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GNOME 3.2 was officially released yesterday with all those cool features which I'm sure you've all been waiting for. Let's take a look at what's new:
What's new in GNOME 3.2
- GNOME Documents:
- GNOME Contacts, which includes your contacts from applications such as Evolution or Empathy, in one place:
or reply to chat from the GNOME3.2 popup notifications (and notification counter):
A new Empathy log viewer:
I think what makes sense is to have the site as a bit of a stealth-beta for this release ... something we're still working on, something we don't advertise as a release feature, but something that you can already use.
(thanks to an anonymous WebUpd8 reader for this tip!)
The user menu which allows you to enable/disable notifications:
New GDM login screen:
New on-screen keyboard:
Integrated hotplugging:
And a lot more:
- recent directories in file saving dialog
- color management in System Settings
- On tablets and similar touchscreen devices, rotating the device will automatically rotate the screen
- a counter for the tray notifications
- window corners are now smoothly anti-aliased
You can read the official GNOME 3.2 release announcement HERE.
GNOME 3.2 video
Here is a video I've recorded with some of the above features (running in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot):
- GTK+ 3.2 is not built with Broadway backend support in Ubuntu 11.10 (with "--enable-x11-backend" and "--enable-broadway-backend") and building it myself doesn't work either due to a bug in libcanberra it seems (I get a segfault). If you get it to work, please let me know how :)
- the Nautilus preview feature is missing in Oneiric (Sushi has not been packaged)
- GNOME Documents is not available in Oneiric yet (as far as I know)
- GDM 3.2 is not yet available in Oneiric
- Epiphany in Ubuntu 11.10 doesn't support web apps yet, but I've compiled the latest version for this post (unfortunately, this is the only missing feature that I could "fix" in Oneiric)