GNOME News: GNOME 3.12, Screenshots, Videos, and Boxes
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-03-27 16:30:20 UTC
- Modified: 2014-03-27 16:31:57 UTC
Announcements
The GNOME Project is proud to release GNOME 3.12 today. The next milestone release in the GNOME 3 series includes many new features, enhancements and updates, as well as new capabilities and APIs for application developers. The new version continues to improve the GNOME 3 user experience and includes many small bug fixes and enhancements.
Packaging
As a result of the work that has been going into increasing the portability of GNOME this cycle, I’m happy to announce the availablility (on “day 0ââ¬Â³) of a virtual machine image of GNOME 3.12.0 running on FreeBSD.
New Features
GNOME 3.12 was released today and it includes some important changes such as proper HiDPI support, improved Wayland support, various enhancements for the core GNOME applications as well as 3 new preview applications.
1 new GNOME Videos, 1 updated Bluetooth panel, 2 new thumbnailers, 9 grilo sources, and 1 major UPower rework.
I'm obviously very attached to the GNOME Videos UI changes, the first major UI rework in its 12-year existence.
Pre-release
Tarballs are due on 2014-03-24 before 23:59 UTC for the GNOME 3.12.0 newstable release, which will be delivered on Wednesday. Modules which were proposed for inclusion should try to follow the unstable schedule so everyone can test them. Please make sure that your tarballs will be uploaded before Monday 23:59 UTC: tarballs uploaded later than that will probably be too late to get in 3.12.0. If you are not able to make a tarball before this deadline or if you think you'll be late, please send a mail to the release team and we'll find someone to roll the tarball for you!
I wanted to make one more post before the imminent release of 3.12 showing how gedit changed in this cycle, but the recent series of posts by Matthias feature plenty of gedit images and left me without fresh screenshot material
Boxes
I just rolled out Boxes 3.11.92, which is going to become 3.12 in a week. Apart from lots of fixes and minor improvements like addition of keyboard shortcuts for improved accessibility for example, there are some note worthy changes against 3.10
Ubuntu
So I did a bit more hacking on PackageKit, appstream-glib and gnome-software last night. We’ve now got screenshots from Debian (which are not very good) and long application descriptions from the package descriptions (which are also not very good). It works well enough now, although you now need PackageKit from master as well as appstream-glib and gnome-software.
Steve Langasek of Ubuntu Technical Board had raised his concerns when the proposal was made, “I am very concerned about this proposed support timeline. 2 years and 3 months means that the support period would end the same month that 16.04.1 is likely to be released. Given that our policy has been to not recommend (or advertise in the UI) LTS upgrades until the first point release, this effectively gives users zero margin between the dropping of security support for Ubuntu-GNOME 14.04, and the first upgrades to Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04.
Recent Techrights' Posts
- The Problem is Not Technology, the Problem is Really Bad Things Sold or Imposed as "Tech" (Like a Religion Built Around Technology)
- Don't hate technology, hate the corporations that abuse it to promote coercion, exploitation etc.
- Resisting IBM and EPO Corruption
- Rise up against EPO dictatorship next week
- Where Slop Meets Ghostwriting: It's a False Analogy
- It's a false analogy
- Slop Technica: Ars Technica Seems Like Repeat Offender, a Part-Time Slopfarm
- The culprits are repeat offenders, but the publisher will never admit this in public
- Where Microsoft's Bing Cannot Even Reach 1% "Market Share"
- Looking at "I" countries
- Links 16/02/2026: Barack Obama Responds to Racist Cheeto and Benjamin Mako Hill Studies Online Communities
- Links for the day
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- EPO "Productivity" Will Fall Off a Cliff If Examiners Stick to the European Patent Convention (EPC) and Follow the Real Rules
- The EPO's "Cocaine Communication Manager" would hate to see the next "productivity" metrics
- Links 17/02/2026: Why OpenClaw is Very Sleazy and Ars Technica Exposed as Hub of LLM Slop (Credibility Destroyed Overnight)
- Links for the day
- Benj Edwards (Ars Technica) Used Fake Articles to Promote Ponzi Scheme for Conde Nast and Its Client (Marketing)
- What Ars Technica and Conde Nast do here helps defraud the general public
- Only One in 50 Saudis Would Use Microsoft for Search, Almost Same as Would Use Russia's Yandex
- If statCounter is to be trusted
- Microsoft's "AI" Concerns Are All Indian (or Low-Paid Workers Who Work Extra Hours Unpaid)
- portraying charlatans and frauds like they're some kind of visionaries and luminaries
- Microsoft Turned Bing Into Censorship Machine of China, But Bing Is Pegged at a Mere 2% in Asia, Yandex is Bigger
- Expect many Bing layoffs some time soon (like in past years)
- Just Like The Register MS, Conde Nast's Ars Technica Has Just Publicly Admitted That It Published Fake Articles (Slop) Made by LLMs About Serious Subjects
- Conde Nast might shut Ars Technica down to escape the bad publicity/association
- Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Way Too Slow to Respond to Financial Fraud at Law Firms, in Effect Helping Those Law Firms Defraud Many More People (Fleecing Clients)
- Who will hold the SRA accountable for this?
- Techrights Became a Hub for News That IBM/Red Hat Doesn't Want You to See (and Pays Mainstream Media to Distract From)
- the more viciously the notorious organisation attacks the reporter, the greater the interest in what the reporter has to say
- EPO's Central Staff Committee on Fourth Technical Meeting, Two Days Before First of (At Least) 4 Winter Strikes at the Second-Largest European Institution
- “future orientations on the salary adjustment procedure”
- IBM's Collapse Continues, Half of EU Countries to Have Mass Layoffs, "IBM Clearly Disinvests From Europe" Says IBM European Works Council
- Recent publication
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 16, 2026
- IRC logs for Monday, February 16, 2026
- Gemini Links 17/02/2026: Alpenglow Industries' Closure and Gemini Server Issues
- Links for the day
- The Southern California Linux Expo (“SCALE”) or SCALE 23x Becomes Microsoft
- It's not supporting the event, it is buying it.
- Microsoft to Focus on Name-Dropping Buzzwords to Distract From Declining Business, IBM RAs (Layoffs) With Staff Stack-Ranked
- Calling everything cloud or reclassifying as "AI"
- Another EPO Strike One Week From Now, Local Staff Committee Munich to Discuss It This Week
- Campinos MIA while Office staff goes on strike at least 4 times
- Gemini Links 16/02/2026: Task Completed by Avoidance and "Playing Again With Akkoma"
- Links for the day
- Happy Birthday (or Anniversary) to SoylentNews
- "Happy Birthday SoylentNews"
- Techrights' Architecture
- Stability is the main goal
- IBM Reduces the Thresholds for Acceptance (and the Salaries)
- Are chatbots good enough as IBM staff?
- When It Comes to Rust, Keep All the Eyes on the Ball (Technical and Legal Perils, Sustainability Questions)
- It's not about security or politics
- Linux Foundation Continues Falling Off a Cliff in Geminispace
- Gemini Protocol will turn 7 this summer
- Links 16/02/2026: cURL’s Daniel Stenberg Asserts That Slop is DDoSing Free Software, But Still Uses a Plagiarism and GPL-Violating Blender (Microsoft GitHub)
- Links for the day
- The Techrights Community Never Needed Money, Only Goodwill
- We accomplish things by a track record of suppressed facts
- "AboutCode" is a Microsoft Proxy and Microsoft's Acquisition of the OSI Advances Via OSI Moles
- presenting direct evidence anybody can verify
- Social Control Media is Just a Digital Weapon
- Social control media is not social and not media
- They Will Call Smart People "Luddites"
- Is society "seeing the light"?
- Microsoft Amutable Already Reveals That Its Focus Is Not Linux, It'll Promote "Remote Attestation"
- This is basically an attack on Software Freedom, even if they toss around the brand "Linux"
- More People in Chad Move to GNU/Linux
- Last year we began to see GNU/Linux rising there - a trend which continues this year
- Dr. Andy Farnell on How Universities and Culture of Education Got Crushed by "Technofascist Nightmare"
- Farnell says he "already soft-quit in [his] mind"
- Debt of Broadcom Grew by More Than 50%, Broadcom is Deeper in Debt Than Google
- Expect many more cuts
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 15, 2026
- IRC logs for Sunday, February 15, 2026
- Links 15/02/2026: Slop, Politics, and Gemini
- Links for the day
- Small is Beautiful (in Cascading Style Sheets/Inheritance Rules)
- If done correctly, pages can take a tenth of a second to fully load
- Microsoft Has Fallen to New Lows in Hong Kong This Year
- That Windows "market share" falls there is perhaps expected
- Free Software Foundation (FSF) Raised About 1.5 Million Dollars This Winter, Almost 50% More Than in All of 2024 Combined
- Verbal advocacy goes a long way
- Spread the Word About EPO Strikes and Patent Injustices in Europe
- Corruption in Europe is a real thing
- The Register MS is Promoting Slop, Promotion Connected to Microsoft (Trying to Replace Judges With Microsoft)
- marketing spun as "science"
- He Did Not Have Enough Souls
- A lot of the subjects we cover here no other site dares touch
- "Mix Vale" is a Slopfarm
- 3 "articles" about "ubuntu"
- Links 15/02/2026: Roy Medvedev Dead at 100, Rise of "YouTube Politicians"
- Links for the day
- Links 15/02/2026: How Alexey Navalny Was Executed by Putin, Erdogan Helping Iran
- Links for the day
- IBM Fedora Keeps Promoting Slop, Red Hat Has Been Turned Into Chaff and Trash to Help IBM's Stock (With "AI" Storytelling)
- Red Hat's Fedora is an old brand (20+ years). It no longer stands for what it meant to people in the Fedora Core days (I was a Fedora user back then).
- What IBM Said About 2026 Layoffs and What's Happening in Practice
- t'll leave IBM at the very bottom, in due course (customers will notice something profound has changed)
- Gemini Links 15/02/2026: "Already Midway February" and Loadbars Remembered
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, February 14, 2026
- IRC logs for Saturday, February 14, 2026
