Available as part of the GNOME 3.17.2 desktop environment

May 28, 2015 00:00 GMT  ·  By

The GNOME Project is about to release the second development release towards the GNOME 3.18 desktop environment, which will see the light of day on September 23, 2015.

Several core components and apps have been updated as part of the GNOME 3.17.2 development snapshot, as reported by Softpedia the entire week. GNOME Shell 3.17.2 has been released as well today, May 27, and brings various improvements.

According to the attached changelog, GNOME Shell 3.17.2 increases the visibility of expanders in the Alt-Tab popup, removes the StTable widget, and uses the iio-sensor-proxy directly for orientation lock.

Also, it now makes sure that suspend inhibitors are being released immediately after the virtual terminal is switched away. Many other small bugs have been patched as well in this second unstable release towards GNOME Shell 3.18.

Last but not least, the Hebrew, Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Hungarian, Norwegian Bokmal, Slovak, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish, Occitan, and Tajik language translations have been updated as well.

Download GNOME Shell 3.17.2 right now from Softpedia. However, please note that only the source code is provided, so if you want to test the software, you will have to install the GNOME 3.17.2 desktop environment, which should be announced very soon.

GNOME Shell 3.17.2 Changelog