Re: 3.12 Features

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

Hey,

On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 12:11 +0000, Allan Day wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I thought I'd update the list with what we can expect from 3.12 in
> terms of features.
>
> The main user visible changes that we can expect, I think, will come
> from some of the apps, particularly Videos, Software, Web and gedit.
> Videos and gedit have have fairly dramatic redesigns, and the other
> two have advanced a huge amount in terms of performance and features.
> Outside of the application space, geolocation has also made a big step
> forward, and will be much more visible in the shell.

Bluetooth panel got redesigned as well, though I'm not sure that's worth
as much ink space as apps getting a lot of work done on them. But it's
screenshotable :)

<snip>
> The other big question is Wayland. I know that intensive work is still
> happening in this area, and it is probably too soon to predict what we
> will have for 3.12. Wayland certainly won't be used by default in the
> next release, but I think we can be confident that it will be another
> big step forward and might well be the last GNOME release to be X11
> only.
>
> Please think about ways we can express these changes in our release
> marketing, or try to come up with stories that we can tell in the run
> up to 3.12. It would be really nice to think creatively about this.

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Cheers