Hello all 
I might be one of just a few person but I was wondering when or even if there will be the new GNOME 50 available? I’m waiting for it so I can do a new clean install and testing it out (after few months of KDE).
Cheers
Jeyh
@Jeyh92 It’s being worked on… I suspect it’s close 
2 Likes
Still some openQA tests to clear apparently when upgrading from Leap 15.x
Gnome 50 is already available in the Gnome:Next repo and I’m using it (if you can’t wait…)
4 Likes
@malcolmlewis Glad to hear that it’s not forgotten
@OrsoBruno Thanks for that, I’ll just wait a few more days (I hope 
) when it arrives on factory
1 Like
Was it implemented? I’m thinking of distrohopping from Arch, but I’d love to keep GNOME 50 if possible.
Please see post #3 above.
Hello and welcome Robert,
I am also waiting for Gnome 50 to be in the official repos. I want to check it out and am planning to do a fresh install once it’s in the official repositories.
If you want to check from time to time (without being on Tumbleweed already) whether it’s already in the official repos you can check here by searching for “gnome-shell”: https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/x86_64/
It has the current version in the package name. So, 49.4 as of now.
New snapshot releases are announced here: https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/
If you check these announcements you can see if gnome got an update in the latest snapshot. The snapshot concept is a bit different from the Arch release behaviour.
On a sidenote and a bit offtopic:
As somebody who also switched from Arch to Tumbleweed a couple years ago: I am definitely not regretting it. With a pretty well functioning automated testing (openqa) in place, Tumbleweed tends to be less maintenance heavy than Arch for me. Less tinkering and manual intervention required for the price of not being as bleeding edge as Arch. It has been perfectly stable for me since I use it.
One thing that is a bit different from Arch is the multimedia support. Either you rely on Packman as non-official repository (https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Installing_codecs_from_Packman_repositories) or if possible for your usecase you can use flatpaks.
5 Likes
Soon™ it’ll be released… I guess?
As always, with Tumbleweed, it’s a matter of building and passing the OpenQA tests. It’ll be released when that has happened, and not a moment sooner.
1 Like
Gnome 50 has been accepted into openSUSE:Factory, so it’ll probably be released tomorrow yeah
1 Like
Not. Sled 16 …Gnome 50- desktop?
Kde are in a way leap 16 and way better Leap16.1?
Regards
SLED is a discontinued SUSE product, not an openSUSE distribution. As such, we can’t comment about their timeline for inclusion in SLE, you would have to ask SUSE that question.
Nobody asked about KDE, so let’s stay on topic.
Just a short Story:
When I first installed OpenSuse Tumbleweed a few years ago the newest Gnome Version arrive within 3 Days. I think it was Gnome 41. I was so proud that it was the first Distro to get a new Gnome Version.
I went to the Gnome Website and noticed that OpenSuse is not mentioned on the “Get Gnome” Site. So I wrote them an E-Mail that no other Distro is getting Gnome as fast a OpenSuse Tumbleweed yet it is not mentioned on the Gnome Website.
A few Days later it was Listed.
The Update for a new Gnome Version was never that fast again 
and that site “get gnome” is now gone.
Some Distros are mentioned on the Main page and Suse is there with the other Big ones.
1 Like
Hello. It’s odd that only SUSE Linux Enterprise appears and not openSUSE, but Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora do appear.
That would be something to take up with the GNOME folks. They control what they list on their site.
1 Like
Well, Gnome 48 actually arrived in Tumbleweed one day before the official announcement (TW20250318 vs. March 19…) but there were still minor snags, see pc-crashes-when-resuming-suspension-in-gnome-48.
Hello. I’ve already received the update to GNOME 50, but the snapshot mentioned in the forum’s announcements section isn’t showing up. 
By the way, everything’s working fine; only one extension (Caffeine) has stopped working.
Best regards
Extensions usually take a little time to catch up to the latest release. Give it a few days or weeks.
1 Like
Hi
I have had to do a couple of things, I like the logout button… gsettings set org.gnome.shell always-show-log-out true and also use quake-terminal extension, so just grabbed from their github page and installed… the others I have Astra Monitor and AppIndicator (for tray icons) are working fine.
1 Like