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First Look at the GNOME 3.36 Desktop in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

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9to5Linux; By Marius Nestor
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With only a week before the GNOME 3.36 desktop environment is officially announced, I decided to take it for a spin on the upcoming Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) operating system and check out the new features and enhancements.

Most of the GNOME 3.36 beta packages have landed in the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS repositories, so I would like to give you all a first look of what’s changed since Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine), which uses the GNOME 3.34 desktop environment.

The Ubuntu desktop is virtually unchanged since Canonical decided to drop Unity in favor of the GNOME desktop with the Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) release. Various tweaks were made to the system theme and icons throughout the years, but the layout has remained the same to this day.

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