GNOME2.24 officially released-Multi-chart appreciation

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Article title: GNOME2.24 officially released-Multi-chart appreciation. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Includes basic categories such as desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems, and open source.

After six months of development, the mainstream desktop environment: GNOME 2.24 was officially released! This version continues to enhance the desktop application and introduces two new components. let's take a look.

Desktop Preview

It's GNOME 2.24's desktop. The most striking thing is perhaps the green background. GNOME 2.24 introduces fresh wallpapers, which will be mentioned later.

 Empathy

Empathy is a new instant messaging tool that uses the Libpurple library of Pidgin. Therefore, Empathy can use any communication protocol that can be used by Pidgin, including QQ.

Empathy is mainly developed to provide voice/video support, but the current version is not complete yet. Don't worry, please refer to the next one.

Ekiga 3.0

Ekiga is similar to Skype's VoIP software and introduced the innovative Ekiga 2.24 version in GNOME 3.0.

Whether it's new graphics GUI, enhanced SIP support, and better video encoding support (H.264, H.263 +, MPEG-4, etc.), it's a reason to use Ekiga 264.

Time tracking

Often cannot accurately grasp your own activities? Why cannot I arrange my time scientifically and reasonably? OK. use Hamster!

For details, refer to the previous article: linuxdesktop.cn/2008/09/25/2008/08/09/hamster-applet/ "target = _ blank> Hamster: a powerful personal activity manager.

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