NewBe 0.1.0 is the first public release of the NewBe desktop experience.
Highlights:
- Wayland-first Fedora Workstation 44 / GNOME Shell 50 reference platform
- Light and dark GTK 3 and GTK 4 themes plus GNOME Shell styling
- NewBe icon theme with 100% native coverage of the defined 83-name core baseline
- Fifteen-design cursor theme with HiDPI sizes and compatibility aliases
- Seven original wallpapers with GNOME Background integration and light/dark pairing
- Optional GNOME Shell extension installation, validated for GNOME Shell 48–50 on Fedora 42–44
- User-local install/uninstall with dry-run and audit tooling
- Reproducible release archives and clean-room extracted-archive validation
- Documented libadwaita limitations and split MIT / CC BY-SA 4.0 licensing
The primary live-tested target is Fedora Workstation 44 with GNOME 50 on Wayland. Fedora 42/GNOME 48 and Fedora 43/GNOME 49 have automated extension-package validation.
Verify the downloaded archive before extraction:
sha256sum --check NewBe-0.1.0.tar.gz.sha256SHA-256: 2400747f702cea9cbbd9aa7aa283793d90bfce097f034f628c27ea30af9bdd5e