GNOME 2.18

This desktop tools enhancement is new in the Developer 9/07 release.

The GNOME 2.18 enhancement has the following features:

• Improved internationalization – Pango now supports vertical text layouts in Chinese and Japanese.

• Ring chart view – The GNOME Disk Usage Analyzer has a new ring chart view.

• Evince – This feature now supports thumbnails for PostScript^TM documents.

• Glade 3 support – Glade 2 is upgraded to Glade 3 for faster performance.

• Eye of GNOME – If you rotate your photos in the camera, they stay rotated when viewed with the Eye of GNOME image viewer.

• Additional spell check support – Aspell is replaced by Enchant. Enchant shares dictionaries with Thunderbird and Firefox that enable Evolution and Gedit to support spell check for more languages.

• Tracking recently opened files – GNOME now locates recently opened files so that you do not lose track of your work.

• Deskbar applet search for new distractions – The deskbar applet provides an omnipresent, versatile search interface. Searches are handled by a series of plug-ins or handlers. Users can type keywords into the deskbar applet text box and the deskbar generates a list of search results. The search results include local files, applications, and web content similar to the Yahoo handler or the Mozilla handler. The search result depends on the handlers that are enabled by users.

• Additional plug-in support – New rhythmbox plug-ins artdisplay or coverart, mmkeys, and visualizer are now available. The artdisplay rhythmbox plug-in is used to gather and display album covers from the Internet. The mmkeys plug-in controls rhythmbox by using shortcut keys. The visualizer plug-in provides an enhanced user experience.

• Online games – Chess with a 3–D look and Sudoku are available.