We recommend you use one of the build tools.įrom release tarballs. If you are brave and patient and would like to build GNOME from source, You can get a list ofĭistributions who ship GNOME, and discover the latest versions they ship on our Will make GNOME 2.20 available very soon and some already haveĭevelopment versions with GNOME 2.20 available. Official packages from your vendor or distribution.
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To install or upgrade your machine to GNOME 2.20, we recommend you install You can try out GNOME 2.20 via the LiveCD which contains all of the software Full details are in a series (see 1, 2, 3, 4) of emails from Matthias Clasen See also the list of new functions in GTK+ 2.12. The GtkFileChooser now shows the recent files list, and can be integrated with desktop search systems such as Beagle and Tracker, as mentioned above in the File Management section. The built-in stock icons were updated to comply with the Tango freedesktop specification, so the appearance of GNOME applications is even more consistent with other toolkits and desktops.New input methods for the Thai and Lao languages, plus a mobile-phone-style multipress input method for embedded devices.
Support for some simple graphical effects, where the hardware and drivers support them, via functions such as gdk_window_set_composited() and gdk_window_set_opacity().The new GtkBuilder API, which can build user interfaces from XML descriptions, intended to replace libglade soon. For instance, this allows tooltips in GtkTreeViews, and on insensitive widgets. A new GtkVolumeButton widget, for use by media players.Ī new GtkRecentAction class to provide recent-files menu items.Īn improved GtkTooltip API, which is much more convenient and powerful than the now-deprecated old GtkTooltips API.