Spring has come to the northern hemisphere and so has a new release of GNOME!
This release, we are bringing you new streamlined theming and a better development experience.
Several applications have been been revamped
For example GNOME's image viewer, which now features new user interface controls.
Files has also received some love, with simplified popover menus and an improved file view.
GNOME 3.16 also brings new visuals to GNOME Shell.
This includes the activities overview, the application menu and the system menu.
GNOME Shell also provides an improved design of the notification system.
These improvements aim to make notifications in GNOME more discoverable, but also easy to get out of your way.
This cycle features three new GNOME apps.
One of them is a preview of GNOME Calendar
An app which helps you planning ahead.
GNOME Calendar integrates with your online accounts, so you can take your calendar with you on the go.
This release also features a preview of GNOME books,
A new application to fulfill your book-reading needs.
Furthermore, this release brings a preview of Builder, a new application for developers.
Builder is an IDE aiming to improve the developer experience on GNOME.
Thanks to more than 500 donators the project was succesfully crowd-funded.
If you want to help improve the developer experience too, visit the crowdfunding campaign in the description below.
GTK+ also aims to improve the development experience this cycle,
with many improvements to the GtkInspector, support for OpenGL and a Mir backend.
Finally GNOME 3.16 ships an improved glib, aiming to make life much easier for C developers.
The new GNOME release is available for you as a Live Image to try now.
GNOME 3.16 will be shipped by many distributions in the near future.
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