[release-notes/gnome-3-28] variable fonts
- From: Allan Day <allanday src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [release-notes/gnome-3-28] variable fonts
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:21:39 +0000 (UTC)
commit 0ab3674cd7c3984e4c3d4201014bc44ef2b1ee2e
Author: Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>
Date: Mon Feb 26 11:21:26 2018 +0000
variable fonts
help/C/index.page | 10 ++++++----
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/help/C/index.page b/help/C/index.page
index e3a0b37..96626f5 100644
--- a/help/C/index.page
+++ b/help/C/index.page
@@ -45,13 +45,13 @@
<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
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>
+ <p>Other improvements in Photos include new editing tools for shadows and hightlights, as well as
performance improvements.</p>
</section>
<section id="cantarell">
- <title>Refreshed Font</title>
+ <title>Refreshed Interface Font</title>
<media type="image" src="figures/placeholder.png"/>
- <p></p>
+ <p>Cantarell is GNOME's default UI font, and it has had a significant update for 3.28. Character forms
and spacing have been evolved, so that text that is more readbale and attractive. Several new weights have
also been added - light and extra bold - which are being used to produce interfaces that are both modern and
beautiful.</p>
</section>
<section id="boxes">
@@ -88,11 +88,13 @@
<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>The list in the standard font picker dialog has been refined. If you have variable fonts
installed, it is possible to adjust their weight and width directly from the font picker dialog.</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>
<item><p>The <app>Terminal</app> has a long list of small improvements, including a redesigned
preferences window, which combines the previously separate Preferences and Profile Preferences windows. Other
enhancements include support for double, wavy and colored underlines, blinking text, and options for changing
line and letter spacing.</p></item>
+ <item><p>Belarusian, Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian dates are now
displayed in the correct grammatical form.</p></item>
+ <item><p><app>dconf-editor</app> has had some big changes, with a new layout for lists and search
results and technical improvements.</p></item>
</list>
</section>
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