elementary OS 8 Updates Add New Dock Features + More

The team behind elementary OS recently detailed a number of improvements to recently roll out to users of the distro. Gala, the default window manager used by the Pantheon desktop environment, is described as seeing an “absolutely massive release” fixing scores of issues and plumbing in a new Gesture Controller offering tangible improvements to the way gestures work. Precisely how? Hey: I ain’t the developer! But reading the pull request which adds the changes it sounds like the new Gesture Controller ought to deliver smoother interactions, hard to convey in words, but things like properly calculated deceleration, handling of gesture cancellation and
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