Sunday 21 September 2014

Fresh software from the 3.14 menu

Here is a small recap of the GNOME 3.14 features I worked on. Some are already well publicised, through blogs:
And obviously loads of bug fixes, and patch reviews. And I do mean loads :)

To look forward to

If all goes according to plan, I'll be able to merge the aforementioned automatic rotation support into systemd/udev. The kernel API is pretty bad, which makes the user-space code look bad...

The first parts of ebooks support in gnome-documents have already been written, scheduled for 3.16.

And my favourites

Note: With links that will open up like a Christmas present when GNOME 3.14 is released.

There are a lot of big, new features in GNOME 3.14. The Adwaita rewrite made it possible to polish the theme greatly. The captive portals support is very useful, the travelling you will enjoy this (I certainly have!).

But my favourite new feature has to be the gestures support in gnome-shell. I'll make good use of that :)

4 comments:

Elliott S said...

The links to the release notes seem a bit premature, since they seem to be password protected.

Bastien Nocera said...

Elliott: Huh, I know, that's mentioned in the text...

Elliott S said...

Bastien: Geez, I swear that wasn't there before! Honest!

Bastien Nocera said...

Elliott: For what it's worth, the release notes links are available now.