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[release-notes/gnome-2-30] Add release notes page and rnuser updates for nautilus and empathy

commit 90e67db223bdc8c461cf162a1cb3e75fd2719130
Author: Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>
Date:   Tue Mar 2 09:55:22 2010 -0600

    Add release notes page and rnuser updates for nautilus and empathy

 help/C/release-notes.xml |    6 +-
 help/C/rnusers.xml       |  222 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 225 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/help/C/release-notes.xml b/help/C/release-notes.xml
index 51c5c6e..7fd0860 100644
--- a/help/C/release-notes.xml
+++ b/help/C/release-notes.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 		<publisher>
 			<publishername>GNOME Foundation</publishername>
 		</publisher>
-		<pubdate>2009-02-23</pubdate>
+		<pubdate>2009-09-23</pubdate>
 		<edition>&gnomeversion;</edition>
 		<abstract role="description">
 			<para>GNOME has a time-based release schedule. This means that there is a
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
 				developers, both on the desktop and in mobile applications.
 			</para>
 
-<!-- Need updated GNOME 2.30 screenshot -->
+<!-- FIXME Need updated GNOME 2.30 screenshot -->
  
 		<figure id="fig.intro.gnome">
 		 <title>GNOME &gnomeversion;</title>
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
 		<para>
 			Friends of GNOME is a way for individuals to support the GNOME project's
 			mission of providing a free and open source desktop for everyone
-			regardless of ability. With no advertising or outreach, the foundation raised
+			regardless of ability. With no advertising or outreach, the foundation has raised
 			over $20,000 in 2009 from generous individuals. That
 			money has contributed to the funds for hackfests, local events and
 			programs which in turn have enabled the GNOME project to create an
diff --git a/help/C/rnusers.xml b/help/C/rnusers.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d726203
--- /dev/null
+++ b/help/C/rnusers.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,222 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
+  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"; [
+<!ENTITY urlfiguresbase "figures/">
+<!ENTITY gnomeversion "2.28">
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="rnusers">
+	<title>What's New For Users</title>
+	
+	<para>
+			The GNOME Project's focus on users and usability continues in GNOME &gnomeversion;
+			with its hundreds of bug fixes and user-requested improvements. The
+			sheer number of enhancements makes it impossible to list every change and
+			improvement made, but these notes aim to highlight some of the
+			more exciting, user-oriented features in this release.
+	</para>
+
+	<sect2 id="rnusers.nautilus">
+		<title>FIXME: Need title</title>
+		<para>
+		  GNOME &gnomeversion; includes updates to Nautilus, the GNOME File Manager.
+			Nautilus features a number of user interface changes including a new split view mode
+			and is now set to browser mode by default, replacing spatial mode.
+		</para>
+		
+	
+		<figure id="fig.rnusers.nautilus">
+		 <title><application>Nautilus</application></title>
+		  <screenshot><mediaobject><imageobject>
+			  <imagedata fileref="&urlfiguresbase;rnusers.nautilus.png" format="PNG"/>
+			</imageobject></mediaobject></screenshot>
+		</figure>
+		
+	</sect2>
+
+	<sect2 id="rnusers.empathy">
+	 <title>Empathy Instant Messenger</title>
+
+	 <para>
+	  GNOME's instant messaging and communication application, <application>Empathy</application>,
+    built on the Telepathy communications framework, has gained a number of new and important features 
+	  to help users communicate.</para>
+
+	 <para>
+		Empathy will now display an information bar in the contact list when an
+		account fails to connect featuring a button that makes it easy to try and
+		connect again or edit the account seetings.
+	  </para>
+
+		<para>
+		You can now send files by dragging and dropping a file in the contact list
+		or in the chat window when talking to a friend.
+		</para>
+
+		<para>
+		Empathy's IRC functionality has been updated to include support for common IRC
+		commands such as /join or /nick and you can now join password protected rooms.
+		</para>
+
+		<para>
+		Other updates include support for easily adding and configuring Facebook
+		chat and chat windows now display a search window to help easily find text
+		when chatting with friends.
+		</para>
+	  
+	  	 		<figure id="fig.rnusers.empathy">
+		 <title>Empathy Contacts</title>
+		  <screenshot><mediaobject><imageobject>
+			  <imagedata fileref="&urlfiguresbase;rnusers.empathy.png" format="PNG"/>
+			</imageobject></mediaobject></screenshot>
+		</figure>
+	 
+	 
+	<sect2 id="rnusers.hamster">
+	 <title>Track Your Time Better</title>
+
+	 <para>
+	  The <application>Time Tracker</application> applet, which helps you track your time and tasks, 
+	   includes a number of new improvements.
+	 </para>
+	 
+	 <para>An all-new Overview screen is now included, which merges the category and period
+	 graphs to present a cleaner overview to the user.  Colors are also used for the first time, 
+	 making it easy to view the proportion of time used to complete tasks.
+	 </para>
+	 
+	 <para>Other feature updates include improved autocomplete support allowing you
+	  to update the start time on the fly, improved support for late-night workers, and
+	 the ability to add earlier tasks that have been completed.  Lastly, the export functionality
+	 has a number of improvements, including the ability to filter activities by category and date
+	 prior to export, and new simple export types:  iCal to import into Evolution, 
+	 Google Calendar and other clients, 
+	 XML, and TSV (tab separated values), which works well with spreadsheets.
+	 </para>
+
+		<figure id="fig.rnusers.hamster">
+		 <title>Time Tracker</title>
+		  <screenshot><mediaobject><imageobject>
+			  <imagedata fileref="&urlfiguresbase;rnusers.hamster.png" format="PNG"/>
+			</imageobject></mediaobject></screenshot>
+		</figure>
+
+	</sect2>
+	 
+	<sect2 id="rnusers.video">
+		<title>Media Player Improvements</title>
+
+		<para>
+		 DVD playback in GNOME's <application>Media Player</application> has been improved
+		  with the ability to navigate DVD menus and resume playback from the last position.  
+		  The YouTube plugin has also seen some speed improvements.
+		</para>
+
+	</sect2>
+
+	<sect2 id="rnusers.cheese">
+	 <title>Smile for the Camera</title>
+
+	 <para>
+	  <application>Cheese</application>, a webcam photo and video application, features numerous improvements.
+	  Cheese has an updated user interface, and has added a "Burst" mode for taking multiple pictures at a time.
+	  You can choose the number of pictures Cheese should take and the time delay between pictures.  Cheese
+	  also supports the ability to manually take a picture using a webcam's "Capture" button.
+	 </para>
+	 
+	 <para>Cheese's user interface has also been optimized for smaller screens, such as netbooks, by moving
+	 the image thumbnail bar to the right.  The below screenshot shows Cheese in its new wide mode
+	 optimized for Netbooks using Burst mode.
+	 </para>
+	 
+	 		<figure id="fig.rnusers.cheese">
+		 <title>Wide Mode for Netbooks</title>
+		  <screenshot><mediaobject><imageobject>
+			  <imagedata fileref="&urlfiguresbase;rnusers.cheese-2.28.0-wide.jpg" format="JPG"/>
+			</imageobject></mediaobject></screenshot>
+		</figure>
+		
+		<para>To learn more about Cheese, 
+		<ulink url="http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/tour";>take the tour!</ulink></para>
+	 
+
+  </sect2>
+
+	<sect2 id="rnusers.evince">
+		<title>Annotate Your PDFs</title>
+
+		<para>
+			The <application>Evince</application> document viewer has added the ability 
+			to edit and save text annotations that have a popup window associated. 
+			<application>Evince</application> now also recovers documents that were being viewed after a crash.
+		</para>
+
+		<para>Evince has also been ported to and is available for <trademark class="registered">Microsoft Windows</trademark> platforms.
+		</para>
+
+
+	</sect2>
+
+	<sect2 id="rnusers.volume">
+	 <title>Fade In and Out</title>
+
+	 <para>
+	  <application>GNOME Volume Control</application> has added 
+	  the ability for you to control a subwoofer and channel fading.
+	  Also new is when changing settings, changes are now instantly applied.
+	 </para>
+	 
+	 		<figure id="fig.rnusers.volume">
+		 <title>Subwoofer and Fade Support</title>
+		  <screenshot><mediaobject><imageobject>
+			  <imagedata fileref="&urlfiguresbase;rnusers.volume.png" format="PNG"/>
+			</imageobject></mediaobject></screenshot>
+		</figure>
+	</sect2>
+
+
+	<sect2 id="rnusers.cleanup">
+		<title>But Wait, There's Moreâ?¦</title>
+
+		<para>
+		  As well as big changes, there are also
+			various small additions and tweaks that happen in every GNOME release.
+		</para>
+
+		<itemizedlist>
+			<listitem><para>
+			GNOME menus and buttons have been standardized across all applications to not display icons by default.
+			Menu items with dynamic objects, including applications, files or bookmarks, and devices are the exception
+			and can display an icon.  This change will standardize the look and feel of menus and present a cleaner
+			interface to users.	
+			</para></listitem>
+			<listitem><para>
+			  <application>Tomboy Notes</application> has moved the location of stored notes and configuration files to conform 
+			  to Freedesktop.org specifications.
+			</para></listitem>
+			<listitem><para>
+			  <application>GNOME Power Manager</application> now has support for laptops with multiple batteries and has added disk spindown support
+			  for DeviceKit disks.
+			</para></listitem>
+			<listitem><para>
+			  The GTK+ file and lpr print backends support printing multiple pages per sheet.
+			</para></listitem>
+			<listitem><para>
+			Gedit has been ported to <trademark class="registered">Mac OS</trademark> X.
+			</para></listitem>
+			<listitem><para>Text rendering has been improved in Pango using a new OpenType engine, 
+			which uses less memory and has improved support for broken fonts.
+			</para></listitem>
+			<listitem><para>Due to improvements in VTE, <application>GNOME Terminal</application> users will 
+			notice much less memory is used.
+			</para></listitem>
+			<listitem><para><application>Brasero</application>, the GNOME CD/DVD Burner, now supports
+			the ability to burn data across multiple discs and has added a graphical display to show space used
+			on discs before burning.
+			</para></listitem>
+			
+		</itemizedlist>
+
+	</sect2>
+</sect1>
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