{"id":48024,"date":"2025-01-24T14:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T14:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=48024"},"modified":"2025-01-25T07:43:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T07:43:36","slug":"gnome-48-alpha-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/01\/gnome-48-alpha-released\/","title":{"rendered":"GNOME 48 Alpha Released! Battery Charge Limiting & Screen Time Limiting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The first alpha release of GNOME 48 is out today! See what’s new in the desktop environment that will be default in next Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora Workstation 42.<\/p>\n

First, GNOME 48 introduced new core app called Decibels<\/a><\/b>. It’s a simple audio player that features playback speed adjustment, easy seek controls, and shows the waveform of the track.<\/p>\n

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To promote healthier habits and\/or parental control, the new release introduced initial screen time limits<\/b> support! It added initial Wellbeing panel<\/b> in GNOME Control Center (aka Settings), allowing to view screen time usage on the device and set daily time limits. However, the feature is disabled by default!<\/p>\n

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For laptop\/tablet devices, GNOME 48 finally introduced battery charge limiting<\/b> option in Power<\/i> settings page. Somehow, it’s NOT available in my case when trying it out in an old laptop … And, the power settings page is redesigned into “General” and “Power Saving” tabs with clear design.<\/p>\n

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Loupe, the default image viewer, in the release now has the ability to edit JPEG and PNG files with crop<\/code>, rotate<\/code>, and flip<\/code> options. And, it now displays XMP metadata for JPEG images.<\/p>\n

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Loupe Image viewer now has basic editing support<\/p><\/div>\n

Other features in the new release include new default wallpaper, prepare Vulkan and libva based hardware acceleration for GNOME Remote Desktop, as well as:<\/p>\n