GNOME 2.24 Roadmap
It’s been a little over a month since GNOME 2.22 was published and we didn’t know what the Roadmap for GNOME 2.24 was going to be. Finally, GNOME team has publised the scheduled, and it contains important news.
First of all, it is important to note that they’ve started to talk about GNOME 3. As of this moment when we tried to learn something about it, we could only see a note explaining that GNOME 3 development wasn’t necessary because of the stability and good results that GNOME 2 was producing.
As time passed by, GNOME 2 couldn’t offer all that programmers wanted to add to the new releases (above all graphical improvements). So it seems that now they’ve realized that it’s time to prepare the road to GNOME Topaz.
But GNOME 3 is sill far in the future, so we must currently focus on the GNOME 2.24 changes. There will be an important change in this version: Epiphany will migrate the engine from Gecko (firefox) to Webkit (as Safari and Konqueror). The first tests show that the new engine will pass test ACID3 with 100%.
Other improvements will be the unified account management and Exchange 2007 supoort for Evolution (pending on licensing resolution), new artwork (with 256×256 icons, new “black” and “plain” themes, and new wallpapers).
Next months will be amazing for the GNU/Linux community because on June/July will be published KDE 4.1 as well (three days ago the first alpha was published).
- Source | VivaLinux
- Link | GNOME RoadMap
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