[release-notes/gnome-3-20] developers - elaborate and refine the list of other improvements

[Allan Day <allanday src gnome org>]

commit 86d8fa34ad11d19c04dd2568df88b410d42f9909
Author: Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>
Date:   Mon Mar 14 18:41:26 2016 +0000

    developers - elaborate and refine the list of other improvements

 help/C/developers.page |   44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/help/C/developers.page b/help/C/developers.page
index 536c36e..c63e258 100644
--- a/help/C/developers.page
+++ b/help/C/developers.page
@@ -89,8 +89,9 @@
     being released for the first time.</p>
     <p>The 3.20 release of xdg-app includes tools for building and running
     bundled applications. A new build tool called xdg-app-builder makes it
-    easy to build apps. Alex Larsson, xdg-app's lead developer, has written a
-    five part tutorial on building apps (<link 
href="https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2016/02/19/building-an-xdg-app-part-1/";>part one</link>,
+    easy to build apps. Alexander Larsson, xdg-app's lead developer, has
+    written a five part tutorial on building apps
+    (<link href="https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2016/02/19/building-an-xdg-app-part-1/";>part one</link>,
     <link href="https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2016/02/19/building-an-xdg-app-part-2/";>part two</link>,
     <link href="https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2016/02/22/building-an-xdg-app-part-3/";>part three</link>,
     <link href="https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2016/02/23/building-an-xdg-app-part-4/";>part four</link>,
@@ -161,6 +162,12 @@
       query GTK+ settings that your application would see.</p></item>
       <item><p><code>gtk-builder-tool</code> has a new preview command for
       viewing .ui files.</p></item>
+     <item><p>3.20 sees the first release of <link
+      href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gspell";>gspell</link>, a new
+      spell-checking library for GTK+ applications. It is the best library of
+      its type for GTK+, and makes it easy to add spell checking to
+      <code>GtkTextView</code>. gspell already being used in gedit for 3.20.</p>
+      </item>
       <item><p><code>gtk3-demo</code> now has a <gui>foreign drawing</gui> demo
       that shows how to style non-GTK+ widgets with a GTK+ CSS visual theme.</p>
       </item>
@@ -223,17 +230,28 @@
     <title>Other Improvements</title>
     <p>Other improvements for developers in GNOME &gnomeversion; include:</p>
     <list>
-      <item><p>glib - supported has been added for DTLS (Datagram TLS) to
-      enable encrypted streaming media.</p></item>
-      <item><p>overflow-checked integer operations help make it easier to write
-      safe code.</p></item>
-      <item><p>gspell - gspell, a new spell-checking library for GTK+
-      applications. Used by gedit.</p></item>
-      <item><p>gjs - json-glib, gom and GtkBuilder can now be used from gjs (
-      see this bug for details).</p></item>
-      <item><p>Tracker - Much improved SPARQL 1.1 syntax support (Update and
-      Query) (Better developer docs to be written before release).</p></item>
-<!-- gitg got a restyled repository list. check on this -->
+      <item><p>In GLib, support has been added for DTLS (Datagram TLS), in
+      order to enable encrypted streaming media.</p></item>
+      <item><p>Also in GLib, new helpers for overflow-checked integer
+      operations help make it easier to write safe code.</p></item>
+      <item><p><link href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/JsonGlib";>
+      JSON-GLib</link>,
+      <link href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Gom";>Gom</link> and
+      <link href="https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkBuilder.html";>
+      GtkBuilder</link> can now be used from
+      <link href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Gjs";>Gjs</link>.</p></item>
+      <item><p><link href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker";>Tracker
+      </link> has much improved SPARQL 1.1 syntax (see the <link
+      href="http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/";>query language</link> and
+      <link href="http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-update/";>update language</link>
+      specifications) support. <code>DELETE {...}</code>,
+      <code>INSERT {...}</code> and <code>WHERE {...}</code> syntax is now
+      supported, <code>BIND</code> can also be used, and many SPARQL 1.1
+      builtin functions have been added.</p></item>
+      <item><p>gitg, GNOME's graphical Git client, got a restyled repositories
+      list. Commit previews and diffs have also been improved, with new styling
+      and integration with system themes (so they integrate with the standard
+      dark theme).</p></item>
     </list>
   </section>