GNOME 3.2: too many additional attractions for Linux users

The interface for packaging multiple modules of the Linux desktop has a new version. GNOME 3.2 integrates many useful improvements, especially to connect to the repository on a cloud platform and online accounts.

Compared with previous versions, GNOME 3.2 brings many new features, improved applications. The same life span glance notable advantages in this new version:
Online Account (Online Accounts): documents, calendars, contacts online you can be shared easily with GNOME applications such as the Empathy instant messaging and email management Evolution. Online Accounts as well as storage of the data access online services such as Google.

Links to online accounts

Specifically, using data Evolution in GNOME Online Accounts to access to Gmail, drawing data as a schedule to make them visible to the management function calendars in Evolution, which is hidden behind the clock in the status bar.
GOA configuration interface allows users to specify which accounts can be used to extract email, calendar or contacts ...
Web Applications: Through Epiphany web browser integrated in the GNOME 3.2, users can save a web page as a web application that can run from a panoramic view. Accordingly, users can store (save) the commonly visited sites such as Facebook or Google + to turn them into a web application on the desktop.

Create applications by backing up Twitter Twitter website to use next time

Manage your contacts (Contacts): new applications in the GNOME 3.2, called Contacts, which allows users to easily manage your contacts from Empathy or Evolution or configuration directory for online applications .

The new version also supports searching directly contacts at the panoramic view.
Document management and file dialog box Open File and Save File has been improved to allow access to frequently used files (Recently Used files), easy to browse, search and organize documents better. Also, accessing text files online is also becoming easier.

Archive files in File Manager: through the application of Sushi, the Nautilus file manager in GNOME 3.2 has quite a lot for quick viewing of multimedia files such as pictures, movies or music or text files as PDF.

Archive files in Nautilus from the GNOME 3.2

Interface login: login interface is integrated with the entire desktop environment.

And yet, GNOME 3.2 is pretty much the new points include:

• Integrated instant messaging in GNOME Shell, allow or deny entry or send you new files
• Using GTK + 2.3 toolkit and supports new regimes Wayland and HTML5
• Support configuration Wacom graphics tablet and the sensor
• "Hot Plug" for equipment
• Support for Apple Filing Protocol (AFP)
• Support rotate movie in Movie Player (Totem)
• Improvements to the encryption and digital certificates
• Clearer interface for viewing the logs (log) of Empathy
• NetworkManager 0.9 to improve Wi-Fi roaming function, support faster user switching, diversity of delegation of powers, the central repository of information networks and supports WiMAX connectivity.

Network management through the NetworkManager 0.9

• Evolution has shown that an avatar (avatar) in the Google directory.

Responsibilities "remove drive" was transferred from the Nautilus file manager for GNOME to Shell. When a USB drive connected to the system, a frame will display a variety of options to choose from. The options will depend on the types of files are stored in USB drive, such as playing music or video, enter the picture ...

More important is the ability to process improvements continue to be supplemented in the ability to select the System Settings, select the font utility improvements, adding an on-screen keyboard completely new tablet dedicated to the GNOME Shell .

Also, color management function for the device input / output (input / output) as a monitor, printer, scanner or webcam.

In general, GNOME version 3.2 is a major step forward with many changes from 3.0 and 3.1, including the interface. GNOME 3.2 now supports over 50 languages, including Vietnamese.