:GNOME 2.6 Desktop & Developer Platform BETA 2 (2.5.91) Released
GNOME 2.6 Desktop & Developer Platform BETA 2 (2.5.91) Released Mar 13, 2004, 13 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (12791 reads)
Announcing... The second BETA release of the GNOME 2.6 Desktop & Developer
Platform! That's right - it's almost here, and it's your chance to have a
sneak preview, and hopefully beat out some of the last remaining bugs before
our final release. ;-) You can find a summary of the changes between 2.5.91
and the previous 2.5.90 release below (which now documents updated modules
that didn't have NEWS entries too).
This "BETA" release is not the final GNOME 2.6 release, but is intended for
widespread testing among our user community. Like the Linux kernel, GNOME
uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development status. Please check
the 2.5 start page for more information:
Some very basic packages not distributed with this release, such as
image libraries, popt, and the freedesktop.org libraries collection.
Most of these will be included with or available for your distribution,
except the 'shared-mime-info' and 'hicolor-theme' modules - if you don't
install those, your desktop will look ugly, but it will work. :-)
Docbook DTD 4.1.2, Docbook XSL stylesheets and a valid system catalogue
file for scrollkeeper (which in turn is required by many desktop
components for documentation).
Fixed a speech crash bug
Use gtkfilechooser
WE WELCOME OUR US SPELLING OVERLORDS
A couple of nasty bugs involving the branch change logic being broken when
in control mode were fixed, which should fix both hangs and exceptions
Use gtk_widget_list_mnemonic_labels to create ATK_LABELLED_BY relations
instead of special case heuristics. (bug #136163)
Correct error in GailScale (bug 135227) [Mariano Su341rez-Alvarez]
Add translations: Tamil [Adamnseh Nadarajah]
Updated translations: Albanian [Laurent Dhima],
Simplified Chinese [Funda Wang]
NEWS: gcalctool-4.3.50
Overview of changes in gcalctool 4.3.50
One more slight adjustment to the fix for bug 135064.
Entering numbers that start with the numeric point character ('.')
are now visibly displayed.
Overview of changes in gcalctool 4.3.49
Adjustment to the fix for bug 135064. Fix to remove a potential spurious
initial thousands separator character after a change sign operation.
NEWS: gconf-editor-2.5.91
2.5.91:
* Fixes:
Show key documentation even if it has been modified (Bug #121813,
Fernando Herrera)
2.5.4:
* Fixes:
Fix a crash when deleting keys (Bugs #105884 and #124662, Sanjiv
Agarwala)
Copy path if no key is slected (Bug #132085, Fernando Herrera)
Fix a crash with NULLs nodes (Bug #128272, Fernando Herrea)
Unify copyright strings (Bug #101728, Christian Neumair)
Handle escaping of keys correctly (Bug #96744, Hidetoshi
Tajima)
Removed final "," in enums (Fernando Herrera)
Improvements:
Update statusbar on key selection (Fernando Herrera)
Added man page (Sebastien Bacher)
2.5.1:
* Fixes:
Fix a crash with unset values (Bug #121084, Sebastien Bacher)
Added float support to the list editor, fixing a crash (Ross Burton)
Remove the GTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED flag (Bug #123932, Arvind Samptur)
Improvements:
Set the cursor to GDK_WATCH while we are figuring
out the child nodes (Federico Mena Quintero)
Expand tree items when double clicked (Christophe Fergeau)
NEWS: gdm-2.5.90.2
2.5.90.2 stuff:
Support for GTK+ theming (accessibility) and ability to change current
theme in the standard login, fixes #125070 (Muktha, me)
Hindi was written wrong in the language menu fixes #134372
(Guntupalli Karunakar)
When restarting a server by whacking it and starting it again, wait
for 1 sec to allow things to "settle", plus be a lot milder on X
server's lock files / sockets to avoid whacking ones currently in use
Make language dialog in the graphical greeter come up quicker and init
the languages lazily
Fix #135232 by using code@mod for the translation matrix (me), and added
Serbian variants there (Danilo Segan)
Fix #135053 by adding canadian english (Adam Weinberger, Danilo Segan)
Fix sourcing of environment on AIX, #135401 (Vincent Berger)
Fix displaying of ~/.xsession-errors file
Attempt to handle out of user diskspace more gracefully by whacking old
.xsession-errors in case we fail.
Translation updates (Nikos Charonitakis, Jordi Mallach, Funda Wang,
Tommi Vainikainen, Kostas Papadimas, Kjartan Maraas, Miloslav Trmac,
Laurent Dhima, Zygimantas Berucka, Christian Rose, Changwoo Ryu,
Yukihiro Nakai, Duarte Loreto, Christophe Merlet,
Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Artur Flinta, Alastair McKinstry,
Guntupalli Karunakar, Takeshi AIHANA, Paisa Seeluangsawat,
Surichat Sumrit, Supranee Thirawatthanasuk, Chanchai Junlouchai,
Adam Weinberger, Christian Neumair, Hasbullah Bin Pit,
Pauli Virtanen, Ole Laursen, Asmund Skjaeveland, Metin Amiroff,
Vincent van Adrighem, Tino Meinen, GNOME PL Team)
Bug #135824 (Solaris build with pixmap SOURCES) (Glynn Foster)
Bug #104950 (Right-click unselects text if you click outside the
selection) (based on patch by Nathan Fredrickson <nathan@silverorange.com>
backported from gtkspell 2.5.0)
Bug #135565 (.cgi files no longer highlight) (Paolo M.)
Bug #135628 ("Enable Syntax Highlighting" checkbox not synched with
GConf key) (Paolo Borelli)
Bug #136231 (Should not run the file chooser in a loop to
enter folders) (Paolo M.)
Bug #135987 (crash when opening the choosing file window after successfully
opening a first file in a folder with spaces) (Paolo M.)
Various portability problems (Albert Chin-A-Young)
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.
This is the long-awaited beta for 2.6. As far as I know there are no
bugs that crash any of the the games or make them unplayable. I expect
this to change once you test it and file what you find in
Bugzilla. The documentation is the only thing expected to change
before 2.6.0.
So what is new this time ?
Bug fixes.
Gnometris now has some basic documentation.
There is a new tileset for mahjongg thanks to Gonzalo Odiard.
NEWS: gnome-icon-theme-1.1.90
Version 1.1.90
Changes since 1.1.8:
* indent icon polish
* renamed csharp mime icon due to changed mimetype
NEWS: gnome-keyring-0.1.90
Changes in version 0.1.90 are:
* New translations
* uninstalled pkg-config file
NEWS: gnome-mag-0.10.8
What's new in gnome-mag-0.10.8:
fix for builds with non-standard X directories. [bug 130787, from
Fernando Herrera]
smooth-scrolling is now the default.
magnifier toplevel window is now TYPE_POPUP as it
needs to be override-redirect and always on top.
fixes to benchmarking code reports (Brian Cameron).
cache GC's used in magnifier, to reduce X traffic (Brian Cameron).
Fix bug #104327 Added devfs device name support [Stephane Demurget]
Fix bug #129283 Use gnome-icon-theme for window icon [Michael Terry]
Fix bug #106700 Use ngettext for plurals [Chrisian Neumair]
Fix bug #127484 Use new help documenation [Balamurali Viswanathan]
Updated help links.
Translations
Takeshi Aihana, Ales Nyakhaychyk, Paisa Seeluangsawat, Christian Rose,
Andras Timar, Funda Wang, Danilo Segan, Ole Laursen, Alessio Frusciante
Pauli Virtanen, Christophe Merlet, Duarte Loreto, Priit Laes,
Asmund Skjveland, Tomasz Kloczko, Guntupalli Karunakar, Nikos Charonitakis,
Alastair McKinstry, Miloslav Trmac, Kostas Papadimas, Changwoo Ryu
Vincent van Adrighem, Laurent Dhima, Alessio Frusciante, Zygimantas Berucka,
Artur Flinta, Ole Laursen, Metin Emirov, Laurent Dhima, Sanlig Badral,
Francisco Javier F. Serrador, and many more...
Miscellaneous
README, NEWS: Update for new release.
NEWS: gnome-vfs-2.5.90
gnome-vfs 2.5.90
Bugs fixed:
+ fix some sftp bugs
+ fix ssl support (wasn't working at all)
+ better webdav support on some servers (including apache)
+ fix crash when monitoring invalid uris
+ handle fam crashing without using 100% cpu
+ fix nautilus crasher
+ better emission of pre_unmount when unmounting volumes
+ fixed some mime sniffing issues (need new shared-mime-info)
+ portability fixes
+ fix memleaks
+ some header changes needed for c++ binding
Other contributors: Crispin Flowerday, Mark McLoughlin, Michael Meeks,
Michael Natterer,Christian Neumair, Padraig O'Briain, Geoff Reedy,
Olivier Ripoll
Released LibGTop 2.5.99 "Gross Work", dedicated to people who do push-ups
in the loos.
plenty of code cleanups
removed the dependency on libgnome, only glib required now
Linux 2.6 support, NetBSD support and better FreeBSD support
Make the block size available for filesystem statistics
UPDATED: librsvg-2.6.1
librsvg-2.6.1 updated without a NEWS entry.
NEWS: metacity-2.7.1
2.7.1
===
Thanks to Rob Adams for fixes in this release.
bug #122016 - fix a focus race
Change move_to_workspace_left/right/up/down keybindings to
<Control><Alt><Shift> arrow to avoid conflicting with new
keybindings in spacial nautilus.
fix dialog stacking order issues so e.g. panel properties
dialog is above the panel
NEWS: nautilus-2.5.90
This is nautilus 2.5.90, the file manager for the Gnome 2 desktop.
Major changes since 2.5.8 are:
* Beter typeahead in list view
* "browse" context menu item in more places
* Added go -> cd burner in browser mode
* Fallback to normal icon view if there is a problem launching another view
* Close windows on unmounted directories
* Fix crashes
* Longer delay until cancel open dialog opens
NEWS: nautilus-cd-burner-0.6.6
0.6.6:
Limit label entry to 32 bytes, not 32 chars
Clean up fileselector usage
Portability fixes
Use the new mime types in shared-mime-info
UPDATED: nautilus-media-0.7.0
nautilus-media-0.7.0 updated without a NEWS entry.
