gtk3, gdm, gnome-shell, gnome-session update, new package wayland

The GTK library provides a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. The gtk3 packages contain GTK version 3.

The GNOME Display Manager (GDM) provides the graphical login screen. The screen is shown shortly after boot, after log out, and when switching the current user.

GNOME Shell acts as a compositing manager for the desktop, and displays both application windows and other objects. It provides core interface functions like switching windows, launching applications, and notifications. It takes advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics hardware and introduces innovative user interface concepts.

The gnome-session package manages the GNOME desktop session. It starts up other core components of GNOME and handles logouts and saving of the sessions.

Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients, as well as a C library implementation of that protocol. The compositor can be a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a wayland client itself. The clients can be traditional applications, X servers (rootless or fullscreen) or other display servers.

* With this update, multiple GNOME-related packages have been upgraded. (BZ#1481407, BZ#1481410, BZ#1481381, BZ#1481405, BZ#1481386)

* This update adds the new wayland packages as a Technology Preview. (BZ#1481411)

* Fractional scaling is now available on Wayland as a Technology Preview. (BZ#1481395)

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Asianux Server 7.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

For information on scope of support, see the Technology Preview Features Support Scope document.