Ubuntu 18.10 Desktop will reduce power consumption, enabling new themes by default
Do Son Will Cooke Canonical Ubuntu desktop director of the company in a blog recently issued a document, to introduce the Ubuntu 18.10 “Cosmic Cuttlefish” The main Desktop program.
According to Will Cooke, in Ubuntu 18.10, they will invite GNOME developers to make improvements to GNOME’s software. In order to reduce the development difficulty, Chromium will be used as a snap package. In power management, problems will be solved at the core level to enhance endurance.
The most intuitive change is that Ubuntu 18.10 will adopt the new default theme.
Major changes to Ubuntu 18.10 will include:
- For GNOME software improvements, more details will be released later this summer
- Increase the startup time of Snap applications
- Supports Chromium web browser as Snap and will abandon Chromium Debian package
- Following the work Red Hat has done to increase the power consumption of Fedora 28, Canonical is also planning to improve the power consumption of Ubuntu 18.10. They try to open more power saving settings without affecting stability
- Built-in support for sharing media content with DLNA clients without any additional software. You also want to easily create Samba SMB shares on your desktop
- The Communimeme desktop theme project of GNOME Shell becomes the default version of Ubuntu 18.10
- Better phone integration by providing GS Connect as part of the desktop (KDE Connect’s GNOME port)
- Using the New Ubuntu Desktop Installer
- Publicly report metric data collected since Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Introducing the latest upstream GNOME components
- In Ubuntu 18.04.1, they hope to support the use of fingerprints to unlock the desktop, support Thunderbolt settings in the GNOME Control Center, and enable XDG Portals to support snap
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