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05.10.02, 22:01
New Features
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- Detailed control over fonts, anti-aliasing and subpixel smoothing in the
Fonts control panel. Control anti-aliasing on-the-fly! As seen in Red
Hat 8.0.
- New tab in the Themes control panel provides metacity window border
theme selection.
- Windows control panel for window manager selection and options.
- gedit has a new plugins, including a spelling checker, Galeon-style tab
control, improved UTF8 support and a most recently used files list.
Check out the recent files list dropdown on the 'Open' toolbar button!
- Panel multiscreen support, zoom animation when launchers are clicked.
- New panel buttons for Screenshot, Search, Show Desktop (actually an
applet) and Run.
- gdialog is back! Improved, and built by default in gnome-utils again.
- Search Tool user interface completely revamped, supports Nautilus icons
and drag'n'drop.
- Nautilus now has an extensible thumbnailing system. See Alex Larsson's
post on nautilus-list about ~/.gnome2/thumbnailrc.
- freedesktop.org system icon theme support in Nautilus (see
gnome-icon-theme).
- New icon layout/canvas, general performance fixes, and a new rename
widget with i18n support.
- Improved Nautilus side pane based on standard widgets.
- Requires the 1.1.x development series of Pango, which supports Xft2 and
fontconfig.
- New 'gman' alias for yelp, which handily pops up the man page index.
This feature dedicated to Glynn Foster.
Preview Modules
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The following modules have been proposed for addition to the 2.2 Desktop
release:
- gnome-themes: New package of default themes for GNOME, which currently
includes GTK+ and icon themes designed for accessibility.
- gnome-icon-theme: Default GNOME icon theme.
- metacity: Window manager for the adult in you. Proposed to replace
Sawfish as default window manager.
- vte: Terminal widget with improved font, internationalisation and
accessibility support. Designed to replace libzvt.
- file-roller: Full-featured archive creation, browsing, and unpacking
utility. See: http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/
- gcalctool: Scientific calculator. Proposed to replace gnome-calculator.
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- Detailed control over fonts, anti-aliasing and subpixel smoothing in the
Fonts control panel. Control anti-aliasing on-the-fly! As seen in Red
Hat 8.0.
- New tab in the Themes control panel provides metacity window border
theme selection.
- Windows control panel for window manager selection and options.
- gedit has a new plugins, including a spelling checker, Galeon-style tab
control, improved UTF8 support and a most recently used files list.
Check out the recent files list dropdown on the 'Open' toolbar button!
- Panel multiscreen support, zoom animation when launchers are clicked.
- New panel buttons for Screenshot, Search, Show Desktop (actually an
applet) and Run.
- gdialog is back! Improved, and built by default in gnome-utils again.
- Search Tool user interface completely revamped, supports Nautilus icons
and drag'n'drop.
- Nautilus now has an extensible thumbnailing system. See Alex Larsson's
post on nautilus-list about ~/.gnome2/thumbnailrc.
- freedesktop.org system icon theme support in Nautilus (see
gnome-icon-theme).
- New icon layout/canvas, general performance fixes, and a new rename
widget with i18n support.
- Improved Nautilus side pane based on standard widgets.
- Requires the 1.1.x development series of Pango, which supports Xft2 and
fontconfig.
- New 'gman' alias for yelp, which handily pops up the man page index.
This feature dedicated to Glynn Foster.
Preview Modules
---------------
The following modules have been proposed for addition to the 2.2 Desktop
release:
- gnome-themes: New package of default themes for GNOME, which currently
includes GTK+ and icon themes designed for accessibility.
- gnome-icon-theme: Default GNOME icon theme.
- metacity: Window manager for the adult in you. Proposed to replace
Sawfish as default window manager.
- vte: Terminal widget with improved font, internationalisation and
accessibility support. Designed to replace libzvt.
- file-roller: Full-featured archive creation, browsing, and unpacking
utility. See: http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/
- gcalctool: Scientific calculator. Proposed to replace gnome-calculator.