news 28 Posted March 23, 2010 GNOME Shell 2.29.1 is now available at: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-shell/2.29 710b863c0beea45543f8057d31b028ec85e19efeedda2b964d784d6fc1729c0b gnome-shell-2.29.1.tar.bz2 029cc7dd0b1a64ba1f718fb12325175fc2d7b6122a5fdc5ca219715e7b1c6625 gnome-shell-2.29.1.tar.gz Note: gnome-shell 2.29.1 now depends on Clutter-1.2.0 and will no longer build with older versions of Clutter. 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 an 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 2.29.0 ==================== * Support and require Clutter 1.2 (Owen) * Allow dragging windows in the linear workspaces view (Maxim) * Shrink and scale the application switcher as necessary when there are too many applications to fit on the screen (Adel) * Scroll in the linear view by clicking on desktop and dragging (Florian M) * Display application search results as tiles (Colin) * Improve RTL support (Abderrahim, Colin) * Add WindowManager.setKeybindingHandler() to allow extensions to take over keybindings such as alt-Tab (William W) * Add style information to the LookingGlass actor picker (Florian M) * Run dialog improvements: - Make Return run in terminal (Maxim) - Port to CSS (Maxim) - Support opening files and folders (Florian M) - Store history in GConf and allow access with up arrow (Maxim) * Minor UI improvements: - Show a message when unmount from "Places & Devices" fails (Florian M) - Use one button to toggle between single and grid view (Adel) - Disable clicking on the background of workspaces with multiple windows to prevent accidental workspace activation when activating a window (Adel) - Reduce window movement when closing windows from the overview (Florian M) - Update look and feel of the search field to match mockups (Florian M) - Animate the transition between the linear and grid views (Florian M) - Shrink windows to small previews when dragging (Colin) - Visual tweaks (Adel, Florian M, Jon) - Make workspace switch keybindings work in the overview (Colin) * Shell toolkit (ST): - allow "background-gradient-direction: none" (Dan) - replace StTextureCache with the much more feature-rich ShellTextureCache (Colin) - Add st_texture_cache_load() and st_texture_cache_load_file_to_cogl_texture() (Colin) - Add caret-size CSS property to style the size of the StEntry cursor - Clean up and rework scrolling to work better with Clutter size negotiation (Owen) - Redo StDrawingArea not to use ClutterCairoTexture, fixing Clutter-1.2 compatibility (Owen) - Rewrite StScrollbar size allocation for clutter-1.2 compatibiltiy (Owen) - Add :hover pseudo-class support to StEntry (Florian M) - Add st_theme_node_get_horizontal/vertical_padding (Adel) - Factor out common ClutterContainer implementation code (Dan) - Improve handling of hint text (Thomas) * Development and building: - Add a --version command line option (Florian M) - Add 'gnome-shell-full' target to our jhbuild that builds GTK+ stack in addition to more immediate gnome-shell dependencies (Colin) - To allow debugging from an ssh session, When running without a display, automatically try to connect to a current session of the same user (Colin) - Error out at startup if GConf schemas are missing (Dan) - Change screencast extension to ogv (Nuno) - Build fixes (Adel, Colin, Dan, Florian S, Owen) * Code cleanups (Adel, Florian M, Lex, Dan, Maxim) * Bug fixes: - Fix detection of 12/24 locals (Dirk-Jan) - Memory leak fixes (Maxim) - Miscellaneous bug fixes (Adel, Colin, Dan, Florian M, Marina, Maxim, Owen) Contributors: Nuno Araujo, Dirk-Jan C. Binnema, Maxim Ermilov, Adel Gadllah, Lex Hider, Abderrahim Kitouni, William Jon McCann, Florian Müllner, Florian Scandella, Owen Taylor, Colin Walters, Dan Winship, Thomas Wood, William Wolf, Marina Zhurakhinskaya Translations: Ivaylo Valkov (bg), Petr Kovar (cs), Mario Blättermann (de), Kris Thomsen (dk), Bruce Cowan (en_GB), Jorge González (es), Timo Jyrinki (fi), Pablo Martin-Gomez, Claude Paroz (fr), Kjartan Maraas (nb), Piotr DrÄ…g (pl), Matej UrbanÄiÄ (sl) Fixed Bugs: 572312 Allow the removal of any empty workspace 597983 [AppSwitcher] Prevent thumbnail box from being partly offscreen 603488 LC_TIME not read? 607375 Allow notification updates / removal 607826 Window previews change positions when the number of workspaces changes 608915 Ellipsization problems in message tray 609205 Modernize autotools configuration 609218 drag and drop from places in the activities overview 609243 Problems activating a zoomed window or cancelling overview 609604 [stScrollView] Implement bottom/top shadows. 609871 Add the workspaces view key to the gconf schema 610049 workspaceswitcher popup should have same proportions as actual screen 610189 Move workspace controls into a single object 610279 "st_widget_get_theme_node called on a widget not in a stage" 610350 New workspaces slide over the workspace controls in grid view 610494 messagetray "obsolete" icons should go away 610549 notification-daemon / message tray should handle "\n" in the body text specially 610594 Add demands attention support to the messagetray 610679 Fix COGL deprecation / update clutter to 1.1/1.2 610740 Use AppWellIcon for search results 610787 Fix installation of .mo files 610801 [Overview] Use one button to toggle between single and grid view 610820 Fix clicking on notification icons after updates 610845 Use gjs_context_get_native_context() 610856 allow "background-gradient-direction: none" 610868 [Overview] Don't activate workspace when more than one window is open 610872 Change height of more apps view 610892 [Overview] Switch workspace when dragging the desktop 610993 [gnome-shell.modules] Add gnome-shell-future target 611122 Set this._notificationRemoved to false in the right place 611167 lots of motion when closing windows in window picker 611203 Fix problems on destruction 611209 ability to open a folder path from the Alt+F2 launcher and the activities window 611211 [lookingGlass] Add style information to the picker 611288 openoffice - open different documents - program title on the top bar 611641 Top part of the more applications pane should be insensitive to clicks, like the rest of it. 611660 Screencast extention should be ogv 611740 Size negotation in StScrollview/MxScrollview 611750 Rework StDrawingArea not to use ClutterCairoTexture 611754 window box and application box on different monitors 611944 [stScrollBar] avoid queueing a relayout during allocation 612018 notificationDaemon.js is missing import 612200 No feedback when "unmount" operation fails 612452 Adjust more-apps menu to better match the overall theme 612511 Fixes for dispose and finalize 612635 Alt-F2 - support arrow-up to recall previous commands 612651 Add connect and disconnect functions for appSwitcher so that extension etc. can disconnect the default one and attach their own. 612734 src/Makefile.am: fix .gir dependencies 612759 Fix app icon fading 612852 [workspaceSwitcher] Use CSS for spacing 612967 Random crash in gjs_invoke_c_function 613101 [main] Use Meta.Display.lookup_keyboard_action to enable workspace switches 613164 Please add a --version command line option 613367 Drag and drop of windows misbehaves _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
