Release Digest: GNOME, December 7, 2003

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gnome-vfsmm 1.3.5

gnome-vfsmm

gnome-vfsmm wraps the gnome-vfs API for C++. This is becoming usable - see, for instance, Regexxer and PrefixSuffix.

Changes

1.3.5:

• Handle
  • Close in the destructor.
  • read(): don't throw an exception for a simple end-of file
• examples/simple/main.cc: Use a loop to read all the data, not just the first chunk. (Murray Cumming)

Stuff

The tarball contains these small examples: http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnomemm/gnome-vfsmm/examples/

Download

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1161

Murray Cumming
murrayc@usa.net
www.murrayc.com

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Sodipodi SVG flags 1.4

Sodipodi SVG flags 1.4

This is the third release of the Sodipodi flag collection. This collection currently consist of 275 different international and local flags. The flags are donated by their authors into the public domain. The flags are in the scalable and free SVG format which today is supported by most major vector graphics programs. Most flags are done using the Sodipodi vector drawing application. In others words these are free flags in a free format made with a free application.

The core collection of flags in this collection are meant to be as accurate as possible. If you discover flags in here that have wrong proportions or wrong colors then please update the flag with the correct colors or sizes and send it to us with an explanation.

New flags are of course also welcomed, but remember we need a clear statement from you that you dedicate the flag to the public domain, preferably using the Creative Commons public domain dedication process found here:
http://creativecommons.org/license/publicdomain-2 We do hope that many of you take some time to help us make this an even more complete collection.

We hope that this collection can be useful to people in many different settings be that in relation to software, publishing, education and so on.

This release also contains a perl script by Timur I. Bakeyev which will rename the flags into files using the ISO country codes. You find the script included in the flags tarball or zipfile. You can also find more information about it on Timur's project page: http://www.gnome.org.ru/flags/

The assembly of this huge collection has been made possible thanks to the hard work of many people. We big thank you goes to all our contributors listed in the CREDITS file distributed with this package.

We would like to especially thank Tobias Jakobs and Caleb Moore for the multiple contributions to this latest release. Caleb Moore also fixed librsvg to enable it or properly render all the flags and his fixes will be in the next release of librsvg (which means Nautilus will render the flags correctly).

You can see all of the currently contributed flags here: http://www.sodipodi.com/index.php3?section=clipart/flags

The creation of these flags had not been possible without the hard work that free software coders have put into great tools like Sodipodi and librsvg. The projects have helped increase the viability of SVG in free and open source software a lot.

Both these two tools and the new Inkscape project do need more coders in order to improve further. People interested in working on these and other issues are highly encouraged to join the project mailing-lists. You find the projects here:
http://www.sodipodi.org
http://librsvg.sf.net
http://www.inkscape.org

You can download the package in either tar.gz or zip format from the sourceforge file area:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sodipodi/sodipodi-flags-1.4.tar.gz?download http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sodipodi/sodipodi-flags-1.4.zip?download

Sincerely,
Christian Schaller

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PrefixSuffix 0.4.0

PrefixSuffix

PrefixSuffix is a small, simple GUI app that lets you rename files by changing the start or end of their filenames.

It demonstrates use of the GNOME C++ bindings, particularly gtkmm, libglademm, gconfmm, and gnome-vfsmm.

Changes

• Now uses gnome-vfsmm, so any URI should work, not just directories on the local file system.
• There is now a progress bar.
• It now shows dialogs if incorrect data has been entered, and if there are runtime failures.

Download

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=52410

Installation:

You will need bakery, available from
http://bakery.sourceforge.net
and libglademm and gnome-vfsmm, available from http://www.gtkmm.org/
and packaged by superior Linux distributions everywhere.

Murray Cumming
www.murrayc.com
murrayc@usa.net

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Scrollkeeper-0.3.14

(Narrowly missing out on the "two releases in 24 hours" club.)

Scrollkeeper 0.3.14 (codename: "Whoops") has now been released.

There was a slight problem with the 0.3.13 release that was made yesterday. To wit, there was only a small chance that it would actually compile for most people due to a problem with the shipped intltool scripts. This release fixes that problem.

What:

Scrollkeeper is a document meta-data storage system. It enables applications to access a list of all installed documentation and retrieve individual documents in a uniform fashion. It is currently used extensively by the GNOME help system for retrieving help documentation for each application.

Downloading:

Download the tarball from the main SourceForge page at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/scrollkeeper/

or from the GNOME FTP sites, including

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/scrollkeeper/0.3/

Bug reports:

Bug reports or problems with the release should be filed at the SourceForge bug tracker

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11543&atid=111543

Changes:

The intltool scripts shipped in the tarball have been fixed.

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regexxer 0.6

regexxer

regexxer does GUI search/replace in multiple text files, with visual feedback at every step. You can even see the results of complex perl regular expressions before applying the changes.

I have taken over maintainership until Daniel Elstner resurfaces, but I'm just a caretaker. Bring your patches.

http://regexxer.sourceforge.net/

Changes

regexxer 0.6

• Use GConf for preferences, instead of a text file.
• Use gnome-vfs to allow search/replace of files at any URI, not just on local file system. (Murray Cumming)

This might very possibly be much slower than the previous version. Tell me, or even better, try to make it faster and send a patch.

Murray Cumming
www.murrayc.com
murrayc@usa.net

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gnome-vfsmm 1.3.4

gnome-vfsmm

gnome-vfsmm wraps the gnome-vfs API for C++. It will soon be part of gnomemm. We are still figuring gnome-vfs out so your criticism is welcome, as always.

Changes

1.3.4:

• transfer_*(): Added string-based versions of the methods.
• Uri::to_string(): Added default argument value.
• Use C casts instead of static_casts<> for broken old gcc 2.95.4 compilers. bug #120619. (Murray Cumming)
• Fixed documentation generation. (Alberto Paro)

Stuff

The tarball contains these small examples: http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnomemm/gnome-vfsmm/examples/

Download

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1161

Murray Cumming
murrayc@usa.net
www.murrayc.com

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GNOME themes extras 0.5

As an early Christmas gift are we offering a new release of everyones favorite package of GNOME SVG metathemes.

The GNOME-themes-extras package contains themes using SVG graphics to theme your applications, file system icons and menu's in GNOME. It is worth nothing that these themes actually use SVG files unlike some other themes which only use converted bitmaps of vector images.

In this release we have many small and big incremental fixes and more are to come in the future. For this release we present the following additions and updates:

Changelog

• Menu themes updated to work with Red Hat Fedora Core
• Bugfixes from Andew Johnson to Smooth theme engine (making things like the new gnome-media mixer work correctly)
• Many new Nuvola icons by David Vignoni
• Improved menu themeing coverage for Wasp theme

Rendering issues:
Thanks to the work of Caleb Moore the librsvg rendering engine has many important rendering fixes in CVS. Due to this we recomend that people using SVG themes update their version of librsvg as soon as the next release is made.

Request for new artists:
The GNOME themes extras package contains a lot of icons, but there are still a lot of icons that needs making in order to get these themes as complete as possible. The artists behind these icon sets are contributing new icons and artwork as time allows them, but we do need help in order to get them complete in reasonable time. Any artists out there who would be willing to help us fill the gaps in these themes would be very welcome. Any interested artists should mail me (Christian Schaller) and I will send you a list of the most needed icons for the theme you would want to help out with.

You find screenshots and download instructions for gnome-themes-extras on: http://librsvg.sourceforge.net/theme.php