Release Digest: GNOME, June 6, 2004 Jun 7, 2004, 05 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (3445 reads)
Glom 0.8.0
Glom
Glom is a GUI that allows you to design database table definitions and the
relationships between them. It also allows you to edit and search the data in
those tables. The design is loosely based upon FileMaker Pro, with the added
advantage of separation between user interface and data.
Glom uses the PostgresSQL database backend but it can not edit databases
that it did not create, because it uses only a simple subset of Postgres
functionality.
You _must_ save the document, or you will not be able to use the database
that you created/changed. It will save automatically in future.
There is no way to administer the users.
The User Level is not dependent on any access rights.
Date/Time display and entry is dodgy and needs to be locale-aware.
The Details view is clunky, and the field-grouping feature is not done yet.
Find doesn't work.
Database Design should be completely separate from the Data and Find modes.
There is no printing/reports.
Changes
glom 0.8.0:
Now uses Postgres instead of MySQL, due to the MySQL license changes.
Now uses libgda instead of mysqlcppapi.
Now use libglademm to allow more improvement of the UI.
Glom can no longer be used with database tables that it did not create.
Now uses only a small set of simple field types.
Added "User Level" - normal operators do not see design functionality.
User Levels are bad, but this seems to be the only way to present the
design functionality next to the stuff being designed.
Allows simple layout of List and Details views. (grouping in the Details view is not yet fully implemented)
Goooooooooooood morning and welcome to the FIRST release of the GNOME 2.7
development series! It's ready for your bug-busting and testing pleasure,
and available for immediate download on ftp ftp.gnome.org and mirrors:
This release is a snapshot of development code. Although it is buildable and
usable, it is primarily intended for testing and hacking purposes. Like the
Linux kernel, GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development
status. Please check the 2.7 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).
Add "bounds-changed" signal for AtkComponent. (bug #140476)
Add new state ATK_STATE_TRUNCATED and new relation
ATK_RELATION_PARENT_WINDOW_OF. (bug #133375)
NEWS: at-spi-1.5.2
What's new in at-spi-1.5.2:
Added Accessibility_LoginHelper interface, and
LoginHelper GType. Also added client and server tests
for this interface. The purpose is to identify services
(typically, assistive technologies) which need access to
system or device services (keyboard, audio, serial ports,
posting windows, etc.) during login or re-login/authentication.
fixed make distcheck.
Added a check in cspi_object_unref, which should help in detecting
refcount bugs in clients (Padraig O'Briain).
New languages:
Walloon (Pablo Saratxaga)
Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov)
What's new in at-spi-1.5.1:
Allow synthesis of keysyms that aren't in the current X keymap.
Make menu icons follow menus_have_icons preference key (Mariano
Suárez-Alvarez)
Show an alert when the key has no schema (Bug #110745)
Replace use of item factory with ui manager (James Bowes from the
GNOME love fame!)
When removing an item in the list edito, select the next or the previous
one (Alberto Ruez, Bug #142994, also a new contributor from the
GNOME love and live hacking at guadec-es!)
This is the first release of the new development cycle and there is a
lot of very new features available for your enjoyment. Being a
development release there will also be a lot of bugs. As always we are
very interested in bug reports and suggestions: send them to:
Bugfixes:
- 126829, window menu icons not visible in a11y themes
Enhancements:
- Better mimetype coverage for HC and HCI themes.
- Better use of symlinking for HC and HCI themes (=smaller tarball).
- Some CVS surgery.
(This is the first external release in the development
series of GOK targeting the gnome 2.8 release)
in 0.11.3:
Important bugfix in focus tracking.
in 0.11.2:
Lots of new UI and features...
Added 5-switch directed scanning access method.
Fixed DOCK behavior when docking at top of screen (#140882).
Warn user about likely side-effects when starting GOK in
corepointer mode (except for Direct
Selection access method).
Changed GOK's dialogs (About, startup message dialogs, etc.) to
prevent them from raising above GOK's main window when in DOCK mode.
(#136160).
Fixed the very broken KEYSTRING word completion input.
Added a utility ('create_branching_keyboard') for creating
branching compose keyboards for non-Latin locales and locales which
normally require 'input methods' for text input.
Allow user to chooise between prebuild compose keyboard from a
custom .kbd file. a keyboard created from the XKB keyboard
description on the X Server (default), an alphabetic keyboard, or a
keyboard with alphabetic keys listed in order of frequency. Better
handling of key shift levels for non-alphabetic keys.
Added a numberpad keyboard (136482) and put a branch key for it on
the compose keyboard.
Added a valuator keyboard, and support UI grab and manipulation of
sliders and scrollbars (132757, 138751).
Allow the user to change the sensitivity of the XInput valuators
(132132).
Allow the user to select Dock and Fill modes for GOK from the
"Settings" dialog (118222).
Allow the user to specify an additional search directory for GOK
keyboards (109181, 140929)
by default we put the additional keys on the "XKB" Compose keyboard
on the leftmost column instead of on a new row, to conserve space.
Use libglade instead of glade-generated source files.
Require libbonobo-2 2.5.1
Better support for tables, including the ability to select rows in
GNOME tables via GOK.
Build and packaging fixes.
Fixes for bugs: 133545, 117568, 138683, 129450, 136065, 136732,
139495, 140051, 141996, 136877, 141240, more.
Various updated translations (az, ar, be, ca, cs, cy, da, de,
en_CA, en_GB, el, es, et, eu, fi,
he, hr, id, it, ja, ko, lt, nn, nl,
no, pl, pt, pt_BR, ro, ru, sk, sr@ije,
sq, sr, sr@Latn, sv, ta, th, tr, uk,
zh_CN, wa)
Various fixes (Steve Chaplin, Torsten Schoenfeld, Anders Carlsson,
Leena Gunda, Christian Rose, Fernando Herrera,
Takao Fujiwara, Damien Carbery, Martin Wehner)
Translations:
Added Turkmen translation (Gurban M. Tewekgeli)
Various updated translations (bg, no, es, zh_CN, sk, sq, cs,
en_CA, en_GB, ko)
NEWS: nautilus-2.7.1
This is nautilus 2.7.1, the file manager for the Gnome 2 desktop.
Major changes since 2.6.2 are:
* Desktop file editior property page
* Display server name in window title for remote URIs
* Add setting to not show volumes on desktop
* Prevents read-only emblem from being shown on desktop icons
when user is in root group
* Fix dnd start coordinates when zoomed
* Start apps in the directory they are launched from
* Add close all windows to spatial window menu
Major changes since 2.6.1 are:
* Accessibility/keynav/theming fixes
* Leak fixes
* .desktop file updates
* Fixed help buttons in the preferences dialog
* Portability fix
* Use initial click position to anchor icon dnd
* Crash fix in the file properties dialog
* Don't overlap the close icon and text label when the sidepane
is very small.
"Warning: we're not going to use the testing sessions as vehicles for
personal UI vendettas." - Anna Dirks
ooo-build-1.1.59
OpenOffice.org build:
This package contains Desktop integration work for
OpenOffice.org, several back-ported features & speedups, and a much
simplified build wrapper, making an OO.o build / install possible for
the common man. It is a staging ground for up-streaming patches to
stock OO.o.
Changes in this release:
So - this is a succession of paper bag releases to fix a series of
silly bugs introduced by the make re-factoring:
GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects
such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C,
portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as
an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system.
This is a bug fix release and is source and binary compatible
with 2.4.0. There are a considerable number of fixes in this
release as compared to 2.4.0, especially in the areas of
GtkFileChooser, GtkComboBox and GtkEntryCompletion. Also, a
problem on Solaris has been fixed.
GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user
interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for
projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application
suites.
GTK+ has been designed from the ground up to support a range of
languages, not only C/C++. Using GTK+ from languages such as Perl and
Python (especially in combination with the Glade GUI builder) provides
an effective method of rapid application development.
GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project. However, the
licensing terms for GTK+, the GNU LGPL, allow it to be used by all
pdevelopers, including those developing proprietary software, without
any license fees or royalties.
Make the output of gtk_ui_manager_get_ui() parsable. [Michael]
Add a way to suppress stock accelerators. [David A Knight]
GtkClipboard
Fix INCRemental transfer of MULTIPLE targets [Matthias Clasen]
Increase the chunk size for INCRemental transfers [Matthias]
GtkFileChooser
Hide the combo box when appropriate [Christian Neumair]
bug fixes [Federico Mena Quintero]
GtkComboBox
add mouse/wheel bindings on the cellview [Matthias]
improve positioning of popup [Matthias]
make the selection follow the mouse [Matthias]
GtkEntryCompletion
make the selection follow the mouse [Matthias]
restrict popup size to monitor size [Matthias, DmD Ljungmark]
don't complete on paste [Anders Carlsson]
Win32
bug fixes [Benoit Carpentier, Hans Breuer, John Ehresman,
Tor Lillqvist, Robert Agren]
GtkButton/GtkArrow
Don't draw the focus over the button child [Matthias]
Increase default arrow size to compensate [Matthias]
Documentation improvements [Doug Quale, Matthias,
Steffen Rucker, Steve Chaplin, Tommi Komulainen]
Other bug fixes [Billy Biggs, Crispin Flowerday,
David Hawthorne, Federico, Havoc Pennington, John Finlay,
Kouichirou Hiratsuka, Mark McLoughlin, Matthias, Michael,
Michal Pasternak, Morten Welinder, Olivier Andrieu,
Owen Taylor, Padraig O'Briain, Sam Stevenson, Scott Tsai,
Soeren Sandmann, Sven Neumann]
gtkmm provides a C++ interface to GTK+. gtkmm 2.4 wraps additional API in GTK+ 2.4.
gtkmm 2.4 installs in parallel with gtkmm 2.2, so you can have both installed at
the same time. glibmm is now a separate module, for use in non-GUI software.
