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Release Digest: GNOME, August 12, 2003

Epiphany 0.8.4

Hi,

What is it?

Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla rendering
engine.
The name meaning:
“An intuitive grasp of reality through
something (as an event) usually simple and striking”

You can find more info about the project goals at: http://epiphany.mozdev.org

What’s changed?

Epiphany 0.8.4

New features

  • Respect the new system wide pref to not use proxy for a list of
    urls (Malcolm Tredinnick, Marco)

Bugfixes

  • Fix multiple items drag and drop behavior and one crash caused
    by the old code. (Marco)
  • Make it compile with mozilla head (Xan Lopez)

Documentation

  • Wrote section about bookmarks (Patanjali Somayaji)

Translations

  • ca (Jordi Mallach)
  • cy (Dafydd Harries)
  • da (Ole Laursen)
  • pt_BR (Evandro Fernandes Giovanini)

Where can I get it?

Source code:
http://downloads.mozdev.org/epiphany/epiphany-0.8.4.tar.gz

Epiphany 0.8.4 requires 1.4, 1.5a, cvs. The suggested version is
Mozilla 1.4:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.4/src/mozilla-source-1.4.tar.gz

More about dependencies and installation tips: http://epiphany.mozdev.org/downloads.html

Enjoy.

Marco


intltool 0.27

A new release of the intltool package is available; this time
codenamed “We don’t close in vacations”. The intltool package is a
set of tools for translating the contents of data files using the
gettext translation framework.

As always we suggest everyone to upgrade – especially those who
are working with UTF-8 strings inside source code (for example,
GNUMERIC)

Some of the changes in intltool since version 0.27:

  • Small scheme support fixes (Callum McKenzie)
  • Added support for .lang files (Gustavo Giraldez)
  • Added support for .xam files (Abel Cheung)
  • Updated I18N-HOWTO (Kenneth, Bruno Haible)
  • Updated all manual pages and command help (Abel Cheung)
  • Improved the package name detection code (Abel Cheung)
  • better .server files handling (Abel Cheung)
  • source code with non-ASCII chars support with GNU gettext 0.12
    (bug #99005, Abel Cheung, Carlos Perelló Marín)
  • intltool-unicodify is deprecated, please use msgconv (Abel
    Cheung)

You can find the source code for intltool 0.27 on GNOME FTP
site:

<<A
HREF=”ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/intltool/0.27/”>ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/intltool/0.27/>

If you have problems with intltool, please report bugs at
bugzilla.gnome.org. And if you are good at auto*, perl then please
take a look at the hard-to-fix bugs.


Carlos Perelló Marín
Debian GNU/Linux Sid (PowerPC)
Linux Registered User #121232
mailto:[email protected] ||
mailto:[email protected]
http://carlos.pemas.net
Valencia – Spain


gURLChecker 0.6.0-pre5

Application

gURLChecker 0.6.0-pre5 (unstable branch)

I hope next release will be “stable” 0.6.0 release… depending
of users feedback.

Description

gURLChecker is a C/GNOME2 tool that can check links on a single
web page or on a whole web site in order to determine validity of
each page.

Enhancements

  • Threaded socket opening to avoid freeze of the UI waiting for
    the timeout.
  • Enhancement of timeout management during data retrieving.
  • Task #2491 (Manage a cache for connections) is now ok.
  • Now treeview has colorized rows to be easier to read.

Fixes

  • Correction of Bug #4359 (First page properties).
  • Other debugging and enhancements.

Download


http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/gurlchecker/unstable/0.6.0-pre/gurlchecker-0.6.0-pre5.tar.gz

GNOME Software Map entry

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


The GNOME XML toolkit 2.5.9

Application

The GNOME XML toolkit 2.5.9

Description

Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome
project (but usable outside of the Gnome platform).

Enhancements

This release contains mostly a lot of bug fixes and a few API
extensions. William Brack made an amazing job chasing various bugs
and compiler warning
on a variety of platforms. There is still some IPv6 portability
issues, either
desactivate IPv6 support of even better provide back portability
patches.

  • better interfaces for Relax-NG error handling (Joachim
    Bauch)
  • adding xmlXIncludeProcessTree() for XInclud’ing in a
    subtree
  • doc fixes and improvements (John Fleck)
  • configure flag for -with-fexceptions when embedding in C++
  • couple of new UTF-8 helper functions (William Brack)
  • general encoding cleanup + ISO-8859-x without iconv (Peter
    Jacobi)
  • xmlTextReader cleanup + enum for node types (Bjorn Reese)
  • general compilation/warning cleanup Solaris/HP-UX/IRIX/…
    (William Brack)

Fixes

  • IPv6 portability
  • xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim)
  • Windows build (Wiliam Brak, Jesse Pelton, Igor)
  • XML Schemas (Peter Sobisch)
  • threading (Rob Richards)
  • hexBinary type (Charles Bozeman)
  • UTF-16 BOM (Dodji Seketeli)
  • xmlReader
  • Relax-NG schemas compilation,
  • namespace handling
  • EXSLT (Sean Griffin)
  • HTML parsing problem(William Brack)
  • DTD validation for mixed content + namespaces
  • HTML serialization
  • library initialization
  • progressive HTML parser

Download

ftp://xmlsoft.org/

GNOME Software Map entry

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


The GNOME XSLT toolkit 1.0.32

Application

The GNOME XSLT toolkit 1.0.32

Description

Libxslt is the XSLT C toolkit developed for the Gnome project
(but usable outside of the Gnome platform).

Enhancements

This is mostly a bug fix release, with some EXSLT additions,
William Brack
provided a lot of fixes and cleanup on various platforms:

  • Python bindings for extension elements (Sean Treadway)
  • EXSLT:split added (Shaun McCance)
  • portability fixes for HP-UX/Solaris/IRIX (William Brack)
  • doc cleanup

Fixes

  • xsltSaveResultToFile() python binding (Chris Jaeger)
  • EXSLT function (William Brack)
  • EXSLT date (William Brack)
  • speed of large text output
  • xsl:copy with attributes
  • strip-space and namespaces prefix
  • fix for –path xsltproc option
  • EXST:tokenize (Shaun McCance)
  • EXSLT:seconds (William Brack)
  • sort with multiple keys (William Brack)
  • checking of { and } for attribute value templates (William
    Brack)

Download

ftp://xmlsoft.org/

GNOME Software Map entry

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


intltool 0.27.1

A new release of the intltool package is available; this time
codenamed “Sorry, 0.27 was my first release :-(“. The intltool
package is a set of tools for translating the contents of data
files using the gettext translation framework.

As always we suggest everyone to upgrade – especially those who
are working with UTF-8 strings inside source code (for example,
GNUMERIC)

If you have intltool 0.27 you MUST update if you want to use
intltool-updat= e

Some of the changes in intltool since version 0.27.1:

  • Fixed .xam support (Abel Cheung)
  • Fixed intltool-update, it’s not usable with 0.27 🙁 (Carlos
    Perelló Marín)
  • intltool-update -m tells you about files that are at
    POTFILES.in but does= not exists anymore (Abel Cheung)

You can find the source code for intltool 0.27 on GNOME FTP
site:

<<A
HREF=”ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/intltool/0.27/”>ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/intltool/0.27/>

If you have problems with intltool, please report bugs at
bugzilla.gnome.org. And if you are good at auto*, perl then please
take a look at the hard-to-fix bugs.


Carlos Perelló Marín
Debian GNU/Linux Sid (PowerPC)
Linux Registered User #121232
mailto:[email protected] ||
mailto:[email protected]
http://carlos.pemas.net
Valencia – Spain


Isabella 0.91

I’ve just put up a font I created based on a calligraphic hand
from 1497: <<A
HREF=”http://www.thibault.org/fonts/isabella/>”>http://www.thibault.org/fonts/isabella/>;.
I’m releasing it under the GPL.

It’s not so great at sizes below about 12 point (no hints yet),
but it’s very pretty above that size. It has all of the non-control
characters up through Unicode 383 (plus a couple of dozen
miscellaneous others), so it should work for a lot of Western and
Eastern European languages.


John Stracke http://www.thibault.org


Yelp 2.3.6

Application

Yelp 2.3.6

Description

Help browser for GNOME 2.0 which supports docbook documents,
info and man.

Changes

  • A11y fixes to the contents view, #89838 (Shaun McCance)
  • A11y fixes to info viewing, #89838 (Shaun McCance)
  • Updated translations (pt, ja, hi, zh_CN, es and sr)

Download

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/

GNOME Software Map entry

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


Dr. Geo 0.9.7

Application

Dr. Geo 0.9.7

Description

Dr. Geo is a GTK interactive geometry software. It allows one to
create geometric figure plus the interactive manipulation of such
figure in respect with their geometric constraints. It is useable
with students from primary or secondary level.

Enhancements – Fixes

  • Add the getAngle function in the DGS API. This method expects
    one parameter, a reference to an angle object, it returns one
    measure in DEGREE. To get a measure in RADIAN, use the getValue
    function.
  • First implementation to turn Dr. Geo as a TeXmacs plug-in. It
    is experimental and still very buggy. However when installing
    Dr.Geo, the plugin for TeXmacs is installed. From TeXmacs the
    plug-in can be found in Text->Session->Dr. Geo
  • Implement a minimal unit grid. It can be display per figure,
    also it is saved a long the figure.
  • Implement an automatic upgrade system for the user preferences
    file. The system is mostly entirely implemented in Scheme. This
    will avoid problem seen when upgrading Dr. Geo from one version to
    a subsequent one.
  • Updated translations of the user interface in Czech, Dutch,
    French, German, Italian, Marathi, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and
    Swedish.

Download

http://www.ofset.org/drgeo

GNOME Software Map entry

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

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