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. For developers, and administrators, we've worked on a new version of UPower which reduces power consumption, provides better interfaces for desktop environments to use, and offer sysadmin machine wide policies for UPSes and low battery situations: http://www.hadess.net/2013/10/more-power-management-changes.html Cheers _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
