Vad är nytt för användarna
GNOME-projektets fokus på användare och användbarhet fortsätter i GNOME 2.24 med alla dess felrättningar och användarbegärda förbättringar. Det stora antalet förbättringar gör det omöjligt att lista alla men vi hoppas kunna informera om några av de mer spännande användarorienterade funktionerna i denna utgåva.
- 2.1. Håll kontakten
- 2.2. Håll bättre koll på din tid
- 2.3. Ekiga 3.0
- 2.4. Filhantering
- 2.5. Gör mer med Skrivbordsrad
- 2.6. New Screen Resolution Controls
- 2.7. New Sound Theme Support
- 2.8. Bättre digitaltv
- 2.9. Extra vacker
2.1. Håll kontakten
GNOME 2.24 announces the inclusion of an instant messaging client based off the Telepathy communications framework.
Empathy also supports XMPP/SIP audio and video conferencing as available on the Nokia N800/N810 devices (video requires H.263 codecs for GStreamer to be installed). Empathy is a great companion to Ekiga, GNOME's audio/video SIP client (see Avsnitt 2.3 ― Ekiga 3.0).
Telepathy provides a common framework for applications to access instant messaging functionality. It can utilize many common protocols including Jabber/XMPP, Google Talk, MSN Messenger and Apple's Bonjour/Rendezvous local network chat.
Any application is able to utilize the instant messaging session. As well as the Empathy client, GNOME 2.24 provides libraries enabling developers to add presence and status information, transfer files or set up sockets (known as Tubes) for collaboration and games over the Internet. See Avsnitt 4.4 ― Bibliotek för snabbmeddelanden for more information on how this technology can be utilized in your application.
2.2. Håll bättre koll på din tid
For many people in business, it is crucial that they track how much time they assign to each project and client. Everybody has their own system for this, from keeping a diary to making a guess. It's incredibly tedious. In today's world almost everything you do somehow involves a computer, so GNOME has added a panel application to make tracking your time easier.
The panel shows you what task you've been working on and for how long. Clicking on the button allows you to change activity and see what activities you've been working on today. If you like, the timer can stop when your computer goes idle.
Activities can be categorized by any grouping you choose, be it the type of activity, client's name or how much you dislike it. You can also view and edit your activity log, insert missing activities and see daily, weekly and monthly graphs to see where you're spending most of your time.
2.3. Ekiga 3.0
Ekiga is a fully-featured SIP audio/video conferencing client for GNOME. As part of GNOME 2.24 we're proud to announce the release of Ekiga 3.0.
As well as a new interface that is centered around your phone book and the presence of your contacts, Ekiga 3.0 features SIP presence support, PBX line monitoring, better video codecs support (H.264, H.263+, MPEG-4 and Theora), accelerated video and optional fullscreen and many SIP-related improvements for robust conferencing.
2.4. Filhantering
As well as icon and list views, GNOME 2.24 now offers the compact list view, popular in several other desktop environments. Choose the view by selecting Control+3).
from the menu (or keyboard shortcutAs with icon and list view, the size of the icons in the compact view can be changed using the zoom options in the
menu.The browser mode of the file manager now supports tabs for rapidly switching between directories within a single browser window.
Today's modern filesystems are able to handle almost any desired character as part of the filename. Unfortunately this is not the case for the FAT filesystem that is commonly used on many USB thumb drives and portable music players, which is unable to use many common punctuation marks as part of the filename. GNOME 2.24 detects when you are copying files with names that contains characters that cannot be used and automatically converts these characters to a "_" without you having to rename the file yourself.
Automatic filename completion ("tab" completion) has also been improved in GNOME 2.24. Completion of filenames in the location bar using the Tab key is now faster and more predictable. It is also possible to complete any fragment of the path and the interface provides more feedback for when there are no other possible matches available.
2.5. Gör mer med Skrivbordsrad
The Deskbar in GNOME 2.24 adds several exciting new plugins: a calculator, Google Search (and code search), Yahoo! and Wikipedia suggestions plus updating of Twitter and identi.ca.
Also new is the ability to easily download and install new plugins directly from the Deskbar repository on the World Wide Web.
2.6. New Screen Resolution Controls
More and more computers (especially laptops) are gaining support for multiple monitors (known as multihead). Users need to be able to connect a second monitor, either as a clone (e.g. a projector for giving presentations) or as an extension of their desktop.
GNOME 2.24 has upgraded its screen resolution controls to make this possible. Utilizing the new XRandR 1.2 specification from X.Org, this dialog enables users to easily set up individual monitors in a number of configurations. Monitors are named and the names appear in the top left corner of the screen for easy identification.
Changes are applied immediately. No restart of GNOME is required.
Some X.Org video drivers do not currently support XRandR 1.2 and so will not be able to take advantage of these features. One such driver is the proprietary nVidia X driver.
2.7. New Sound Theme Support
Sound themes in GNOME are now handled by libcanberra, which implements the Freedesktop.org Sound Theme and Naming Specification. Sound themes can now be installed like icon themes. Using libcanberra also means that an application's alert sounds are less likely to interfere with your music player or movie player, so you can leave those important alert sounds switched on while watching a fullscreen movie.
2.8. Bättre digitaltv
Powered by the GStreamer multimedia framework, GNOME 2.22 introduced digital television (DVB) capabilities into its Movie Player. Determined to make things even better, developers have worked to enhance this support by adding support for multiple DVB tuners (watch multiple channels at once) and better troubleshooting diagnostics.
They have also worked to improve out-of-the-box (zero configuration) support for the majority of infrared remote controls (using the LIRC framework). This makes it even easier to chill out instead of writing that important report.
Also featuring in GNOME 2.24, support for high-resolution YouTube videos and support for remote (non-local) text subtitling.