GNOME Shell 2.27.2 released

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GNOME Shell 2.27.2 is now available at:

 

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-shell/2.27

 

40e354e6cb91bcd8199521e37f80c4fdf5533332e5f3ee154d053fef761e2fbe gnome-shell-2.27.2.tar.bz2

55ff572539643d1add8d753086156be6622d43590b689a335998adba8972160a gnome-shell-2.27.2.tar.gz

 

About GNOME Shell

=================

 

GNOME Shell provides core user interface functions for the GNOME 3

desktop, like switching to windows and launching applications.

GNOME Shell takes advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics

hardware and introduces innovative user interface concepts to

provide a visually attractive and easy to use experience.

 

This is still a VERY EARLY version of GNOME Shell and should not be

taken of indicative of the final user interface or performance.

 

We are providing tarball releases at this point largely to allow

distributions to start building packaging for GNOME Shell. If you are

interested in building GNOME Shell from source, we would recommend

building from version control using the build script described at:

 

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell

 

Not only will that give you the very latest version of this rapidly

changing project, it will be much easier than get GNOME Shell and

its dependencies to build from tarballs.

 

Changes since 2.27.1

====================

 

* Add volumes (removable media, etc) to Places [Adel]

* Fix problem where menus were reread many times when a desktop file

changed because of duplicate notifications from gnome-menus. This

could cause the shell to lock up for seconds or minutes during

package upgrades. [Jon]

* Add GNOME_SHELL_SLOWDOWN_FACTOR=5 to see things in slo-mo [Dan]

* Larger and more organic-looking running applications glow [Colin]

* Search improvements - better keynav and display of headers

when narrowed to a category. [Marina]

* Don't show skip-taskbar windows in the overview [steve]

* Code cleanups [Dan, Owen, Steve]

* Bug fixes [Colin, Owen, Thomas]

* Build fixes and improvements [Colin, Owen]

 

Contributors:

Steve Frécinaux, Adel Gadllah, Jon Nettleton, Owen Taylor, Colin Walters,

Dan Winship, Thomas Wood, Marina Zhurakhinskaya

 

Translations:

Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (ca), Petr Kovar (cs), Kenneth Nielsen,

Kris Thomsen (da), Jorge González (es), Daniel Nylander (se),

Sander Dijkhuis (nl), A S Alam (pa), Ray Wang (zh_CN)

 

Bugs Fixed:

 

578196 - Problems with gnome-shell on Solaris

591535 - does not start

591564 - Write a README

592507 - Javascript exception when ~/.gtk-bookmarks is missing

592608 - better handling of .desktop changes

593409 - Do not consider windows with 'skip-taskbar' hint for overview thumbnails.

593458 - Update build-setup.sh for gconf, gio python usage

593471 - Account Name menu should change background when opened

593502 - Add an active property to ShellButtonBox

593503 - ShellButtonBox: Use default handlers, not self-connections

593504 - ShellButtonBox: only listen to button 1 and single clicks

593589 - Search results should have the selection displayed by default

593723 - Add volume support to places

593832 - Add environment variable to slow down animations

594042 - Redo AppWell glow to be based on a based on a .png instead of cairo

594184 - Glow misplaced for short names

 

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