[Desktop] What's new in Ubuntu 14.04?

[Neal McBurnett]

Thank you - I've wondered about what is new, having only barely tried it out so far.

I was confused by this text, unsure what it meant:
  "Support added for scaling Unity on a per-monitor basis"

After some googling, I'm guessing this is related to issues HiDPI monitors, e.g. where user interface elements and / or text can get so small as to be hard to read.  E.g. described here:

  [Phoronix] Unity 7 Is Now My Desktop, Wins Over Xfce On HiDPI
  http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTYzMTM

So I suggest saying more about that topic, employing easily searchable terms in ways which will make sense to 12.04 users, and adding a link for more info.

Thanks!

Neal McBurnett                 http://neal.mcburnett.org/

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 03:46:20AM +0100, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> The desktop guide contains a page with a title as in the subject line of
> this message. This is a draft page for 14.04:
> 
> http://people.ubuntu.com/~gunnarhj/whats-new.html
> 
> While the "What's new" page previously has focused on changes compared
> to last stable release, it now tries to include news compared to Ubuntu
> 12.04 LTS.
> 
> The status of the page is indeed draft. We got some hints from Stephen
> Webb about the most recent news, and I combined some of that input with
> previous items in 12.10 - 13.10.
> 
> First of all the statements should be correct and up to date, of course,
> but I think we should also ask ourselves: Is this the selection of info
> we want to highlight to people who upgrade from 12.04?
> 
> Your feedback is more than welcome, but please note that since
> DocumentationStringFreeze happens on Thursday, any feedback needs to be
> more or less instant.
> 
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