Re: Press release for 2.20?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 22:23 +0300, Quim Gil wrote:
> I like it.
>
> We are still missing a theme, though.

I still don't see one apart from the usual "many usability
improvements". "10 years of GNOME. 10 GNOME 2.x releases in 5 years"?

>  Andreas and the marketing guys
> will have a hard time finding out what the splash banner should be
> about. Journalists and casual bloggers won't find easily where to
> start with apart from "GNOME 2.20 released".
>
> You haven't mentioned the i18n improvements.

OK. I will when I know what supported languages are new in GNOME 2.20,
and how many are supported in GNOME 2.20. We will know soon. I can
mention the RTL support and N'Ko along with that. Your sentence below is
maybe based on old 2.14 release notes text, from when those languages
were new.

>  My +1 to pick this as
> theme since it is a pace where the platform is registering a lot of
> improvement. This is my last attempt trying to influence the agenda.
> :)  Feel free to commit or refuse.
>
>
> GNOME 2.20 - TRULY MULTICULTURAL
>
> The latest release of the GNOME desktop brings several improvements in
> the areas of internationalization and localization, reflecting the
> progress of free software in all continents. 5 new languages are fully
> supported: Basque, Bengali, Chinese (Hong Kong) , Estonian and
> Persian. Right To Left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew benefit now
> from complete mirrored interfaces. Also vertical texts (used for
> instance by Chinese) are better supported now with own variants of
> punctuation marks. The Pango text rendering system has a new shaping
> engine for the N'Ko script, used in West Africa, not well served by
> computer systems until now.
>
> There are many improvements in other areas of GNOME &gnomeversion;,
> including: desktop search
> integrated into the file chooser dialog; convenient new features in the
> Evolution email and calendar client; enhanced browsing of image
> collections; simplified system preferences; efficient power management
> and incredibly accurate laptop battery monitoring. Developers receive
> more help with application development thanks to a new version of the
> GTK+ toolkit, improved tools, and a great new documentation web site.
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