ملاحظات إصدارة جنوم 2.30

GNOME 2.30 includes updates to Nautilus, the GNOME File Manager. Nautilus features a number of user interface changes including a new split view mode and is now set to browser mode by default, replacing spatial mode.

شكل 3 Nautilus

أضيف إلى تطبيق جنوم للتراسل والتواصل الفوري، إمبثي المبني على بنية الاتصالات تليبثي، عدد من الخصائص الجديدة والمهمة لمساعدة المستخدمين على التواصل.

Empathy will now display an information bar in the contact list when an account fails to connect, featuring a button that makes it easy to try and connect again or edit the account settings.

You can now send files by dragging and dropping a file in the contact list or in the chat window when talking to a friend.

Empathy's IRC functionality has been updated to include support for common IRC commands such as /join or /nick, and you can now join password protected rooms.

Other updates include support for easily adding and configuring Facebook chat and chat windows now display a search window to help easily find text when chatting with friends.

Tomboy Notes features a number of updates and now can automatically synchronize your notes in the background instead of requiring you to manually sync. You can also set how often Tomboy should sync automatically from within Tomboy's preferences.

Tomboy's startup time has been dramatically improved and now starts almost instantly.

Copying and pasting has been improved and you can now copy and paste rich HTML from notes into other applications such as OpenOffice.org, Evolution or other applications. The formatting of your notes is preserved, assuming the application you are pasting information into understands HTML.

Other improvements in Tomboy include Microsoft Windows 7® jump list support with Tomboy being present in the Taskbar and Windows Start Menu. Renaming notes in Tomboy has been improved to offer safer renaming of notes and give you more control when renaming a note so you don't accidentally rename links in other Tomboy notes.

GNOME System Tools has a number of new improvements making it easier and safer to manage users on your computer. GNOME System Tools now works with PolicyKit for authentication, removing the Unlock button for managing users and services.

The dialog to create a user has been improved and only requires you to provide the new user's name and will include user name suggestions. Upon account creation everything will "just work"! This also includes adding support for encrypted home directories for new users.

You can no longer lose your own administrative rights accidentally. You will now be prompted for your current password before changing your password so your keyrings and encrypted home directories will not break. When removing user accounts, the ability to delete that user's home directory is now an option.

When managing existing users you can choose from specific account types rather than having to choose specific cryptic privileges making it easier to add and remove abilities for other users.

يشمل بريمج متتبع الوقت -والذي يساعدك على تتبع وقتك ومهامك- على عدد من التحسينات الجديدة.

An all new standalone mode has been created in addition to the panel applet. Depending on your distribution, Time Tracker is available in your GNOME Menu under Applications ◂ Accessories ◂ Time Tracker.

Viewing and creating reports based on your activities has been improved as you can now create tags in your activities and the overview can also be filtered by all aspects of your activities.

شكل 4 Time Tracker Standalone with activity tags

The Evince document viewer has improved printing support. Page setup settings are now embedded in the print dialog and a new tab has been added to support various scaling options.

جلاء على ميكروسوفت وندوز® يدعم الآن الطباعة، ة بوستسكربت، والقصص المصورة.

Other updates to Evince include adding an inverted colors mode; updates to presentation mode; the ability for annotation in PDF file attachments and support for remote files in the thumbnailer.

The Epiphany web browser has seen numerous bugs and regressions fixed in addition to new features.

Epiphany can now remember passwords using gnome-keyring.

Epiphany has a new configuration option to enable or disable all plugins, such as Flash or Java. Epiphany will also now warn you when viewing a website with a broken SSL certificate.

Features that have returned to Epiphany include:

شكل 5 متصفح الوب إبِفني

Epiphany also has added advanced options available as settings in GConf. You can enable support for User Agents and change your default search engine directly within GConf.

Epiphany-extensions have new additions including html5tube which replaces YouTube Flash with HTML5 and does not require you to have Flash installed. The tab-key-tab-navigate plugin allows you to use Ctrl+Tab to change tabs. The sidebar extension has been removed.

Vinagre, a remote desktop client for the GNOME Desktop, has added support for SSH tunneling allowing you to access a remote machine more securely through an SSH tunnel. You will need an SSH account on the remote client and then you can type in passwords and other information knowing you are connected securely.

Connecting to clients using a low bandwidth connection has been made easier by allowing you to choose a lower depth of color to save bandwidth and by enabling JPEG compression. These options are available in the connection dialog in Vinagre.

A new listener mode has been added allowing the remote desktop you are going to view and control to connect to you. This is helpful when the remote connection is behind a firewall or router and is unreachable through the normal connection process. By enabling listener mode in Vinagre and giving your IP address to the user you are trying to connect to, the remote client can connect to you.

بالإضافة إلى التغييرات الكبيرة، توجد العديد من الإضافات والتحسينات الصغيرة كالتي تحدث مع كل إصدارة من جنوم.

بُذل مجهود كبير في تحسين أداء وإزالة علل قارئ الشاشة أوركا، حيث أصلح أكثر من 160 علة في جنوم 2.30. تشمل التحسينات:

A significant amount of work has gone into GNOME Accessibility to remove Bonobo. The D-Bus implementation of AT-SPI has made to work side by side with the CORBA implementation. GNOME 2.30 is the last official release that will support the CORBA implementation with D-Bus replacing CORBA in GNOME 3.0.

If you are passionate about making GNOME accessible for all users, now is a great time to join the Accessibility team. Help make GNOME better for users with disabilities and join the GNOME Accessibility mailing list to learn more.

بذل مجهود كبير لإزالة الوحدات والخصائص المبطلة في الطريق إلى جنوم 3.0.

تخلصت أيضا الكثير من التطبيقات من رموز جتك+ و GLib المُبطلة وطبقت السياسة الجديدة في إدراج الترويسات الرئيسية فقط من جتك+ و GLib.

جتك+ 2.20 هي آخر إصدارة من عدة الأدوات جتك+، التي تشكل قلب جنوم. تشمل جتك+ 2.20 على خصائص جديدة للمطورين بالإضافة إلى إصلاح كبير للعلل وتنظيم استعدادا لجتك+ 3.0.

كما تشمل جتك+ العديد من التحسينات الأخرى:

libempathy and libempathy-gtk have been removed and developers should use telepathy-glib instead.

Anjuta features improved code completion, including completion of ., -> and :: in C and C++.

Code completion is now completely asynchronous so it won't disturb you any more while you are typing.

Anjuta now supports Vala symbols in the symbol manager; full JavaScript support including code completion, debugging and building; and basic support for non-automake projects.

كما تشمل تحسينات منصة جنوم 2.30: