Chachazz Posted August 27, 2005 Report Share Posted August 27, 2005 GNOME 2.12 will be released to the world on September 7th, 2005, culminating 6 months of very exciting work by members of the project. A number of exciting technologies come together in GNOME 2.12 that will set the standard for free software desktops to come. Here is a sample (by no means an exhaustive list) of some of the outstanding work that has gone into GNOME thanks to its many contributors. Highlights of Gnome 2.12 include improvements and add-ons:New Default Theme - ClearlooksCore Technology- GTK+ 2.8- Clipboard Management- Hardware Abstraction Layer - improved integration with HALCore Applications - Nautilus- Epiphany - improved- Keyring Manager- Epiphany - new features; more extensions- Evolution - cleaner interface & improved- Control Center - newly configured- System Tools - control services- Panel & Applets - minor improvementsMultimedia- Totem Player - impvoed- Sound Juicer - improved- Nautilus - more tightly integrated & new featuresExtra Applications- Search Tool - file previewsNew Applications- Evince - document reader- Keyring Manager - manage keyringsTake a peak..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
robroy Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 looks very interestingThanks Chachazz Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hitest Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 Thanks Chachazz,Maybe that'll get bundled into one of my Ubuntu updates in September or perhap it will be added to Ubuntu 5.10 coming in October. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jcl Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 (edited) The devel packages are in Portage. Final should be unmasked sometime around October 2007. Edited August 28, 2005 by jcl Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hitest Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 The devel packages are in Portage. Final should be unmasked sometime around October 2007.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Cool. Is that just for Gentoo/BSD? Would it be released too for Ubuntu via apt-get? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jcl Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 Cool. Is that just for Gentoo/BSD? Would it be released too for Ubuntu via apt-get?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>The Portage packages will work equally well on any system. Which is to say, they won't work anywhere. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hitest Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 Cool. Is that just for Gentoo/BSD? Would it be released too for Ubuntu via apt-get?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>The Portage packages will work equally well on any system. Which is to say, they won't work anywhere.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Heh-heh, thanks, jcl Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tictoc5150 Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 (edited) Thanks Chachazz,Maybe that'll get bundled into one of my Ubuntu updates in September or perhap it will be added to Ubuntu 5.10 coming in October.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Very likely included in 5.10Kubuntu developers have also said that they aren't opposed to pushing back their release date for KDE 3.5....I forget where I picked up that info...probably Ubuntu forums Edited August 28, 2005 by tictoc5150 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dragon Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 The devel packages are in Portage. Final should be unmasked sometime around October 2007.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Cool. Is that just for Gentoo/BSD? Would it be released too for Ubuntu via apt-get?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>More then likely, this won't be in ubuntu repos until after breezy is released, last I knew the latest version of FF hasn't even been put in the repos yet. But we will soon see, after all Breezy is almost done with its beta, and they are still asking people to not d/l and install it unless they are helping find the bugs it has. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hitest Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 Thanks tictoc and Efwis for the feedback. 2.12 looks very cool indeed:-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheLetterK Posted September 4, 2005 Report Share Posted September 4, 2005 The devel packages are in Portage. Final should be unmasked sometime around October 2007.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Cool. Is that just for Gentoo/BSD? Would it be released too for Ubuntu via apt-get?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>It'll probably be rolled into 5.10, but not released for 5.04. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hitest Posted September 4, 2005 Report Share Posted September 4, 2005 The devel packages are in Portage. Final should be unmasked sometime around October 2007.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Cool. Is that just for Gentoo/BSD? Would it be released too for Ubuntu via apt-get?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>It'll probably be rolled into 5.10, but not released for 5.04.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>That would make sense; I'll be upgrading to 5.10 when it is released. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hai-Etlik Posted September 4, 2005 Report Share Posted September 4, 2005 That's the entire point of 5.10, Ubuntu releases are tied to GNOME releases. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheLetterK Posted September 4, 2005 Report Share Posted September 4, 2005 That's the entire point of 5.10, Ubuntu releases are tied to GNOME releases.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Yes, but you know how Linux projects end up... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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