Gnome is aanbeland bij versie 2.30. 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 plus een ontwikkelplatform waarmee andere applicaties kunnen worden gemaakt, die in de desktopomgeving kunnen worden geïntegreerd. Het is in dat opzicht vergelijkbaar met de KDE SC. In versie 2.30 is een groot aantal veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht, de belangrijkste zijn hieronder te vinden:
What's New for Users
The GNOME Project's focus on users and usability continues in GNOME 2.30 with its hundreds of bug fixes and user-requested improvements. The sheer number of enhancements makes it impossible to list every change and improvement made, but these notes aim to highlight some of the more exciting, user-oriented features in this release.What's New in Accessibility
- View More Files
- Empathy Instant Messenger
- Easy Syncing
- Manage Your Users Safely
- Know What You're Doing
- Manage your PDFs
- Browse the Web
- Connect Remotely
- But Wait, There's More…
GNOME has a passion for making software available to everyone, including users and developers with impairments that can make it harder to use their computers. To help, GNOME created the GNOME Accessibility Project and an accessibility framework that is now a standard on libre desktops.
GNOME 2.30 continues to build on its prior accessibility credentials with several improvements. What's New for Developers
The following changes are important for developers using the GNOME 2.30 developer platform. If you're not interested in changes for developers, you can skip forward to Section 6 ? Internationalisation.
As well as the GNOME Desktop, GNOME 2.30 is the latest release of the GNOME Developer Platform, a set of API- and ABI-stable libraries available under the GNU LGPL which can be used for the development of cross-platform applications.
