Re: Notes about the release notes

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le jeudi 24 août 2006, à 19:49, Claus Schwarm a écrit :
> Hi, all!
>
> This is my usual (yearly) request to restructure the way we present the
> items in our relase notes -- after all, they should make clear why the
> release matters.

Looks good :-)
Some comments:

> Front feature
> -------------
>
>  (This is a special class: If there's anything in the amount of changes
> that could belong to a certain major topic, it should be featured here!
>
>  For example, the last release had many changes that improved
> performance, so these changes could have been be featured here. This is
> a desperate way of justifying headlines such as "GNOME 2.14 improves
> performance."
>
>  A potential topic for this year could be "Eyecandy".)
>
>  * Something happened with icons
>  * Transperacy in the Terminal
>  * Compositor stuff in Metacity
>  * new wanda icon in gnome-panel
>
>  (Another one could be 'C#')

I'd go with eyecandy, but I think it's important to note that it's an
ongoing work, and that more will come in 2.18.

> Page 2: Extended funtionality:
> ------------------------------
[snip]

>  * Tomboy

It's important to note that it replaces the sticky notes in our mind,
which is still available for some time.

[snip]

>  * gtk filechooser location button thingy

Might be interesting to add a note that it was added because users
requested it.

 * orca as screenreader is better than what we had before (since it can
   be adapted for each software, iirc)

[snip]

> Performance improvments
> -----------------------
>  * Nautilus has improved startup performance; uses less memory while
>    thumbnailing
>  * ?

Evolution was improved wrt performance too.

> Code cleanups and backend improvements:
> ---------------------------------------
>
>  * C#
>  * Improved printing support (Ephiphany, Yelp, any others?)
>  * Unicode 5.0 support. 
>  * GDM: No longer use popt in favor of glib's GOption command line
> parsing. IMPORTANT: Users who depend on the single dash options will
> need to change to use the non-deprecated double-dash options.
>  * Unmaintained themes removed: rand-Canyon, Ocean-Dream, Simple &
> Smokey-Blue, Traditional
>  * Unmaintained engines removed: Lighthouseblue and Metal engines

 * GTK+ 2.10, with some interesting new features
 * start of deprecation of libgnomeprint/libgnomeprintui
 * gnopernicus has been replaced by orca

> Feedback welcome. I offer to write the text down to a number of WDTM?
> and WDID? [1], because I don't run a development snapshot. I can't make
> screenshots, nor move it to docbook. Some changes need some explantion,
> so I need a developer as well. And I'll probably need  someone to
> proof-read from a factual point of view, as well as from a grammar
> point of view.

I can help for the explanations. Go go go!

Thanks,

Vincent

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