A Pre-release look at GNOME 2.12

GNOME 2.12 will be released to the world on September 7th, 2005, culminating 6 months of very exciting work by members of the project. A number of exciting technologies come together in GNOME 2.12 that will set the standard for free software desktops to come. Here is a sample (by no means an exhaustive list) of some of the outstanding work that has gone into GNOME thanks to its many contributors.[/color]

Highlights of Gnome 2.12 include improvements and add-ons:

• New Default Theme - Clearlooks
• Core Technology
  - GTK+ 2.8
  - Clipboard Management
  - Hardware Abstraction Layer - improved integration with HAL
• Core Applications
  - Nautilus
  - Epiphany - improved
  - Keyring Manager
  - Epiphany - new features; more extensions
  - Evolution - cleaner interface & improved
  - Control Center - newly configured
  - System Tools - control services
  - Panel & Applets - minor improvements
• Multimedia
  - Totem Player - impvoed
  - Sound Juicer - improved
  - Nautilus - more tightly integrated & new features
• Extra Applications
  - Search Tool - file previews
• New Applications
  - Evince - document reader
  - Keyring Manager - manage keyrings

Take a peak.....