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:Release Digest: GNOME, July 6, 2004
Release Digest: GNOME, July 6, 2004
Jul 7, 2004, 05 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (3707 reads)

gnome-games 2.7.4

Lots of new stuff this time around. There are now new ways to play both Aisleriot and Robots. Also, I've removed the shuffle button in Mahjongg, you can currently only shuffle if you run out of moves. There is a bug here, you can get in a situation where you can't actually shuffle and are basically forced to undo. I'm working on a solution.

Find it at:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-games/2.7/

  • Callum

Details:

Aisleriot:

  • Implement Click-to-move (callum)
  • Reorganise menus (callum)
  • Context sensitive mouse cursor (Paulo Borelli, callum)
  • Hint support for Freecell (Matthew V. Ball)
  • make more use of GamesFileList to remove unportable code.

Blackjack:

  • Replace deprecated widgets (Jon McCann)

Gnometris:

  • New help file (Angela Boyle)
  • Separate out the C and C++ compiler flags (callum)

Gnotravex:

  • GCC 3.5 compiler fixes.

Mahjongg:

  • Revised postmodern theme, it is now the default (Richard Hoelscher)
  • Fix shuffle bugs (callum)
  • Changing the map now gives you the option to start again (callum)
  • Remove the shuffle button (callum)

Mines:

  • Touch up the face graphics to be properly alpha-blended (callum)
  • Draw the "wrong flag" cross in a scalable manner (callum)

Robots:

  • Implement mouse control (callum)
  • Add a toolbar and move menu to supplement mouse control (callum)

Monster Masher 1.7

No new features, just bugfixes and porting to gtkmm 2.4. This means that Gnome 2.6 is now required.

What's new:

  • Ported to gtkmm 2.4 and the corresponding gnomemm* libraries.
  • Fixed a crash that occurred on some locales.

About Monster Masher:

In the old days, before man entered the world, the gnomes were abundant. Through centuries of hard labour, only slightly eased by the levitational powers provided to them by their god, they bored out shafts and caves in the mountains. Always seeking the precious stones and valuable ore...

Monster Masher is a GPL'ed mash'em-up action game for GNOME. Each level contains a number of blocks and monsters. You're a little gnome running around. By pushing the blocks you can mash the monsters one at a time. There are various power-ups and different kinds of monsters.

http://www.cs.aau.dk/~olau/monster-masher/
http://www.cs.aau.dk/~olau/monster-masher/screenshots.html

The requirements are Gnome 2.6 and the gtkmm 2.4 and related gnomemm* libraries from www.gtkmm.org/.

--
Ole Laursen
http://www.cs.aau.dk/~olau/


Glom 0.8.5 & 0.8.6

Glom 0.8.5

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.

Here are some screenshots:
http://www.glom.org/screenshots/

Glom is written in C++, with gtkmm, Bakery, and libgdamm.

More information is at
http://www.glom.org

Obvious/Known problems

  • 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 database access rights.
  • The Details view should show lists of related records directly among the regular fields.
  • There is no printing/reports.

Changes

glom 0.8.5:

  • Data Details: Editing works again.
  • Find mode now works, though it's simple.
  • Edit buttons are now stock Open buttons.
  • Renaming of tables: The new names are stored in the document so you can rename again, and use the renamed table. (Murray Cumming)

Glom 0.8.6

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.

Here are some screenshots:
http://www.glom.org/screenshots/

Glom is written in C++, with gtkmm, Bakery, and libgdamm.

More information is at
http://www.glom.org

Obvious/Known problems

  • There is no way to administer the users.
  • The User Level is not dependent on database access rights.
  • The Details view should show lists of related records directly among the regular fields.
  • There is no printing/reports.
  • This release might crash horribly. I'd like to know if it does: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Glom

Changes

glom 0.8.6:

  • Creating new documents works again.
  • Auto-save documents, when in developer mode, instead of asking.
  • Navigation:
    • Database: Default to the linux user name.
    • Tables: Show the hidden status correctly.
  • MIME type registration: Use both old and new system, as needed by GNOME 2.6.
  • Allow a file to be specified on the command line.
  • Removed useless toolbar. (Murray Cumming)
  • Added French translation. (Christophe Merlet)

--
Murray Cumming
murrayc@murrayc.com
www.murrayc.com
www.openismus.com


gedit 2.7.1

The first release from the new unstable branch is out.

No big changes were included, see the NEWS below.

gedit has also a new web page:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit

ciao

paolo

gedit 2.7.1 - "FUTURE PROGRAMMING TECHNOLOGY"

New Features

  • Add a change case plugin (Paolo Borelli)
  • debugging output is now enabled with env vars (Paolo B.)

Fixes

  • link help button in preferences and page setup dialogs (Muktha)
  • Syntax Highlighting prefs don't get confused (Travis Snoozy)
  • merge misc bugfixes from the stable branch

New and updated translations

  • Christian Neumair (de)
  • Nikos Charonitakis (el)
  • Laurent Dhima (sq)

criawips 0.0.3 & 0.0.4

Hi all,

being back from the GUADEC which has been one more great experience of the international GNOME community, I just released version 0.0.3 of my small 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's usable by end users and starts to integrate well into the existing GNOME Office applications.

About this release

Version 0.0.3 [3] has been the result of some days of extensive hacking at GUADEC. I just started my work on a main window that should provide the way to edit the presentation.

If you just want to open a presentation in the presentation mode, don't just execute "criawips <presentation file>" but add the command line option "--start-off" (without the quotes).

About criawips' development

I packaged 0.0.3 on Wednesday evening before I was starting some major come improvements that improve feedback to the user. This stuff (which was completed yesterday when shipping from Norway to Denmark) is already in CVS, so if you cannot open a presentation and you don't know why, just try to use the CVS version (which is located at savannah [4]) and tell me whether it works well for you.

[1] http://www.gnome.org/
[2] http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/
[3] http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/criawips/
[4] https://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=criawips

criawips 0.0.4

Hi,

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's usable by end users and starts to integrate well into the existing GNOME Office applications.

About this release

This version brings significant improvements for users who wanted to try out criawips but who didn't get it running yet.

Error reporting was implemented the day before yesterday when shipping from Norway to Denmark. Thus, people don't have to swear anymore when they cannot open files.

This release event shows up the first steps to display a slide in the main window (although it still doesn't display slides yet). The code needs some refactoring to support this in a clean way (remember 0.0.1 and 0.0.2 where just quick hacks to display a slide).

About criawips' development

The development of criawips takes place in the Savannah CVS [4].

[1] http://www.gnome.org/
[2] http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/
[3] http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/criawips/
[4] https://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=criawips

Regards,
Sven


libgsf 1.10.0

GNOME Structured File library 1.10.0

What is it?

The GNOME Structured File Library's goal is to provide a simple I/O library that can read and write common file types and that handles structured formats that provide file-system-in-a-file semantics (e.g. OLE2 and zip). Additionally it contains utility functions for document centric applications.

Who uses it?

GSF is used by a number of GNOME applications and libraries, including abiword, gnumeric, planner, wpd2sxw, librsvg2, libwpd, and wv2.

What is new in this release?

This release brings OLE2 bugfixes (including the handling of OLE2 generated by planmaker), as well as portability fixes, primarily for the ARM architecture. The API has changed somewhat, in particular the signatures of the return values of various *_new funcions.
--
What is this talk of software 'releases'? Klingons do not 'release' software; our software ESCAPES, leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake!


Gnumeric 1.2.13

Gnumeric 1.2.13 aka "Implicit Operator Iteration" is now available.

This is a medium priority release. We finally seem to have fixed the xls export issues around sheet local names and dealt with text overflow for really large workbooks. Andreas chipped in with some LaTeX export fixes and patches for printing problems. While we were playing with Glynn's film game we noticed a problem at the bottom of some of the pictures. Morten found the missing 8 bytes and the jpgs look clear now.

This release also has a few nifty features backported. Most importantly, it includes the last of the implicit iteration support for operators. We now support (as far as I know) all of Ms Excel's evaluation techniques. Bring on your favourite array-expressions please. I'd like to hear about any failures. While we were in there I threw in a low risk patch to import gradients from xls.

New development is continuing in HEAD based on gtk-2.4

Details

  • Andreas:
    • Handle borders in latex export correctly (broken in 1.2.12 only) (bug 142219)
    • Handle borders in latex export correctly (bug 142219)
    • fix grid printing (bug 143577)
  • Emmanuel Pacaud:
    • In a line graph, don't use '0' if Y value is missing. (bug 142212)
  • Jody:
    • Fix MS XL crash when there are too many strings (bug 141940)
    • xls import gradient backgrounds in chart elements
    • Restore the font selector to chart editors
    • Support series with no entry in a legend
    • Fix drawing selection below hidden merged cells (bug 142267)
    • Fix xls named expression and addin import/export (bug 103054)
    • Use first rather than last conditional value fmt as catch-all (bug 142474)
    • Enable implicit iteration for operators
    • Re-enable gridline printing (bug 143577)
  • Morten:
    • Fix image-inside-xls problem.
    • Improve error handling in xbase plugin.
    • Fix parser problem with single empty arg after expression.

Availability

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric/1.2/


Gwget 0.12

Gwget it's a download manager for Gnome 2. It's use wget as a backend.

What's new:
- General code cleanup.
- Added Notification area support
- Romanian translation added.
- Now gwget it's in Gnome cvs (module gwget).

Homepage and screenshots:

http://gwget.sourceforge.net

Download:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gwget/gwget-0.12.tar.gz

Cheers
--
David Sedeño Fernández
david@alderia.com
Jabber ID: frimost@jabber.linux-malaga.org


Alexandria 0.3.0

Hi,

Alexandria 0.3.0 has just been released!

Alexandria is a GNOME application to help you manage your book collection.

You can get more information (screenshots, features, download links, packages...) on its web site:

http://alexandria.rubyforge.org

This release considerably improves the dialog box to add books, ships a new provider to the Proxis library (http://www.proxis.be) and features more GNOME compatibility.

Details are following. Enjoy!

New features:

  • the Add Book dialog allows searches by title, authors and keyword as well as regular ISBNs ;
  • ISBNs are now validated before usage ;
  • the Add Book dialog will autofill the ISBN text entry using the clipboard content if it contains a valid EAN/ISBN ;
  • the Add Book dialog will automatically convert EANs to ISBNs ;
  • a provider to the Proxis library (http://www.proxis.be) has been added ;
  • HTTP connections to Amazon and Proxis are configured to pass via a proxy or not according to the GNOME preferences.

Bug fixed:

  • do not split title icons inside a multibyte character ;
  • fixed the Amazon provider to not set the manufacturer attribute to nil for some books that are not yet released ;
  • enforced the use of UTF-8 for gettext ;
  • some strings have been ngettexted ;
  • the data/locale directory is cleaned by install.rb ;
  • pre-setup.rb doesn't require Ruby-GetText anymore since all this does is run msgfmt.

Updated translations:

  • Dafydd Harries (cy) ;
  • Laurent Sansonetti (fr) ;
  • Masao Mutoh (ja).

--
Laurent


GARNOME 2.6.2

GARNOME 2.6.2 (the 'who's got the funk' release.)

The latest 'somewhat toned down' version of GARNOME distribution for those who want a new version of GNOME for regular day-to-day use, but don't want to wait until your distribution catches up, is now out and about.

This release incorporates the GNOME 2.6.2 Desktop & Developer=20 Platform.

Tarball: ftp://cipherfunk.org/pub/tarballs/garnome/

ChangeLog

The following packages have been removed:


         Category 'bindings':
                libgnomemm
                libgnomeuimm
                libgnomecanvasmm

         Category 'broken':
                alleyoop
                libgnomecups
                gswitchit

         Category 'mono':
                f-spot

The following packages have been added:


         Category 'geektoys':
                libgnomecups.............0.1.8

         Category 'hacker-tools':
                alleyoop.................0.8.2

         Category 'mono':
                evolution-sharp..........0.3

         Category 'office':
                ximian-connector.........1.5.9

The following packages have been upgraded:


         Category 'bindings':
                glibmm...................2.4.3
                gtkmm....................2.4.4
                libglademm...............2.4.1

         Category 'bootstrap':
                mozilla..................1.7
                startup-notification.....0.7

         Category 'broken':
                screem...................0.10.2
                straw....................0.23

         Category 'desktop':
                eel......................2.6.2
                epiphany.................1.2.6
                file-roller..............2.6.2
                gconf-editor.............2.6.2
                gdm......................2.6.0.3
                gedit....................2.6.2
                gnome-applets............2.6.2
                gnome-desktop............2.6.2
                gnome-games..............2.6.2
                gnome-icon-theme.........1.2.3
                gnome-netstatus..........2.6.2
                gnome-panel..............2.6.2
                gnome-session............2.6.2
                gnome-speech.............0.3.3
                gnome-themes.............2.6.3
                gnome-utils..............2.6.2
                gpdf.....................0.132
                gst-plugins..............0.8.2
                gstreamer................0.8.3
                libcroco.................0.6.0
                libgnomeprint............2.6.2
                libgnomeprintui..........2.6.2
                libgtkhtml...............2.6.2
                libwnck..................2.6.2
                nautilus.................2.6.3
                zenity...................2.6.2

         Category 'fifth-toe':
                gaim.....................0.79
                galeon...................1.3.15
                gimp.....................2.0.2
                gnet.....................2.0.5
                gossip...................0.7.6
                gthumb...................2.4.1
                rhythmbox................0.8.5
                sodipodi.................0.34
                sound-juicer.............0.5.12
                totem....................0.99.13
                xchat....................2.0.9
                xine-lib.................1-rc5

         Category 'geektoys':
                devilspie................0.4
                gDesklets................0.26.2
                gnome-system-tools.......0.34.0
                openbox..................3.2
                redhat-artwork...........0.96
                ximian-artwork...........0.2.36

         Category 'hacker-tools':
                ghex.....................2.6.1

         Category 'mono':
                gecko-sharp..............0.5
                gtk-sharp................1.0
                gtksourceview-sharp......0.5
                mono.....................1.0
                monodevelop..............0.5
                monodoc..................1.0

         Category 'office':
                abiword..................2.0.7
                evolution................1.5.9.2
                evolution-data-server....0.0.94.1
                evolution-webcal.........1.0.6
                gal......................2.1.10
                gtkhtml..................3.1.16
                libgda...................1.1.4
                libgnomedb...............1.1.4
                libsoup..................2.1.11

         Category 'platform':
                GConf....................2.6.3
                ORBit2...................2.10.3
                gail.....................1.6.6
                glib.....................2.4.2
                gtk+.....................2.4.3
                libbonobo................2.6.2
                libbonoboui..............2.6.1

Regards,

Paul


Bakery 2.3.6

Bakery is a C++ Framework for creating document-based GNOME applications using gtkmm. Bakery 2.3.x is for gtkmm 2.4 and libxml++ 2.6

  • Bakery provides a Document/View architecture, but it doesn't force you to use the whole architecture.
  • Bakery can use XML as a document storage format.
  • Bakery provides default functionality, which can be easily customized.
  • Bakery makes it easy to start developing gtkmm/GNOME applications.
  • Bakery gives your application structure.
  • Bakery provides useful utility classes.

Documentation and downloads are available at http://bakery.sourceforge.net

Changes:

bakery 2.3.7:

  • Document:
    • Create new documents with sensible (rather than bizarre) permissions.
    • Add parameter to the modified signal, and send it whenever it changes.

--
Murray Cumming
murrayc@usa.net
www.murrayc.com



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