[release-notes/gnome-3-28] more words
- From: Allan Day <allanday src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [release-notes/gnome-3-28] more words
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 11:25:02 +0000 (UTC)
commit 0caabb308006a8da596594c852859520e1bb00b0
Author: Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>
Date: Thu Feb 22 11:24:47 2018 +0000
more words
help/C/index.page | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/help/C/index.page b/help/C/index.page
index ab44a2b..f6865cd 100644
--- a/help/C/index.page
+++ b/help/C/index.page
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
contributors.</p>
<p>&gnomeversion; has been named “Chongqing” in recognition of this year’s
- <link href="https://2017.gnome.asia/">GNOME.Asia</link> organizing team.</p>
+ <link href="https://2017.gnome.asia/">GNOME.Asia</link> organizing team. GNOME.Asia is GNOME's official
annual summit in Asia, which is only possible thanks to the hard work of local volunteers. This year's event
was in Chongqing, China, and we'd like to thank everyone who contributed to its success.</p>
<section id="favorites">
<title>Choose Your Favorites</title>
@@ -44,23 +44,21 @@
<section id="photos">
<title>Improved Photos</title>
<media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
- <p>Photos has had a number of improvements for GNOME 3.28. Most significantly, a new import from device
feature makes it easy to add photos to your collection from removable media. Import automatically detects if
a device contains new images. It also allows organizing new images into folders as they are imported.</p>
- <p>Other improvements in Photos include new editing tools for shadows and hightlights, and performance
improvements.</p>
+ <p>Photos has had a number of improvements for GNOME 3.28. Most significantly, a new import from device
feature makes it easy to add photos to your collection from removable media. Import automatically detects
devices that contain new images. It also allows organizing new images into folders as they are imported.</p>
+ <p>Other improvements in Photos include new editing tools for shadows and hightlights and performance
improvements.</p>
</section>
<section id="cantarell">
<title>Refreshed Font</title>
<media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
- <p>Photos has had a number of improvements for GNOME 3.28. Most significantly, a new import from device
feature makes it easy to add photos to your collection from removable media. Import automatically detects if
a device contains new images. It also allows organizing new images into folders as they are imported.</p>
- <p>Other improvements in Photos include new editing tools for shadows and hightlights, and performance
improvements.</p>
+ <p></p>
</section>
<section id="boxes">
<title>New Boxes Features</title>
<media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
- <p>Boxes, the GNOME application for using remote and virtual machines, has received a number of
significant new features and improvements for GNOME 3.28.</p>
- <p>When creating a new virtual machine, Boxes now offers a range of popular operating systems, which it
can automatically download and install.</p>
- <p>Boxes in GNOME 3.28 makes it easy to transfer files between your computer and virtual machines. To
transfer, you can either drag and drop files directly on to the Boxes window. Alternatively, you can select
the <gui>Send Files</gui> option and select files to be transfer to the virtual machine from a file chooser
window. In both cases, Boxes provides feedback about the progress of file transfers, so you know how long
they are going to take and when they have finished.</p>
+ <p>Boxes, the GNOME application for using remote and virtual machines, has received a number of
significant new features and improvements for GNOME 3.28. It's now possible to download operating systems and
install them from the new box assistant - just pick the operating system you want to create a virtual machine
for, and Boxes will do the rest</p>
+ <p>The new version of Boxes also makes it easy to transfer files between your computer and virtual
machines. To transfer files, you can either drag and drop them on to the Boxes window. Alternatively, you can
select the <gui>Send Files</gui> option and select files to be transfered from a file chooser window. In both
cases, Boxes provides feedback about the progress of file transfers, so you know how long they are going to
take and when they have finished.</p>
</section>
<section id="on-screen-keyboard">
@@ -72,9 +70,9 @@
<section id="Usage">
<title>Meet Usage</title>
<media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
- <p>Usage is a new GNOME application that is being introduced in 3.28 as a technology preview. Usage
allows a range of hardware-related issues to be examined and diagnosed, including performance issues and disk
capacity. The initial version includes features for examining performance issues, including CPU and memory
usage. These are presented as color-coded graphs, and applications which are using large amounts of resources
are highlighted and can be killed.</p>
- <p>The Usage preview also allows examining disk usage. This feature makes it easy to find files and data
that you might want to remove in order to free up space.</p>
- <p>More features are planned for the future, including network, power and data usage.</p>
+ <p>Usage is a new GNOME application that is being introduced in 3.28 as a technology preview, which
allows including performance and capacity issues to be examined and diagnosed. The initial version includes
features for examining CPU and memory consumption. Problem areas are highlighted as are applications which
are using large amounts of resources, making it quick and easy to identify the source of issues.</p>
+ <p>The Usage preview also allows disk usage to be examined. The interface for this highlights common
sources of disk usage that can be cleared, such as the Trash and temporary files.</p>
+ <p>More Usage features are planned for the future, including the ability to investigate network, power
and data usage.</p>
</section>
<section id="thats-not-all">
@@ -82,18 +80,18 @@
<p>As usual, there are also many other smaller improvements in this GNOME
release. Here are some of them!</p>
<list>
- <item><p>In <app>Clocks</app>, it is now possible to add the UTC timezone to your world times. This
feature also allows UTC to be shown in the top bar calendar.</p></item>
+ <item><p>In <app>Clocks</app>, it is now possible to add the UTC timezone to your world
times.</p></item>
<item><p>The <app>Contacts</app> application now allows sorting by either surname or first name. It
also has a new shortcuts window and a number of minor interface improvements.</p></item>
- <item><p>Browsing applications by category has been improved in <app>Software</app>. Not only does
this give a better view, but it is now possible to sort applications by rating or by name.</p></item>
- <item><p>The month view in <app>Calendar</app> has been improved - the layout is better and
overflowing events are easier to interact with.</p></item>
- <item><p><app>Calendar</app> also has weather integration for 3.28.</p></item>
- <item><p>Software - now allows disabling and removing repositories</p></item>
- <item><p>To Do - updated task view design - draggable rows. Improved Todoist integration</p></item>
- <item><p>The font viewer now shows more information</p></item>
- <item><p>GTK's font view has been improved - allows configuring variable fonts, improved
list</p></item>
- <item><p>Updated collection of backgrounds</p></item>
- <item><p>Maps now shows pictures of places, when they're available</p></item>
- <item><p>Profile picture selection has been improved in Settings, with a new set of pictures to choose
from and a nicer UI</p></item>
+ <item><p>Browsing applications by category has been improved in <app>Software</app>, and it is now
possible to sort applications by rating or by name.</p></item>
+ <item><p>The month view in <app>Calendar</app> has been improved. Events are presented in a way that's
easier to read, and it is now possible to seamlessly expand cells which are overflowing with
events.</p></item>
+ <item><p>Weather information has been added to the <app>Calendar</app> application, so it's possible
to see what the forecast alongside your events .</p></item>
+ <item><p>In <app>Software</app>, the <gui>Software Sources</gui> dialog has been improved and renamed
to <gui>Software Repositories</gui>. The new version provides a more reliable and transparent view of
software repositories that have been added. It also allows enabling, disabling and removing each
one.</p></item>
+ <item><p><app>To Do</app> has an updated task view design, which makes it easy to reorder tasks with
drag and drop. Todoist integration has also been improved.</p></item>
+ <item><p><app>Fonts</app>, the GNOME font viewer, now makes it possible to see extra information about
each font on the system, including the style, version, copyright and layout features.</p></item>
+ <item><p>The list in the standard font picker dialog has been refined. It's also possible to use
variable GTK's font view has been improved - allows configuring variable fonts, improved list</p></item>
+ <item><p>GNOME's collection of background wallpapers has been updated, to include a new set of
beautiful photographs.</p></item>
+ <item><p>In <app>Maps</app>, when you click on a place, a picture is shown of it, if it's available on
Wikipedia.</p></item>
+ <item><p>The set of profile pictures that GNOME provides has been completely updated, with attractive
new images to pick from either initial setup of the user account settings.</p></item>
</list>
</section>
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