Adds: Ekiga video conferencing application; Deskbar search tool; Pessulus lockdown editor; Fast user switching ; Sabayon system administration tool. Performance improvements. MP3 and AAC audio encoding. Tenth anniversary release. Adds: PDF forms editing in Evince; integrated search in the file manager dialogs; automatic multimedia codec installer.
Addition of the Empathy instant messenger client, Ekiga 3. New optical disc recording application Brasero , simpler file sharing, media player improvements, support for multiple monitors and fingerprint reader support.
Improvements to Epiphany web browser, Empathy instant messenger client, Time Tracker, and accessibility. Improvements to Empathy instant messenger client, Evince, Nautilus file manager and others. A redesigned settings framework with fewer, more focused options. Topic-oriented help based on the Mallard markup language. Side-by-side window tiling. A new visual theme and default font.
Removal of long-deprecated development APIs. Online accounts support; Web applications support; contacts manager; documents and files manager; quick preview of files in the File Manager; greater integration; better documentation; enhanced looks and various performance improvements.
Search for documents from the Activities overview. Application menus support. Refreshed interface components: New color picker, redesigned scrollbars, easier to use spin buttons, and hideable title bars. Smooth scrolling support. New animated backgrounds. Improved system settings with new Wacom panel. Easier extensions management. Better hardware support. Topic-oriented documentation. Video calling and Live Messenger support in Empathy. Better accessibility: Improved Orca integration, better high contrast mode, and new zoom settings.
Plus many other application enhancements and smaller details. Refreshed Core components: New applications button and improved layout in the Activities Overview. A new login and lock screen.
Redesigned Message Tray. Notifications are now smarter, more noticeable, easier to dismiss. Improved interface and settings for System Settings.
The user menu now shows Power Off by default. Integrated Input Methods. Accessibility is always on. Improved braille support in Orca. In Web, the previously blank start page was replaced by a grid that holds your most visited pages, plus better full screen mode and a beta of WebKit2.
Evolution renders email using WebKit. See also our Disclaimer. GNOME 2. This document tells you how to create applications that look right, behave properly, and fit into the GNOME user interface as a whole.
Gnome's competitor is the KDE Project, which also aims to provide a graphical desktop environment for free software operating systems. KDE came first, but the people behind Gnome decided to build their own environment because they felt that the license for a critical piece of KDE wasn't sufficiently free.
Qt is offered free of charge to people developing free software, and it's sold to those who wish to use it to develop software that will be sold. There are also conditions under which a developer would have to pay fees to Oslo-based Trolltech for the use of Qt. This summer, Trolltech modified its license to guarantee that Qt would always be available for free software development. Deciding which desktop environment is best will depend on which applications you want to use, as well as which environments those applications can run on.
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