Tours/Fedora16

New Login Screen

The GDM login screen has a facelift in Fedora 16, matching the GNOME 3 look & feel. There are some pretty slick animations you'll notice while interacting with it as well.

New File Previewer

The Nautilus file manager has a new file previewer called 'sushi.' You can try it out by selecting a file in Nautilus and hitting spacebar to activate the preview. Here it is previewing a photo.

Color Management

GNOME color manager has been integrated with the GNOME Control Center. It allows you to calibrate your displays using hardware calibration devices (Such as the Pantone® Huey™) and it also allows you to calibrate cameras and printers using a variety of color swatch cards. The monitor profile viewing tool provides a rich set of tools that allows you to more fully understand the effect your chosen monitor profile will have on the on-screen and print display of colors using your system.

Contacts and Contact Integration

GNOME 3.2 introduced a new contacts manager called GNOME contacts. It is integrated with the GNOME 3 search system such that you can search across your contacts in the same place you search for applications and documents.

Desktop Integrated Online Accounts, Messaging, and Presence

GNOME 3 has gained an online accounts panel (it only supports Google® accounts in this initial release.) This integration allows you to manage your online presence right from the desktop. You can also turn new chat notifications on or off, so if you're really busy you can block incoming chats until you're ready for them. You can also interact with your friends via a messaging tray built directly into the desktop; you won't have to switch over to your chat application to shoot a quick reply to somebody while multi-tasking.

New On-Screen Keyboard

Also new with the GNOME 3.2 release is an on-screen keyboard, which is a useful input method for both accessibility and for tablet computers. It is integrated directly into the shell and can be activated via the Control Center's Accessibility panel.

Wacom® Tablet Configuration Panel

Got either a Wacom® tablet or integrated Wacom® LCD panel on your laptop? The new Wacom configuration panel in the GNOME Control Center provides configuration options to customize your tablet experience, including stylus tip and eraser sensitivity options as well as button configuration and tablet tracking modes.

Virtual Machine Manager VM Inspection & USB Redirection

Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) has gained integration with libguestfs, an open source API for interacting with virtual disk images. This integration has resulted in various new ways of interacting with VMs in Virtual Machine Manager's UI, including a new ability to inspect the applications and version numbers associated with a VM. Virtual Machine Manager has also gained the ability to redirect USB devices to virtual machines.