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GNOME 3.10 video

GNOME Shell / Settings changes

• improved login and lock screens: better layout, nicer transitions, prettier lock screen notifications, etc.;
• various improved transitions;
• pagination in the application picker.

App picker pagination

GNOME 3.10 lock screen

• the lock screen background can now be changed via the Background settings;
• new date and time settings; there's also a new feature here: automatically change the computer's timezone based on the current location;
• new display settings;
• new universal access settings;
• the background can be selected from your Flickr photos;
• Telepathy integration and Google 2-factor authentication for Online Accounts.

• new zoom mode for the scrollbars which allow for fine scrolling - to use it, hold SHIFT while clicking on the scrollbar thumb;
• smartcards are now supported as an alternate way to log in or unlock the screen;
• password authentication can now be disabled, forcing just fingerprint or smartcard authentication;
• initial Wayland support;
• high resolution (HiDPI) support.

GNOME 3.10 core apps

Bijiben

GNOME Weather

GNOME Weather

GNOME Photos

GNOME Music

GNOME Maps

GNOME Software

• Web: DuckDuck go is now the default search engine; Web now has a search provider for GNOME Shell which allows accessing your web history or searching the web from the GNOME Shell Activities
• Contacts: UI enhancements, updated setup and accounts dialogs
• Tweak Tool: redesigned for GNOME 3.10 and includes new options, such as startup applications management, etc.
• Evince Document Viewer: improved accessibility, new Caret Navigation mode, improved Djvu support and a new sidebar showing search results
• Clocks: Pretty new analog timer in stopwatch and timer views as well as geolocation support
• Boxes: support for importing system images (QEMU, raw, vdi - Virtualbox 1.1 image format, vmdk - VMware 3 and 4, vpc and cloop) as well as many UI and other fixes

Web (Epiphany)

GNOME Tweak Tool

GNOME Clocks

"In the five months since the release of LXQt 0.7.0, we have seen a surge of interest and several new developers have joined us. Collaboration with other desktop environments has been very promising and we are very excited to be able to pick up new KDE Frameworks libraries to replace custom, duplicated and often sub-par functionality".

- LXQt 0.8.0 release announcement

• new component: lxqt-admin. This brings an optional set of basic admin tools such as configuration for date & time as well as users and groups;
• two new themes: Plasma Next (based on KDE Plasma Next theme) and Dark Alpha;
• improved multi-monitor support;
• lxqt-config-randr been replaced by lxqt-config-monitor;
• support for RGBA transparency if compositing is available;
• lxqt-powermanagement: Improved compatibility with systemd/logind;
• Compton integration (if available, disabled by default);
• added support for setting a default UI font;
• lots of performances improvements and bug fixes.

LXQt admin configuration tools for date & time / users & groups

LXQt Monitor confg tool

LXQt Monitor confg tool

Testing LXQt

Cinnamon Settings

Date and Time settings

Hot Corners settings

Lock Screen settings

• Hot Corners and HUD:
• the HUD now only appears if you drag a window really close to the edge;
• hot corners: you can now define whether to react on hover, click or both;
• Screensaver and Power Management: there's now a clear separation between the Lock Screen and Power Management settings;
• Date and Time: the original Date and Time module was brought back and also, options such as "Use 24 hour clock" were added to Cinnamon's calendar applet, clock desk and the screensaver;
• Regional Settings and Keyboard Layouts: the Regional Settings module was removed entirely (letting the distribution manage this), with the exception of Keyboard Layouts, which was moved to the Keyboard settings module.

• HiDPI/Retina Display support (requires GTK 3.10);
• Support for CSD (client side decorations);
• Menu:
• option to uninstall applications from the menu (right click and select "Uninstall");
• newly installed applications are now highlighted in the menu;
• MPRIS support, so you can interact with MPRIS compatible software not only from the sound applet but also from your multimedia keys;
• The "wacom" plugin is back;
• A11y MouseWheel Zoom;
• You can now shade windows or change their opacity by using your mouse wheel on their titlebar. This options is available in System Settings > Windows;
• CJS gsettings wrapper (no more segmentation faults when an old applet queries a Cinnamon gsettings key which no longer exists… CJS intercepts the call and deals with it);
• Better integration with GNOME on the same machine (you should no longer see GNOME Control Center in Cinnamon, or Cinnamon Settings in GNOME);
• Better support for GDM (in particular for user-switching);
• Better support for Xrandr cloning;
• Better systemd/logind support;
• Fixed blacklight/brightness support on some hardware;
• Better support for VLC screensaver inhibit;
• Compatibility with new interfaces such as modemmanager1, upower1;
• Many other improvements and bug fixes.

You can now shade windows or change their opacity by using your mouse wheel on their titlebar

Modal dialog used by the Nemo about window (Despite what the about dialog says, this is actually not Nemo 2.0.8 but 2.2+git)

Getting Cinnamon