[release-notes] index.page: Rewrite main content
- From: Allan Day <allanday src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
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- Subject: [release-notes] index.page: Rewrite main content
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 17:32:52 +0000 (UTC)
commit 924dc3b065cf88c606ee0a20dbce5b7b2a40aee4
Author: Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>
Date: Mon Mar 22 17:29:29 2021 +0000
index.page: Rewrite main content
General rewrite, to improve style, structure, content.
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1 file changed, 126 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)
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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>
+ <section id="activities-overview">
+ <title>Updated Activities Overview</title>
<media type="image" src="figures/shell-overview.png">Shell Overview</media>
<media type="image" src="figures/shell-overview2.png">Shell Overview</media>
- <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: <key>Super</key>+<key>Alt</key>+<key>←</key>/<key>→</key> moves between
workspaces.
- <key>Super</key>+<key>Alt</key>+<key>↑</key>/<key>↓</key> opens the overview and app grid. The previous
shortcuts (<key>Super</key>
- to open the overview, <key>Super</key>+<key>PgUp</key>/<key>PgDown</key> 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>
+ <p>GNOME 40 includes a new and improved Activities Overview design. This
+ gives the overview a great new look, and provides an improved experience for
+ navigating the system and launching apps.</p>
+ <p>The new design lays out the different parts of the system in two
+ directions. Workspaces are arranged horizontally, and the overview and app
+ grid are accessed vertically. Each direction has accompanying keyboard
+ shortcuts, touchpad gestures and mouse actions:</p>
+ <list>
+ <item><p>Keyboard shortcuts use <key>Super</key>+<key>Alt</key>+<key>↑
+ </key>/<key>↓</key>/<key>←</key>/<key>→</key>. (Pressing <key>Super</key>
+ continues to open the overview, and existing keyboard shorcuts will
+ continue to work as before.)</p></item>
+ <item><p>Touchpad gestures use three-finger swipes up/down/left/right.
+ </p></item>
+ <item><p>Mouse scroll switches workspaces in the overview, and can be
+ used with the <key>Super</key> in the regular desktop view.</p></item>
+ </list>
+ <p>Together these provide a fast, intuitive and coherent way to move around
+ the system. Additionally, the app grid can now be easily customized, with
+ enhanced drag and drop making it possible to arrange app launchers so they
+ suit you.</p>
+ <p>The updated overview design brings a collection of other improvements,
+ including:</p>
+ <list>
+ <item><p>A more helpful boot experience: the overview is now shown after
+ boot, to help you get started.</p></item>
+ <item><p>The dash now separates favorite and non-favorite running apps.
+ This makes it clear which apps are have been favorited and which haven't.
+ </p></item>
+ <item><p>Window thumbnails have been improved, and now have an app icon
+ over each one, to help identification.</p></item>
+ <item><p>When workspaces are set to be on all displays, the workspace
+ switcher is now shown on all displays rather than just the primary one.
+ </p></item>
+ </list>
+ <p>More information about these changes and the process behind them can be
+ found in the <link href="https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/tag/uxd-gnome-40/";>
+ GNOME Shell and Mutter Development Blog</link>.</p>
</section>
-
- <section id="input-settings">
- <title>New Keyboard Settings</title>
- <p>The Keyboard and Region & 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 & 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>
- <media type="image" src="figures/input-settings.png">Input settings</media>
+
+ <section id="weather">
+ <title>Weather, Redesigned</title>
+ <media type="image" src="figures/weather.png">Weather</media>
+ <p>The <app>Weather</app> application has been completely redesigned. It
+ now shows more information, and looks better than ever! The new design
+ features two main views: one for the hourly forecast for the next 48 hours,
+ and one for the daily forecast, for the next 10 days.</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 id="settings">
+ <title>Improved Settings</title>
+ <media type="image" src="figures/keyboard-settings.png">Input settings</media>
+ <p>The Keyboard settings have received a number of improvements for this
+ release:</p>
+ <list>
+ <item><p>The input source settings have been moved from the
+ <gui>Region & Language</gui> to <gui>Keyboard</gui>. This makes them
+ easier to find, and groups all the keyboard settings in one place.
+ </p></item>
+ <item><p>Additional settings have also been added, so that it is now
+ possible to configure the Compose and Alternate Characters (3rd level
+ chooser) keys.</p></item>
+ <item><p>Finally, the keyboard shortcut settings have had an update. They
+ are now arranged in separate groups to aid navigation, and have an
+ improved search design.</p></item>
+ </list>
+ <p>The <app>Settings</app> app has a number of other improvements, too. The
+ Wi-Fi settings now pins known networks to the top of the list, and has an
+ overall better layout. Additionally, the About page now shows the hardware
+ model for your laptop, if it's available.</p>
</section>
- <section id="wifi-settings">
- <title>Better Wi-Fi selection</title>
- <p>The Wi-Fi panel in <app>Settings</app> has been improved to make
- selecting and configuring networks easier.</p>
+ <section id="web">
+ <title>Browse Faster</title>
+ <p>The <app>Web</app> application has a new tabs design, which are faster
+ and more powerful. Open tabs can now be quickly scrolled, and other tabs
+ features like pinning and icons for audio have an excellent level of
+ support.</p>
+ <p><app>Web</app> can now also be configured to use Google search in its
+ address bar, and has experimental support for WebExtensions, the new
+ cross-browser extension API.</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>
+ <title>Software Changes</title>
<media type="image" src="figures/software.png">Software</media>
+ <p><app>Software</app> has had a number of improvements for GNOME 40. The
+ large application banners have a new and improved look, and now cycle
+ automatically. New version history dialogs display the recent changes for
+ each application, the updates logic has been updated to reduce the
+ frequency of reminders.</p>
</section>
- <section id="weather">
- <title>Improvements in Weather</title>
- <p>The <app>Weather</app> application has been completely redesigned and shows
- more information now.</p>
- <media type="image" src="figures/weather.png">Weather</media>
+ <section id="files">
+ <title>Files Enhancements</title>
+ <media type="image" src="figures/filies.png">Files Preferences</media>
+ <p>The <app>Files</app> app has benefitted from a large collection of
+ changes for GNOME 40, including:</p>
+ <list>
+ <item><p>A new preference dialog looks better and allows
+ searching for settings.</p></item>
+ <item><p>Files can now be sorted by creation date.</p></item>
+ <item><p>A handy preview is now shown when setting the wallpaper from the
+ <app>Files</app> app.</p></item>
+ <item><p>Time estimates for ongoing file operations have been improved,
+ so they are more accurate.</p></item>
+ <item><p>Executable files can be run directly from <app>Files</app> with
+ the <gui>Run as a Program</gui> context menu item.</p></item>
+ <item><p>When copying or moving a file, if there is a conflict with an
+ existing file of the same name, you are now given the option to rename
+ the file you are moving.</p></item>
+ <item><p><app>Files</app>'s built-in archive extraction feature now
+ supports extracting password-protected archives.</p></item>
+ </list>
</section>
-
- <section id="maps">
- <title>Improvements in Maps</title>
- <p>The <app>Maps</app> application now provides information about places in
- information cards.</p>
+
+ <section id="and-thats-not-all">
+ <title>And That's Not All</title>
<media type="image" src="figures/maps.png">Maps Information</media>
- </section>
-
- <section id="web">
- <title>Improvements in Web</title>
- <p>The <app>Web</app> application has a new tabs implementation, which is
- prettier and more powerful.</p>
- <media type="image" src="figures/web.png">Web Tabs</media>
- </section>
-
- <section id="files">
- <title>Improvements in Files</title>
- <p>The <app>Files</app> application has a new preference dialog that better
- matches the style of other application.</p>
- <media type="image" src="figures/files.png">Files Preferences</media>
+ <p>GNOME 40 includes many other smaller improvements, including:</p>
+ <list>
+ <item><p><app>Maps</app> has new information popups for locations. It is
+ also more adaptive, making it possible to use it at a range of sizes.
+ </p></item>
+ <item><p>The interface for using the Compose Key has been improved: when
+ a compose sequence is being entered, an indicator is now shown ahead of
+ the cursor. Dead keys are handled in a similar way now, too.</p></item>
+ <item><p>Many of GNOME's apps have visual updates for GNOME 40, with
+ rounded window corners and lists and new-style view switchers. Affected
+ apps include <app>Files</app>, <app>Web</app>, <app>Disks</app>,
+ <app>Fonts</app>, <app>Calendar</app>, <app>Photos</app> and <app>System
+ Monitor</app>.</p></item>
+ <item><p>GNOME's visual style has got smoother and more polished. Sharp
+ edges have been rounded, strong borders have been smoothed out, sidebar
+ styling has been unified and toned down. Scrollbars are now slightly
+ bigger when used as a control.</p></item>
+ </list>
</section>
<section id="more">
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