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GNOME 3.8
Platform-wide features
See https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointSeven/Features
Module-specific features
For Users
Evince Document Viewer
Evolution
Gedit
Vinagre
Web
For Developers
Anjuta
GTK
For Everyone
GNOME 3.0
Obsolete: We ran out of time re: updating this, and are now working on the release notes (as of 1 March 2011). Apologies. http://www.gnome3.org has a summary of what's new in GNOME 3. We intend on updating this for 3.2 so you know what's in the plans for 3.2 (plans for the UX, settings, docs, platform, apps) by the time we release 3.0 in April 2011.
For Users
Empathy
Yelp
- Stronger focus on topic-oriented help
- Simpler interface focused on the document you're viewing, rather than the entire help system
- Faster, faster, and faster
- New "Quick Search" autocompletion in location entry
For Developers
Glib / GTK+
AtSpi
- D-Bus support
GConf
- Migration to GSettings and dconf: new settings or preferences management platform
Anjuta
- Faster symbol browsing
- Class-inheritance plugin for easy code browsing is back in mainline
For Admins
For Everyone
Proposed Modules
See http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirtyone/ and its subpages.
GNOME 2.26
For Users
Artwork
- Dark widget theme
- Flat widget theme
- Compact widget theme for small screens
- Provide color variations on some of the existing themes
- Initial set of 256x256 icons
- Nicer GNOME Panel icons
- Update outdated desktop emblems
Evolution Groupware
- Disk summary performance / stability improvements
- PST plugin support [if libpst is available]
- Exchange 2007/MAPI Connector
- Deprecation of libical fork, use upstream version
GNOME Character Map
- Ability to print charts of characters with pangocairo
GNOME Control Center
- Support for launching arbitrary commands via keybindings
GNOME Games
- Aisleriot
- Theming: backgrounds and card localisation
- Game layout improvements (ex. adapting to smaller screen size)
- Keyboard dealing for all games
- Misc game improvements
GNOME Media
Replace gnome-volume-control with a PulseAudio mixer, and/or a higher-level device control UI
GNOME Power Manager
Better ConsoleKit and PolicyKit integration
Nautilus File Manager
- Toolbar editor
- Improved list view interaction
- Allow resetting file associations and removing custom applications
Seahorse Encryption Keys Manager
- Possibly a Pidgin/Telepathy encryption plugin
- Digitally signed documents in Evince
Tomboy Notes
- Complete cross-platform support
Vinagre Remote Desktop Client
- Support for RDP (Microsoft Terminal Services) connections
Vino Desktop Remote Access
- Ability to disable wallpaper
For Developers
Anjuta Integrated Development Environment
- New Symbol database plugin
- Improved symbol autocompletion
- Better Glade integration
- Easy start-up wizard
- Version control status in file-tree
GNOME 2.24
For Users
Artwork
- New GNOME default wallpapers
- Convert more applications to use names from the icon-spec
Cheese
OpenGL backend and new effects
- Improved integration with the desktop
- Usability improvements
- Data synchronisation
Deskbar Applet
Capuchin support: easy download of additional plugins from internet. Blog post
- Performance improvements (nothing done, yet, maybe in time for 2.23.91 releae)
Added the possibility to run Deskbar as a tray icon instead of an applet with the -t option from the commandline. It only works with Window UI. Blog post
- Access history like in 2.18. Added arrow beside the Deskbar icon. Clicking on it will show the a list of previously activated actions. Selecting an item an pressing the delete key will delete the item from history.
Find programs in $PATH that start with search string. Blog post
- New modules:
- Additions to module API:
- Added (set|get)_snippet methods to Match interface. If a snippet is set it will displayed in a new line under the matche's get_verb value
- Added get_tooltip method to Action interface. Override this method to display a tooltip when the user hovers over the match (the default action's tooltip is displayed) or over an action in the list of additional actions.
Improved del.ico.us support
Support for Firefox 3
Evince Document Viewer
Annotations support (Google Summer of Code 2007)
- Performance improvements
- User interface improvements:
- Progress feedback when loading a remote file
- Progress feedback when printing
- More intuitive sidebar pages
Improved accessibility support (GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility)
Evolution Groupware
- Windows support for Evolution
- Improved stability
MVC Changes to Calendar (Improves speed and reduces memory) [http://chenthill.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/evolution-calendar-modelview-cleanup]
- Disk summary (Means very less memory consumption: I will provide graph/data for this for release notes)
- Custom header support while sending mails
- New Bonobo-less composer for Evolution
- Google contacts support
- WebDAV contacts backend
- Message templates
Eye of GNOME Image Viewer
- PNG metadata support (XMP and color profiles)
- Performance improvements
- Set of default plugins
- UI polishing based on users' feedback
- Migration to gio/vfs
File Roller Archive Manager
- Added support for the following archive types: alz, rzip, cab, tar.7z.
- Added ability to create multivolume rar and 7zip archives.
- Added header encryption for 7zip and rar archives.
- Migration to gio/vfs
Gedit Text Editor
- Improved startup time (removed libgnome and libglade dependencies)
- Migration to gio/gvfs
GNOME Applets
- Improved investment applet
- Energy friendly improvements for the mixer
Optionally use PolicyKit for the CPU Frequency Applet
GNOME Character Map
- Support for Unicode 5.1
GNOME Control Center
- New screen resolution settings with support for XRandR 1.2/multihead
- Migration to gio/gvfs
- Improved themes/thumbnails handling
Reworked sound theme support based on libcanberra, see http://www.hadess.net/2008/07/freedesktop-sound-theme-support-done.html for a screenshot
GNOME Calculator
Improved Q&A and bug fixes
- GCalctool website
GNOME Desktop (libgnome-desktop)
- API for randr management
Deprecate GnomeDesktopItem, replace it with a proper implementation in GTK+
- Move docs to GNOME User Guide
- Deprecate all icons which are not used anymore
GNOME Developer Docs
Accessibility Guide for Developers (GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility)
- Updated GNOME Documentation Style Guide (to be renamed to GNOME Style Guide) to reflect current technologies and trends
- Revised terminology recommendations
GNOME Games
- General:
- Online highscores
- Chess
- Use of libgames-support for Python games
- Split the GGZ GUI code out of glChess
- Gnometris
- Performance fixes on new theme
- Graphical indication of rotation point and direction
- Robots
- Resizeable/translateable robots
- Sudoku
- Support for hand-edited puzzles
- Support for import/export puzzles
- Puzzle generation performance improvements
GNOME Keyboard Handling (libgnomekbd)
- User interface for choosing layouts not only per-country but also per-language
GNOME Keyring
- Allow Seahorse to manage encryption keys and certificates
- Complete the PKCS#11 integration work
- Support for encryption key unlock and usage constraints (such as timeouts and prompts)
GNOME Media
Better integration with PulseAudio
- Migration to gio/gvfs
- Improved gstreamer-properties and gnome-audio-profiles-editor (similar to Banshee profiles)
- Disable GNOME-CD/CDDBSlave/VUMeter by default
GNOME On-screen Keyboard
- Possible migration to Python
GNOME Panel
- Positioning fixes of applets when Panel size changes
- Support for setting menubar layout, not only the items in the Applications menu
- Integration with new GNOME Session Manager
Improved location/timezone selection in the clock applet, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TimeZoneAndLocation for details and screenshots
GNOME Power Manager
- Improvements on backlight brightness control
- Allow changing the backlights of all monitors
GNOME Session Manager
- Better integration with Autostart
- More flexibility and convenience for distributors on defining their default session applications
- D-Bus API for log out/reboot/shutdown (with save session) operations
GNOME Terminal
Port to GtkUIManager
GNOME Utils
- Baobab
- Migration to gio/gvfs
New TreeMap view in the main window
- Dictionary
- Support for local files (dict and possibly stardict)
- Custom definitions to a local database
- Wikipedia support
- Show and select sources from the sidebar
- GFloppy
- Replace with the GNOME Formatter, a true media formatter
- Screenshot
- Desktop area grabbing
- Can include cursor
- Support actions: save, copy to clipboard, and open with
Switch save dialog to a pure GtkFileChooser
- Rewrite the capture logic and make it work properly under Compiz
- Migration to gio/gvfs
- System Log Viewer
- Plugin system to handle different log sources
HTTP stack (libsoup)
- Cookies
- Caching
- Better proxy support / use GConf proxy information
- Gnome Keyring integration
- Content-Encoding
- Better SSL support
Libwnck Window Management Library
- Better integration with Compiz and other window managers
- API stabilization work
- Unified handling virtual desktops and viewports the same way
- Improved developer docs
Nautilus File Manager
- Column-wise view
- Tabbed interface
- Key-binding support for Nautilus extensions
Orca Screen Reader
- Java platform support
OpenOffice enhancements and improvements
- Thunderbird enhancements and improvements
- Enhancements for people with low vision
- Better support for control via braille devices
- Improved developer documentation
Accessible install for OpenSolaris
Project Hamster ("Time Tracker" in applet list) - new module (screenshots here, but probably should be redone with theme/content)
- Easy time tracking
- Stop tracking on idle or shutdown
- Export HTML
- Fancy graphs
- Global hotkey support
Seahorse Encryption Keys Manager
- Evolution integration (e-d-s integration, auto-contact creation, photo ID synchronization)
- Management of gnome-keyring encryption keys and certificates
- Python bindings for libcryptui
- Refreshed icons
Soundjuicer Audio CD Extractor
- User interface improvements
- Migration to libmusicbrainz3
Tomboy Notes
- Upgrade printing and tray icon to use newer GTK+ APIs
- New Tasque add-in
Totem Movie Player
- Better DVB support
- Migration to gio/vfs
Vinagre Remote Desktop Client
- Improved bookmarking
- Allow folders
- Automatically show Avahi-discovered machines
- Import/Export bookmarks
- Panel applet: quick access to bookmarked and avahi-discovered connections
- Tabbed interface
- Better fullscreen mode
- Send custom keys (like Ctrl-Alt-Del) to the server
- Control the properties of a connection (like depth color, read-only mode, etc)
Vino Desktop Remote Access
- Support for reverse connections
- Support for connection logging
- Ability to choose which interface to listen to
Zenity
- Multi-task support for progressbar dialog
- Support for setting label names
- Improvements on notification icon
GTK+
- Key compose sequences have been updated to match the latest X.org sequences
- Autocompletion in the file chooser entry has been reworked
- The print dialog displays printer status information and is less prone to block when cups doesn't respond
GtkStatusIcon supports keyboard navigation
- React at runtime to font configuration changes without a restart
- GTK+ no longer uses translations when the application itself is not translated to the current locale
Some very longstanding, annoying bugs have been fixed: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56070 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316087
For Developers
Anjuta Integrated Development Environment
Improvements on GtkSourceView-based editor
- Improved program execution interface
- Improved build plugin
- Git plugin
- Port GTK+ 2.10 deprecated APIs
- Migration to gio/gvfs
Gail
- Move Gail into GTK+
Glade User Interface Designer
- New parser, allows plugin backends to define widget-class level definitions of the XML format
- Allow plugins to define editors for custom properties
Support for both formats libglade/GtkBuilder, with UI feedback and error summaries regarding incompatibilities in conversions
- Support targeting of specific toolkit versions
- New builder features
Support for GtkLabel attributes property with editor
Integration of GtkUIManager and GtkActions
Integration of GtkSizeGroup
Integration of GtkListStore/GtkTreeStore editors
Integration of GtkTreeView editor (packing of columns and cell renderers)
GTK+
GtkMountOperation, a subclass of GMountOperation that can show password dialogs when mounting volumes
GdkAppLaunchContext, to launch applications with startup notification
- gtk_show_uri(), a replacement for gnome_vfs_url_show() and gnome_url_show()
- GTK+ expects to include only gtk/gtk.h (can be turned off with GTK_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES)
GtkBuilder can build parts of an XML tree
GtkFileChooser has a GFile-oriented API now
GVFS
Fix regressions introduced by the transition from GnomeVFS
- Support for Proxy Auto-configuration (PAC)
- Configure options for mount points
- Possible emblems support on gio/gvfs level
Pango
Merge all shapers with the ones from Qt in HarfBuzz
Remove all script shapers, add a single HarfBuzz shaper
For Everyone
Infrastructure
Decide on a new Distributed Version Control System (This is not about switching, just deciding and understanding implications)
- Move buildbot master to elsewhere
- Add loads more buildbots (needs changes in buildbot)
- Setup new GNOME website on GNOME servers, if ready
- Upgrade svn.gnome.org to SVN 1.4+ and setup readonly SVN mirror on container
- Complete move of sysadmin.gnome.org content to the wiki
- Document everything; policies, servers, etc
- Setup slave DNS server on socket
- Upgrade socket, progress to new Ubuntu LTS
Proposed modules
Keep in mind that there's no guarantee that the proposed modules will actually be integrated into GNOME.
Empathy: a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, and a GNOME client using those widgets.
Conduit: a synchronization architecture for the GNOME desktop.
Hamster: a time tracking applet for the GNOME desktop.
GNOME 2.22
For Users
Artwork
Remove LargePrint icon theme
- Support for placeholder icons
- Add .pc files for a11y themes, so applications can install their own a11y icons
Fix canvas in available HighContrast-SVG icons
- Misc consistency improvements:
- Focus rings in the different themes
- Expander in Clearlooks theme
- Support for fill levels in other engines
Remove the Low Contrast icons (Under discussion)
- Improvements on the default look of GDM
- Complete gnome-icon-theme
More HighContrast icons, especially for application launchers
Deskbar Applet
Support for NewStuffManager (soon to be renamed to Capuchin): easy download of additional plugins from internet
- Full Evolution address book search
- Performance improvements
Ekiga VoIP Client
- Release of 3.0
- Support for audio and video codecs on the form of plugins (allowing H.263, H.264 to be used through appropriate plugins)
- New user interface
- SIP Presence support (to know if somebody is away, in a call, and so on)
- Xvideo support
- A better Win32 version thanks to DirectX support (sound, video, display)
- IAX2 support
Epiphany Web Browser
Experimental WebKit backend
Evince Document Viewer
Annotation support (SoC Project 2007)
- Support for page transition effects on presentations
- Improve UI feedback when opening remote files, exposing document metadata and others
- Support for specials and printing in DVI
- Migration to gio/gvfs
- Improved selections (selecting images, images + text, etc)
- Improved History handling
- Thumbnails in file chooser
- Stability, test coverage and proper documentation
- Perfomance and efficiency improvements
Evolution Groupware
Non-intrusive error reporting (Read more)
- Message Tagging (aka Custom Labels)
- External editor support
- Google Calendar support
- Option to disable search folders (can improve memory)
Evolution Data Server
- Google Calendar backend
- Stability, and minimize the memory requirement
Eye of GNOME Image Viewer
- Set of powerful plugins
- Printing multiple images per sheet
- Support for IPTC metadata
- Misc improvements on plugin API
- Misc usability improvements
Gedit Text Editor
Migration to GtkPrint
- Migration to gio/gvfs
- Remove libgnome[ui] dependency
GNOME Control Center
- New Localization capplet with keyboard layout and language
New Input Devices capplet with Keyboard, Mouse, and others (Under discussion)
- New Screen capplet with screen resolution, screen saver, and xrandr
- Desktop Effects in Appearance capplet
- More performance improvements in gnome-settings-daemon
libslab API review and bonobo replacement with GtkUnique
GNOME Desktop
- Finish moving the docs to the gnome-user-guide module
- Rewrite gnome-about so that it looks better, and fix related a11y bugs
- Remove all deprecated icons
GNOME Display Manager (GDM)
- Redesign of GDM so that it makes use of D-Bus for all interprocess communications
- Revamp of configuration management system so it is based on XML
- Redesign of gdmsetup
GNOME Doc Utils
- Mallard, the new topic-oriented help format
GNOME Games
- Aisleriot
- Animation/arrow to better visualize hints
- Chess
- Fix remaining crashers in glChess
- Support for GGZ networking
- Gnometris
- Fix performance problems on new theme
- Gtali
- Tooltips for the score table
- Undo feature
- Robots
- Make robots resizable/translatable
- Sudoku
- Revamped game-saving/restoring with a vastly simplified interface
- File-based system to store information about generated and played puzzles for better error handling
GNOME Keyboard Handling (libgnomekbd)
- Use explicit gettext-based translation to retrieve localized layout descriptions
GNOME Keyring
- Support for using blank passwords with keyrings which results in an unencrypted keyring.
- Initial support for X.509 certificates and keys.
- SSH agent based on new certificate and key store.
- Basic PKCS#11 integration to make gnome-keyring a certificate and key store.
- Simpler API for using passwords and secrets from gnome-keyring.
GNOME Panel
- Time zone support in the clock applet
- Support for editing the menu layout on Menubar and Main Menu, not only the application menu
- Fix positioning of applets when the panel size changes
- Nice effect when clicking on a launcher
GNOME System Tools
- HAL integration
- rtnetlink integration (Linux only)
Optional PolicyKit use
GNOME On-screen Keyboard
- Work on Firefox 3 accessibility interoperability
Fix remaining hardware issues related to use of FreeDesktop.org's XEvIE
GNOME Utils
- Dictionary
- Support for local files (dict and possibly stardict)
- Custom definitions to a local database
- Wikipedia support
Migration to GtkPrint
- Show and select sources from the sidebar
- GFloppy
- Replace with the GNOME Formatter, a true media formatter
- Screenshot
- Desktop area grabbing
- Support actions: save, copy to clipboard, and open with
Switch save dialog to a pure GtkFileChooser
- Rewrite the capture logic and make it work properly under Compiz
- System Log Viewer
- Plugin system to handle different log sources
Metacity Window Manager
- Support for multi-screen full screening
- Code/infrastructure refactoring of the handling of transients
Support for MPX (Multiple Pointer X) (SoC Project 2007)
Nautilus File Manager
- Migration to gio/gvfs
Orca
- Phase out Orca's atspi.py in favor of pyatspi.py
- Aggressive bug fixing and performance work
Speech Refactoring (+)
- Support switching between multiple locales
- Support finer granularity of voices
- Braille refactoring
Support better input/control from Braille device (text selection, navigation, etc.) (+)
- Support display of text attribute information
- Support contracted Braille
- Better support for AJAX and ARIA on Firefox 3.0
- Provide compelling access to Thunderbird 3.0
Provide compelling/useful access to OpenOffice Impress (+)
Provide compelling/useful access to OpenOffice Database (+)
(+) = if time permits
Seahorse Encryption Keys Manager
- Complete implementation of missing gnome-keyring-manager features (Access Control Lists)
Totem Video Player
- MythTV plugin
- Better playlist drag and drop
- Full DVB support
- Better support for text subtitle selection
Session Management
- Better integration with Autostart
- More flexibility and convenience for distributors on defining their default session applications
- D-Bus API for log out/reboot/shutdown (with save session) operations
Tomboy Notes
- Automatic/Background Synchronization
- Support for tasks inside notes
- Support for note tagging
Vino Desktop Remote Access
- Clipboard support between VNC client and server
- New VNC client well integrated to GNOME
- "Advanced" settings on configuration applet
Yelp Help Viewer
- Improved stylesheets (layout) for printing and docbook
- Improved table 'o contents
- Support for Mallard
Zenity
- Support for multitask in progress dialog
- Support for setting dialog button labels
For Developers
Accerciser
- New validation plugin
AtSpi
- Initial work on removing Bonobo dependency
- Feasibility study for migration to D-bus
DevHelp API Documentation Browser
- User interface for easily installing new books
WebKit support
- Misc UI improvements
GnomeVFS
- Migration to gio/gvfs
Gail
- Better accessibility support for GTK+
Glade
Support for various output formats (glade files for libglade & for gtk+ builder)
- Allow developers to add custom code for editing and (de)serializing their custom widgets/properties
Pango
Move to new HarfBuzz code base that uses mmap()ed font files, saving lots of per-process private memory
- Fix backspacing problem for non-Latin languages
- Perfectly text-extractable PDFs using pangocairo
- Allow loading fonts from a font file and use it with Pango
For Admins
Pessulus Lockdown Editor
- Integrate Pessulus into Sabayon source tree
Support for pluggable lockdown addons for applications (Need volunteer)
Sabayon User Profile Manager
- Syslog logging for sabayon-apply
- Lockdown support for Evolution and Gaim
- Improved user interface
For Everyone
Documentation
Documentation editor for Project Mallard (SoC Project 2007)
Infrastructure
- Upgrade servers to RHEL5 update1
- Upgrade last server (menubar) to RHEL5
- Use RAID1 and upgrade HDDs on buildbot master
- Setup new GNOME website on GNOME servers
- Upgrade GNOME Bugzilla to 3.0 (while keeping all customizations not yet upstreamed)
- Upgrade svn.gnome.org to SVN 1.4+ and setup readonly SVN mirror on a container
Make use of 'configuration management software', see this overview (Currently looking at puppet)
- Complete move of sysadmin.gnome.org content to the wiki.
- Document everything; policies, servers, etc
- Switch from RT3 to Bugzilla
- Setup slave DNS server on socket
- Upgrade socket,progress to new Ubuntu LTS (if LTS is out before 2.22)
Library.gnome.org
- Implement search engine
- API lookup
- Local search engine, language-aware, only indexing recent documentation
- Implement support for annotations
- PDF output
- Improved gtk-doc transformation (cross links, output style)
Support for unstable API references via BuildBot
- Automatic tool to report a bug when docs can't be built
Proposed modules
Keep in mind that there's no guarantee that the proposed modules will actually be integrated into GNOME.
Anjuta DevStudio: an integrated development environment for GNOME.
Empathy: a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, and a GNOME client using those widgets.
Cheese: a photobooth-inspired GNOME application for taking pictures and videos from a webcam.
Gimmie: a tab-like replacement for the main Panel menubar, providing logical access to the concepts of the desktop.
Vinagre: a VNC client for GNOME.
Mouse Tweaks: a set of special accessibility enhancements to controlling the mouse cursor.
GtkGLExt: an OpenGL extension to GTK+ 2.0.
GNOME 2.20
For Users
Deskbar Applet
Major refactoring (SoC Project 2007)
- D-Bus API to access deskbar functionalities
- Object (i.e. files, persons, etc) actions (open, send to for a file, call, chat, send email, view vcard for a contact)
Epiphany Web Browser
- Better inline completion of URLs entered in the address bar
- Printing improvements (support for frames, a progress window)
- Better use of icons in the user interface, also accessibility-related
- Smooth scrolling can be enabled from the Preferences
- Other minor improvements
Evince Document Viewer
Forms support (SoC Project 2006)
- Printing multiple pages per sheet
- Persistent print settings
- Use cairo in the view
Evolution Groupware
- Improved SPAM filtering with plugable junk filters
- Backup restore support
- Improved e-mail notification
- Improved Gtk+ Printing support for mails
- System Timezone Integration
- Attachment reminder for message composer
- Evolution Exchange
- Better offline support
- Improved message loading
- Lots of Performance improvements
- Delegation support
Eye of GNOME Image Viewer
- Editable toolbar
- Plugin system
- Support for XMP metadata
- UI improvements
- Image collection pane
- Image properties dialog
- Preferences dialog
- Error/warning feedback
File Roller Archive Manager
- Load and save remote archives
- Extract archive to a remote locations
- DnD and Copy/Paste among File Roller windows
- Pathbar instead of the locationbar
Gedit Text Editor
Migration to GtkSourceView 2 which features a new and improved highlighting engine
GNOME Control Center
- Merge Themes, Fonts, Background, UI into an Appearance configuration applet
GNOME Display Manager (GDM)
- Support for Linux auditing.
- Better utmp/wtmp support.
- RBAC (Role Based Access Control) support for Shutdown, Reboot, and Suspend.
- UI improvements (e.g. addition of background tag to gdmgreeter theme XML files).
- Accessibility improvements.
GNOME Keyring
- Proper integration with PAM so another keyring password prompt is not necessary
- Use of non-pageable memory for sensitive data and secrets
- Ability to store keyrings on removable media.
- Integration with power management to discard all sensitive memory before sleeping or hibernating
GNOME Magnifier
- Isolate the X11 dependency
- Improved magnifier compositor performance
- New applet to apply colorblind filters
GNOME Panel
- Fix positioning of panels when the screen size changes
- Sort windows by workspace in the Window List applet
GNOME Power Manager
- Per-battery profiling
- Improved statistics interface that provide more details and key value outputs
Full compliance with FreeDesktop.org power management specification
GNOME System Tools
- WPA support for network-admin
- Password for SMB shares in shares-admin
- Bookeeping added NTP servers
- Better network locations integration
GNOME Themes
- New Inverted metacity theme
- Updated Clearlooks and Glossy Metacity themes
GNOME Utils
- Show more details for each file system in Baobab
- Perform a look up for similar words for each query in Dictionary
- Use case insensitive search when finding words in a Dictionary definition
GNOME On-screen Keyboard
Fix remaining hardware issues related to use of FreeDesktop.org's XEvIE.
Libwnck
- Better integration with Compiz and other window managers
- DnD in the window list to reorganize how windows are sorted
Metacity Window Manager
- Better RTL languages support
Orca
- Improved access to Firefox and Thunderbird
- Several fixes for i18n/l10n-related issues
- Better support for multilingual text
Seahorse Encryption Keys Manager
- Complete implementation of missing GNOME Keyring Manager features
- Change master password
- Better Evolution integration
Make evolution use libcryptui widgets and D-Bus method calls (SoC Project 2007)
- e-d-s integration, auto-contact creation, photo ID synchronization
- Themable application specific icons
Tomboy Notes
- Support notes synchronization across multiple machines
Yelp Help Viewer
- Replace Scrollkeeper with (backwards compatible) new desktop-agnostic library
Zenity
- Timeout for dialogs
For Developers
AtSpi
- Support for Python
Epiphany
Experimental WebKit backend
GLib
Support for FreeDesktop.org's xdg-user-dirs
GTK+
This is a small selection from the improvements in the upcoming GTK+ 2.12. For more detailed information please refer to the GTK+ 2.11.x release annoucement or the GTK+ ChangeLog for even greater detail.
GtkBuilder (a replacement of libglade)
- Support for widget offscreen rendering
- New Tap-n-Hold API
- New Tooltips API
- Allows complex tooltips (markup, images)
- Tooltips on insensitive widgets
- Tooltips on treeviews, etc.
GtkFileChooser updates
- Improved file chooser dialog size logic
- New search mode with backends for Beagle, Tracker and simple search
- New recent files support
- New Input Methods
- Thai and Lao
- Multipress input method for phone pads
- Builtin stock icons replaced with a new set of Tango-compatible icons
- GDK updates
- New API for changing startup notification id on a window
- New API for sending startup notification messages
- New GDK threads API to allow fully thread-safe handling of idles and timeouts
Better support for compositing in GdkWindow
- Keyboard navigation improvements
- Infrastructure for notification of failed keyboard navigation
- Better support for restricted sets of keys
GtkScaleButton, GtkVolumeButton: new widgets for volume controls frequently seen in multimedia applications
- Printing support updates
- Support half-open ranges
- New API for listing paper sizes and (de)serializing page setups and print settings
- Recent Files API updates
Support for custom menu items in GtkRecentChooserMenu
New GtkRecentAction
GtkRange updates
- Support for fill levels
GtkEntry updates
- Inline-selection mode for entry completion (closer to what web browsers need)
- Added gtk_entry_set_cursor_hadjustment() to support automatic scrolling
GtkStatusIcon updates
- Multiscreen support
- Don't take up space when invisible
GtkCellRendererProgress updates
- The progress bar is now drawn using the theme engine
- Support activity mode
GtkNotebook updates
- Support scrolling during tab DnD
- Allow dropping tabs anywhere
- Deprecate numeric group-ids in favour of a more flexible group property
GtkTreeView updates
- Lots of scrolling fixes
- Many improvements to Windows and OS X ports
Glade
- Several improvements/added functionality in the user interface
- Support for developers to add context-menu actions for their custom widgets
Gail
- Move part of gail into libgnomecanvas
Pango
Improved OpenType Layout engine.
- Add support for specifying multiple preferred languages.
- Vertical text shaping now uses vertical variants of punctuation marks.
- New shaping engine for minority language N'Ko.
- Various new pangocairo APIs, making for a tighter integration with cairo.
For Admins
Sabayon User Profile Manager
Support for OpenOffice.org lockdown
- New logging facility for debugging
- Many robustness-related fixes
For Everyone
Infrastructure
- Install alpha quality version of library.gnome.org on some server
- Setup new GNOME website on GNOME servers
- Upgrade servers from RHEL3/4 to RHEL5
- Move GNOME buildbot master to GNOME servers
Better mango software (SoC Project 2007)
Library.gnome.org
- Improved look'n'feel that matches new GNOME website design
- Separated user/dev/admin docs
- Added support for development versions and out-of-GNOME documents
- Google site search and API lookup form
Proposed modules
Keep in mind that there's no guarantee that the proposed modules will actually be integrated into GNOME.
LSR: an extensible assistive technology for the GNOME desktop.
GNOME Devel Docs: a set of docs for GNOME developers.
Accerciser: an interactive Python accessibility explorer for the GNOME desktop.