Release Digest: GNOME, January 15, 2004 Jan 16, 2004, 05 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (4205 reads)
gnome-session 2.4.2
Hey,
NOTE: In order to use the GNOME 2.4 session manager with
glib 2.3.1 (or later) you must upgrade to gnome-session 2.4.2 in
order to avoid a bug which causes the session to lock up
completely on attempting to log out. More details at:
gnome-session contains the GNOME session manager, the GNOME
session manager configuration program and several other session
management related utilities and the GNOME session manager proxy,
which handles basic session management for applications that do not
support XSMP.
MMG Security announces the release of Sussen 0.8. Sussen is a security
scanner which remotely tests computers or other devices and provides a
report on their vulnerabilities.
There are three (3) parts to the system:
sussen (client)
sussen-sensor (server)
sussen-plugins (security tests)
sussen is the user facing side of the system. sussen is designed for the
GNOME environment. It uses the Gtk+ 2.2 and GNOME 2.4 libraries. sussen
is integrated into GNOME, with support for Drag and Drop (DnD) between
Nautilus (GNOME file manager), use of the GNOME Virtual File System and the GNOME help system.
sussen-sensor is responsible for performing security scans. It is
integrated with GObject, uses Nmap port scanning and has Python based
security tests. It also has support for PAM and
internationalization/localization.
sussen-plugins are the security tests used by both sussen and
sussen-sensor. The tests are written using the Python scripting language.
*NOTE*: Sussen is not currently suited for production use. Many features
are incomplete or not working at all.
ChangeLog:
sussen v0.8:
Re-write of code to better integrate with GNOME & GObject
More work on user interface
Start of Bonobo integration
Added GNOME integration features: Drag & Drop, GConf, and
use of GNOME VFS
Added g_thread() support
Start of command line version of sussen
Lots of code clean-up
Updated build system to use intltool
Updated help manual
sussen-sensor v0.3:
Re-write of sensor to better integrate with GObject
Switch from getopt() to popt() for command line parsing
Network protocol changes
Updating the method for loading Python plugins into the
embedded interpreter
Preliminary work on exposing parts of sussen-sensor to
the Python plugins.
Lots of code clean-ups
sussen-plugins v0.3:
Re-stubbed plugins to reflect work on sussen-sensor 0.3
Today is a good day for all of you, what you have been feeling the last
couple of days is nothing to be ashamed of. Yeah I know, BLAM! is no
longer just an Application, it's becoming a Life Style!
OK, so what has happened since last release. First of all I've figured
out that you should probably get Sqlite >= 2.8 (I have 2.8.6), secondly
I've made it work with GTK 2.2.
I know a lot of you have always wanted to be like James "Snorp" Willcox,
well you know what? NOW YOU CAN!!!!, just read on and I'll tell you
how...
First I'm going to tell you a bit about how BLAM! has changed the lives
of some miserable creatures of the GNOME dungeons into persons with a
bright future:
Kjartan Maraas:
(who before BLAM took great please in maintaining really old software)
"Blam turned my life into floating in a pink bubble of foam"
Johan Dahlin:
(still next to homeless but at least he has gotten a haircut)
"before BLAM! I used to be homeless and walking depressed around in
the streets. When I found BLAM I got a job, married and happiness
found a way into my life"
OK, and now to the person you have all been waiting for. How can you be
like Snorp? Of course, it's a given answer, just install and run BLAM!
So this is what Snorp has to say about BLAM!:
"Before BLAM!, I was like a lost sheep in the GNOME world. But after
installing BLAM!, I know what everyone is doing, including the
super-famous Robert Love!"
WHAT!?! Does he want to be like Robert Love? This is INCREDIBLE
(BLAM!BLAM!) (read that like Golum says GOLUMGOLUM in the
movies with a different name).
So, in the end of the story we are all converging into clones of Robert
Love. Well, all for the better I guess since he has been doing some cool
stuff lately.
So, if anyone is really interested in the changes in this release:
Fixed sort order for items
Support for images on channels
Nicer output
No longer require GTK 2.3, yeah this is one important thing!
(still got the spinner though, hmm .. wonder how I can make the
spinner end up in all release notes)
Fixed a couple of crashes
Made it lots faster with many channels
Managed to bump the database format two numbers (yeah, what do you
know, you care don't you?). Anyway, no need to worry, it should be
handled automatically, har har
Removed autoupdate after being banned from Slashdot :P (now I have to
wait 72 hours before trying to download there feed again) sob 72
hours without filling my blam database with junk sob
Application icon by Dan Taylor, new about image, desktop file and
other cool stuff to make a cool application even cooler.
gnome-panel contains the GNOME panel which is the
area on your desktop from which you can run applications and
applets, and perform other tasks.
gnome-session contains the GNOME session manager, the GNOME
session manager configuration program and several other session
management related utilities and the GNOME session manager proxy,
which handles basic session management for applications that do not
support XSMP.
gnome-desktop contains the libgnome-desktop library
which contains APIs that really belong in libgnome[ui] but
have not seen enough testing or development to be considered
stable. It also contains documents installed as part of the
core GNOME distribution, e.g. the GPL, GNOME's .desktop files,
the gnome-about program, some manpages and GNOME's core graphics
files and icons.
