ملاحظات إصدارة جنوم 2.32

GNOME's instant messaging and communication application, Empathy, built on the Telepathy communications framework, has gained a number of new and important features to help users communicate and manage their contacts.

Empathy allows you to group a contact's information together using metacontacts. If one of your contacts uses multiple instant messaging services, for example, you can now link the different services together under one name for your contact. Empathy also has added the ability to easily find your contacts by adding live contact search. You can type in the contact list to quickly find a contact.

Empathy has added options to disable logging as well as automatically pop up incoming chats. Other updates to Empathy include the ability to configure IRC accounts using the account assistant; allowing you to manually accept server certificates; using status icons from your current theme; improved connection error messages; and the ability to accept or decline incoming events using buttons in the notification bubbles. You can also view technical information about your current call in the details pane of the audio / video dialog and also re-open a closed tab using undo in the conversation window.

The Evince document viewer has improved accessibility support through the use of the AtkText interface, which allows Orca, the GNOME screen reader, to read documents in Evince. The maximum zoom level has also been increased when viewing a document.

Annotation support has been improved and you can now add annotations from the side panel, change the default properties including author, color, transparency and more.

SyncTeX support has been added to Evince. SyncTeX is a method that enables synchronization between a TeX source file and the resulting PDF (or DVI) output. SyncTeX support is available in Evince and as a new plug-in for gedit. Backward Search, from Evince to gedit, and Forward Search, from gedit to Evince, are both supported.

GNOME 2.32 includes updates to Nautilus, the GNOME File Manager. Nautilus has added a dialog to help you handle conflicts when performing copy or move operations. When cutting files to paste them in another directory, Nautilus will now display the cut files with transparent icons.

Managing the files you delete that are moved to the Trash has seen improvements. When viewing the Trash folder, there is a new button in the information bar that allows you to restore selected files. The Trash folder also shows the original location of the deleted file and the date it was deleted.

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Mousetweaks makes it easier to use a mouse for those users who may have limited mobility. Using Mousetweaks you can use the left mouse button to do both left and right mouse clicks. For example, you open a menu by pressing and holding the left mouse button. Mousetweaks also helps make it easier to left click, double click, drag and right click for users who cannot manipulate buttons well.

Mousetweaks has updated documentation including an updated manual and man pages so users can now see all the options they have and look up how things are supposed to work.

For developers, Mousetweaks no longer depends on the AT-SPI framework or dbus-glib and the daemon and dwell click have been migrated to GDBus. Mousetweaks no longer uses the gconf keys and can now be compiled with -DGSEAL_ENABLED which requires GTK 2.18 or higher.

Glib 2.26 includes support for GSettings, the replacement for GConf as well as GDBus. A new date and time API is available in GDateTime. Glib also includes new support for dtrace and systemtap static markers; GObject property bindings, such as libexo; and proxy support for GSocket. Other improvements include new convenience macros to implement boxe and pointer types in G_DEFINE_[BOXED|POINTER]_TYPE and lastly, a new function g_object_notify_by_pspec which is faster than g_object_notify.

Anjuta, a full featured software development studio and IDE whose features include project management, an interactive debugger, a source editor, a version control GUI designer and more, has been updated with new functionality.

Python and Vala are now fully supported in Anjuta including calltips and auto-completion ("IntelliSense").

Anjuta's debugger now supports pretty-printing. When debugging, known objects are shown in a user friendly fashion, such as GObjects or C++-Classes. Lastly, the Symbol-Database has seen a major performance improvement.

Other updates in GNOME 2.32's development platform include the addition of libfolks, a library to support Empathy's metacontact functionality. In Devhelp it is now possible to disable specific books. The GTK+ roadmap has been updated and GTK+ 2.22 has added support for the latest accessor functions needed for developers to prepare their applications for GTK+ 3.0.