Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 29th Jan 2008 18:48 UTC, submitted by Michael Larabel
"Back in November we started sharing some of the exciting features planned for the GNOME 2.22 and 2.24 releases, and now that the first GNOME 2.22.0 Beta release is planned for later this week, we have taken another look at the packages set for inclusion and the changes that have actually been made. While nothing groundbreaking will be introduced in GNOME 2.22, this desktop environment does have some moderate changes worth noting. In this article are eight interesting packages that either have noticeable changes since GNOME 2.20 or are new to GNOME. This list isn't all-inclusive or ordered in any particular fashion, but just eight changes that had caught our attention."
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Just as GNOME runs on several kernels, can use several audio APIs and can use several X servers, it can also now use several rendering engines. Apple didn't even "develop their own" rendering engine, they're using a modified version of KHTML.
Back to the article: there is a brief mentioning of GVFS. "VFS is the new GNOME virtual file-system." That seems like quite an important change. Anyone know what that brings to the table?
If you have bothered to take a look at the WebKit branch you'll discover that the KHTML engine Apple forked has advanced in countless levels within that project to a point where it's not only reinvented itself but expanded in scope far beyond what the KDE project has developed for it.