Hey Stormy, On 9/24/08, Stormy Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > An instant messaging tool (Empathy) based on Telepathy. (Why is this better > than other IM clients? Or why would I choose to use this one?)
Empathy is also a set of widgets and libraries that will allow GNOME apps to for example integrate a buddy list in an action, like the cool example of playing tetris via jabber: http://alban.apinc.org/blog/2007/10/24/97-gtetrinet-video-with-telepathy-and-tubes/ Other things like sharing a text doc and similar could be done, that page has a video for text sharing iirc, but not really visually cool :-). > Time/activity tracking. > Audio video conferencing (Ekiga) > File management improvements: compact view, tabs, better support for USB > drives > Deskbar plug-ins: calculator, google search, Twitter/identica, Yahoo, > Wikipedia > Screen resolution: easier control of multiple monitors I would add 'easier control of multiple monitors, allowing you to easily hook up your computer to projectors or simply add an extra screen', I used this over the weekend to give a talk about the new stuff in gnome 2.24 and I was impressed on how it just worked :). Great stuff, made me proud of my desktop :P. > Sound themes based on Freedesktop.org specs which allows you do things like > get your alerts even when using multimedia apps > Digital TV improvements: multiple tuners, (remote) text subtitling, high > resolution YouTube videos In the video player (so this is not confused with 'ah! so now i can see videos in my browser with GNOME?') > Contest for backgrounds (People always like to hear about contests and this > one had pretty results so we could call it out at the end as a story.) > Continued accessibility improvements > Continued developer improvements Perhaps you could connect this to the preparations for gtk+ 3.0, something like 'Continued developer improvements and the first steps preparing the road for the future of the GTK+ toolkit', maybe it sounds a bit like vapour, what do you think? Adding to Brian's comment, you could link this idea with the improvements in gnome-session and gnome-settings-daemon as work 'to allow better future development of new features' or something like that, though I recognize my choose of words is quite buzzy and vapourware like :-). Diego -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list