GNOME Shell and Mutter Get More Wayland Improvements for GNOME 3.24 Desktop

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

GNOME Project’s Florian Müllner announced the availability of the Release Candidate (RC) versions of the forthcoming GNOME Shell 3.24 and Mutter 3.24 components of the GNOME 3.24 desktop environment.

The GNOME devs are working hard these days on releasing the final development milestone of the upcoming GNOME 3.24 desktop environment, due for release on March 22, 2017, precisely the Release Candidate.

This is currently developed under the GNOME 3.23.92 umbrella, and most of its components are out for testing, including the GNOME Shell user interface and Mutter window manager and compositor.

Looking at the changelog, we can notice that GNOME Shell 3.23.92 (3.24 RC) implements DnD to overview for the Wayland display server, makes Telepathy optional during runtime, and adds a drag gesture at the bottom edge to bring up the on-screen keyboard.

Additionally, it now lets users swi… (read more)

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