Big release coming up, couldn’t find a roadmap or smth. Any information about upcoming features?
AI told me built-in theming and widgets would be a thing, i’m sure that’s a lie.
I just switched from Windose to CachyOS (Arch btw), played a bit with KDE and Cosmic, now back in 49 vanilla, still the cleanest looking, most usable out of box, cheers to all who make that possible.
You know, i’m something of a designer myself (btw) and i love that i can edit gtk and shell with css, i want my catppuccin, actually i’m aiming for an unwanted child of ZorinOS and Omarchy, so to say. Just wondering if i should get deeper into theming/coloring/layouts or what is being worked on. Feels like most icon themes are kinda broken… i know, it’s not all about looks, still it’s a hustle. What else can we expect? Excited to see what’s coming!
I’m not a member of the GNOME team, only a user, but this is how I understand it:
There isn’t a big roadmap of upcoming features or releases. Each developer will work on their priorities inside their projects, be it the desktop, an application or library, and what has been completed by the feature freeze will be included in the release.
Some changes are known far in advanced, especially if they were in the works for some time, but at the end, the release will just ship what has been done.
I doubt GNOME 50 will be far different from the other releases in this regard.
As for theming:
Built-in theming is very definitely not going to be a thing. The basic options for customization like accent colors and dark mode have been implemented. And changing icon themes or the stylesheet can lead to unexpected bugs and issues, especially now that the application use the available options more to create more custom UI’s and styles themselves. So this is nothing that GNOME officially supported or will officially support in the future.
That being said: Nobody will stop you if you decide to use the options that are available. Using ~/.config/gtk-4.0/gtk.css still works, so you can for example create a custom color scheme by overriding the CSS variables of the Adwaita stylesheet. And thanks to the recent addition of media queries to GTK, you don’t have to break the dark mode setting anymore.[1]
But keep in mind that such changes, while maybe being fun, are not officially supported. Do it with due caution, and if there should be issues, verify they’re not related to your customization first.
You will still break the accent colors setting though when overriding the CSS values for accent colors. ↩︎
That’s why you shouldn’t use AI.
here’s this: GNOME 50 · GNOME · GitLab
I don’t think that contains everything, but it looks like it’s mostly a few apps, especially the calendar
I can see a few gnome 50 related news here Linux Performance, Benchmarks & Open-Source News - Phoronix
Sadly I didn’t see anything about scroll speed settings. It’s been really bad on a lot of laptop touchpads for quite a while now.