Gnome Shell 3.5.5 Release

This post was made with another stylesheet and it might be messed up!

Gnome Shell 3.5.5 released a few hours after Mutter as usual, and the biggest change since 3.5.4 was the introduction of the shell shield, the lock screen.

Unfortunately I couldn’t tried it as I was getting an error when I was click on lock, so for now I’ll just list the changelog (what a shame of me!).


Some GS 3.5.5 errors plus the Rhythmbox that I accidentally opened.

Gnome Shell 3.5.5 Changelog

  • +* Update style to match mockups [Allan]
  • + – improve calendar layout and legibility
  • + – update notifications and menus
  • + – use a common style for entries
  • + – update scrollbars to match GTK+
  • + – improve clock/unlock button in lock screen
  • + – update polkit dialogs [Jasper]
  • +* Fix login dialog growing when selecting different users [Florian; #675076]
  • +* Implement screen lock in the shell [Giovanni]
  • + – restructure login code to be shared with session unlock [#619955]
  • + – add initial screen shield / unlock dialog implementation [#619955]
  • + – implement (optional) notification list on lock shield [#619955]
  • + – update login dialog style to match lock screen [#619955]
  • + – filter notifications to only show new ones on the screen lock [#681143]
  • + – make notifications scrollable if necessary [#681143]
  • + – use correct application names in notifications [#681143]
  • + – allow to return to the shield by pressing Escape [#681143]
  • +* Minor login dialog improvements [Florian]
  • + – update style to match the overall visuals [#660913]
  • + – indicate whether users are logged in [#658185]
  • +* Add support for background-repeat CSS property [Jasper; #680801]
  • +* Add :active pseudo class on scroll handles [Florian]
  • +* Remove markup from translated strings [Matthias; #681270]
  • +* Misc bug fixes and cleanups: [Alban, Florian, Giovanni, Jasper, Jeremy, Matthias, Piotr; #677893, #679944, #680064, #680170, #680216, #680426, #681101, #681382]

Contributors

  • Jeremy Bicha
  • Alban Browaeys
  • Giovanni Campagna
  • Matthias Clasen
  • Allan Day
  • Piotr Drąg
  • Florian Müllner
  • Jasper St. Pierre

Translations

  • Matej Urbančič [sl]
  • Tom Tryfonidis [el]
  • Yaron Shahrabani [he]
  • Kjartan Maraas [nb]
  • Baurzhan Muftakhidinov [kk]
  • Praveen Illa [te]
  • Khaled Hosny [ar]
  • Daniel Mustieles [es]
  • Gabor Kelemen [hu]
  • Fran Diéguez [gl]
  • Sweta Kothari [gu]
  • Aleksej Kabanov [ru]
  • Nilamdyuti Goswami [as]
  • Arash Mousavi [fa]
  • Мирослав Николић [sr, sr@latin]

Bump version to 3.5.5

                 

  • Bina

    Really nice progress! Faster than anything else happening in Linux development right now.

  • Valerio

    Thanks for the informative post. Just a question, is the new single-mode activities screen already in, without the categories and with the application button in the dash? Is it going to be in Gnome 3.6?