[release-notes/gnome-3-12] write up the apps page

[Allan Day <allanday src gnome org>]

commit 054cb228d74be1b060612b108d7087cd4dab6457
Author: Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>
Date:   Thu Mar 13 13:39:07 2014 +0000

    write up the apps page

 help/C/more-apps.page |   31 +++++++++++++++----------------
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/help/C/more-apps.page b/help/C/more-apps.page
index 911ee74..a48a010 100644
--- a/help/C/more-apps.page
+++ b/help/C/more-apps.page
@@ -24,19 +24,20 @@
 
   <title>New and Updated Applications</title>
 
-  <p>GNOME &gnomeversion; includes a number of new applications. Many existing applications have also been 
improved.</p>
+  <p>Many bug fixes and small improvements to applications. In addition, there are also a number of major 
updates and a collection of new preview applications.</p>
 
   <section id="gedit">
     <title>New Look gedit</title>
     <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
-    <p>Updated look to use GNOME 3 designs. Cleaner and better looking, with less chrome and more 
content.</p>
-    <p>Header bar, new tabs, gear menu, popovers, updated sidebar design. New shortcuts for opening the last 
closed tab with Ctrl+Shift+T and for changing case.</p>
+    <p>The <app>gedit</app> text editor has had a major update this release. Sporting a new GNOME 3 style 
design, the application now uses a header bar and gear menu, which results in a more compact and focused 
interface. Many other aspects of the application have had design updates, including the sidebar and the use 
of popovers for selecting the document format and tab width.</p>
+    <p>Other notable improvements include new shortcuts for opening the last closed tab with 
<keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>Shift</key><key>T</key></keyseq> and for changing case.</p>
   </section>
 
   <section id="web">
     <title>Upgrade Your Web</title>
     <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
-    <p>Long list of user interface improvements, including a new page title and URL interface, an improved 
Most Visited page, better window style for incognito mode, a range of improvements to the downloads 
experience, and improved dialogs and error screens.</p>
+    <p><app>Web</app>, the GNOME web browser, also features a long list of interface improvements for 3.12. 
It has a new address bar design, which keeps the header bar clean and informative, a new style for incognito 
windows, better downloading behaviour, an updated Most Visited page (which let's you jump to the sites you 
visit most often), redesigned cookies and passwords dialogs and nicer error pages.</p>
+    <p>The new version also includes a number of significant performance improvements, including faster 
start up times, and improvements to page loading times.</p>
   </section>
 
   <section id="new-apps">
@@ -48,27 +49,25 @@
   <section id="games">
     <title>Games Update Pack</title>
     <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
-    <p>Chess, Five or More, Four-in-a-row, Iagno, Mahjongg, Mines, Quadrapassel, Swell Foop, Tetravex, and 
Tali enjoy modernized window layouts.</p>
-    <p>Four-in-a-row has a new theme, using art from the Faenza icon theme.</p>
-    <p>The computer player in Chess is now much easier to play against when using the GNU Chess engine.</p>
-    <p>The computer player in Iagno and Chess now moves slower, to give the player more time to think.</p>
-    <p>Lights Off and Quadrapassel now use the dark theme.</p>
+    <p>GNOME's games have had an upgrade for 3.12. A total of 10 games have new modernized window layouts 
(this includes <app>Chess</app>, <app>Five or More</app>, <app>Four-in-a-row</app>, <app>Iagno</app>, 
<app>Mahjongg</app>, <app>Mines</app>, <app>Quadrapassel</app>, <app>Swell Foop</app>, <app>Tetravex</app>, 
and <app>Tali</app>). enjoy modernized window layouts. <app>Lights Off</app> and <app>Quadrapassel</app> now 
use the dark window theme to match their visual styles, and <app>Four-in-a-row</app> has a new theme, using 
art from the Faenza icon set.</p>
+    <p><app>Chess</app> and <app>Iagno</app> have improved game logic for this release. In both games the 
computer player moves slower to give the game a more natural pace, and the computer player in 
<app>Chess</app> is now much easier to play against when using the GNU Chess engine.</p>
   </section>
 
   <section id="photos">
     <title>Photos Update</title>
-    <p>Faster more complete Photos application. Now includes a search facility, and you can search your 
photos from the system search. Facebook integration. Automatic albums for screenshots.</p>
-    <p>Performance improvements for cases where you add an online account with 1000s of items.</p>
+    <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
+    <p>Search has been added to <app>Photos</app> for 3.12, which includes the ability to search for photos 
from the <gui>Activities Overview</gui>. It also has <app>Facebook</app> integration, which allows you to 
view your Facebook photos directly from the app. Screenshot handling has also been improved: screenshots are 
now automatically sorted into a special album.</p>
+    <p>Finally, performance has been improved, so that photos are loaded much faster when you have a large 
collection.</p>
   </section>
 
   <section id="apps-more">
     <title>Other Application Improvements</title>
     <list>
-      <item><p>Notes - ability to open notes in a new window. A trash bin has been added to prevent you from 
accidentally deleting important notes.</p></item>
-      <item><p>Terminal - line wrapping, shell search provider, setting to use the dark theme. The popular 
Solarized palette has been added to the color options.</p></item>
-      <item><p>Music - new playlists feature.</p></item>
-      <item><p>Boxes - networking improvements bring faster connection speeds and the ability for inter-box 
and box-host communication; option to import existing boxes from the host system, more reliable and smooth UI 
transitions, automatic detection of additional operating system types and versions.</p></item>
-      <item><p>Maps - smoother panning between map locations; search will autocomplete previous searches; 
better minimum zoom level.</p></item>
+      <item><p><app>Notes</app> has a new option to open notes in a new window, and a trash bin has been 
added to prevent you from accidentally deleting notes.</p></item>
+      <item><p>The <app>Terminal</app> has a collection of new features. It now automatically wraps lines 
(there is a setting to configure this behaviour), and the new version includes a setting to use the dark 
visual theme for <app>Terminal</app> windows as well as the popular <link 
href="http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized";>Solarized</link> color palette. Last but not least, it is now 
possible to search for terminals from the <gui>Activities Overview</gui>: searching for a command or 
locations will display open terminals and allow you to quickly switch to them.</p></item>
+      <item><p>You can now create playlists in <app>Music</app>.</p></item>
+      <item><p><app>Boxes</app> has received networking improvements, which result in faster connection 
speeds and the ability for communication between boxes and between boxes and the host. There is now the 
option to import existing boxes from the host system and box installation has been improved: operating system 
detection has been extended to cover additional OS types and versions. Finally, many of the UI transitions 
are now smoother and more effective.</p></item>
+      <item><p>For 3.12, panning between locations is smoother in <app>Maps</app>. Search will autocomplete 
previous searches, and there is a better minimum zoom level.</p></item>
     </list>
   </section>