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. > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
