Features/Gnome3.8

🔗 GNOME 3.8

🔗 Summary

Update GNOME to the latest upstream release

🔗 Owner

• Name: Matthias Clasen
• Email: mclasen@redhat.com

🔗 Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 19
• Last updated: 2013-01-16
• Percentage of completion: 30%

GNOME 3.7.4 is in rawhide.

🔗 Detailed Description

GNOME 3.8 continues development along the lines of 3.6:

• Building out the central features of GNOME 3: search, notifications, privacy, sharing
• Support for more online accounts
• Better accessibility
• New applications

For detailed descriptions and designs of the features that are being worked on for GNOME 3.8, see the feature list.

🔗 Benefit to Fedora

Fedora stays in sync with upstream.

🔗 Scope

• Keep existing GNOME packages updated
• Follow upstream module changes
  • gcalctool -> gnome-calculator 896449
  • gnome-games -> many little game modules
• Package new applications and new dependencies of existing GNOME packages
  • photos (likely a preview in 3.8) Done
  • notes (likely a preview in 3.8)
  • weather (likely a preview in 3.8)
  • gnome-getting-started-docs Done
• Introduce python3 packages as required:
  • speech-dispatcher 867958
  • liblouis 873186
  • brlapi 873241

🔗 How To Test

Generic 'desktop testing' is always appropriate for a major new desktop version.

Specific testing for new features: TBD

🔗 User Experience

Overall desktop experience should be largely unchanged from F18. Noticeable changes in the details:

• Redesigned search results display in the overview
• New settings panels for search and notifications
• Support for OwnCloud in online-accounts

🔗 Dependencies

• Features/InitialExperience
• Features/OwnCloud

🔗 Contingency Plan

• If GNOME 3.8 does not happen in time for Fedora 19, ship a release candidate like 3.7.91
• Upstream will also look at dropping individual features if they are not ready in time

🔗 Documentation

• GNOME 3.8 planned features
• GNOME 3.8 schedule
• GNOME 3.8 release notes (not yet available)

🔗 Release Notes

Fedora 19 includes the latest version of the GNOME desktop, 3.8. For more information about what is new in this GNOME release, see the release notes.

🔗 Comments and Discussion

• See Talk:Features/Gnome3.8