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Contents of README:GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.1.0: "88MPH" ================================================ The GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.1.0 "88MPH", is ready for your bug-busting and testing pleasure! It is available for immediate download on ftp.gnome.org and mirrors. Download: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.1/2.1.0/sources/ tar.gz: 79M total tar.bz2: 61M total WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! -------------------------- This release is an UNSTABLE development series snapshot. It is intended for testing and hacking purposes ONLY. Like the Linux kernel, GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development status, so this 2.1.x series will eventually become the official 2.2 release. Please check our schedule for more info: http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/schedule/ New Features ------------ - Detailed control over fonts, anti-aliasing and subpixel smoothing in the Fonts control panel. Control anti-aliasing on-the-fly! As seen in Red Hat 8.0. - New tab in the Themes control panel provides metacity window border theme selection. - Windows control panel for window manager selection and options. - gedit has a new plugins, including a spelling checker, Galeon-style tab control, improved UTF8 support and a most recently used files list. Check out the recent files list dropdown on the 'Open' toolbar button! - Panel multiscreen support, zoom animation when launchers are clicked. - New panel buttons for Screenshot, Search, Show Desktop (actually an applet) and Run. - gdialog is back! Improved, and built by default in gnome-utils again. - Search Tool user interface completely revamped, supports Nautilus icons and drag'n'drop. - Nautilus now has an extensible thumbnailing system. See Alex Larsson's post on nautilus-list about ~/.gnome2/thumbnailrc. - freedesktop.org system icon theme support in Nautilus (see gnome-icon-theme). - New icon layout/canvas, general performance fixes, and a new rename widget with i18n support. - Improved Nautilus side pane based on standard widgets. - Requires the 1.1.x development series of Pango, which supports Xft2 and fontconfig. - New 'gman' alias for yelp, which handily pops up the man page index. This feature dedicated to Glynn Foster. Preview Modules --------------- The following modules have been proposed for addition to the 2.2 Desktop release: - gnome-themes: New package of default themes for GNOME, which currently includes GTK+ and icon themes designed for accessibility. - gnome-icon-theme: Default GNOME icon theme. - metacity: Window manager for the adult in you. Proposed to replace Sawfish as default window manager. - vte: Terminal widget with improved font, internationalisation and accessibility support. Designed to replace libzvt. - file-roller: Full-featured archive creation, browsing, and unpacking utility. See: http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/ - gcalctool: Scientific calculator. Proposed to replace gnome-calculator. Build Requirements ------------------ - The tarballs included in the release. :-) - Some very basic packages not distributed with this release, such as image libraries, popt and freetype. These should all be included with or available for your distribution. - Xft2 and fontconfig for superior font rendering and configuration, from http://fontconfig.org/ - Python 2 with expat xml modules for libglade (some modules still require the libglade-convert script, however we do plan to ship glade2 files). - Docbook DTD 4.1.2, Docbook XSL stylesheets and a valid system catalogue file for scrollkeeper (which in turn is required by many desktop components for documentation). Happy testing! - The GNOME Release Team |
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