[release-notes/gnome-3-24] refine the index page
- From: Allan Day <allanday src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [release-notes/gnome-3-24] refine the index page
- Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 15:53:39 +0000 (UTC)
commit f5508efa7fb37332777e8c410e6ea098ed7d99e2
Author: Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>
Date: Sat Mar 11 11:43:55 2017 +0000
refine the index page
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contributors.</p>
<p>&gnomeversion; has been named “Portland” in recognition of last year’s
- <link href="https://las.gnome.org/";>LAS GNOME Summit</link>, held in
+ <link href="https://las.gnome.org/";>LAS GNOME Summit</link>, which was held in
Portland, Oregon. GNOME’s events are only possible due to the amazing work of
local volunteers. This new event was the first of its kind, and brought
- together community members and partners on the US West Coast.</p>
+ together community members and partners on the US West Coast. Thank you,
+ team LAS!</p>
<section id="night-light">
<title>Sleep Easier with Night Light</title>
<media type="image" src="figures/night-light.png"/>
<p>Night Light is a new feature that changes the color of your displays
- according to the time of day. By making the screen warmer in the evening,
- it can help to prevent sleeplessness and eye strain.</p>
- <p>The new feature can be enabled from the <gui>Display</gui> settings. By
- default it follows the sunrise/sunset times for your location, but it can
- also be set to a custom schedule. Integration with the system menu allows
- the Night Light to be temporarily disabled, if necessary.</p>
+ according to the time of day. By making the screen color warmer in the
+ evening, it can help to prevent sleeplessness and eye strain.</p>
+ <p>The new feature can be enabled from the display settings. The screen
+ color follows the sunrise/sunset times for your location, but it can
+ also be set to a custom schedule. The top bar shows when the feature is
+ active, and the system menu allows it to be temporarily disabled.</p>
<p>Night Light works with both X11 and Wayland.</p>
</section>
<section id="settings">
<title>Revamped Settings</title>
<media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
- <p>Three sets of settings have seen design updates for GNOME 3.24. This
- includes <gui>Online Accounts</gui>, <gui>Printers</gui> and
- <gui>Users</gui>. In each case, the user interface has been refined and
- improved, without reducing existing functionality.
- <gui>Online Accounts</gui> and <gui>Printers</gui> are now organized as
- large, single lists, and <gui>Users</gui> has a new “carousel” switcher.</p>
+ <p>Three areas of the <app>Settings</app> application have seen design
+ updates for GNOME 3.24. This includes <gui>Online Accounts</gui>,
+ <gui>Printers</gui> and <gui>Users</gui>. In each case, the user interface
+ has been refined and improved, without reducing existing functionality.</p>
+ <p>The printer settings now give a better overview at a glance, showing the
+ location and ink level of each of your printers without have to do any
+ digging. Online accounts has a cleaner layout and does a better job of
+ showing which accounts are available to set up. <gui>Users</gui> has a new
+ “carousel” switcher and an overall better layout.</p>
<p>These changes are part of long-term project to update the
- <app>Settings</app> and make it easier to navigate.</p>
+ <app>Settings</app> application, which are planned to lead to bigger
+ improvements in the future.</p>
</section>
<section id="recipes">
<title>New Recipes Application</title>
<media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
- <p>Recipes is a brand new application for GNOME, which has been created by
- GTK+ maintainer Matthias Clasen. Intended as a community project, the
- application already has an extensive feature set, including:</p>
+ <p><app>Recipes</app> is a brand new application for GNOME, which has been
+ created by GTK+ maintainer Matthias Clasen. Intended as a community
+ project, the application contains a collection of recipes contributed by
+ GNOME community members. Recipes already has an extensive feature set,
+ including:</p>
<list>
- <item><p>Browse a growing collection of community contributed recipes</p></item>
<item><p>Add and edit your own recipes</p></item>
<item><p>Export and print shopping lists</p></item>
- <item><p>Adjust quantities based on number of servings</p></item>
+ <item><p>Adjust quantities based on the number of servings</p></item>
<item><p>Mark recipes to cook later or add them to your favorites</p></item>
<item><p>Add notes to recipes</p></item>
<item><p>Hands-free cooking instruction mode</p></item>
@@ -87,36 +93,50 @@
<section id="notifications">
<title>Enhanced Notifications Area</title>
<media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
- <p>The notification area has received a round of improvements for 3.24. The notifications list has a
simpler, clearer layout, which makes it easier to read previous notifications. A number of other
notifications bugs have been fixed as a part of this effort, in order to provide a smoother notifications
experience.</p>
- <p>Weather information has also been integrated into the notifications area. This shows a simple summary
of the day’s forecast, for the location that is set in the Weather application (this can either follow your
current location, or be set to a manual location).</p>
+ <p>The notification area has received a round of improvements for 3.24. The
+ notifications list has a simpler, clearer layout, which makes it easier to
+ read previous notifications. A number of other notifications bugs have been
+ fixed as a part of this effort, in order to provide a smoother
+ notifications experience.</p>
+ <p>Weather information has also been integrated into the notifications
+ area. This shows a simple summary of the day’s forecast, for the location
+ that is set in the <app>Weather</app> application (this can either follow
+ your current location, or be set to a manual location).</p>
</section>
<section id="web">
<title>Improved Web Browser</title>
<media type="image" src="figures/web.png"/>
- <p><app>Web</app>, the GNOME browser, has had numerous significant
- improvements for GNOME 3.24. A number of design improvements make the
- application easier to use:</p>
- <list>
- <item><p>The address bar is now always visible, making it more
- discoverable.</p></item>
- <item><p>Bookmarking has been overhauled, making it easier to add and
- edit saved pages.</p></item>
- <item><p>A new popover shows a list of open tabs, making it easier to
- navigate when you have a large number of pages open.</p></item>
- </list>
+ <p><app>Web</app>, the GNOME browser, has had numerous improvements for
+ GNOME 3.24. A number of significant design improvements
+ make the application easier to use: a new address bar resolves a number of
+ usability issues in the previous design, and a a new popover shows a list
+ of open tabs, making it easier to navigate when you have a large number of
+ pages open.</p>
+ <p>Bookmarking has also been overhauled, with a new simple one click
+ interface for bookmarking pages, a bookmarks popover for quickly accessing
+ your bookmarks, and a new interface for easily organizing your
+ bookmarks.</p>
<p>3.24 also includes a number of privacy enhancements:</p>
<list>
- <item><p>A new, more prominent, warning ensures that you know when you are being presented with
insecure password forms.</p></item>
- <item><p>EasyPrivacy tracking protection has been integrated and is enabled by default.</p></item>
- <item><p>A new personal data dialog allows tracking data to be viewed and cleared, including HTML
local and session storage, IndexedDB, and WebSQL. These can be thought of like cookies, except more powerful,
and other browsers do not allow you to view or clear them. The personal data dialog also allows deleting disk
cache, memory cache, and offline web application cache.</p></item>
+ <item><p>A new, more prominent, warning ensures that you know when you
+ are being presented with insecure password forms.</p></item>
+ <item><p>Additional protection from attempts to track your browsing
+ activity have been added, using <link href="https://easylist.to";>
+ EasyPrivacy</link>.</p></item>
+ <item><p>A new personal data dialog allows tracking data to be viewed and
+ cleared, including HTML local and session storage, IndexedDB, and WebSQL.
+ These are similar to cookies, but are much more powerful, and other
+ browsers do not allow you to view or clear them. The personal data dialog
+ also allows deleting disk cache, memory cache, and offline web
+ application cache.</p></item>
</list>
<p>Finally, the latest version of <app>Web</app> has improved detection of
forms, allowing passwords to be saved on more websites.</p>
</section>
<section id="photos">
- <title>A Better View on Your Photos</title>
+ <title>A Better View of Your Photos</title>
<media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
<p><app>Photos</app> now provides a much better overview of your images.
Thumbnails are bigger and resize to fill all the available space. They have
@@ -124,60 +144,107 @@
<p>Other improvements include:</p>
<list>
<item><p>New exposure and blacks editing tools.</p></item>
- <item><p>Smoother animations when showing previous.</p></item>
- <item><p>Photos will now show a notification if any of the online accounts it is using needs
attention.</p></item>
- <item><p>GPS location information can now be seen for each photo.</p></item>
+ <item><p>Photos will now show a notification if any of the online
+ accounts it is using needs attention.</p></item>
+ <item><p>GPS location information can now be seen for photos that have it.
+ </p></item>
</list>
</section>
<section id="polari">
<title>Enhanced IRC Client</title>
<media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
- <p><app>Polari</app>, GNOME’s IRC client, includes a collection of improvements for 3.24. Clicking on a
user name now shows a helpful popover which allows you to start a private conversation or request a
notification when an offline user comes back online.</p>
- <p>Other improvements include the option to have the application continue to run in the background,
without a window visible, spell checking support, and a list of available rooms in the join room dialog.</p>
- </section>
-
- <section id="dual-gpu">
- <title>Dual GPU Support</title>
- <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
- <p>GNOME 3.24 comes with support for machines that have two graphics cards. This allows choosing which
GPU to use when launching an application. <app>Settings</app> will also give information on both graphics
cards.</p>
+ <p><app>Polari</app>, GNOME’s IRC client, includes a collection of
+ improvements for 3.24. Clicking on a user name now shows a helpful popover
+ which allows you to start a private conversation or request a notification
+ when an offline user comes back online.</p>
+ <p>Other improvements include the option to have the application continue
+ to run in the background without an open window, spell checking, and a
+ list of available rooms in the join room dialog.</p>
</section>
<section id="games">
- <title>Games</title>
+ <title>Play More Games</title>
<media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
- <p>Games is a personal gaming center. It provides a single place to browse your video games library, and
allows you to play a variety of retro games that can be downloaded. For 3.24, it has had a lot of interface
improvements, such as improved feedback when loading games, better window handling, and more helpful error
messages.</p>
+ <p>Games is a personal gaming center: a single place to browse and play
+ your video games library. It allows you to play a variety of retro games,
+ including:</p>
+ <list>
+ <item><p>Homebrew games for Neo-Geo Pocket, PC-Engine and NES, some of which can be obtained from
<link href="http://pdroms.de/";>pdroms.de</link>.</p></item>
+ <item><p>SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance games, using an accessory like <link
href="www.retrode.org">Retrode</link>.</p></item>
+ <item><p>Playstation 1 games, which can be copied from the original CDs.</p></item>
+ </list>
+ <p>Games has had a lot of interface improvements for 3.24, such as improved
+ feedback when loading games, better window handling, and more helpful error
+ messages.</p>
</section>
<section id="updated-icons">
- <title>Updated Icons</title>
+ <title>Bigger, Brighter Icons</title>
<media type="image" src="figures/adwaita-324-updates.png"/>
- <p>New high resolution size has been introduced. In place of the high resolution <em>256×256px</em> we
now ship high resolution icons at <em>512×512px</em>, giving us extra detail for high density displays while
keeping the size reasonable.</p>
-
- <p>In addition to the resolution increase, we are updating the styling of the device, file type and
application icons to reflect the streamlined look of modern apps. No unnecessary bevels and depth shading.
Overall brightness has been raised.</p>
-
- <p>All the document and folder icons have been updated along with many application icons.</p>
+ <p>GNOME's high resolution icons got even bigger for 3.24, doubling in size
+ from <em>256×256px</em> to <em>512×512px</em>. This means that the icons
+ are more detailed on high density displays.</p>
+ <p>The visual style of many of the device, file type and application icons
+ has also been improved, with a new more streamlined look. Extraneous bevels
+ and shading have been removed and the overall brightness has been
+ increased, resulting in a more engaging appearance. All the document and
+ folder icons have been updated along with many application icons.</p>
</section>
<section id="wacom">
- <title>Wacom Graphics</title>
+ <title>Wacom Graphics Improvements</title>
<media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
- <p>GNOME’s Wacom graphics tablet support has seen major improvements for 3.24. Significantly, Wacom
settings and tablet handling are now compatible with Wayland, meaning that Wacom users no longer have an
excuse not to switch from X11.</p>
- <p>Styli handling has also been improved. Styli can be configured independently of tablets, allowing you
to move them and keep the same configuration. Styli can also be configured using presets for different
devices.</p>
- <p>Finally, applications can now define the actions of tablet actions. These application defined actions
are displayed in Wacom full screen overlays.</p>
+ <p>GNOME’s Wacom graphics tablet support has seen major improvements for
+ 3.24. Significantly, Wacom settings and tablet handling are now compatible
+ with Wayland, meaning that Wacom users no longer have an excuse not to
+ switch from X11.</p>
+ <p>Styli handling has also been improved: styli can now be configured
+ independently, allowing you to move them between tablets and keep the same
+ configuration. Styli can also be configured using presets for different
+ devices.</p>
+ <p>Finally, applications can now define the actions of tablet actions.
+ These application defined actions are displayed in Wacom full screen
+ overlays.</p>
</section>
<section id="thats-not-all">
<title>And That’s Not All…</title>
- <p>As usual, there are many other smaller improvements in this GNOME
+ <p>As usual, there are also many other smaller improvements in this GNOME
release. Here are some of them!</p>
<list>
- <item><p><app>Calendar</app> has a new view for viewing a single week at once. This beautiful view on
your week allows drag and drop to quickly and easily move events.</p></item>
- <item><p>The <app>Software</app> application has undergone another round of visual tweaks and
improvements, including new icons to indicate when applications are installed, an updated presentation for
ratings and the display of how much space each application uses in the installed view.</p></item>
- <item><p><app>Files</app> now allows restricted files and folders to be easily opened using
administrator privileges. Just click on the file or folder and a system password dialog will allow you to
enter a password in order to continue. This provides a much safer way to open restricted locations.</p></item>
- <item><p>Software’s Flatpak support, which was introduced last release, has been improved. Updating
Flatpak applications is much smoother and provides better feedback. New <code>.flatpakref</code> files are
now supported.</p></item>
- <item><p>GNOME’s use of typography has been improved to make maximum use of Unicode. Many of these
changes are subtle but give a better appearance overall.</p></item>
- <item><p>The <app>Calculator</app> has had a number of improvements, including an improved appearance,
a keyboard shortcuts window, new variables and functions popovers, better error highlighting and improved
complex number handling.</p></item>
+ <item><p>GNOME 3.24 comes with support for machines that have two
+ graphics cards. If you have this hardware, you can now select which GPU
+ to use when launching an application. <app>Settings</app> will also give
+ information on both graphics cards.</p></item>
+ <item><p><app>Calendar</app> has a new view for viewing a single week at
+ once. This beautiful view on your week allows drag and drop to be used
+ to move events.</p></item>
+ <item><p>The <app>Software</app> application has undergone another round
+ of visual tweaks and improvements, including new icons to indicate when
+ applications are installed, an updated presentation for user ratings, and
+ the display of how much disk space each application is taking up, in the
+ installed view.
+ </p></item>
+ <!-- TODO: check if the files item below is technically correct. -->
+ <item><p><app>Files</app> now allows restricted files and folders to be
+ easily opened using administrator privileges. Just double-click on the
+ file or folder and a dialog window will allow you to enter a password in
+ order to continue. This provides a much safer way to open restricted
+ locations, compared with using root or sudo from the command line.</p></item>
+ <!-- TODO: check - is flatpakref support new for 3.24? -->
+ <item><p>Software’s Flatpak support, which was introduced last release,
+ has been improved. In particular, updating Flatpak applications is much
+ smoother and provides better feedback and new <code>.flatpakref</code>
+ files are now
+ supported.</p></item>
+ <item><p>GNOME’s use of typography has been improved, by making maximum
+ use of Unicode. Many of these changes are subtle but give a better
+ appearance overall.</p></item>
+ <item><p>The <app>Calculator</app> has had a number of enhancements,
+ including an improved appearance, a keyboard shortcuts window, new
+ variables and functions popovers, better error highlighting and improved
+ complex number handling.</p></item>
</list>
</section>
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