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I’ve just read over the Gnome 2.20 Release Notes and I must say I’m looking forward to using it in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy). There are quite a few small improvements that I’ve been waiting for. For instance:

• Finally the Evolution mail client has an icon for the Gnome Panel’s Notification Area, I hope it supports minimizing of Evolution too (without leaving behind the task bar button).
• Evolution now has a built-in backup utility to help export and move settings to another machine.
• The properties dialog for a mounted disk now shows a disk-usage pie chart - very useful.
• One neat feature is that if you lock your screen and go away someone can leave you a message to read once you return (no more sticky post-its stuck to your screen).
• Automatic unlocking of the Gnome Keyring (Password Manager) when you login or unlock your screen.

However, the thing I am most happy to see is the new Gnome Library documentation site. This is a very polished site collecting together Gnome related tutorials, manuals, and API references. I think this is a great step forward for the Gnome project; I have felt in the past the resources were not as well presented or well maintained as they could be, particularly developer docs on subjects such as Gtk and Glib.