Links 18/12/2013: GNOME Desktop News
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2013-12-18 15:20:29 UTC
- Modified: 2013-12-18 15:20:29 UTC
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After receiving push support for the SFTP (secure FTP) protocol last month, the GVFS (GNOME Virtual File System) software was updated a few days ago with pull support for the aforementioned protocol.
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On December 12, the Yorba Foundation has unofficially announced that a new version of its Geary email client for the GNOME desktop environment reached version 0.5.0 and it’s available for download, or update where appropriate.
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The latest open-source project being forked by the Ubuntu developers at Canonical is the GNOME Control Center. In Ubuntu 14.04, there will now be the Unity Control Center.
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The GNOME developers have announced earlier today, December 11, the immediate availability for download and testing of the GNOME Photos 3.11.3 photo viewer application for the upcoming GNOME 3.12 desktop environment.
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GParted 0.17.0 was released today and its key feature is support for online resizing of file-systems along with other bug fixes and updates.
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