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GNOME Update Polishes Linux Desktop

By Michael Calore September 21, 2007 Categories: Operating Systems, Software & Tools

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The team behind GNOME, the popular Linux desktop, has announced the release of version 2.20 with a host of new features and improvements. GNOME 2.20, comes nearly two and a half years after the last major revision, and, while the overall look and feel of GNOME isn’t radically different, the latest release is packed full of revamped and polished applications.

GNOME 2.20 features a number of enhancements to the desktop, including a search mechanism integrated into the file chooser dialog, better image browsing capabilities, simplified system preferences and more efficient power management.

But the changes aren’t just with the desktop, most of GNOME’s applications have been updated as well. Evolution, the GNOME e-mail client, now includes a scheduler for creating and tracking appointments. Evolution also gets an interesting new feature designed to stop you from forgetting to actually attach the files you say you’re attaching to your e-mail. A new warning dialog will pop up when you try to send an email that contains the word “attachment” (or similar words), but don’t actually attach a file. Naturally you can disable the warning if it’s not to your liking.

Totem, GNOME’s multimedia player, has also been updated and will now give you the option to search for, and can automatically install, any needed the multimedia codecs. Image Viewer now features a handy “Open With”” option to open images in the graphics editor of your choice.

GNOME developers will be happy to know that there’s a new version of the GTK+ toolkit, with improved development tools and a somewhat revamped GNOME documentation site.

For a complete list of what’s new in GNOME 2.20 head over to the GNOME site and check out the release notes.

So far I haven’t seen the update in the Ubuntu repositories, and Desktop Linux reports that only Foresight Linux 1.4 comes with GNOME 2.20 as a default desktop. However, they also say that Ubuntu and openSUSE 10.3 RC 1 will both be making the desktop available within the next day or two.

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