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with ease. The new GNOME includes GTK+ theme handling and 
language configuration support.
• New Boxes Features: Boxes built-in applications can run remote and 
locally installed virtual machines. So, you don’t need to install any 
virtual machine such as VMware or VirtualBox to try other Linux 
distros. It can automatically download operating systems from the 
new box assistant; all you have to do is pick the Linux distro you 
want to use, and Boxes will do the rest.
• Activities Overview: One of the essential pieces of the GNOME puz-
zle is the Activities overview. Activities are where you access applica-
tion launchers, minimize applications, search, and virtual desktops.
• Multimedia Apps: Photos App has a new import feature that 
allows you to easily add photos to your library from SD cards and 
USB drives. The app can now auto-detect storage devices with new 
images, giving you an option to organize the pictures into albums 
during import itself. Other multimedia enhancements include play-
ing MJPEG video files through a video player and reordering playl-
ists by drag and drop in the music app. Games app has an exciting 
feature. It has an excellent new CRT video filter that makes game 
visuals look like they are being played on an old CRT TV.
• Dash: If you don’t want application launchers on the Dash, right-click 
the launcher in question and select Remove from Favorites. If you 
like to add a favorite to the Dash, you need to open the Applications 
overview. To do so, click on the grid icon at the bottom of the Dash. 
When the Applications open, you can scroll throughout the list of 
installed applications to find what you are looking for. You can run 
that application or add it to the Dash with a single click. To add an 
application to the Dash, right-click the application icon, and select 
Add to Favorites.
• File Manager: Numerous improvements in Files application. This 
feature allows batch renaming of files. Apart from that, compressed 
file functionality has also been integrated into Files. Many other user 
interface improvements have also been added.
• Favorites in Files: In Files, you can select files and folders and add 
them to the favorites list so that you can quickly view them in a 
“Starred” list, as shown above. The favorite capability has also been 

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