Hera Updates for April, 2020
Screen Time & Limits, a revamped Applications Menu, deep System Settings search, and more for OS 5.1.4
Parental Controls → Screen Time & Limits
Informed by our work last year at the Metered Data & Parental Controls hackfest, we’ve started overhauling Parental Controls. While we’re focusing on the digital wellbeing aspects, we decided to rename it to the more straightforward “Screen Time & Limits.”
Applications Menu
The Applications Menu handles browsing, searching for, and launching both apps and app actions. This month we released a major update that greatly improves its responsiveness and fluidity on trackpads—and makes it easily usable on touchscreens as well.
System Settings
Search inside of System Settings has been completely redesigned and significantly improved! Drawing from the excellent search in the Applications Menu, System Settings now supports deep searching for individual settings, and clearly shows the path to get to each one; this helps find what your looking for, but also helps teach you where settings can be found in the future.
AppCenter
In April we released a major update to AppCenter with performance improvements, extension improvements, keyboard navigation improvements, and a number of fixes.
Videos
We released several fixes for Videos in April, including better remembering the last-played video and its playback position, more reliably updating the “replay” button description, and fixing a missing icon in the episode view.
More
In April, we updated our Gala window manager to fix a crash when changing workspaces while certain windows are being opened. We also fixed disappearing windows when switching workspaces while using “Always on Visible Workspace” or multiple displays.
Hera Updates for April, 2020
A new version of elementary OS has been released with parental controls, a revamped Applications Menu, and deep System Settings search.
