Re: Notes about the release notes
Good thoughts, my +1. Where are yoy going to write the notes? I think it is good to have the drafts in the wiki, due to time constraints and better revision. Once the drafts are ok, then move the texts to the next destination. You can modify http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointFifteen/ReleaseNotes#head-6389bd7caa86591057b77ee81f92a3eed2b186ab and start working there. Please put a big bold header in each draft page saying clearly this is a draft. El dj 24 de 08 del 2006 a les 19:49 +0200, en/na Claus Schwarm va escriure: Hi, all! This is my usual (yearly) request to restructure the way we present the items in our relase notes -- after all, they should make clear why the release matters. A rationale for this kind of approach is available from Kathy Sierra, see her Crash Course in Learning Theory: Use chunking to reduce cognitive overhead.: http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/01/crash_course_in.html Here it starts: Front feature - (This is a special class: If there's anything in the amount of changes that could belong to a certain major topic, it should be featured here! For example, the last release had many changes that improved performance, so these changes could have been be featured here. This is a desperate way of justifying headlines such as GNOME 2.14 improves performance. A potential topic for this year could be Eyecandy.) * Something happened with icons * Transperacy in the Terminal * Compositor stuff in Metacity * new wanda icon in gnome-panel (Another one could be 'C#') (OK, the following classes are basically standard: We should always be able to put a change into one of them. In general, this should promote GNOME as a whole, not each module. I've used a selection of items from the wiki list to give you an idea how this could be sorted.) Page 2: Extended funtionality: -- If you're running a laptop, have problems finding free space on your hard disks, loose overview on your menu items, or spend too much time online to download videos (ehm, ok: the last one might lead to funny jokes), you'll be happy to upgrade to GNOME 2.16: There's a new module called GNOME Power manager that will let you ... // image about here Menu editing just got even more easier. The old menu editor was replaced with a new one, called Alacarte. Alacarte is already known to Ubuntu users: ... // image about here (You get the idea.) * New in GNOME Utils! Baobab, a disk usage analysis tool. * Tomboy * Totem: Numerous Web Browser plugin improvements o Audio playback support o QuickTime, Windows Media Player and Real Player skins o Playlist support * Totem: Subtitle encoding selection * Totem: Removed DXR3 and GStreamer 0.8 support (worth mentioning?) * Totem: Use HAL for CD and DVD detection * Totem: XSPF playlist support (read/write), Quicktime Metalink (read) * Nautilus CD Burner: Support for writing DVDs on the fly (without ISO). * GNOME-Screensaver: fullscreen preview * Evince: Support for attachments in PDF * gtk filechooser location button thingy * Evolution: Support for GroupWise Reminder Notes (Ehm, is that important?) * File-roller: Shows an emblem for password protected files 152039 Ongoing efforts to make GNOME easier: - * Bug-buddy: interface cleaned up -- a lot * Nautilus: New permission dialog with recursion and selinux support * Gnome-panel: new dialog to edit launchers. It's really better. * Evolution : http://blogs.gnome.org/view/sragavan/2006/07/19/0 (?) * EyeOfGnome: Collection Panel and UI Rework (?) * Totem: Properties dialogue is now in the sidebar (Worth mentioning?) Performance improvments --- * Nautilus has improved startup performance; uses less memory while thumbnailing * ? Code cleanups and backend improvements: --- * C# * Improved printing support (Ephiphany, Yelp, any others?) * Unicode 5.0 support. * GDM: No longer use popt in favor of glib's GOption command line parsing. IMPORTANT: Users who depend on the single dash options will need to change to use the non-deprecated double-dash options. * Unmaintained themes removed: rand-Canyon, Ocean-Dream, Simple Smokey-Blue, Traditional * Unmaintained engines removed: Lighthouseblue and Metal engines Looking forward to GNOME 2.18 - * The usual infos about 2.18 here but also include the paragraphs from 'Getting involved' -- there's no sense in 'Call to action' when people can circumvent it by not clicking a link. Feedback welcome. I offer to write the text down to a number of WDTM? and WDID? [1], because I don't run a development snapshot. I can't make screenshots, nor move it to docbook. Some changes need some explantion, so I need a
Re: I'm thinking of doing a 2.16 screenshot tour
Alex Smith wrote: Hi all, As per Quim Gil's blog post 2.16 Release Notes: urgent call to contributors , I'm thinking of contributing to the release with a screenshot tour of the new features in Gnome 2.16 and maybe some screencasts with Byanz. If I were to do this, what would I need to have? Should my desktop look like a stock 2.16 setup? What desktop background should I have? Once these are cleared up, I hope to be able to have a complete screenshot tour within a few days. Thanks, Alex Hi Alex! Yes, as close to stock 2.16 setup as possible with the latest gnome-icon-theme, clearlooks and stuff. gnome-backgrounds has a couple of nice backgrounds with flowers, Open Flower for is really good looking for example and looks good on screenshots. Good luck, and thanks for volunteering for this! - Andreas -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Notes about the release notes
Le jeudi 24 août 2006, à 19:49, Claus Schwarm a écrit : Hi, all! This is my usual (yearly) request to restructure the way we present the items in our relase notes -- after all, they should make clear why the release matters. Looks good :-) Some comments: Front feature - (This is a special class: If there's anything in the amount of changes that could belong to a certain major topic, it should be featured here! For example, the last release had many changes that improved performance, so these changes could have been be featured here. This is a desperate way of justifying headlines such as GNOME 2.14 improves performance. A potential topic for this year could be Eyecandy.) * Something happened with icons * Transperacy in the Terminal * Compositor stuff in Metacity * new wanda icon in gnome-panel (Another one could be 'C#') I'd go with eyecandy, but I think it's important to note that it's an ongoing work, and that more will come in 2.18. Page 2: Extended funtionality: -- [snip] * Tomboy It's important to note that it replaces the sticky notes in our mind, which is still available for some time. [snip] * gtk filechooser location button thingy Might be interesting to add a note that it was added because users requested it. * orca as screenreader is better than what we had before (since it can be adapted for each software, iirc) [snip] Performance improvments --- * Nautilus has improved startup performance; uses less memory while thumbnailing * ? Evolution was improved wrt performance too. Code cleanups and backend improvements: --- * C# * Improved printing support (Ephiphany, Yelp, any others?) * Unicode 5.0 support. * GDM: No longer use popt in favor of glib's GOption command line parsing. IMPORTANT: Users who depend on the single dash options will need to change to use the non-deprecated double-dash options. * Unmaintained themes removed: rand-Canyon, Ocean-Dream, Simple Smokey-Blue, Traditional * Unmaintained engines removed: Lighthouseblue and Metal engines * GTK+ 2.10, with some interesting new features * start of deprecation of libgnomeprint/libgnomeprintui * gnopernicus has been replaced by orca Feedback welcome. I offer to write the text down to a number of WDTM? and WDID? [1], because I don't run a development snapshot. I can't make screenshots, nor move it to docbook. Some changes need some explantion, so I need a developer as well. And I'll probably need someone to proof-read from a factual point of view, as well as from a grammar point of view. I can help for the explanations. Go go go! Thanks, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: 2.16 slogan and banner
Looks like the eye-candy improvements are going to be the front feature of the release notes. The splash banner is a good opportunity to showcase these improvements, choosing cool brand new icons even regular GNOME users like haven't seen yet, importing the aesthetics of the default background desktops and the theme Clarius, perhaps playing with transparencies... Graphic designers: the drafts of the release notes can give you more (and better) hints and inspiration, see http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointFifteen/ReleaseNotes/ -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://guadec.org signature.asc Description: Això és una part d'un missatge, signada digitalment -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: 2.16 slogan and banner
--- Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the theme Clarius, Apparently, that's just a new name for Clearlooks. ___ Does your mail provider give you FREE antivirus protection? Get Yahoo! Mail http://uk.mail.yahoo.com -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Navigation bars (was Re: wgo layout planning)
I have started with the navigation, as planned: -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://guadec.org signature.asc Description: Això és una part d'un missatge, signada digitalment -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
