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I've been wondering that too...would love to see some screenies!

would love to see some screenies!

http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/pink.png

I know, it isn't much but it shows a bit of new control center and colours tweak in theme. ;-)

The pink is quite horrific:-P ; but the "colors customization" in the Theme Manager is a long-time missing feature.

KDE has had this for years, and you could manually modify it in GTK by editing the right files, but now it's accessible to everyone (I've actually had people ask me about this many times when I've set them up with Gnome on Ubuntu).

Edited 2007-02-16 00:09

about f--king time! woot.

what happened to the good-old "what's new in this release" page full with short descriptions and nice screenshots?

We have never done those for unstable releases. We will have one for the final 2.18 release.

The op might have been referring to the ones davyd used to do before the final release, like here:
http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-12/
or here:
http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-14/

Edited 2007-02-15 16:51

Look at this: "Sadly as usual, the 2.18 is over ouir heads and we haven't still started with the release notes. What's worst, we don't have a lead writer as for today."

http://desdeamericaconamor.org/blog/node/333

This gives you some of the information you are after (though no screen shots).

http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen/ReleaseNotes

Beagle won't go in by default (it's too resource intensive), but fortunately tracker ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker/ ) appears to be going in and it appears to be a lot less resource intensive and faster. Tracker's design is split into a backend metadata extractor database and a front end search which allows it to be reused in other parts of GNOME. For instance, here's how it's used in Nautilus integration:
http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/6883.html

Tracker is not going to be included at this time. It will be proposed again for 2.20, but there's no consensus that it will be included.

Actually, I hope that they neither include Tracker nor Beagle. What I would hope they do instead, is to include some kind of pluggable desktop search engine API where Tracker, Beagle or perhaps some other search engine could be plugged in. That would allow for much more flexibility and future development potential.

Well, as there is work going on (initiated by the Strigi developer Jos van den Oever) on a unified DBUS interface for the search solutions, I think you'll be happy.

tracker ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker/ ) appears to be going in and it appears to be a lot less resource intensive and faster. Tracker's design is split into a backend metadata extractor database and a front end search which allows it to be reused in other parts of GNOME.

Tracker is really great. I just installed it on Ubuntu Dapper running on a 700MHz Celeron with only 128MB RAM. Absolutely minimal overhead, you don't notice it's there. The the GUI front end is light and simple but effective and the search is lightning fast.

The backend daemon is standalone and can be searched from the command line. So you dont need GNOME, a DE or even a WM to use it. I believe that a KDE front end and Konqueror integration is under develpment.

Wow never heard about this - looks promising. It seems right now Tracker is behind Beagle when it comes to what file types are able to being indexed, I especially like the ability to search trough emails and my Gaim logs - but I hope this functionality will be added soon.

tracker subversion includes indexing of Evolution Emails
so it will be in the next release soon. The others are coming in the next two weeks.

We should be neck and neck with beagle in that department by end of the month