Elliott: For what it's worth, the release notes links are available now.
30 September 2014 at 12:46
Here is a small recap of the GNOME 3.14 features I worked on. Some are already well publicised, through blogs:
Brought maturity to GOM. It's now usable for real applications (including a number of grilo plugins), and will be gaining features for the more demanding uses soon (such as batched writes), along with gjs support.
Made the default firewall experience on Fedora better (and made Sharing better on every NetworkManager-using Linux distribution, by the same token).
Automatic rotation for Windows 8 certified devices. This will still need more work to be integrated into systemd/udev or GNOME.
Worked on architecturing the Sharing functionality between applications which will be required for sandboxed applications.
A bit last minute, but Totem now works on Wayland, triggering more bugs in the stack.
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...
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!).
"Fresh software from the 3.14 menu"
4 Comments -
The links to the release notes seem a bit premature, since they seem to be password protected.
22 September 2014 at 04:52
Elliott: Huh, I know, that's mentioned in the text...
22 September 2014 at 04:59
Bastien: Geez, I swear that wasn't there before! Honest!
24 September 2014 at 05:17
Elliott: For what it's worth, the release notes links are available now.
30 September 2014 at 12:46