GNOME 51 "A Coruña" presents a broad set of refinements aimed at smoother graphics, more polished core apps, and improved ergonomics. The desktop benefits from Mutter’s reworked frame scheduling, faster screen capture, saved monitor brightness, and removal of legacy NVIDIA interfaces in favor of modern graphics APIs. Settings adds auto-rotate with orientation lock, center-aligned display snapping, automatic touchpad disabling when a mouse is attached, DNS search domains, removal of WEP, and SSH socket support for remote login; Users and About views gain improved fingerprint enrollment and a direct link to release notes. Remote Desktop now supports smartcard forwarding and Kerberos authentication. Maps gains downloadable offline regions plus live departure times, real-time delays, platform/stop details, and walking times. Files, Web, Software, and Calendar receive targeted usability and performance work: drag-counter badges and smarter selection in Files, a copy-URL shortcut and secure password generation in Web, end-of-life warnings and clearer Flatpak permissions in Software, and a rewritten Calendar for much smoother month-view scrolling.
The document and media toolchain also advances: Papers adds visual signature insertion and improved print/metadata handling; the File Previewer is rewritten in GTK4/libadwaita and supports dark mode and real-size images; Loupe exposes richer image metadata including ICC profiles. Accessibility improvements expand reduced-motion support, enable fully keyboard-adjustable screenshot selection, add a focus-ring timeout, and clean up screen-reader output. Miscellaneous gains include multi-mechanism login screen support, SVG cursors, a new secure key storage component (oo7), and new GNOME Circle apps such as the Bobby SQLite browser.
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