GNOME 2.32 发行说明

GNOME 下的即时消息与通信程序，Empathy,基于 Telepathy 通信框架，已获得了许多新的和重要的特性，能够帮助使用者完成通信并管理他们的联系人。

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.

通过 AtkText 接口的使用，Evince 文档查看器改善了无障碍支持，AtkText 允许使用 GNOME 屏幕阅读器Orca 在 Evince 中阅读文档。在查看文档时的最大放大等级也已提高。

注释支持已改进，您现在可以从侧边栏中添加注释，改变默认属性，如作者、颜色、透明性以及其他属性。

Evince 已添加 SyncTeX 支持。SyncTeX 能够让 TeX 源文件与目标 PDF(或 DVI) 输出保持同步。SyncTeX 支持已在 Evince 中实现，并作为gedit 的一个新插件。从 Evince 到 gedit 的反向搜索，与从 gedit 到 Evince 的正向搜索皆已实现支持。

GNOME 2.32 包含 GNOME 文件管理器Nautilus的更新。Nautilus 已添加一个对话框，在进行复制或移动操作时能够辅助解决冲突。当剪切文件到另一个文件夹时，Nautilus 会将要剪切的文件显示为透明图标。

对移动到回收站文件的管理已经得到改善。当查看回收站文件夹时，在信息栏中会有一个新按钮，能够让您还原选中的文件。回收站文件夹也会显示被删除文件的原始位置以及删除日期。

除较大的变更外，在每个 GNOME 版本中还会有种种细小的变更与微调。

Mousetweaks能够使动作受限的使用者更易于使用电脑。通过使用 Mousetweaks 可以让鼠标左键执行鼠标左击与右击。例如，您可通过按住鼠标左键来打开菜单。Mousetweaks 也能让无法良好操作按键的用户更容易地左击、双击、拖拽和右击。

Mousetweaks 文档已更新，这其中包括更新的说明及手册页，因而用户可以看到所有可用的选项以及了解其如何运作。

对于开发者，Mousetweaks 不再依赖AT-SPI 框架或dbus-glib，并且守护程序与替代点击已移植到 GDBus。Mousetweaks 不再使用 gconf 键值，可以由-DGSEAL_ENABLED编译，这需要 GTK 2.18 或以上版本。

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.