Fix a memory leak (#695116)
  • Add some more defaults for input sources

What is new in version 3.8.1:

  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.8.0.1:

  • Fix a potential use-after-free corruption and crash (#696719).

What is new in version 3.8.0:

  • idle-monitor: Allow multiple watches per alarm (#696522)
  • idle-monitor: Make per-device monitor fallible (#696118)
  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.7.92:

  • Don't store duplicated layouts in locale tables
  • Translation updates

What is new in version 3.7.91.1:

  • GnomeBg:
  • remove ability to not draw background (#690378)
  • GnomeRR:
  • use 'Built-in Display' instead of 'Laptop' (#679794)
  • Translation updates: Punjabi, Russian, Hebrew, Norwegian bokmA¥l, Slovak, Gujarati, Brazilian Portuguese, Vietnamese, Spanish, Polish

What is new in version 3.7.90:

  • Fix introspection generation for Vala
  • Fix introspectability of GnomeBg
  • GnomeIdleMonitor:
  • Break ABI and API to fix reliance of the API on an Xorg bug
  • use standard GObject boilerplate
  • generate gtk-doc documentation
  • GnomeWallClock:
  • generate gtk-doc documentation
  • add timezone property which can be monitored
  • Add conventional gnome_wall_clock_new()
  • GnomeXkbInfo:
  • generate gtk-doc documentation
  • Use the correct methods to get language/country
  • Handle duplicated layouts
  • Add API to get layouts for language and country
  • gnome-languages:
  • generate gtk-doc documentation
  • Add methods to get language/country from ISO codes
  • Add default input sources per locale
  • GnomeRR:
  • Make GnomeRRConfig use the detected display name
  • use standard GObject boilerplate
  • Improve gtk-doc documentation
  • GnomeBg:
  • Split slide show API to be usable from gnome-shell
  • Add asynchronous version of slideshow loading

What is new in version 3.7.5:

  • languages: Don't g_warning if there's no locale archive
  • languages: Extracted from gnome-control-center
  • languages: Fix a memory leak
  • xkb-info: Group layouts by country and language
  • xkb-info: Add a get_layout_info_for_locale method
  • Translation updates: Norwegian, Slovenian, Polish, Hebrew, Serbian

What is new in version 3.7.4:

  • 690703 wallclock: Fix AM/PM detection
  • 691701 GnomeRR: make DPMS take effect immediately
  • wallclock: return a proper error when idle-counter unavailable
  • Translation updates: Spanish, Polish, Norwegian bokmA¥l, Arabic, Greek, Galician, Hebrew, Assamese, Friulian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Uyghur

What is new in version 3.6.2:

  • Bug fixes:
  • gnome-rr: Fall back to XFree86_DDC_EDID1_RAWDATA
  • Translation updates:
  • Japanese

What is new in version 3.4.2:

  • GnomeBG: Fix crash when system clock is behind start date (Daniel Drake)

What is new in version 3.4.1:

  • Translators:
  • Sandeep Shedmake (mr)

What is new in version 3.3.2:

  • GnomeRR:
  • Don't refresh the GnomeRRScreen when applying a matched configuration from a file (Chris Coulson)

What is new in version 3.2.1:

  • libgnome-desktop:
  • GnomeRR: When setting the DPMS mode manually, clear the timeouts (Michael Vogt, Richard Hughes)
  • GnomeRR: Ignore DPMSSetTimeouts() and DPMSForceLevel() return value (Alexandre Rostovtsev)
  • GnomeWallClock: Fix non-Linux fallback code (Colin Walters)
  • Translators:
  • RA"dolfs Mazurs (lv)

What is new in version 3.2.0:

  • Misc:
  • Lower xext dependency to 1.1 (Sean Finney)
  • Translators:
  • Nilamdyuti Goswami (as)

What is new in version 3.1.91:

  • Add GnomeWallClock (Colin Walters)
  • Translators:
  • Jorge GonzAlez (es)
  • Kjartan Maraas (nb)
  • Piotr DrA...g (pl)

What is new in version 3.1.90:

  • Remove GnomeTzMonitor (Bastien Nocera)

What is new in version 3.1.5:

  • GnomeRR: Fix settings the DPMS mode (Richard Hughes)

What is new in version 3.1.2:

  • Note to packagers: this release breaks ABI compatibility in GnomeRR, so the
  • version of the library was bumped.
  • GnomeDesktopThumbnail: Use GOnce for thread safety (Colin Walters)
  • GnomeRR: Add a size return value to gnome_rr_output_get_edid_data() (Richard Hughes)
  • GnomeRR: Emit ::output-connected and ::output-disconnected when screen outputs come and go (Richard Hughes)
  • Translators:
  • Daniel Martinez (an)
  • Gil Forcada (ca@valencia)
  • Kristjan SCHMIDT (eo)
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