GNOME 47 is in Aeon, now we polish

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GNOME 47 has landed in Aeon and so far I haven’t seen a single related bug report.

Thanks to everyone in the Tumbleweed GNOME community who helped make that happen.

GNOME 47 brings one small but nice feature which we’ll be leveraging soon

Accent Colors - Aeon will be setting green as a default accent, naturally

This, interestingly, isn’t honoured by our default terminal emulator, gnome-terminal

As one of only a few apps we install by default, as a traditional RPM package, I feel it’s really important our terminal is wonderfully well integrated with the rest of the Aeon experience

So, we’re looking to get rid of gnome-terminal and instead use Console as our default

We did consider ptyxis. Despite its terrible name it has a number of wonderful features which made it very tempting, but sadly its integration with GIO and xdg-terminal was found to be lacking. This made it tricky/impossible to use nicely for terminal-based flatpaks for example

These changes should all be finished tomorrow and submitted to the regular Factory process to be released sometime in the coming days

Please let us know how you’re finding GNOME 47 and any other little polishes you’d like to see us make

  • the Aeon Team

Most importantly, GNOME 47 now finally has proper thumbnails in the file picker, catching up with Windows 95 and KDE 1 :slight_smile:

It’s a part of the GNOME workflow, you just had to get used to that for over 2 decades :sunglasses: .