GNOME 3.4 released, with smooth & fast magnification

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Published on Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:06:14 -0500 Indexed on 2012/03/28 17:38 UTC
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The GNOME community released GNOME 3.4 today. This release contains several new accessibility features, along with a new set of custom high-contrast icons which improve the user experience for users needing improved contrast.

This release also makes available the AEGIS-funded GNOME Shell Magnifier. This magnifier leverages the powerful graphics functionality built into all modern video cards for smooth and fast magnification in GNOME. You can watch a video of that magnifier (with the previous version of the preference dialog), which shows all of the features now available in GNOME 3.4. This includes full/partial screen magnification, a magnifier lens, full or partial mouse cross hairs with translucency, and several mouse tracking modes.

Future improvements planned for GNOME 3.6 include focus & caret tracking, and a variety of color/contrast controls.

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