One of the most popular desktop Linux is used Gnome. Just released Gnome 2.30, updates to the new version of desktop are not revolutionary and are primarily focused on improving usability issues and bug fixes rather than trying to innovate. We’ll see what we can offer this new version:
- Nautilus : the file browser starting recovers sight, allowing us to see the files on one side of the folder in which we are located and the other the tree of folders. In my opinion a great success and something I missed. It is set as default browser.
- Empathy improve his chances of information when the connection fails. It becomes easy to send files by simply dragging the chat window. Includes improvements to the functionality of IRC and adds support for Facebook chat set.
- Tomboy improvement updates to your notes and synchronizing them in different devices. Improved the startup time of the application, and now you can copy and paste HTML Rich from Tomboy to other applications.
- User Management : in this case was deleted Unlock button that appeared in some applications when the user had no permission to perform some action. They have improved the options for creating and managing user passwords.
- Evince has improved the media, adding a new tab in the Print dialog to support several scaling options. Also improve the way the reader presentation files PDF thumbnail generator and supports remote files.
- Epiphany is the web browser on the desktop by default, but that few people use. This version has improved its management of passwords and allow something so basic to some as the browser to remember your password. Is an option to enable or disable all add-ons and have recovered some features of this browser as the print preview, support for the favicon, or shortcut menus. Added a new extension called html5ube that replaces Flash Youtube with HTML5 if we do not have Flash installed and improved tabbed browsing.
- Support for iPod and iPodTouch that will be partially supported through the Library libmobiledevice that will allow us to manage installed applications, retrieving the address book and calendar / notes and bookmarks and sync music and video the device. The library is under development and still to implement more functionality.
- Vinegar is the remote desktop client adds support for tunnels SSH , allowing access to a remote computer through a secure tunnel SSH . It also has improved support for remote connection for slow connections. Finally, we have added a listening mode that will allow us to connect when a fire becomes rebellious and complicates his life in the normal connection mode.
A handful of improvements that will be the last of this version for development, since we already announced that the next leap will be the version of Gnome 3.0 , where you expect most innovative developments and we will have at our disposal at the end September this year. We hope to see that we offer and whether they meet the expectations that are placed in this new version.
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