Le vendredi 06 mars 2015, à 13:58 +0100, Dominique Leuenberger a écrit : > Dear GNOME users, > > It has been waaaay to quiet, but the GNOME team has been busy (and I > think I can proudly say that we consider the GNOME Team having increased > in the last couple months; there are more people in the #opensuse-gnome > IRC channel and actively participating than there used to be... more are > always welcome). > > So, but what have we been up to these days? > > GNOME 3.16.0 is on the horizon (planned release date March 25 2015) and, > as usual, we followed the releases of the unstable branch (3.15.x) > pretty closely in our GNOME:Next repository.
Just want to say that this is great stuff, and it's amazing to see the team being so active! Vincent > At this moment, we are all up-to-date with GNOME 3.15.91 there, and it > has some changes worth mentioning (and a notice of danger for now). > > * Noteworthy changes you will see / asked for > + A new visual theme (no drastic change, but it IS different) > > + Notifications are no longer shown at the bottom of the screen in a > hidden notification bar, but are now moved to the TOP, inside the > calendar widget; new notifications appear on top as well. > + This also means that appllications placing a systray icon no longer > have the notification bar available to abuse this. But, as soon as an > app places a notification icon, you will see a small 'drawer' at the > bottom left of your screen; all will be placed in there > > + Wayland: wayland session has gone a good way forward (in fact, GDM is > per default in a wayland session now), but it is certainly still leaps > behind the stability of an X-session. We still provide the > gnome-session-wayland for you to experiment > > *** DANGER NOTICE *** > + Tracker is known to have migration issues coming from 1.2.x to 1.3.x > at the moment. It results in a destroyed tracker index database. Your > actual data is safe! The index can be deleted and recreated (but, > depending on your data pool, can take a while). A fix is in the works of > course and this is not supposed to happen for users upgrading later on > from GNOME 3.14.x to GNOME 3.16.0. > > Looking forward to see you guys test it, report bugs, work as part of > the GNOME Team on fixing them and see you call yourself PART OF IT! > > Cheers, > Dominique > > -- > Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger <[email protected]> -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
