Gnome 2.16 Released
New Gnome release, haven’t used it yet, but sounds like this is a pretty solid release, mostly bugfixes and GTK+ enhancements.
Interesting:
Metacity has new 3D effects mode. Disabled by default, and doesn’t appear to support any nVidia anyway, but still nice to know someone is thinking about this. Not sure how it relates to XGL.
New power management information. Have been thinking about getting a laptop, this would be helpful.
DVD burning within Nautilus. Handy, but didn’t realise this wasn’t included already.
Orca, screenreader. I have no real use for it, but am always interested in screenreaders (have spent ages playing with festival).
Recursive file permissions dialog. Excellent feature, not sure why it wasn’t included before.
Deskbar. Press Alt-F3 to open the search dialog, simple change, but useful I think.
All that seems worth upgrading for on it’s own. The bigger news really in this release doesn’t concern me much though: Tomboy, Alacarte and Baobab are now included by default, but I’ve been using them for months. Still, sounds like a great release - have to decide whether to upgrade now or wait for Edgy. More likely to wait for at least an RC of Edgy, I’ve been a bit out of the loop on the testing of this one.
Tags: Gnome, Linux