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[release-notes/gnome-40] Initial 40 release notes


commit fea67641cd5c801f9798a57ce2abf7b1406b48a9
Author: Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>
Date:   Mon Mar 22 08:37:01 2021 -0400

    Initial 40 release notes

 help/C/developers.page      |  63 ++++++++++++++++++++
 help/C/i18n.page            |  76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 help/C/index.page           | 112 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 help/C/release-notes.xml    | 142 --------------------------------------------
 help/C/rna11y.xml           |  16 -----
 help/C/rndevelopers.xml     |  80 -------------------------
 help/C/rni18n.xml           | 110 ----------------------------------
 help/C/rninstallation.xml   |  34 -----------
 help/C/rnlookingforward.xml |  37 ------------
 help/C/rnusers.xml          |  14 -----
 10 files changed, 251 insertions(+), 433 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/help/C/developers.page b/help/C/developers.page
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+       <!DOCTYPE page [
+<!ENTITY gnomeversion "40">
+<!ENTITY lastversion "3.38">
+<!ENTITY nextversion "41">
+       ]>
+<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/";
+      xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its";
+      xmlns:e="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/";
+      type="topic"
+      id="developers">
+  <info>
+    <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">Matthias Clasen</name>
+      <email its:translate="no">matthiasc gnome org</email>
+    </credit>
+    <license>
+      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 4.0</p>
+    </license>
+  </info>
+
+  <title>What’s New for Developers and System Administrators</title>
+
+  <p>GNOME &gnomeversion; includes many new features and improvements for those
+  working with GNOME technologies. Read on for more details!</p>
+
+  <section id="gtk">
+    <title>GTK 4</title>
+    <p>GTK is the toolkit used by GNOME applications. A major new
+    version, GTK 4, has been released towards the end of 2020. Among the many
+    changes in this release are hardware-accelerated rendering, new scalable
+    list widgets, and out-of-the-box support for video.</p>
+  </section>
+
+  <section id="tracker">
+    <title>Tracker</title>
+    <p>Tracker has gained a new batch API, which provides a more efficient
+    way to insert data.</p>
+  </section>
+
+  <section id="libhandy">
+    <title>libhandy</title>
+    <p>libhandy is a library that is increasingly used by GNOME applications
+    to provide consistent and adaptive user interfaces. libhandy 1.2 introduces
+    a number of new widgets:</p>
+    <list>
+      <item><p>HdyTabView and HdyTabBar - dynamic tabs</p></item>
+      <item><p>HdyStatusPage - a widget for implementing empty or error states</p></item>
+      <item><p>HdyFlap - a widget for transient sidebars or sliding sheets</p></item>
+    </list>
+  </section>
+
+  <section id="more">
+    <title>Other Improvements</title>
+    <p>Other improvements in GNOME &gnomeversion; include:</p>
+    <list>
+      <item><p>Name a thing here</p></item>
+    </list>
+  </section>
+
+</page>
diff --git a/help/C/i18n.page b/help/C/i18n.page
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+       <!DOCTYPE page [
+<!ENTITY gnomeversion "40">
+<!ENTITY lastversion "3.38">
+<!ENTITY nextversion "41">
+<!ENTITY supportedlanguages "38">
+<!ENTITY percentagetranslated "80">
+       ]>
+<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/";
+      xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its";
+      xmlns:e="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/";
+      type="topic"
+      id="i18n">
+
+  <info>
+    <link type="guide" xref="index#more" group="second"/>
+    <desc>Learn about the different languages in which GNOME &gnomeversion; is available</desc>
+    <credit type="author">
+      <name its:translate="no">Link Dupont</name>
+      <email its:translate="no">link gnome org</email>
+    </credit>
+    <license>
+      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 4.0</p>
+    </license>
+  </info>
+
+  <title>Internationalization</title>
+
+  <p>Thanks to members of the worldwide <link href="https://wiki.gnome.org/TranslationProject";>GNOME 
Translation Project</link>, GNOME &gnomeversion; offers support for more than &supportedlanguages; languages 
with at least &percentagetranslated; percent of strings translated. User documentation is also available in 
many languages.</p>
+
+  <list style="compact">
+    <item><p>Basque</p></item>
+    <item><p>Brazilian Portuguese</p></item>
+    <item><p>British English</p></item>
+    <item><p>Catalan</p></item>
+    <item><p>Catalan (Valencian)</p></item>
+    <item><p>Chinese (China)</p></item>
+    <item><p>Chinese (Taiwan)</p></item>
+    <item><p>Croatian</p></item>
+    <item><p>Czech</p></item>
+    <item><p>Danish</p></item>
+    <item><p>Dutch</p></item>
+    <item><p>Finnish</p></item>
+    <item><p>French</p></item>
+    <item><p>Friulian</p></item>
+    <item><p>Galician</p></item>
+    <item><p>German</p></item>
+    <item><p>Greek</p></item>
+    <item><p>Hungarian</p></item>
+    <item><p>Indonesian</p></item>
+    <item><p>Italian</p></item>
+    <item><p>Korean</p></item>
+    <item><p>Latvian</p></item>
+    <item><p>Lithuanian</p></item>
+    <item><p>Malay</p></item>
+    <item><p>Norwegian Bokmål</p></item>
+    <item><p>Occitan</p></item>
+    <item><p>Polish</p></item>
+    <item><p>Portuguese</p></item>
+    <item><p>Romanian</p></item>
+    <item><p>Russian</p></item>
+    <item><p>Serbian</p></item>
+    <item><p>Serbian (Latin)</p></item>
+    <item><p>Slovak</p></item>
+    <item><p>Slovenian</p></item>
+    <item><p>Spanish</p></item>
+    <item><p>Swedish</p></item>
+    <item><p>Turkish</p></item>
+    <item><p>Ukrainian</p></item>
+  </list>
+
+  <p>Numerous other languages are partially supported, with more than half of their strings translated.</p>
+
+  <p>Detailed statistics and more information are all available on GNOME’s <link 
href="https://l10n.gnome.org/";>translation status site</link>. You can also find out how to <link 
href="https://wiki.gnome.org/TranslationProject/ContributeTranslations";>help translate GNOME</link>.</p>
+
+</page>
diff --git a/help/C/index.page b/help/C/index.page
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+       <!DOCTYPE page [
+<!ENTITY gnomeversion "40">
+<!ENTITY lastversion "3.38">
+<!ENTITY nextversion "41">
+<!ENTITY gitcommits "?">
+<!ENTITY gitauthors "?">
+       ]>
+<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/";
+      xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its";
+      xmlns:e="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/";
+      type="guide"
+      id="index">
+
+  <info>
+    <title type="link">GNOME &gnomeversion; Release Notes</title>
+    <title type="text">GNOME &gnomeversion; Release Notes</title>
+    <credit type="author">
+      <name its:translate="no">Matthias Clasen</name>
+      <email its:translate="no">matthiasc gnome org</email>
+    </credit>
+    <license>
+      <p>Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0</p>
+    </license>
+  </info>
+
+  <title>Introducing GNOME &gnomeversion;: “Orbis II”</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 many smaller improvements and bug fixes. In total, the
+  release incorporates &gitcommits; changes, made by approximately &gitauthors;
+  contributors.</p>
+
+  <p>&gnomeversion; has been named “Orbis II” in recognition of the team behind
+  the GNOME Asia Summit 2020. GNOME Asia is the major annual GNOME conference in
+  the Asia/Pacific part of the world, and is only possible thanks to the hard work
+  of many volunteers. This year’s event was forced to be held online due to the
+  COVID-19 pandemic. We are very much looking forward to meeting our friends from
+  all around the world again in person in the near future.</p>
+
+  <section id="shell-overview">
+    <title>New Shell Overview</title>
+    <p>The GNOME Shell Overview overview has been rearranged. Workspaces are now
+    horizontal and the dash is along the bottom screen edge. Workspaces appear as
+    a large filmstrip along the center of the screen.</p>
+    <p>New touchpad gestures: three finger swipe up/down opens the overview as the
+    first step, and opens the app grid as the second step. Three finger swipe left
+    and right switches between workspaces.</p>
+    <p>New keyboard shortcuts: Super+Alt+←/→ moves between workspaces.
+    Super+Alt+↑/↓ opens the overview and app grid. The previous shortcuts (Super
+    to open the overview, Super+PgUp/PgDown to switch workspace) will continue to
+    work.</p>
+    <p>Boot and empty experience - previously we would show a blank desktop on boot.
+    Instead, now we show the overview on boot and when the last window is closed on
+    a workspace. This makes it less work to get started, and is more helpful.</p>
+    <p>You can learn more about the overview changes <link 
href="https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/tag/uxd-gnome-40/";>here</link>.</p>
+  </section>
+
+  <section id="input-settings">
+    <title>New Keyboard Settings</title>
+    <p>The Keyboard and Region &amp; Language panels in <app>Settings</app> have been
+    rewritten.</p>
+    <p>The keyboard shortcuts are now arranged in smaller groups, and
+    Search is more prominent.</p>
+    <p>The input source settings have been moved from Region &amp; Language
+    to Keyboard, where they are easier to find.</p>
+    <p>It is now possible to configure the Compose key and the the 3rd level
+    chooser key.</p>
+  </section>
+
+  <section id="input-improvements">
+    <title>Input improvements</title>
+    <p>Together with the more prominent Compose key configuration, the user
+    experience for using Compose sequences has been improved. They are now
+    shown as preedit as you are entering them. Dead keys are handled in a
+    similar way.</p>
+  </section>
+
+  <section id="about-settings">
+    <title>Laptop Model Information</title>
+    <p>The About panel in <app>Settings</app> now shows information about the hardware
+    model and vendor, if that information is available. This helps with diagnosing
+    device-specific problems.</p>
+  </section>
+
+  <section id="software">
+    <title>Improvements in Software</title>
+    <p>The updates logic in <app>Software</app> has been updated to reduce the frequency of
+    reminders for non-urgent updates, and to flag critical updates more clearly.</p>
+    <p>The `carousel` has been improved to look better. It now cycles automatically,
+    and also supports swipes.</p>
+    <p>The version history dialogs on the detail page have been rewritten.</p>
+  </section>
+
+  <section id="more">
+    <title>More Information</title>
+    <p>GNOME &gnomeversion; also has lots to offer developers, and is translated into many languages.</p>
+    <links type="topic" groups="first second third"/>
+  </section>
+
+  <section id="getting-gnome">
+    <title>Getting GNOME &gnomeversion;</title>
+    <p>GNOME’s software is <link href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html";>Free Software</link>: all 
<link href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME";>our code</link> is available for download and can be freely 
modified and redistributed according to the respective licenses. To install it, we recommend that you wait 
for the official packages provided by your vendor or distribution. Popular distributions will make GNOME 
&gnomeversion; available very soon, and some already have development versions that include the new GNOME 
release.</p>
+  </section>
+
+  <section id="about">
+    <title>About GNOME</title>
+    <p><link href="https://www.gnome.org/about/";>The GNOME Project</link> is an international community 
supported by a non-profit Foundation. We focus on user experience excellence and first-class 
internationalization and accessibility. GNOME is a free and open project: if you want to join us, <link 
href="https://www.gnome.org/get-involved/";>you can</link>.</p>
+  </section>
+
+</page>
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