Portal:11.4

Nieuwste vrije bureaubladen & GNOME-shell voorvertoning

Plasma Netbook nu meer aanraak-vriendelijk

openSUSE de nieuwste belangrijkste vrije software bureaubladen, alles met een hoog niveau van gepolijstheid en ondersteuning.

Het standaard openSUSE bureaublad, de KDE Plasma Desktop, introduceert gemakkelijker beheer van activiteiten, veel betere prestaties evenals bruikbaarheid en verbeteringen in functies voor accu, netwerk en bluetooth. De toepassingen in de werkruimte brengen een nieuw vormgegeven zoeken in Dolphin en plugins voor het delen in sociale netwerken zoals Flickr, Facebook en Picasaweb, die nu gemakkelijk zijn te bereiken uit Gwenview en andere toepassingen. Lees meer

De nieuwste uitgave in de 2.x serie, GNOME 2.32 in openSUSE 11.4 brengt u Time Tracker, ook bekend als Project Hamster en Empathy mogelijkheden zoals meta-contacten en snelzoeken. Evolution is sneller geworden en Banshee ondersteunt het ophalen van metagegevens uit MusicBrainz en meer draagbare muziekapparaten. openSUSE biedt ook snapshots van de aankomende GNOME 3 en GNOME Shell die een veel vloeiender en intuïtieve workflow biedt op uw computer en messaging en vensterstapeling biedt. Lees meer

XFCE 4.8 brings remote filesystem browsing support, better handling of file progress dialogs, RandR 1.2 support for better monitor management and a improved panel. Read more

GNOME Shell means effortless managing windows

LXDE, our 4th official desktop, has not seen a major release but several smaller fixes and improvements have been made. Read more

In all cases, extensive work has been done on integration in openSUSE. This includes making sure file associations make sense as well as picking sane default apps to include.

Firefox and LibreOffice have been modified to use native file dialogs and notifications and respecting the default file associations under a Plasma Workspace, and the the Celadon Stripes artwork and theming has been applied in all desktops. The Xfce desktop pattern has been extended to include functionality like office and image editing by default. Also, additional keyboard shortcuts have been defined to control volume or take screen shots and the menu layout has been tidied up.

Of course openSUSE 11.4 ships with all the major applications from the KDE and GNOME communities as well as the wider Free Software world. Read here for a selection of what's new!

The first shipping LibreOffice and Firefox 4

LibreOffice Writer under LXDE

openSUSE is the first major Linux distribution to ship LibreOffice 3.3.1 in a stable release, in part thanks to the strong involvement of openSUSE developers within the LibreOffice community. The first LibreOffice release introduces the ability to import and edit SVG files in Draw, support for up to 1 million rows in Calc and made slide layout handling in Impress easier. There also have been large cleanups to the LibreOffice codebase improving stability as well as startup performance. For developers interested in working on LibreOffice, openSUSE offers unique ‘split build’ development packages making it much easier to start hacking on LibreOffice. Read more

Firefox with the Moonlight plugin under XFCE

Firefox 4 introduces a major redesign of both the UI and the rendering engine. Tabs now live at the top of the window to emphasize the relation between a web page and the toolbar. They can be re-arranged and grouped and sites can be pinned to the tab bar. Firefox Sync allows synchronization of bookmarks, history, passwords and tabs between installations of Firefox on different systems.

The rendering engine of Firefox now employs hardware acceleration where available. There have been large speedups to page rendering and the handling of large numbers of tabs. Firefox 4.0 also introduces support for major new web standards like WebM and HTML5 allowing web designers to make better sites with less effort. Read more

More robust and faster package management

Repository management in YaST

openSUSE's ZYpp package management introduces a new MultiCurl backend, support for zsync transfers and Metalink download support. Thanks to these changes, repository refresh and package install or update has become significantly faster. Downloads now happen simultaneously from multiple servers and only changed parts of files will be fetched. Robustness has also been improved and the new backend gives better support for network proxies while allowing for HTTP BASIC password-protected repositories. The updater applets have also been changed. The KDE applet has been replaced by KPackageKit and both applets will now default to installing updates, not just patches. Read more