Release Digest: GNOME, June 9, 2004 Jun 10, 2004, 04 :45 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (2349 reads)
Java-Gnome 2.7.2
The Java-Gnome team is pleased to announce the latest development
release of the Java-Gnome bindings. This release contains bug
fixes and enhancements to several of our core bindings as well
as our initial work-in-progress for libbonobo and gnome-vfs
bindings.
Java-Gnome provides Java libraries for creating GTK+ and GNOME
applications using the Java programming language. This is a truly free
graphical system for Java which works on most JVMs, open source or
otherwise, and has support for building applications with a full GUI
building tool, glade; for existing GNOME application developers, it
provides a convenient object-orientated API without any worries of
memory management.
I have the pleasure to announce the release of version 0.9.5 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 0.9.5 ?
Speech:
Added new text echo mode "none".
Report "first/last line" if user is on first/last line in flat review.
Do not report role for multi-line-text for speech default presentation
mode.
Improved the response of read whole window command.
Report to user "Escape" key.
Braille:
Report "first/last line" if user is on first/last line in flat review.
Miscelaneous:
Added --login command line option.
Added -u command line parameter to start magnifier in upper half of
screen
The version 0.6.0 of Libcroco, the GNOME Cascading Style Sheet parsing and manipulation C library, is out.
Starting from this release on, several different minor versions of Libcroco can
be installed on the same box. Releases of the same minor version number will be
upward API/ABI compatible.
Please, find below the summary of the changes pushed in the release.
libgda/libgnomedb are a complete framewok for developing
database-oriented applications, and currently allow access to PostgreSQL,
MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, SQLite, FireBird/Interbase, IBM DB2, mSQL and MS
SQL server, as well as MS Access and xBase files and ODBC data sources.
libgda/libgnomedb are the base of the database support in the GNOME
Office application suite, providing database access for many features in
both Gnumeric and Abiword.
This is another development release in the road to 1.2, which will be
the next stable release, and which shows a preview of the new features
getting into the 1.2 final release. It is not intended for production
use, but by people wanting to experiment with the new features and to
help on the development. We are though trying to have these 1.1.x series as
stable as possible, so things should not break too much :-)
