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[release-notes/gnome-3-18] general refinements

commit 35bafd38247789aaba2598fba93307fb54215727
Author: Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>
Date:   Tue Sep 15 12:31:32 2015 +0100

    general refinements

 help/C/developers.page |   23 ++++++++++++++--
 help/C/index.page      |   31 +++++++++++-----------
 help/C/more.page       |   66 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 3 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/help/C/developers.page b/help/C/developers.page
index 99ab6d1..1929918 100644
--- a/help/C/developers.page
+++ b/help/C/developers.page
@@ -59,6 +59,21 @@
     <p>GNOME’s Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) have received a major update for &gnomeversion;. Structure 
and navigation have been improved, to make the HIG quicker and easier to use. The guidelines have also been 
updated and expanded, with new patterns on in-app notifications, info bars, OSD controls and empty 
placeholders.</p>
   </section>
 
+  <section id="wayland">
+    <title>Wayland</title>
+    <media type="image" src="figures/wayland.png"/>
+    <p>The journey to full Wayland readiness continues with GNOME 3.18. Significant progress has been made 
in this area, and the GNOME experience on Wayland is increasingly mature. Now is a great time to try GNOME 
with Wayland.</p>
+    <list>
+      <item><p>Hi-DPI support for Wayland applications has landed, including Hi-DPI cursor support
+Copy-Paste and Drag-And-Drop among Wayland applications and between Wayland applications and X applications 
works.</p></item>
+      <item><p>Popup (context menu, tooltip, etc) placement has been fixed in most places (prominently, in 
gnome-terminal).</p></item>
+      <item><p>Several more applications have been fixed to work under Wayland (e.g. 
gnome-system-monitor).</p></item>
+      <item><p>Animated cursors display flicker-free.</p></item>
+      <item><p>GTK's GL support works under Wayland.</p></item>
+      <item><p>Tons of bug-fixes in both the compositor and the toolkit.</p></item>
+    </list>
+  </section>
+
   <section id="xdg-app">
     <title>Sandboxed Applications</title>
     <p>GNOME’s new application sandboxing project aims to enable the creation of secure isolated 
applications, that can be installed on multiple distributions. Major progress on this technology has been 
made during the &gnomeversion; cycle. XDG-App is (the tool which allows runtimes and applications to be 
installed) is now an official freedesktop.org project, with releases in several distributions. Additionally, 
official GNOME runtime and SDK builds are now available at <link 
href="http://sdk.gnome.org/";>sdk.gnome.org</link>.</p>
@@ -82,7 +97,7 @@
       <item><p>Clutter now prefers OpenGL 3.x contexts, if they are available. Otherwise, it will fall back 
to the old legacy OpenGL API.</p></item>
       <item><p>Touchpad gesture events are now supported with the <code>libinput</code> backend; this can be 
used by Clutter-based Wayland compositors, like GNOME Shell.</p></item>
       <item><p>Allows binding <code>GListModel</code> implementations to <code>ClutterActor</code> 
instances, to automatically create actors from objects stored inside models.</p></item>
-      <item><p>Improvements all around with regards to input on X11, Wayland, and GDK.</p></item>
+      <item><p>Numerous improvements with regards to input on X11, Wayland, and GDK, including touchpad 
gestures supported on Wayland, correct touchpad detection on x11, and improved cursor tracking.</p></item>
     </list>
   </section>
 
@@ -91,10 +106,12 @@
     <p>Other improvements for developers in GNOME &gnomeversion; include:</p>
     <list>
       <item><p>gedit now has a minimap, which shows an overview of a file next to the scrollbar.</p></item>
+      <item><p>gitg has a new first run experience, which helps to automatically add repositories in your 
home directory.</p></item>
       <item><p>A new gedit plug-in allows finding text in all files.</p></item>
-      <item><p>gitg improvements — initial state, …</p></item>
       <item><p>Web has a new Web Inspector UI, which includes new features.</p></item>
-      <item><p>New API for UI and Web extensions.</p></item>
+      <item><p>Also in Web, there is are new APIs for UI and Web extensions.</p></item>
+      <item><p>WebKitGTK+ now has API to set the maximum number of web processes per 
WebKitWebContext.</p></item>
+      <item><p><code>gdk-pixbuf</code> now has support for <code>g_autoptr</code>.</p></item>
     </list>
   </section>
 
diff --git a/help/C/index.page b/help/C/index.page
index e233ebc..484ab0f 100644
--- a/help/C/index.page
+++ b/help/C/index.page
@@ -24,18 +24,17 @@
     </license>
   </info>
 
-  <title>Introducing GNOME &gnomeversion;, “Gothenburg”</title>
+  <title>Introducing GNOME &gnomeversion;: Gothenburg</title>
 
   <p>GNOME &gnomeversion; is the latest version of GNOME 3, and is the result of 6 months’ hard work by the 
GNOME community. It contains major new features, as well as numerous smaller improvements and bug fixes. The 
release incorporates &gitcommits; changes, made by approximately &gitauthors; contributors.</p>
 
-<p>&gnomeversion; is code-named “Gothenburg” in recognition of this year’s GUADEC host city. GUADEC is 
GNOME’s main annual conference, and is only possible due to the hard work of local volunteers. Thank you to 
the GNOME Gothenburg team!</p>
+<p>&gnomeversion; has been named “Gothenburg” in recognition of the team who made <link 
href="https://2015.guadec.org/";>this year's GUADEC conference</link> possible. GUADEC is GNOME’s main annual 
conference, and is only possible due to the hard work of local volunteers: we thank you!</p>
 
   <section id="google-drive">
     <title>Google Drive Integration</title>
     <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
-    <p>With GNOME &gnomeversion;, it is now possible to access Google Drive directly from the Files 
application, as well as from file chooser dialogs. To use the feature, simply add your Google through the 
Online Accounts settings, and Google Drive will automatically appear in the files places sidebar.</p>
-    <p>Once set up, Google Drive behaves very similarly to the rest of your files: Google Drive folders can 
be created just like regular folders and, where possible, files are opened using your normal applications 
(otherwise, they are opened in the browser).</p>
-    <p>This new feature makes it really easy to upload files to Google Drive — all you have to do is move or 
copy them across.</p>
+    <p>With GNOME &gnomeversion;, it is now possible to access Google Drive directly from the Files 
application, as well as from file chooser dialogs. To use the feature, simply add your Google account through 
the Online Accounts settings, and Google Drive will automatically appear in the files places sidebar.</p>
+    <p>Once set up, Google Drive behaves very similarly to the rest of your files: Google Drive folders can 
be created just like regular folders; where possible, files are opened using your normal applications 
(otherwise, they are opened in the browser). It is also really easy to upload files to Google Drive — all you 
have to do is move or copy them across.</p>
   </section>
 
   <section id="better-files">
@@ -44,24 +43,24 @@
     <p>The files places sidebar, which is shown in Files and open and save dialogs, has been reworked for 
&gnomeversion;. A new location, called <gui>Other Locations</gui>, has been added, which provides a useful 
overview of local and network locations. Many of these locations are no longer automatically shown in the 
places sidebar, which helps to avoid clutter.</p>
     <p>Long-running operations (such as copying or moving large numbers of files) have also been improved: a 
temporary indicator now provides progress information in the header bar, which shows more detailed 
information when pressed. This allows you to easily see progress on ongoing operations from any Files window, 
and avoids progress windows getting in the way.</p>
 
-    <p>There have been many small improvements to the Files application and to open and save dialogs during 
the &gnomeversion; cycle. Here are some of them:</p>
+    <p>There have also been a huge number of smaller improvements to the files experience during the 
&gnomeversion; cycle. Here are some of them:</p>
     <list>
-      <item><p>Improved folder creation, and improved file and folder renaming. These operations now use 
dialogs and popovers to provide feedback, and a clearer workflow. (This change was introduced following user 
testing results.)</p></item>
-      <item><p>A new search feature has been added to files dialogs, which is activated by just typing and 
is consistent with other GNOME applications.</p></item>
-      <item><p>Improved touch screen compatibility, particularly through context menus.</p></item>
+      <item><p>Improved folder creation as well as improved file and folder renaming. These operations now 
use dialogs and popovers to provide feedback and a clearer workflow. (This change was introduced following 
user testing results.)</p></item>
+      <item><p>A new search feature has been added to files dialogs, which is automatically activated by 
typing, and is consistent with other GNOME applications.</p></item>
+      <item><p>Context menus can now be accessed using a touch screen.</p></item>
       <item><p>When dragging a file or folder, the places sidebar now shows a prominent drop target, in 
order to make it obvious how to create bookmarks through drag and drop. (This change is another response to 
user testing results.)</p></item>
-      <item><p>Information is displayed when a folder is empty, or when no search results are found. This 
helps to prevent uncertainty.</p></item>
+      <item><p>Placeholders are now displayed when folders are empty, or when no search results are 
found.</p></item>
       <item><p>Recursive search is now automatically disabled when searching remote locations, in order to 
prevent performance problems.</p></item>
       <item><p>Recent files lists have been improved, and now show the full location of each file.</p></item>
     </list>
   </section>
 
   <section id="firmware-updates">
-    <title>Firmware Update Capability</title>
+    <title>Firmware Updates</title>
     <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
-    <p>In the past, it has been difficult to update device software (such as your computer’s BIOS) under 
GNOME. Thankfully, this has changed, thanks to a new initiative called the <link 
href="https://beta-lvfs.rhcloud.com/";>Linux Vendor Firmware Service</link>. This aims to make it possible for 
hardware manufacturers to distribute firmware updates for GNU/Linux, and GNOME &gnomeversion; has full 
support.</p>
-    <p>This feature can not only be used to update the device software on your computer, but also for 
removable devices, such as monitors, USB hubs, color colorimeters, and more.</p>
+    <p>In the past, it has been difficult to update device software (such as your computer’s BIOS) under 
GNOME. Now this has changed, thanks to a new initiative called the <link 
href="https://beta-lvfs.rhcloud.com/";>Linux Vendor Firmware Service</link>. This aims to make it possible for 
hardware manufacturers to distribute firmware updates for GNU/Linux, and GNOME &gnomeversion; has full 
support.</p>
     <p>Using the Linux Vendor Firmware Service is easy with GNOME &gnomeversion;: if an update is provided 
for your device’s hardware, Software will automatically make it available to install the same way as other 
software updates.</p>
+    <p>This feature can also be used to update the device software on removable devices, such as monitors, 
USB hubs and color colorimeters.</p>
   </section>
 
   <section id="calendar">
@@ -74,14 +73,14 @@
   <section id="automatic-screen-brightness">
     <title>Automatic Screen Brightness</title>
     <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
-    <p>If your computer has an integrated light sensor, GNOME 3 is now able to use it to automatically 
control screen brightness. Not only does this ensure that the screen always easy to see, but it also helps to 
reduce battery consumption. An option is provided to disable automatic screen brightness in the 
<gui>Power</gui> settings, should you want to turn it off.</p>
+    <p>If your computer has an integrated light sensor, GNOME 3 is now able to use it to automatically 
control screen brightness. Not only does this ensure that the screen is always easy to see, but it also helps 
to reduce battery consumption. An option is provided to disable automatic screen brightness in the 
<gui>Power</gui> settings, should you want to turn it off.</p>
   </section>
 
   <section id="characters">
     <title>New Characters Application</title>
     <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
-    <p>Characters is another new application that is being introduced in GNOME &gnomeversion;. It provides 
an easy way to find and use unusual characters in your documents and communications, such as punctuation 
marks, bullets, currency and mathematical symbols.</p>
-    <p>Characters makes it easy to find interesting characters through simple category-based browsing. It 
also saves characters that you have used, to make it quick and easy to use them again in the future. Other 
features include search, which can be accessed from the Activities Overview, filtering by font, and a section 
which shows locale-specific characters that are relevant to the user’s input method settings.</p>
+    <p>Characters is another new application that is being introduced in GNOME &gnomeversion;. It provides 
an easy way to find and use a variety of characters in your documents and communications, such as punctuation 
marks, bullets, currency and mathematical symbols.</p>
+    <p>Characters makes it easy to find interesting characters through different categories of characters. 
It also remembers which characters you have used in the past, in order to make it quick and easy to use them 
again. Other features include search, which can be accessed from the Activities Overview, filtering by font, 
and a section which shows locale-specific characters that are relevant to your input method settings.</p>
   </section>
 
   <section id="more">
diff --git a/help/C/more.page b/help/C/more.page
index cf60d97..7d96b30 100644
--- a/help/C/more.page
+++ b/help/C/more.page
@@ -24,35 +24,21 @@
 
   <title>Other Features in GNOME &gnomeversion;</title>
 
-  <p>GNOME &gnomeversion; includes many other new features and improvements. Here are some of them.</p>
+  <p>GNOME &gnomeversion; includes many other new features and improvements:</p>
 
   <section id="touchpad-gestures">
     <title>Multitouch Touchpad Gestures</title>
     <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
     <p>Multitouch gestures, such as pinch to zoom or rotate, were first introduced in GNOME 3.14. However, 
it has only been possible to use them with a touchscreen. Now, in &gnomeversion;, these gestures can also be 
used touchpads.</p>
-    <p>Possible gestures include using two fingers to zoom or rotate in the image and document viewer 
applications. It is also possible to switch workspace using four-finger vertical drags. Additional gestures 
are planned for the future.</p>
+    <p>Available gestures include using two fingers to zoom or rotate in the image and document viewer 
applications. It is also possible to switch workspace using four-finger vertical drags. Additional gestures 
are planned for the future.</p>
     <p>Note that this feature is only available under Wayland.</p>
   </section>
 
-  <section id="touch-improvements">
-    <title>Touch Improvements</title>
-    <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
-    <p>The ability to select, cut, copy and paste text using a touchscreen has been dramatically improved in 
&gnomeversion;. The handles used to adjust text selections have been made bigger and their look has been 
improved, and new popovers provide convenient access to actions, like cut, copy and paste. The overall 
behavior of interacting with text has been improved, too.</p>
-  </section>
-
   <section id="polari">
     <title>A Better Polari</title>
     <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
     <p>Polari, GNOME’s IRC application, has had a number of refinements for &gnomeversion;. Paste service 
integration has been added, so that it is easy to share large blocks of text. To use this feature, simply 
paste the text you want to share into the chat entry box, and Polari will paste it online and send a link to 
the current channel.</p>
-    <p>Other improvements include a better first run experience, which now guides users through the process 
of creating connections and improved feedback for connection errors, as well as many bug fixes and visual 
enhancements.</p>
-  </section>
-
-  <section id="scrolling">
-    <title>Refined Scrolling</title>
-    <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
-    <p>Scrolling has been a particular focus for &gnomeversion;. If kinetic scrolling (where scroll movement 
has inertia, and feels physical) has not worked with your touchpad recently, this issue has now been resolved 
(thanks to kinetic scrolling now being handled by GTK+ itself).</p>
-    <p>A new auto-scroll feature has been added, which gradually scrolls the view in one direction. To 
activate this, press the scrollbar with the secondary mouse or touchpad button (this is the right button by 
default).</p>
-    <p>Scrolling by one page at a time is still supported. To do this, hold the <key>Shift</key> and 
clicking with the primary button jumps towards the location, one page at a time.</p>
+    <p>Other improvements include a better first run experience, which now guides users through the process 
of creating connections, improved feedback for connection errors, and better indicators for new messages.</p>
   </section>
 
   <section id="boxes">
@@ -60,42 +46,54 @@
     <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
     <p>Boxes is the GNOME application for using virtual and remote machines. For &gnomeversion;, it has been 
made more powerful, with a range of improvements:</p>
     <list>
-      <item><p>A new list view lets you get an overview when you have a lot of boxes, and is particularly 
suited to working with servers.</p></item>
-      <item><p>It is now possible to filter the main view of boxes, to only show either remote or 
local.</p></item>
-      <item><p>The IP address of boxes is now shown below their thumbnail: useful for accessing them from 
the command line, or for differentiating between lots of boxes.</p></item>
+      <item><p>A new list view lets you get an overview when you have a lot of boxes, and shows more details 
about each box. It is particularly suited to working with servers.</p></item>
+      <item><p>It is now possible to filter the main view in order to only show remote or local 
boxes.</p></item>
+      <item><p>The IP address of boxes is now shown beneath their thumbnail: this is useful for accessing 
them from the command line, or for differentiating between lots of boxes.</p></item>
       <item><p>Express installation is now available for Fedora 21 and newer.</p></item>
       <item><p>Force shutdown and restart actions are now easier to access.</p></item>
-      <item><p>Normally, boxes are automatically paused when they are not in use. A new option makes it 
possible to force a box to always run, even when it is not in use. This is particularly useful if the box is 
a server.</p></item>
+      <item><p>A new option makes it possible to force a box to keep running, even when it is not in use. 
This is particularly useful if the box is a server.</p></item>
       <item><p>Express installation is now supported for Fedora 21 and newer.</p></item>
     </list>
   </section>
 
-  <section id="preview-apps">
-    <title>Preview Applications</title>
+  <section id="touch-improvements">
+    <title>Touch Improvements</title>
     <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
-    <p>To Do and News are two new applications that are being released for the first time in &gnomeversion;, 
as technical previews. To Do is a simple personal task manager. Tasks can be scheduled, and the 
<gui>Today</gui> view shows what you should be doing next. It is also possible to group tasks, give them 
color codes, and notes and priorities. These can be organized into lists that can be color coded.</p>
-    <p>News is a feed reader, designed to be consistent with GNOME 3 applications, and to provide a 
clutter-free reading experience.</p>
+    <p>The ability to select, cut, copy and paste text using a touchscreen has been dramatically improved in 
&gnomeversion;. The handles used to adjust text selections have been made bigger and their look has been 
improved, and new popovers provide convenient access to actions, like cut, copy and paste. The overall 
behavior of interacting with text has been improved, too.</p>
+  </section>
+
+  <section id="scrolling">
+    <title>Refined Scrolling</title>
+    <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
+    <p>Scrolling has been a particular focus for &gnomeversion;. If kinetic scrolling (where scroll movement 
has inertia and feels physical) has not worked with your touchpad recently, this issue has now been resolved 
(thanks to kinetic scrolling now being handled by GTK+ itself).</p>
+    <p>A new auto-scroll feature has also been added, which gradually scrolls the view in one direction. To 
activate this, press the scrollbar trough with the secondary mouse or touchpad button (this is the right 
button by default). This change has required that other scroll actions have been reorganized. To scrolling by 
one page at a time, hold <key>Shift</key> and click with the primary button.</p>
+  </section>
+
+  <section id="To Do">
+    <title>To Do</title>
+    <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
+    <p>To Do is a new application that is being released as a technical preview in GNOME &gnomeversion;. It 
is a simple personal task manager: Tasks can be scheduled, and the <gui>Today</gui> view shows what you 
should be doing next. It is also possible to group tasks, give them color codes, and notes and priorities. 
These can be organized into lists that can be color coded.</p>
   </section>
 
   <section id="more">
     <title>Smaller Things</title>
     <p>As usual, there are many other smaller improvements in this GNOME release. Here are some of them:</p>
     <list>
-      <item><p>The system status menu (accessed from the top right corner of the screen) has been refined. 
With a simpler organization, it is smaller and easier to read.</p></item>
-      <item><p>The layout of the Logs application has been improved, to be more efficient and easier to 
read. It is also possible to select which boot to view.</p></item>
-      <item><p>Web, the GNOME browser, has got faster.</p></item>
-      <item><p>Bluetooth sharing settings have been merged into the main Bluetooth settings, to make the 
function easier to find. Various other improvements have been made to the Bluetooth settings, including 
handling airplane mode better, and giving better feedback when no Bluetooth device is available.</p></item>
-      <item><p>With &gnomeversion;, the screen will not automatically lock when you are watching fullscreen 
videos with Web.</p></item>
+      <item><p>The system status menu (located in the top right corner of the screen) has been refined. With 
a simpler organization, it is now smaller and easier to read.</p></item>
+      <item><p>Web, the GNOME browser, has got faster. The quality of displayed images has also 
improved.</p></item>
+      <item><p>Bluetooth sharing has been merged into the main Bluetooth settings, so it is easier to find. 
Various other improvements have been made to the Bluetooth settings, including handling airplane mode better, 
and giving better feedback when no Bluetooth devices are available.</p></item>
+      <item><p>The layout of the Logs application has been improved, so that it is more efficient and easier 
to read. It is also possible to select which boot to view.</p></item>
+      <item><p>The screen will no longer automatically lock when you are watching a fullscreen video in 
Web.</p></item>
       <item><p>The animation on progress spinners has been made super smooth.</p></item>
-      <item><p>In the Documents application, the collections dialog has been greatly improved.</p></item>
-      <item><p>Annotations have received a number of important improvements in Evince, the document viewer: 
highlight annotations have been introduced, annotations can now be moved, and the general annotations 
interface has been refined.</p></item>
+      <item><p>The collections dialog has been greatly improved in Documents, with a better layout and 
easier collection renaming and deletion.</p></item>
+      <item><p>Evince, the document viewer, can now display inline multimedia, such as video and 
audio.</p></item>
+      <item><p>In Evince, the interface for annotations has also been much improved. Annotations can now 
also be moved, and highlight annotations have been introduced.</p></item>
       <item><p>System modal dialogs have been restyled, so that they match the other dialog windows in 
GNOME.</p></item>
       <item><p>Web’s built-in PDF viewer now has a search function.</p></item>
       <item><p>Maps now is now able to indicate your direction as well as location. It is also possible to 
enter latitude/longitude coordinates or a geoURI.</p></item>
+      <item><p>And, as usual, the new release includes lots of bug fixes!</p></item>
     </list>
 
-  <p>There are many other improvements in &gnomeversion;, including bug fixes and other minor 
improvements.</p>
-
   </section>
 
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