De Gnome-community heeft recent versie 2.26 van de Desktop Environment uitgebracht. Gnome is een uitgebreide, gebruiksvriendelijke opensource-desktopomgeving voor besturingssystemen die tot de Unix-familie behoren, zoals GNU/Linux en BSD. De naam is een afkorting voor GNU Network Object Model Environment. Gnome bestaat uit een desktopomgeving en een ontwikkelplatform, waarmee andere applicaties kunnen worden gemaakt die in de desktopomgeving geïntegreerd kunnen worden. Het is in dat opzicht vergelijkbaar met KDE. De uitgebreide release notes voor deze versie kunnen op deze pagina worden gevonden, dit is een korte samenvatting ervan:
What's New for UsersWhat's New in Accessibility
- Comprehensive New Disc Burning
- Simpler File Sharing
- Evolution Evolves its Migration from Windows
- Media Player Improvements
- Volume Control Integrated with PulseAudio
- Support for multiple monitors and projectors
- Almost Telepathic Communication
- Location Epiphany
- Fingerprint Reader Integration
- But Wait, There's More…
- The file manager can now to ask PackageKit to install support for a file you wish to open.
- A keyboard modifier (usually Alt) is now required to drag panels around on the screen (the same keyboard modifier used for dragging windows around by their middles).
- Password entry widgets will now warn if you have your Caps Lock key enabled.
- Changing the Input Method type using the context menu on a text entry widget is now per-widget, rather than per-application. (This is separate from setting your default input manager or keyboard layout.)
- Input methods now work in password entry widgets.
- The Deskbar now supports OpenSearch plugins.
- New visual effects, such as the panels sliding in and out at login and logout, and crossfading desktop backgrounds.
The Orca screenreader has had significant work done to reduce program bugs and improve performance, with over 160 bugs fixed for GNOME 2.26. Some of the improvements include:What's New for Developers
- improved support for ARIA in Firefox;
- new understanding of how to pronounce WikiWords and mnemonics;
- the ability to configure speech pitch, rate and volume on the fly from the preferences pane; and
- improved performance and reliability.
- GTK+ 2.16
- Access to Disc Burning APIs
- Access to Evince APIs
- Anjuta
