Re: GNOME 2.24 press release

["Diego Escalante Urrelo" <diegoe gnome org>]

Hey Stormy,

On 9/24/08, Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org> wrote:
> An instant messaging tool (Empathy) based on Telepathy. (Why is this better
> than other IM clients? Or why would I choose to use this one?)

Empathy is also a set of widgets and libraries that will allow GNOME
apps to for example integrate a buddy list in an action, like the cool
example of playing tetris via jabber:
  http://alban.apinc.org/blog/2007/10/24/97-gtetrinet-video-with-telepathy-and-tubes/

Other things like sharing a text doc and similar could be done, that
page has a video for text sharing iirc, but not really visually cool
:-).

> Time/activity tracking.
> Audio video conferencing (Ekiga)
> File management improvements: compact view, tabs, better support for USB
> drives
> Deskbar plug-ins: calculator, google search, Twitter/identica, Yahoo,
> Wikipedia
> Screen resolution: easier control of multiple monitors

I would add 'easier control of multiple monitors, allowing you to
easily hook up your computer to projectors or simply add an extra
screen', I used this over the weekend to give a talk about the new
stuff in gnome 2.24 and I was impressed on how it just worked :).
Great stuff, made me proud of my desktop :P.

> Sound themes based on Freedesktop.org specs which allows you do things like
> get your alerts even when using multimedia apps
> Digital TV improvements: multiple tuners, (remote) text subtitling, high
> resolution YouTube videos

In the video player (so this is not confused with 'ah! so now i can
see videos in my browser with GNOME?')

> Contest for backgrounds (People always like to hear about contests and this
> one had pretty results so we could call it out at the end as a story.)
> Continued accessibility improvements
> Continued developer improvements

Perhaps you could connect this to the preparations for gtk+ 3.0,
something like 'Continued developer improvements and the first steps
preparing the road for the future of the GTK+ toolkit', maybe it
sounds a bit like vapour, what do you think?

Adding to Brian's comment, you could link this idea with the
improvements in gnome-session and gnome-settings-daemon as work 'to
allow better future development of new features' or something like
that, though I recognize my choose of words is quite buzzy and
vapourware like :-).

Diego