Glynn:
I'm starting to write the what's new guide for the next release? Have any favourite features that you think should be included, please let me know!
Following are some changes in the Desktop in the 2.28 release cycle that might be worth a mention: - Alan Coopersmith mentioned that the Xserver now supports VT. GDM also now supports VT and users can now switch between VT sessions with the new "User Switcher" panel applet. However, it should probably also be mentioned that the vtdaemon SMF service is off by default and users need to enable it for this feature to work. - GDM was updated to version 2.28, which is a complete rewrite of the code, and ConsoleKit has been added to the system. The new GDM has much better VT support than the old GDM, but does have a few notable regressions: - You can no longer launch the XDMCP chooser from the login screen. - There is no longer a GUI program for editing GDM configuration. - Support for gdmgreeter-style XML themes are no longer supported. - OSS/Boomer has been integrated so now OpenSolaris has better sound driver support, and GStreamer-based programs now make use of the new oss4 GStreamer plugin to interface directly with the new OSSv4 interfaces. For example, gnome-volume-control now exposes a richer set of configuration options to the end user. - The Shutdown/Restart dialog now support "fast reboot". - Evince has been updated to the new 2.28 version. It had previously been frozen at the 2.22 version due to the fact that it depends on a newer version of libgs which was added to OpenSolaris in the last release cycle. The new version has significant improvements and now uses libspectre to render Postscript documents. - GnuPG and GPGME were integrated and now gnome-keyring/seahorse supports GnuPG. - The Java Access Bridge was removed and replaced with the new Java ATK Wrapper. - We removed the elisa media player and replaced it with the new moovida media player. - Jokosher and coherence are two new multimedia programs that were added. - MusicBrainz was updated from the 2.x to 3.x version which is significantly better than the previous version. MusicBrainz uses CDDB to determine CD album and song names when you play a CD in sound-juicer or rhythmbox. - gobject-introspection, gir-repository were added, and clutter was updated to the 1.x version. This makes it possible to easily add new exciting components like mutter and gnome-shell to the system if desired. - GTK+ no longer has a hard dependency on mediaLib, and mediaLib is no longer shipped by default on the LiveCD. Users will likely notice a small performance improvement when using GNOME if they install it. - Most desktop programs have migrated from using Python 2.4 to Python 2.6. - dogtail was removed from the desktop. Reviewing the GNOME 2.28 release notes, I see that there isn't really a lot of new stuff mentioned there that applies to OpenSolaris (since we do not yet deliver gnome-bluetooth, empathy, and PulseAudio) http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.28/ Perhaps the information about cheese, evince and orca improvements might be worth a mention. Brian _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
