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[release-notes/gnome-3-14] first rough draft

commit bbf26b93edcfca944e7e68023c67d6c2b1c493ad
Author: Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>
Date:   Wed Sep 10 14:36:14 2014 +0100

    first rough draft

 help/C/{more-apps.page => apps.page} |   43 +++++++++++++--------------
 help/C/developers.page               |   54 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 help/C/i18n.page                     |    2 +-
 help/C/index.page                    |   19 ++++++++----
 help/C/more-core-ux.page             |   39 ------------------------
 5 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/help/C/more-apps.page b/help/C/apps.page
similarity index 72%
rename from help/C/more-apps.page
rename to help/C/apps.page
index 6821349..3763f74 100644
--- a/help/C/more-apps.page
+++ b/help/C/apps.page
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@
       xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its";
       xmlns:e="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/";
       type="topic"
-      id="more-apps">
+      id="apps">
 
   <info>
-    <link type="guide" xref="index#more" group="second"/>
+    <link type="guide" xref="index#more" group="first"/>
     <desc>Learn about the improvements to GNOME's applications for 3.14</desc>
     <credit type="author">
       <name its:translate="no">Allan Day</name>
@@ -22,14 +22,14 @@
     </license>
   </info>
 
-  <title>New and Updated Applications</title>
+  <title>Application Updates</title>
 
-  <p>Other applications have had major updates for 3.14, and this release also includes a set of new preview 
applications. Additionally, there are many smaller bug fixes and enhancements to GNOME applications in the 
release.</p>
+  <p>GNOME's applications have had major updates for 3.14, along with many smaller bug fixes and 
enhancements.</p>
 
-  <section id="games">
-    <title>New-Look Games</title>
+  <section id="weather">
+    <title>Weather, Redesigned</title>
     <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
-<p>GNOME's games have continued to modernize for this release. <app>Mines</app> and <app>Sudoku</app> have 
both been redesigned, and have new graphics and improved user interfaces. A new game has also been introded 
for &gnomeversion;. Called <app>Hitori</app>, this is a number-based puzzle game, similar to Sudoku.</p>
+<p>GNOME's stock weather app has been redesigned for &gnomeversion;. The new version makes use of GNOME's 
new geolocation framework, to automatically show you the weather for your current location. A new layout 
provides an effective way to read weather forecasts, and there are plans to add more information to these in 
future releases.</p>
   </section>
 
   <section id="software">
@@ -54,40 +54,39 @@
 <p>This version of Boxes includes many other smaller improvements, such as the abitily to run multiple boxes 
in their own separate windows, express installation for Debian, user interface improvements, and new keyboard 
shortcuts.</p>
   </section>
 
+  <section id="games">
+    <title>New-Look Games</title>
+    <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
+<p>GNOME's games have continued to modernize for this release. <app>Mines</app> and <app>Sudoku</app> have 
both been redesigned, and have new graphics and improved user interfaces. A new game has also been introded 
for &gnomeversion;. Called <app>Hitori</app>, this is a number-based puzzle game, similar to Sudoku.</p>
+  </section>
+
   <section id="yelp">
     <title>Modern Help</title>
     <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
 <p><app>Help</app>, the GNOME documentation browser, had a major update for &gnomeversion;. Redesigned to 
follow modern design guidelines, it is now much more compact. The new application uses a header bar to save 
space, has an integrated search function, a modern, overlaid find box, and a new bookmarking interface. 
Together, these make for a more modern and efficient experience.</p>
    </section>
 
-  <section id="evince">
+<section id="evince">
     <title>Evince</title>
     <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
-<p>&gnomeversion; includes a redesigned Evince. Following the header bar trend, the new version of the 
document viewer uses gives more space to your documents.</p>
-  </section>
-
-  <section id="music">
-    <title>Music</title>
-    <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
-Global search
-Remote sources support
-Playlists support
+    <p>&gnomeversion; includes a redesigned <app>Evince</app>.The new version of the document viewer 
incorporates a header bar, to give more space to your documents. When it is launched without a document being 
specified, <app>Evince</app> will also show a useful overview of your recent documents.</p>
+    <p>The latest <app>Evince</app> version also includes improved annotations functionality, 
high-resolution display support, and enhanced accessibility.</p>
   </section>
 
   <section id="maps">
-    <title>Maps</title>
+    <title>Routing</title>
     <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
-Added route planning, including via points, using the open source GraphHopper interface
-Switched to GtkPopover for markers
-Initial support for touch through libchamplain
+<p><app>Maps</app> has a new route planning feature for &gnomeversion;. Implemented using the open source 
<link href="https://graphhopper.com/";>GraphHopper</link>. This allows you to plan journeys by foot, bicycle 
or car. It is possible to add points along your desired route, and the route is displayed as a simple set of 
instructions.</p>
   </section>
 
-  <section id="apps-more">
+  <section id="more-other">
     <title>Other Application Improvements</title>
 <p><app>Contacts</app> has received a batch of user interface improvements. Contact creation now happens 
in-line, rather than in a dialog, and the setup assistant has been improved. Many dialogs have also been 
refined to match GNOME 3 design guidelines.</p>
 
 <p>Gedit includes a collection of improvements in &gnomeversion;. Opening documents has been improved in 
<app>gedit</app> &gnomeversion; with a new popover, which allows you to quickly search recent documents. 
<app>gedit</app> includes a collection of other smaller improvments, including a new header bar menu and new 
and updated keyboard shortcuts and mnemonics.</p>
 
+<p>Music has gained a powerful new search feature, which allows you to search either your local music 
collection or online sources, such as <link href="http://magnatune.com/";>Mangatune</link> and Jamendo. With 
3.14, it is also possible to create your own music playlists.</p>
+
 </section>
 
 </page>
diff --git a/help/C/developers.page b/help/C/developers.page
index e66071c..ea9fb5b 100644
--- a/help/C/developers.page
+++ b/help/C/developers.page
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
       id="developers">
 
   <info>
-    <link type="guide" xref="index#more" group="fourth"/>
+    <link type="guide" xref="index#more" group="third"/>
     <desc>New features for those working with GNOME technologies</desc>
     <credit type="author">
       <name its:translate="no">Allan Day</name>
@@ -26,42 +26,62 @@
 
   <section id="gtk-inspector">
     <title>GTK+ Inspector</title>
+    <p>With 3.14 GTK+ includes an exciting new interactive inspector. This allows live examination of a 
running GTK+ application, with interactive selection of widgets and interface elements. Properties and CSS 
can be viewed and edited live. GTK+ Inspector also provides access to testing and inspection settings, such 
as touch screen emulation, window scaling, theme and font settings, text direction and more.</p>
+    <p>GTK+ Inspector is an incredibly useful development and testing tool. It can be invoked anywhere, with 
the <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>Shift</key><key>I</key></keyseq> keyboard combination.</p>
+  </section>
+
+  <section id="themeable-icons-and-assets">
+    <title>Themable Icons and Assets</title>
+    <p>GTK+'s CSS support has continued to expand with 3.14, and now features closer integration with icon 
themes and SVG assets. Icons from the icon theme can be called directly from CSS, and SVG assets can be used 
to style spinners, arrows, checkmarks, radiomarks and expanders. This can be used to integrate a GTK+ theme 
with an icon theme for a consistent look and feel.</p>
+    <p>SVG icons and assets can also be manipulated through CSS. Symbolic icons can be recolored, and can 
have shadows and animations applied. A theme can also specify when and where regular or symbolic (monotone) 
icon variants should be used.</p>
+    <p>More details can be found in <link 
href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2014-May/msg00020.html";>Benjamin Otte's post</link> on 
the subject.</p>
   </section>
 
   <section id="adwaita">
     <title>New Default GTK+ Theme</title>
+    <p>From 3.14, the old Raleigh default GTK+ theme has been replaced by GNOME's Adwaita theme. This 
ensures that GTK+ has an attractive, complete, and up-to-date default theme for all platforms. Adwaita 
utilises all the latest GTK+ CSS features, and supports all of GTK+'s new widgets.</p>
+    <p>To support this move, Adwaita has been rewritten from the ground up for 3.14. The new version is more 
compact, maintainable and flexible, and makes use of more CSS features, such as animations.</p>
   </section>
 
   <section id="gestures">
     <title>Gestures</title>
+    <p>GTK+ now includes support for gesture interaction. With 3.14, the majority of common multitouch 
gestures are available for use in GTK+ applications, such as drag, swipe, pinch and rotate.</p>
   </section>
 
   <section id="hig">
     <title>Human Interface Guidelines</title>
+    <p>GNOME 3.14 includes a new and updated set of Human Interface Guidelines. These provide thorough 
design advice and guidelines for the latest GTK+,  enabling developers and designers to make the most of 
GTK+. The HIG includes guidelines on layout, writing style, icons, typography and input. It also incorporates 
a collection of design patterns, which you can use to construct a fully-featured application design, and 
design notes on the various GTK+ widgets.</p>
+    <p>The new version of the HIG includes general guidance for GTK+ users, as well as information on 
creating GNOME 3 style applications.</p>
+  </section>
+
+  <section id="wayland">
+    <title>Wayland Progress</title>
+    <p>A huge amount of progress has been made on the road to full Wayland adoption. Stability has been 
greatly improved over the 3.14 cycle, and a large number of bugs have been fixed in the process. Several 
pieces of missing functionality have also been added. New features include keyboard configuration, touch 
screen support, drag and drop support, functionaly context menus, tooltips and comboboxes, high-resolution 
display support, and window move/resize.</p>
   </section>
 
   <section id="gtk-more">
     <title>Other GTK+</title>
-Automatic loading of menus from resources
-Multi-selection support in GtkListBox
-Horizontal sections in popover menus
-Property bindings in GtkBuilder files
-Support for drawing outside a widgets allocation, see gtk_widget_set_clip()
-New transition types in GtkStack
-Adwaita is the default theme on all platforms
-GtkSourceView - new feature: file loading and saving 
+    <p>GTK+ 3.14 includes an assortment of other improvements and bug fixes. This includes:</p>
+    <list>
+      <item><p>Automatic loading of menus from resources.</p></item>
+      <item><p>Multi-selection support in GtkListBox.</p></item>
+      <item><p>Horizontal sections in popover menus.</p></item>
+      <item><p>Property bindings in GtkBuilder files.</p></item>
+      <item><p>Support for drawing outside a widget's allocation, see 
<code>gtk_widget_set_clip()</code>.</p></item>
+      <item><p>New transition types in GtkStack.</p></item>
+      <item><p>GtkSourceView - new feature: file loading and saving.</p></item>
+    </list>
   </section>
 
   <section id="glib">
     <title>GLib</title>
-Support for new mimeapps spec
-SHA-512 support in GHmac
-Support for Implements in desktop files, see g_desktop_app_info_get_implementations()
-Unicode 7.0 support
-  </section>
-
-  <section id="wayland">
-    <title>Wayland Available for Testing</title>
+    <p>GLib 3.14 includes:</p>
+    <list>
+      <item><p>Support for new mimeapps spec.</p></item>
+      <item><p>SHA-512 support in GHmac.</p></item>
+      <item><p>Support for Implements in desktop files, see 
<code>g_desktop_app_info_get_implementations()</code>.</p></item>
+      <item><p>Unicode 7.0 support.</p></item>
+    </list>
   </section>
 
 </page>
diff --git a/help/C/i18n.page b/help/C/i18n.page
index 88fad4b..978b948 100644
--- a/help/C/i18n.page
+++ b/help/C/i18n.page
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
       id="i18n">
 
   <info>
-    <link type="guide" xref="index#more" group="third"/>
+    <link type="guide" xref="index#more" group="second"/>
     <desc>Learn about the different languages in which GNOME 3.14 is available</desc>
     <credit type="author">
       <name its:translate="no">Allan Day</name>
diff --git a/help/C/index.page b/help/C/index.page
index 46996ca..6ec9e99 100644
--- a/help/C/index.page
+++ b/help/C/index.page
@@ -35,13 +35,13 @@
   </section>
 
   <section id="animations">
-    <title>Improved Animations</title>
+    <title>New Animations</title>
     <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
 <p>Slick new animations have been added for this release, creating a more engaging and smooth experience. 
The new transitions are prominent in the Activities Overview, when viewing application launchers and 
application folders. Window animations have also been improved for this release, with new transitions when 
opening, closing, and minimizing windows.</p>
   </section>
 
-  <section id="captive-portal-support">
-    <title>Captive Portal Support</title>
+  <section id="captive-portals">
+    <title>Captive Portal Handling</title>
     <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
 <p>GNOME &gnomeversion; comes with improved support for Wi-Fi hotspots. When connecting to a Wi-Fi portal 
that requires authentication, GNOME will now automatically show the login page as a part of the connection 
process. This ensures that you always know when you are connected, and helps you to get set up as quickly as 
possible.</p>
   </section>
@@ -52,10 +52,17 @@
 <p>A huge amount of attention to detail has gone into GNOME &gnomeversion;. The visual theme used by 
applications has been overhauled from the ground up, with many subtle improvements. Switches have a different 
appearance, have improved animations, and can be slid from one side to another. Progress bars have a new, 
more compact appearance. Spinners have a new design, and menus have an improvemd appearance.</p>
   </section>
 
-  <section id="weather">
-    <title>Weather, Redesigned</title>
+  <section id="network-based-sharing">
+    <title>Network-Based Sharing</title>
     <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
-<p>GNOME's stock weather app has been redesigned for &gnomeversion;. The new version makes use of GNOME's 
new geolocation framework, to automatically show you the weather for your current location. A new layout 
provides an effective way to read weather forecasts, and there are plans to add more information to these in 
future releases.</p>
+    <p><gui>Personal File Sharing</gui> (WedDAV), <gui>Media Sharing</gui> (DLNA) and <gui>Screen 
Sharing</gui> (VNC) will now remember which network you want them to active on, and <app>Settings</app> 
provides the ability to control which networks to share on. This provides an important privacy function, and 
prevents sharing content and services in public places (such as your local internet cafe).</p>
+  </section>
+
+  <section id="core-more">
+    <title>Other Improvements</title>
+    <p>Other improvements to the core UX include.</p>
+    <p>Multimonitor improvements.</p>
+    <p>Calculator and Clocks include search providers now.</p>
   </section>
 
   <section id="more">
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