Release Digest: GNOME, January 9, 2004

Rhythmbox 0.6.4

Hello world,

Just a grab bag of fixes and some translations that queued up on
the 0.6 branch while we’re waiting on some GStreamer fixes to push
out 0.7.0.

You can get it from the usual places:
http://web.rhythmbox.org/download.html

http://rhythmbox.sf.net/download.html

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.6.4

• Add audio/x-flac as a known MIME type for FLAC [Colin
  Walters]
• Dashboard is disabled by default due to compilation problems on
  some machines [Colin Walters]
• Remove applicable filtering when genre/artist/album filter is
  hidden in the prefs [Colin Walters]
• Don’t crash when using –print-playing with internet radio
  [Colin Walters]
• Update GStreamer player to handle changes in GStreamer 0.7
  [Colin Walters]
• Don’t send ourselves SIGINT on a g_warning if not in debug mode
  [Colin Walters]
• Make file chooser dialog resizable [Colin Walters]
• Don’t try to use multimedia keys if we only have XSun [Colin
  Walters]

New translations:

David O’Callaghan (ga)

Updated translations:

Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
Duarte Loreto (pt)
Petros Velonis (el)
Jordi Mallach (ca)

ORBit2-2.9.3
libbonobo-2.5.2

ORBit2-2.9.3

• bug fixes
  • configure logic bug (Morten Welinder)
  • no-mainloop threading issue (Michael)
  • custom policy oneway fix (Michael, JP)
  • policy lookup fix (Alex Larsson)

libbonobo 2.5.2

• bugs fixed
  • _active query cache fix (Michael)
  • property bag logic bug fix (Dave Jones)
  • daemon compat fix (Crispin Flowerday)
  • object directory fixes (Gustavo)
  • l10n docs fix (Martin Kretzschmar)
  • BonoboApplication fixes (Gustavo)
  • use environ not _environ (Michael)
• featurelets (Gustavo)
  • b-a-s tracks dead clients
  • updated tests

Packages in the normal place.

—
michael@ximian.com
<><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot

GNOME Platform Bindings 2.5.2

GNOME Platform Bindings

Here is another scheduled release of the GNOME Platform
Bindings, which provide a GNOME development platform for
programming languages other than C, in the style of those
languages. This release set gives some bindings a schedule and
rules to work within, so we can endorse those bindings. We very
much hope that Linux distributions will therefore choose to
distribute these bindings as a supported development platform.

For the GNOME 2.5/2.6 schedule, we have bindings for C++, Java,
and Perl: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/modules.html

These bindings follow these rules:
http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/bindings/rules.html

and this schedule:
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/

Note that those rules do not guarantee 100% API coverage, but
they do guarantee API/ABI stability.

There are “Beta Bindings” for C#, which are likely to be on the
full release schedule for GNOME 2.7/2.8. Note that other bindings
exist: http://www.gtk.org/bindings.html
but they are not on this release schedule and they do not
necessarily follow the same rules.

If you have questions about the GNOME Platform Bindings release
set please send email to language-bindings@gnome.org.
If you have questions about the individual bindings, please send
email to their own mailing lists. You can find links to the
individual projects here: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/modules.html

Download

You can download source tarballs from
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/bindings/2.5/2.5.2/

Changes

• C++ (gtkmm):

  No changes. There are lots of improvements in cvs, but we are
  waiting for a GTK+ tarball release.

• Java (java-gnome):
  • New Classes:

    Action (glue code and JNI)
    ActionGroup (glue code and JNI)
    Expander (glue code and JNI)
    UIManager(glue code and JNI)
    ComboBoxEvent
    ColorButtonEvent
    EntryCompletionEvent
    UIManagerItemType

  • New Interfaces:

    ComboBoxListener
    ColorButtonListener
    EntryCompletionListener

  • Deprecated the following Classes/Interfaces:

    ColorPickerEvent
    ColorPickerListener

  • Added Event Handling for the following Classes:

    ComboBox
    ColorButton
    EntryCompletion

  • Tree and Text Widgets updated
  • Fixed problem with wrong version of gtkjava library being
    loaded.
  • Various build system improvements and fixes
• Perl (gtk2-perl):

  Gtk: fixes a few build issues for people upgrading from really
  old

  gtk2-perl, or building against bleeding edge gtk+. GladeXml:
  Only minor changes, mostly to the build setup. Canvas: Beefed up
  test suite and several accompanying bugfixes.

  (Torsten)

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

OpenHacha 0.3

Application

OpenHacha 0.3

Description

OpenHacha is a “free as in freedom” implementation for GNU/Linux
of the propietary-and-only-for-MS-Windows program Hacha. OpenHacha
is based on the libhacha2 library, courtesy of the Dalle project
(http://dalle.sf.net)

With OpenHacha you can split huge files into small chunks and
join the chunks then without problems (like cat/split
commands).

Enhancements

• Hacha v1, v2 and pro file formats now suported (thanks Alberto
  Fernández <infjaf00@yahoo.es>)

Download

http://ranty.pantax.net/~rrey/openhacha/openhacha-0.3.tar.bz2

GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/openhacha