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GNOME 2.10 is going to be the latest and greatest thing from the GNOME
Desktop Project this March 9th. Here is a sneak peek of some of
the things that are currently in the GNOME 2.9 development snapshot.
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Yelp is the help browser for GNOME, and in the last 6 months has been rocketed out of the dark ages and uses the Gecko rendering engine as well as having useful features like bookmarks. In addition to Docbook, Yelp can now support HTML help, as well as man pages and GNU Info (if you activate them at compile time).
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more developer friendly, highlight your current line and opposing bracket
Evolution is the popular groupware client that officially became part of the GNOME desktop in GNOME 2.8. This release cycle has led to many exciting additions to Evolution.
eplugin: the new Evolution plugin architecture that allows extra
functionality to be added to Evolution with ease.
see the weather forecast in your calendar (currently US specific)
Improved interface to schedule meetings
configure network interfaces, including modems and ISDN. A new modemlights
applet integrates with GNOME System Tools
configure shares in Samba and NFS
GNOME System Tools is also getting a lot of active development in other areas, and while not going to be ready for GNOME 2.10, many other configuration modules are in the works including a physical disk manager.
control physical disks (one day)
The panel applications (applets) are some of the most widely used programs in the GNOME Desktop. The latest development tree of GNOME has resulted in a great many improvements to the existing applets, as well as some new ones.
a new method for handling menus (via libgnome-menu) that implements the
freedesktop.org crossdesktop menu spec.
A Places menu to easily access common locations and network servers
Find out the daily sunrise/sunset time in GWeather
Many new applets, as well as old applets with exciting new features
panel and applet transparency
New and improved mixer, based on the GStreamer multimedia framework
GNOME ships with a number of desktop utilities, which have been improved significantly for GNOME 2.10.
Searching for a word in the dictionary
For when you've got nothing better to do, or if you're just plain addicted to FreeCell. GNOME comes with a vast quantity of games. Here are some features that you will see in games in GNOME 2.10.
Share your fun with others in multiplayer games
Improved interface to add alternative keyboard layouts to GNOME
Here are some improvements to the GNOME experience as a whole.
Mozilla style typeahead in Open/Save dialogs and other trees
A number of applications have been proposed for GNOME 2.10. Formost is a significant selection of new multimedia applications built off the powerful GStreamer multimedia framework.
Totem is a media player that is already familar to many people using the GNOME desktop. It can play almost any media you can think of and offers a simple and easy to use interface.
Totem playing a DVD
Manage your secrets with GNOME Keyring Manager
Sound Juicer is a CD extractor that is already used by many people for their multimedia needs. It uses the GStreamer framework to offer excellent quality rips in many popular formats.
Sound Juicer, ready to extract a CD
Goobox is the other contestant vying for the position of GNOME's CD player and music extractor (ripper), it is going head to head against the popular Sound-Juicer.
Goobox: Playing a CD
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