Release Digest: GNOME, June 10, 2004 Jun 11, 2004, 04 :45 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (2396 reads)
Gnomoradio 0.13
Gnomoradio is a peer to peer music playing system, based on Creative
Commons licenses. It has the ability to find, share, recommend, and play songs
that are freely available.
Version 0.13 fixes many things involving the downloading and caching of music. A download status indicator, advanced search criteria, and other interface improvements were added.
Debian (unstable) and Gentoo packages of the new version will be available soon.
GOK 0.11.4
Hi.
We're pleased to announce the release of version 0.11.4 of GOK, the
GNOME Onscreen Keyboards Suite.
Thank you to everyone who continues to contribute to this project!
What is it ?
GOK is designed to allow access to the GNOME desktop and other X
applications by people who cannot use a physical keyboard (or mouse), or
in situations where a physical keyboard is not present.
What's new in 0.11.4 ?
Allows user to override access method, "scan" action, and "select"
actions from command line. See "gok --usage" or "gok --help" for
more info.
Requires at-spi-1.5.2 or better.
Requires libloginhelper-1.0.
Implements LoginHelper interface, to let authentication clients know
that GOK needs certain services during screen lock or authentication
(such as having its main window raised, access to XInput devices, etc.)
Always register with bonobo-activation (as a LoginHelper).
Fixed bug in gok_scanner_current_state_uses_corepointer, which
means the "core pointer warning" dialog doesn't get posted
unnecessarily.
Adds a new gconf key, /apps/gok/per_user_dictionary,
which determines whether each GOK user has a private (writeable)
copy of the main GOK word completion dictionary or not.
Other bug fixes etc. (including #143453, #143295, #142796)
best regards,
David, Bill, and the rest of the GOK team
gnome-bluetooth 0.5 libbtctl 0.4
gnome-bluetooth is a suite of tools for managing Bluetooth devices and
sending/receiving data under the GNOME desktop.
libbtctl is a GObject-based library for the Bluetooth and OBEX
operations on Linux. It comes with Python and Mono language bindings.
These releases are development releases, and should be considered
unstable. They incorporate a large amount rewriting of underlying
libraries for improved reliability and API usability. Little extra
functionality is offered over the previous release.
This release provides similar functionality to the 0.4 release, but
with many internal rewrites and cleanups. New features will come in
the next release, so don't worry! I'm aware that HIG love is needed
in many places, but as the dialog requirements aren't stable yet, too
much refinement is premature.
gnome-obex-send and gnome-obex-server are now based on the new
OBEX code in libbtctl. This should lead to an increase in reliability.
gnome-obex-server now lets you decide whether a device is allowed to
connect or not. The download directory can be configured from the
gconf key /apps/gnome-bluetooth/obex-savedir.
gnome-bluetooth-admin has been retired in favour of a new program
called gnome-bluetooth-manager. This is implemented in Python, but
is only at an early stage right now.
gnome-vfs support has been removed. Use gnome-bluetooth-manager to
view all the devices.
OBEX sending support is now available on the Nautilus context menus
for files.
Radical changes in underlying code!
The Bonobo component has been completely removed, in favour of a
normal GObject, GnomebtController, to be found in libgnomebt. This
embodies all of the functionality from the Bonobo object, but without
getting CORBA/Bonobo involved. It ships with Python bindings, too.
To find out how to use it, check out gnomebt-controller-test.c in src/
for C, and the applications in the python/ directory for Python.
Porting your code to this new object should make your programs smaller
and more reliable.
New widgets include GnomebtChooser, GnomebtPermissionDialog,
GnomebtSpinner.
