Release Digest: GNOME, September 17, 2003

gCAD3D V.0.74

Application

gCAD3D V.0.74

Description

3D-CAD-CAM software

Enhancements

• trimmed surfaces (plane, cone, torus),
• hatch

-

Fixes

-

Download

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/

GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gcad3d

Wallpaper Tray 0.3.4

Application

Wallpaper Tray 0.3.4

Description

Wallpaper Tray is a wallpaper utility that sits in your GNOME Panel Notification Area. It gives you a random wallpaper from a list of directories (at login, on a timed basis or on demand), and allows you to select a new wallpaper at random from its menu. A search tool is also included to help manage your wallpaper collection.

Enhancements

• Spiffy new icon (icon (c) Dark Project Studios www.darkproject.com)
• About dialog added

Fixes

• Check for directories being removed

Download

http://earthworm.no-ip.com/wp_tray/

GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/wptray

XML Security Library 1.1.2

Application

XML Security Library 1.1.2

Description

Implementation of XML Security specs: XML Digital Signature, XML Encryption, etc.

Enhancements

• Dynamical crypto engines loading based on ltdl library (including tutorial, API reference and documentation updates).
• An ability to build multiple xmlsec-crypto libraries in one build on Windows.

Fixes

• Minor problems in test suite.
• Warnings when building on Sun Solaris.

Download

http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/download.html

GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/xmlsec

libgda 1.0.0
libgnomedb 1.0.0

libgda/libgnomedb 1.0.0 have been released.

libgda/libgnomedb are a complete framewok for developing database-oriented applications, and actually allow access to PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, SQLite, FireBird/Interbase, IBM DB2, mSQL and MS SQL server, as well as MS Access and xBase files and ODBC data sources.

libgda/libgnomedb are the base of the database support in the GNOME Office application suite, providing database access for many features in both Gnumeric and Abiword.

This release is almost identical to 0.99.0, aka RC1.

libgda 1.0.0

• Updated API documentation (rodrigo)

libgnomedb 1.0.0

• Fixed #122108 - generating .server is not flexible (tagoh)

Tarballs are available at
ftp://ftp.gnome-db.org/pub/gnome-db/sources/v1.0.0/

To install this new version, you'll need:

• libgda: glib, libxml2, libxslt
• libgnomedb: libgda and dependencies, libgnome/ui, libglade, libbonoboui and, optionally, gtksourceview

You can find more information at the projects' homepage (http://www.gnome-db.org), or you can ask any question/propose anything you want in the GNOME-DB mailing list, which is available at http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-db-list.