Latest revision as of 12:36, 24 September 2009

[edit] GNOME 2.28

[edit] Summary

Re-base to GNOME 2.28.

[edit] Owner

• Desktop SIG
• Email: fedora-desktop-list@redhat.com

[edit] Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 12
• Last updated: 24-09-2009
• Percentage of completion: 100%

GNOME 2.28.0 is in rawhide. The default IM client has been switched to Empathy. Epiphany is using webkit now. The Pango harfbuzz rewrite has landed. The GTK+ client-side windows code has landed. libgnomeprint22 has been dropped from the desktop spin. gnome-vfs2 dependencies have been pruned.

The schedule for Gnome 2.28 looks as follows:

[edit] Detailed Description

The main point of this feature is to ensure that Fedora ships the current version of the Gnome desktop.

[edit] Benefit to Fedora

Stay in sync with upstream.

[edit] Scope

Outstanding issues:

• Keep Gnome packages updated. For a list of affected packages, see http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyseven/Platform and http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyseven/Desktop
• Make sure new enough versions of external dependencies are in Fedora. For a list of external dependencies, see http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyseven/ExternalDependencies
• Resync image with new default apps, e.g. Features/Empathy
• Make sure new modules and new external dependencies of Gnome 2.28 are packaged
• Follow major upstream changes, e.g. epiphany is switching from gecko to webkit as the rendering engine
• Investigate if we can drop some of the removed modules. At least we should make sure they don't sneak onto a space-constrained live image. Candidates for this are libgnomeprint22, libgnomeprintui22, libgnomeui, gnome-vfs2, gnome-mime-data

[edit] How To Test

• Open System → About GNOME. Verify that it says "Version: 2.28"

• Verify that important desktop components work as well as they always have:
  • the panel
  • nautilus
  • metacity

Hints about testing basic desktop functionality can be found at Desktop/Testing.

This section will be updated as it becomes more clear what the major test-worthy new features in Gnome 2.28 are. To get some idea what people plan to work on for 2.28, see http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap and http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/Modules (but no guarantees that anything on those pages will actually appear in 2.28...)

[edit] User Experience

Largely unchanged.

[edit] Dependencies

Depends on upstream Gnome, see the Gnome 2.28 schedule

[edit] Contingency Plan

Ship the Gnome 2.26 packages that are in F11. Alternatively, if Gnome 2.28 does not happen in time for Fedora 12, ship a prerelease like 2.27.92 (we've done that before)

[edit] Documentation

• See the Gnome 2.28 release notes.

[edit] Release Notes

Fedora 12 includes the latest version of the Gnome desktop. It includes the client-side windows rewrite of GTK+, which offers new possibilities for eye-candy and integration with clutter. Some GTK+ applications may have problems with the client-side windows code. Eclipse and acroread are known to be in this category. In such cases, you can try setting the GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS environment variable, which tells GTK+ to fall back to old ways of doing things.

For more information about what is new in Gnome, see the Gnome 2.28 release notes.

[edit] Comments and Discussion

• See Talk:Features/GNOME2.28