Highlights of Gnome 2.12 include improvements and add-ons:
- New Default Theme - Clearlooks
- Core Technology
- GTK+ 2.8
- Clipboard Management
- Hardware Abstraction Layer - improved integration with HAL - Core Applications
- Nautilus
- Epiphany - improved
- Keyring Manager
- Epiphany - new features; more extensions
- Evolution - cleaner interface & improved
- Control Center - newly configured
- System Tools - control services
- Panel & Applets - minor improvements - Multimedia
- Totem Player - impvoed
- Sound Juicer - improved
- Nautilus - more tightly integrated & new features - Extra Applications
- Search Tool - file previews - New Applications
- Evince - document reader
- Keyring Manager - manage keyrings