[release-notes/gnome-3-8] add notes from the wiki



commit 8e5805c4f0187bd5f68b0e6a2b99ac74bfaf928b
Author: Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>
Date:   Mon Mar 4 11:03:17 2013 +0000

    add notes from the wiki

 help/C/developers.page         |   40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 help/C/index.page              |    6 +++---
 help/C/other-enhancements.page |   24 +++++++++++++++++++++---
 3 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/help/C/developers.page b/help/C/developers.page
index 4b76b93..3959703 100644
--- a/help/C/developers.page
+++ b/help/C/developers.page
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
   <info>
     <link type="guide" xref="index#more"/>
-    <desc>Enhancements for application developers</desc>
+    <desc>New features for those working with GNOME technologies</desc>
     <credit type="author">
       <name its:translate="no">Allan Day</name>
       <email its:translate="no">allanday gnome org</email>
@@ -16,6 +16,42 @@
     </license>
   </info>
 
-  <title>What's new for developers</title>
+  <title>What's new for developers, system administrators and distributors</title>
+
+  <section id="boxes">
+    <title>Boxes</title>
+    <p>Now uses of libosinfo for express/automated installations. Support for new OSes/distros can be added 
through libosinfo. No Vala or C hacking needed, only XSL/XML.</p>
+  </section>
+
+  <section id="tracker">
+    <title>Tracker</title>
+      <p>Full Text Search (FTS) v4 support with support for snippets (i.e. context around matching queries) 
and offsets (index in context matching queries).</p>
+      <p>Colour based command line interfaces: 
http://blogs.gnome.org/mr/2013/02/15/tracker-search-gets-colour-snippets/</p>
+      <p>Indexing support for new formats:</p>
+      <p>XPS documents (GB#687160) - XML Page Specific Microsoft alternative to PDF files</p>
+      <p>DVI documents (GB#687162) - DeVice Independent files (printable output of TeX files)</p>
+  </section>
+
+  <section id="glib">
+    <title>GLib</title>
+    <p>g_type_init no longer needed and deprecated</p>
+    <p>GTask replaces GAsyncResult</p>
+    <p>Type modules are never unloaded</p>
+    <p>Interfaces can't be added after class_init anymore</p>
+    <p>File monitors work on NFS homedirs, by falling back to fam</p>
+    <p>kqueue support for file monitors (BSDs, OS X)</p>
+    <p>GUnixFdSource, a new way to add file descriptors to the mainloop</p>
+    <p>g_get_home_dir() now respects $HOME</p>
+  </section>
+
+  <section id="gtk+">
+    <title>GTK+</title>
+    <p>Per-widget opacity with gtk_widget_set_opacity</p>
+    <p>Frame synchronization with mutter for smooth animations and resizing</p>
+    <p>Single-click mode for tree and icon views</p>
+    <p>Possible to reuse accessible implementations</p>
+    <p>Multi-application Broadway support with broadwayd</p>
+    <p>Better font support: can set family, size, etc, like other css properties</p>
+  </section>
 
 </page>
diff --git a/help/C/index.page b/help/C/index.page
index 341e084..61fcdf7 100644
--- a/help/C/index.page
+++ b/help/C/index.page
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
   <title>Introducing GNOME &gnomeversion;</title>
 
   <p>
-    GNOME &gnomeversion; delivers 6 months of work by the GNOME Project, including &gitcommits; by
-    approximately &gitauthors;. It includes numerous new features and a host of smaller enhancements.    
+    GNOME &gnomeversion; is the result of 6 months of work by the GNOME Project. It includes &gitcommits; by
+    approximately &gitauthors; and features numerous new features as well as a host of smaller enhancements. 
   
   </p>
 
   <comment>
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
   </section>
 
   <section>
-    <title>Improved Graphics Rendering</title>
+    <title>Improved Animation Rendering</title>
     <!-- See http://blog.fishsoup.net/ -->
     <media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
   </section>
diff --git a/help/C/other-enhancements.page b/help/C/other-enhancements.page
index a6fddec..4c9138d 100644
--- a/help/C/other-enhancements.page
+++ b/help/C/other-enhancements.page
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
   <info>
     <link type="guide" xref="index#more"/>
-    <desc>GNOME 3.8 comes packed with other new features and enhancements</desc>
+    <desc>GNOME 3.8 is packed with other new features and enhancements</desc>
     <credit type="author">
       <name its:translate="no">Allan Day</name>
       <email its:translate="no">allanday gnome org</email>
@@ -29,6 +29,24 @@
 
   <section id="boxes">
     <title><media type="image" src="figures/gnome-boxes.png"/> Boxes</title>
+    <p>Add USB redirection support in new VMs and option to add it into existing VMs. i-e You can use your 
USB devices (camera, flash drive etc) plugged into host from the guest operating system.</p>
+    <p>Smartcard support.</p>
+    <p>Automatically download and installation of all virtio and QXL drivers, and spice-vdagent as part of 
Windows XP and Windows 7 express installation. This means following working out of the box:
+Copy and paste between host and VM. Guest resolution automatically adjusted to fit the Boxes window. Very 
efficient disk I/O (helps in reducing installation time e.g).</p>
+    <p>[[http://www.ovirt.org/Documentation|oVirt]] support.</p>
+    <p>Option to pause VMs from selection view.</p>
+    <p>Otions to select all, none and running boxes.</p>
+    <p>Allow accessing properties for non-running VMs (through selection view).</p>
+    <p>Allow tweaking properties for remote machines in the wizard.</p>
+    <p>looks a lot more like UI mockups and more consistent with Documents.</p>
+    <p>Add initial experience greeting. As a consequence, we don't auto-launch wizard on first time usage 
anymore.</p>
+    <p>Support for changing the CD-ROM device/ISO from properties.</p>
+    <p>Selecting item when maximized automatically enters fullscreen view.</p>
+    <p>Mark recommended RAM and storage of guest OS (when known) in properties.</p>
+    <p>Allow search with multiple terms. A search like "foo bar" now means name containing "foo" and "bar". 
This is nicer, and what you expect from e.g. gnome-shell search.</p>
+    <p>Allow drag to unfullscreen Boxes.</p>
+    <p>Troubleshooting log viewer to system properties.</p>
+    <p>Loads of other fixes and minor improvements. For more details: 
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-boxes/tree/NEWS</p>
   </section>
 
   <section id="documents">
@@ -38,7 +56,7 @@
 
   <section id="contacts">
     <title><media type="image" src="figures/x-office-address-book.png"/> Contacts</title>
-    <p>New contact edit mode.</p>
+    <p>New editing mode.</p>
   </section>
 
   <section id="goa">
@@ -54,7 +72,7 @@
   <section id="gnome-3">
     <title><media type="image" src="figures/start-here.png"/> Core UX</title>
     <p>Pressure sensitivity for opening the Message Tray.</p>
-    <p>Keywords for applications for easier searching.</p>
+    <p>Updated application metadata for easier searching.</p>
     <p>Context menu on the background for changing the wallpaper.</p>
     <!-- Smoother animatios ==  -->
     <p>Flicker free animation in the login screen and Activities Overview.</p>


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