Release Digest: GNOME, March 8, 2004 Mar 9, 2004, 04 :45 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (123606 reads)
gnopernicus 0.7.6
Hi,
I have the pleasure to announce the release of version 0.7.6 of gnopernicus,
the screen reader for GNOME desktop.
What is it ?
gnopernicus is designed to allow blind and visually impaired user to use the
computer. gnopernicus presents the information using three devices: speech,
magnifier and braille.
What's new in 0.7.6 ?
Miscellanous
Report caret-moved events for non-focused objects.
This is a development version of BEAST/BSE, the BEdevilled Audio SysTem
and the Bedevilled Sound Engine. BEAST is a powerful music composition
and modular synthesis application released as free software under the
GNU GPL and GNU LGPL, that runs under unix.
The project is hosted at:
This new development series of BEAST comes with a lot of
the internals redone, many new GUI features and a sound
generation back-end separated from all GUI activities.
Outstanding new features include support for skins, many sample
file formats, MIDI file import abilities, an improved piano roll
widget, the track editor which allows for easy selection of
synthesisers or samples as track sources, loop support in songs
and unlimited Undo/Redo capabilities.
Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.6.1:
Added suid wrapper which acquires nice level -20, then drops privileges
Improved latency/block-size handling of the synthesis engine
Fixed i18n bug which prevents demo song from loading in non-C locales
Added i18n support for enum values
Support for more note formats like Cis-1, C#-1, #C-1
SFI cleanups [Stefan Westerfeld]
Restructured sfidl and fixed lots of bugs [Stefan]
Switched core language bindnig to C++
Added support for per-part scripts
New harmonic transposition script which allows to convert between major,
minor, dorian, phrygian, lydian, mixolydian and locrian scales [Stefan]
This is the release candidate for 2.6. In an ideal world there would be
no major bugs in this release. Here in the real world there will be a
brown-paper-bag bug discovered tomorrow. You could be the one to report
it and cause me hideous embarrassment ! Go ahead, you know you want
to.
Since 2.5.7 the only changes have been bug-fixes, documentation
updates and more translations.
The criawips project proudly announces the second release of their slide
show application criawips.
About criawips:
criawips is a slide show application that aims to become a full featured
presentation application in the future. criawips is based upon the GNOME
development platform [1] and some libraries from GNOME Office [2].
criawips wants to become a part of GNOME Office once it
About this release:
Version 0.0.2 [3] (release just one week after 0.0.1) features some
minor improvements (removed hard coded paths) and some other bug fixes.
It was used for three presentations the weekend that has just passed and
would have worked all right if there were no hardware problems. The
presentation files for these three talks are included in the current
tarball in the samples directory.
After completing this release the code is going to be imported into the
savannah cvs repository [4].
The Network Monitor is a little applet which sits on your
panel flashing away at you so as to give you an idea of whats
happening on your network interface.
It also has a little dialog to give you more information about
the network interface.
Needless to say, this applet is not based in any way on any
similar feature in any other operation system. This is a genuine
original work. Um, well ...
What's changed ?
Applet
Add icon theming support (Mark)
Make it build on Solaris (Niall Power)
Fix minor i18n issue with the glade file (Ole Laursen)
Fixup FreeBSD issue - should work fine on FreeBSD now (Joe Marcus Clarke)
Don't use copies of the icons for the help docs (Mark)
Ruby/ATK is a ruby binding of ATK. ATK is the Accessibility Toolkit. It
provides a set of generic interfaces allowing accessibility technologies
such as screen readers to interact with a graphical user interface. It
is available from http://www.gtk.org/.
