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The GNOME desktop underwent a radical change with version 3, released in 2011. It departed from the standard look and feel of most desktops using standard menu bars and taskbars to make the interface more user‐friendly across multiple platforms, such as tablets and mobile phones. This change led to controversy (see the “Other Desktops” section), but slowly many Linux enthusiasts accepted the new look and feel of the GNOME 3 desktop.

Figure 1.4 shows the standard GNOME desktop used in the Ubuntu Linux distribution.

The GNOME 3 desktop cleans up the desktop interface by reducing the available menus to just these three:

 Activities—Displays favorites, as well as any running application icons

 Calendar—Shows the current date/time, along with any system notification messages

 System—Shows network connections, system settings, and options to restart the system

The GNOME 3 desktop was designed to work on multiple types of devices, so you'll find there aren't a lot of menus. To launch applications, you must search for them using the Activities Overview, which is a search feature from the Activities menu.

FIGURE 1.4 A GNOME 3 desktop on an Ubuntu Linux system

Not to be outdone by KDE, the GNOME developers have also produced a host of graphical applications that integrate with the GNOME desktop.