news 28 Posted May 26, 2010 GNOME Shell 2.31.2 is now available at: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-shell/2.31 cf16167cf2354f57431125b38a7b3de424c3c9d3d44627c52ee4596694ee80f2 gnome-shell-2.31.2.tar.bz2 65997e94f02ebb6ef912e68abf3470b235ecee3de0fe10fddbfab0a7be911664 gnome-shell-2.31.2.tar.gz Note: This is the last release of GNOME that will build against GNOME 2.30; future releases will depend on GNOME 2.31 development versions of libraries. 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. Tarball releases are provided largely for distributions to build packages. 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 2.29.1 ==================== * Add a magnifier to the shell; this is mostly meant for accessibility, but also will be useful for general use. See http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Magnification#Magnifier_Preferences_Dialog for a pygtk test app to enable the magnifier; eventually it will be controlled from the GNOME control center. (Joseph) * Make the clock configurable via GConf and add a simple preferences dialog (gnome-shell-clock-preferences). (Florian) * Message tray: - Support inline chatting in IM notifications; IM notifications now use Telepathy, rather than the generic notification protocol. (Dan) - Display urgent notifications first and fully expanded (Dan) - Pop out last notification when mousing over summary area (Dan) - Don't time out the tray if the user is mousing towards it (Dan) * Shell performance framework (Owen) - Add a performance event log that tracks events (such as frame paints), and statistics such as malloc'ed memory. - Javascript "performance scripts" drive the shell and then extract "metrics" such as the frame rate when zooming to the overview. - Recorded performance data can be uploaded to http://shell-perf.gnome.org * Add an initial application menu in the top panel; currently just has a Quit option. (Colin) * User interface enhancements - Allow using the middle mouse button to open an instance of an application on a new workspace (Christina) - Restyle user status menu to match application menu, rather than being an out-of-place GTK+ menu. (Colin) - Add keyboard navigation of menus (Dan) - Raise all windows for an application when alt-Tabbing to it or clicking on it in the app well (Colin) - Restore click-and-hold menus for app-well icons (Florian) - Fade in windows on map rather than scaling them in (Adel) - Remove icon and menu from window titlebar (Owen) - In linear view, activate the drop-target workspace (Florian) - When dragging on linear workspace view, detect when the user *didn't* mean to "throw" to the next workspace (Adel) - Always hide the info (e.g. undo) bar after a short timeout (Marina) - Provide the feedback in the info bar when it is not possible to create new workspace or remove the current workspace. (Marina) - Visual tweaks (Colin, Christian, Dan, Discardi, Florian) * Run dialog: - Don't add duplicates to the history (Adel) - Accept Enter (keypad) key in addition to Return. (Siegfried) * Remove the sidebar; it's not the direction we want to go for "gizmos", and the unfinished version was showing up in too many screenshots. * Shell Toolkit - Add methods to add/remove individual names from style class (Dan) - Add hover tracking to StWidget (Dan) - Refactor drawing from StWidget to StThemeNode (Colin) - Add support for "spread radius" to shadows (Florian) - Shadow all background/border elements, not just the background image (Florian) - Add a StContainer base class with common container functionality (Florian) - Add a StGroup container to mix fixed positioning with CSS (Florian) * Looking Glass (Colin) - Add window list - Replace properties tab with a properties popup * GTK+ 3 compat: Build properly against GTK+ with -DGSEAL_ENABLE (Florian) * Call JS_MaybeGC at idle, hopefully reducing GC pauses (Adel) * Move user files to XDG_DATA_HOME, rather than ~/.gnome2 (Florian) * Remove libbig, rewriting remaining code to use ST instead (Dan) * Pick up system settings for font rendering (Florian) * Support application identification by startup notification properties (Colin) * Many bug fixes for full-screen window handling (Adel) * Improve identification of primary monitor for multihead (Adel) * Prefer eject over unmount for the eject button in places (Florian) * Fix many bugs with using the wrong functions to get event state, then block the wrong functions once and for all (Dan) * Bug fixes (Adel, Colin, Dan, Florian, Maxim, Owen, Siegfried) * Build fixes (Adel, Colin, Dan, Owen, Rico, Sander) * Code cleanups (Adel, Colin, Dan, Florian, Marina) Contributors: Christina Boumpouka, Sander Dijkhuis, Maxim Ermilov, Adel Gadllah, Frédéric Péters, Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals, Florian Müllner, Discardi Nicola, Joseph Scheuhammer, Christian Schramm, Rico Tzschichholz, Colin Walters, Dan Winship Translations: Khaled Hosny (ar), Petr Kovar (cz), Mario Blättermann (de), Jorge González (es), Claude Paroz, Bruno Brouard (fr), Francisco Diéguez (gl), Kostas Papadimas (gr), Gabor Kelemen (hu), Milo Casagrande (it), Kjartan Maraas (nb), Sander Dijkhuis (nl), A S Alam (pa), Felipe Borges (pt_BR), Matej UrbanÄÂiÄ (sl), MiloÅ¡ Popović (sr), Maxim V. Dziumanenko (uk) Fixed bugs: 584651 - top panel should act like a menubar 590429 - implement active application area 591390 - remove icon and menu from titlebar 591645 - Opening an application on a new workspace 592640 - long application titles for "non-tracked" apps are not truncated 595507 - Add magnification functionality. 597983 - [AppSwitcher] Prevent thumbnail box from being partly offscreen 599713 - follow system font hinting style 604326 - crash when doing certain operations (such as closing windows) 604943 - St.Widget should add_style and remove_style helper methods. [...] 604978 - Improve run dialog 608647 - picks the wrong monitor to start on 608995 - [recorder] Make parameters configureable 608999 - reimplement chat in terms of telepathy 609013 - click-hold on app icons not working 609015 - changes for "more apps" view 609218 - drag and drop from places in the activities overview 609802 - right clicking an application icon leaves a frame around it in overview mode 610071 - it is frustrating when mousing down to banner notification and it goes away 610191 - Animate workspace view switches 610385 - Places unmount icon position 610393 - apply same style on hover for places and app 610670 - [MessageTray] Support reactive notification actors 610726 - Message Tray: Summary on Hover 610801 - [Overview] Use one button to toggle between single and grid view 610872 - Change height of more apps view 610892 - [Overview] Switch workspace when dragging the desktop 611609 - chat scrollback 611610 - interaction with empathy 611612 - urgent notifications should pre-expand 611613 - get presence notifications from telepathy 611660 - Screencast extention should be ogv 611754 - window box and application box on different monitors 612072 - Rhythmbox notifications getting bigger and bigger 612200 - No feedback when "unmount" operation fails 612635 - Alt-F2 -support arrow-up to recall previous commands 612651 - Add connect and disconnect functions for appSwitcher[...] 612833 - Patches to consume new startup-notification changes 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 613195 - altTab.js continued CSSification 613367 - Drag and drop of windows misbehaves 613405 - Ejecting drives does not run the same action as Nautilus 613428 - Crash with signal 11 613456 - animate scrollbar in single view mode 613536 - [Overview] Postpone window repositioning while zooming 613731 - [runDialog] Don't add duplicates to the history 613749 - Werror flag makes trouble(s) for old gcc 613804 - panel application menu 613832 - Improve support for CSS shadows 613944 - alt tab switcher icons vanish on dual screen setup 613964 - StScrollView: fix scrollbar allocation when one axis is GTK_POLICY_NEVER 614047 - StBoxLayout: remove an incorrect drawing optimization 614144 - placesDisplay: Prevent bookmarks from being cut off 614293 - [shellGenericContainer] Missing calls to st_theme_node_adjust_preferred_width/height 614362 - Remove sidebar 614516 - un-embiggen gnome-shell 614660 - [stThemeNode] Squash epic memory leak 614702 - Notification font hinting is off 614725 - Call JS_MaybeGC when idle 614755 - Major ShellApp API cleanup, startup notification, window focus handling 614905 - Fix Clutter warnings 614972 - IRC activity from empathy floods notifications 614974 - avatars not being loaded right away sometimes 614975 - update conversations in expanded view 614978 - conversation disappeared from the message tray 615004 - when typing in chat expanded view the box grows down 615590 - Remove a stray bit of user data 615592 - Adapt to new Mutter plugin initialization method 615621 - Missing files in EXTRA_DIST which brakes "make dist" 616051 - Make alt-tab more app-based 616574 - crash at shell-app-system.c:655 616706 - Make getting the environment from gnome-session more robust 616951 - Fix panel icon overdraw 617555 - match XDG freedesktop directories specification 617785 - linear view: should follow dropped windows 617959 - [altTab] Allow selection of individual windows 618062 - linearView: Cancel workspace scrolling when the user stops dragging 618104 - calendar: Fix day headers being elipizied 618189 - Framework for performance measurement 618258 - Use accessor functions instead of direct access 618295 - banner not fully shown (and too wide) on long message 618371 - [plugin] Create ShellGlobal later to avoid connecting to X during build 618378 - [shellApp] Rework compare to take into account closed windows 618438 - Remove icons from action items in the status menu 618460 - menu design improvements 618482 - [stThemeNode] Don't treat min-width and min-height as a fixed size 618793 - inconsistent spacing in panel labels 618915 - magnifier: use global.get_pointer instead of gdk_window_get_pointer 618918 - Add a hack to mark functions deprecated 619008 - make PanelMenu keyboard-navigable 619044 - Notifications from telepathy don't appear 619113 - [panel] fix nested-queue_relayout warning in menus 619144 - Clock too high 619276 - Missing reference for scripting.js 619580 - Do not fail if json Python module is not available 619623 - [stTable] Align children to integral positions _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
