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GLib 2.4.6

GLib-2.4.6 is now available for download at:

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.4/

glib-2.4.6.tar.bz2 md5sum: a45db7d82480da431f6cd00ea041a534
glib-2.4.6.tar.gz md5sum: 2b006cb7edadb68d8636d244ed154f4c

This is a bug fix release and is source and binary compatible
with 2.4.0.

What is GLib

GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for
projects such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure
handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces for such
runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading,
and an object system.

More information about GLib is available at:

http://www.gtk.org/

An installation guide for the GTK+ libraries, including GLib,
can be found at:

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-building.html

Overview of Changes from GLib 2.4.5 to
GLib 2.4.6

  • Bug fixes [Matthias Clasen, Ray Strode]
  • New and updated translations (mn,nb)

13 August 2004

GTK+ 2.4.6
GTK+ 2.4.7

GTK+ 2.4.6

GTK+-2.4.6 is now available for download at:

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.4/

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk+/2.4/

gtk+-2.4.6.tar.bz2 md5sum: d3da9aecbb760d276353b3392f338cee
gtk+-2.4.6.tar.gz md5sum: 1e6595d13cd7402506e59757f8761b83

This is a bug fix release and is source and binary compatible
with 2.4.0.

What is GTK+

GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user
interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable
for projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete
application suites.

GTK+ has been designed from the ground up to support a range of
languages, not only C/C++. Using GTK+ from languages such as Perl
and Python (especially in combination with the Glade GUI builder)
provides an effective method of rapid application development.

GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project. However, the
licensing terms for GTK+, the GNU LGPL, allow it to be used by all
pdevelopers, including those developing proprietary software,
without any license fees or royalties.

Where to get more information about
GTK+

Information about GTK+ including links to documentation can be
found at:

http://www.gtk.org/

An installation guide for GTK+-2.4 is found at:

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-building.html

Common questions:


http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-question-index.html

http://www.gtk.org/faq/

Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.4.4 to
GTK+ 2.4.6

  • GtkFileChooser
    • Set busy cursor while mounting [Federico Mena Quintero]
    • Set accessible name [Padraig O’Briain]
    • Improve activation on focus [Federico]
    • Accept paths in entry [Federico]
  • GtkTreeView
    • Draw focus indicator for empty tree views [Federico]
    • Make column dragging more robust [Matthias Clasen, Christian
      Biere]
    • Prevent DND on non-sources [Pawel Salek]
  • GtkUIManager
    • Accept paths with a leading / [David Malcolm]
  • Gdk
    • Fix handling of keep-above and keep-below state [Matthew
      Garret]
    • Add some missing error traps [Thomas Leonard]
  • gdk-pixbuf
    • Make incremental loading work for 8bit pcx files [Magnus
      Bergman]
    • Handle edge pixels consistently [Brian Cameron, Matthias]
    • Handle OS/2 BMPs [Jon-Kare Hellan]
  • Bug fixes for Copy-Paste behaviour in text widgets [Mikael
    Hallendal, Scott Bronson]
  • Memory leak fixes in multiple widgets [Kjartan Maraas, Tommi
    Komulainen, Crispin Flowerday, Matthias]
  • Win32 fixes [Robert H., Tor Lillqvist, Hans Breuer
  • Other bug fixes [John Cupitt, Elke Meier, Matthias, Peter
    Zelezny, Guilherme Salgado, John Finlay, Tommi, Padaig, Olivier
    Sessink, Nicolas Deves, Lorenzo Gil Sanchez, Christian Persch,
    Morten Welinder, Markku Vire, Markus Lausser]
  • Documentation improvements [Owen Taylor, Matthias, Axel Simon,
    David, Federico, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez]
  • Updated translations (ang,az,bg,br,ca,cs,en_CA,es,fi,fr,hi,hu,
    it,ja,ko,mn,nb,nl,no,pl,pt,pt_BR,ru,sq,sr,sr@Latn,sr@ije,sv,uz,
    wa,zh_CN)

A list of all bugs fixed in this release can be found at

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=142805,116789,147399,147405,147476,139376,147399,144405,126295,147656,122427,60128,58307,144706,147911,147913,147926,148035,148064,148073,148089,148128,148134,148135,141804,147965,148589,148585,148789,148879,148978,149011,148686,148868,149191,149195,149077,148715,141809,144232,106992,149404,148526,148702,149836,149422,143457,149620,148518,111922,149470,149547,150003,148803

13 August 2004

GTK+ 2.4.7

GTK+-2.4.7 is now available for download at:

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.4/

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk+/2.4/

gtk+-2.4.7.tar.bz2 md5sum: 2cd21398a463ef205e6e7b28e54b936d
gtk+-2.4.7.tar.gz md5sum: 003bb1eef819fcc29ea0b9cceeafcb08

This is an emergency bug fix release to fix two serious problems
with GtkFileChooser in GTK+ 2.4.6.

What is GTK+

GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user
interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable
for projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete
application suites.

GTK+ has been designed from the ground up to support a range of
languages, not only C/C++. Using GTK+ from languages such as Perl
and Python (especially in combination with the Glade GUI builder)
provides an effective method of rapid application development.

GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project. However, the
licensing terms for GTK+, the GNU LGPL, allow it to be used by all
pdevelopers, including those developing proprietary software,
without any license fees or royalties.

Where to get more information about
GTK+

Information about GTK+ including links to documentation can be
found at:

http://www.gtk.org/

An installation guide for GTK+-2.4 is found at:

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-building.html

Common questions:


http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-question-index.html

http://www.gtk.org/faq/

Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.4.6 to
GTK+ 2.4.7

  • GtkFileChooser
    • Fix for Open button not actually opening [Tommi
      Komulainen]
    • Fix crash when g_get_home_dir() returns NULL [Tor
      Lillqvist]

14 August 2004

Ruby-GNOME2 0.10.0
Ruby-GNOME2 0.10.1

Ruby-GNOME2 0.10.0

Hi,

(warning, it was released 6 days ago, sorry)

Ruby-GNOME2-0.10.0 is out. Enjoy!

Highlights

Downloads

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53614

  • ruby-gtk2 The minimum package which includes Ruby/GLib2,
    Ruby/ATK, Ruby/GdkPixbuf2, Ruby/Pango, Ruby/GTK2.
  • ruby-gnome2 All of Ruby-GNOME2 libraries.

What’s Ruby-GNOME2?

Ruby-GNOME2 is a set of Ruby language bindings for the GNOME 2.x
development environment.

Supported libraries are:

  • Ruby/GLib2
  • Ruby/ATK
  • Ruby/GdkPixbuf2
  • Ruby/Pango
  • Ruby/GTK2
  • Ruby/GNOME2
  • Ruby/GnomeCanvas2
  • Ruby/Libart2
  • Ruby/Libglade2
  • Ruby/GConf2
  • Ruby/GnomeVFS
  • Ruby/GStreamer
  • Ruby/GtkHtml2
  • Ruby/GtkGLExt
  • Ruby/Libgda
  • Ruby/GtkSourceView [NEW]
  • Ruby/PanelApplet [NEW]

Resources

Changes since version 0.9.1

  • Ruby/GLib [Masao Mutoh]
    • Added: [Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA, Masao, Mutoh]
      GLib::Spawn, sample/utils.rb, sample/type-register2.rb
    • Added some methods, improved, fixed bugs: [Laurent Sansonetti,
      Pascal Terjan, Masao Mutoh]
      GLib, GLib::Object, GLib::Log, glib2.rb,
  • Ruby/ATK [Masao Mutoh]
    • None.
  • Ruby/Pango [Masao Mutoh]
    • Fix bugs.
  • Ruby/GdkPixbuf [Masao Mutoh]
    • Removed version information.
  • Ruby/GTK
    • Support GTK+-2.4.x.
    • Added: [Seiya Nishizawa, Masao, Mutoh]
      Gtk::ToolButton, Gtk::ToolItem, Gtk::ToggleToolButton,
      Gtk::SeperatorToolItem, Gtk::ComboBox, Gtk::ComboBoxEntry,
      Gtk::Expander, Gtk::ColorButton, Gtk::FontButton,
      Gtk::FileChooserWidget, Gtk::FileChooser, Gtk::FileFilter,
      Gtk::FileChooserDialog, Gtk::Action, Gtk::ToggleAction,
      Gtk::IconInfo, Gtk::IconTheme, Gtk::UIManager, Gtk::RadioAction,
      Gtk::CellLayout, Gtk::ActionGroup, sample/misc/entrycompletion.c,
      filechooser.rb, combobox.rb, expander.rb, color_font_button.rb,
      uimanager.rb, uimanager2.rb, uimanager2.xml
    • Improved, fixed bugs: [Geoff Youngs, Vincent Isambart, Kazuhiro
      NISHIYAMA, Masao Mutoh]
      Gtk::Style, Gtk::Widget, Gtk::TextView, Gtk::Container,
      Gdk::EventClient, Gtk::Dialog, Gtk::Entry, Gdk::Selection,
      Gtk::Drag, Gdk, Gdk::Atom, Gtk::Editable, Gtk::Stock,
      Gtk::TextIter, Gtk::TextMark, Gtk::Style, sample/misc/dialog2.rb,
      entry.rb, settings.rb,
    • Renamed, Moved: [Masao Mutoh]
      Gtk::EventCrossing::CrossingMode to Gtk::EventCrossing::Mode,
      Gdk::SettingAction to Gdk::EventSetting::Action
      Gdk::Input.set_extension_events to Gdk::Device.
    • Deperecated: [Masao Mutoh]
      Gtk::Combo, Gtk::OptionMenu since GTK+-2.4.
  • Ruby/GNOME
    • None.
  • Ruby/GnomeCanvas
    • None.
  • Ruby/Libglade
    • Added: [Masao Mutoh]
      sample/l10n*, makemo.rb, sample/po/*.
    • Added methods: [Masao Mutoh]
      GladeXML#get_tooltips.
    • Improved, fixed bugs: [Masao Mutoh]
      GladeXML, bin/ruby-glade-create-template
  • Ruby/Libart
    • None.
  • Ruby/GConf
    • Added some methods, Improved, fixed bugs: [Giovanni Corriga,
      Pascal Terjan, Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA, Masao Mutoh]
      GConf::Client
    • Deprecated: [Masao Mutoh]
      GConf::Client.new. Use GConf::Client.default instead.
  • Ruby/GStreamer
    • Requires GStreamer-0.8.x or later.
    • Added: [Laurent Sansonetti]
      Gst::Clock, Gst::Scheduler
    • Added methods, improved, Fixed bugs: [Laurent Sansonetti]
      Gst::Element, Gst::Bin, Gst::Caps, Gst::Structure,
    • Removed: [Laurent Sansonetti]
      Gst::Autoplug, Gst::AutoplugFactory, Gst::Type, Gst::TypeFactory,
      Gst::TypeFind Gst.set_debug
  • Ruby/GnomeVFS
    • Fixed bugs: [Pascal Terjan, Giovanni Corriga, Masao Mutoh]
  • Ruby/GtkHtml2
    • None.
  • Ruby/GtkGLExt
    • Fixed bugs: [Vincent Isambart]
  • Ruby/Libgda
    • Added methods, fixed bugs: [Laurent Sansonetti]
      Gda::Command, Gda::Connection
    • Removed: [Laurent Sansonetti]
      Gda::Export
  • Ruby/PanelApplet [NEW]
    • Added. [Jamis Buck, Masao Mutoh]
  • Ruby/GtkSourceView [NEW]
    • Added. [Laurent Sansonetti]

—
Laurent

Ruby-GNOME2 0.10.1

Hi,

Ruby-GNOME2-0.10.1 is now available:


http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53614&package_id=48093&release_id=260711

This release fixes some serious bugs in Ruby-GNOME2-0.10.0
discovered just after the release:

  • Ruby/GTK: Fix compiling error under GTK+-2.0.x.
  • Ruby/GtkSourceView: Fix compiling error.
  • Ruby/GdkPixbuf: Fix some bugs.

Sorry for the inconvenience,

—
Laurent

Metacity 2.8.3

What is it ?

Metacity is a simple window manager that integrates nicely with
GNOME 2. 2.8.3 is an unstable release of metacity.

What’s changed ?

Some important bug fixes in this release, including somy a11y
bugs, and a compile issue on Solaris.

Thanks to Rob Adams, Bill Haneman, Peter O’Shea, Mike Castle,
Soeren Sandman, Elijah Newren, and Havoc Pennington for fixes in
this release.

Fixes

  • Adjust the MRU list when preventing focus stealing
    (Elijah)
  • Ensure that we maintain a focus window when switching
    workspaces in mouse focus mode (Elijah)
  • Some improvements in the showing desktop mode, and window
    activation (Elijah)
  • Make sure cursors changes are handled correctly (Havoc,
    Soeren)
  • Some fixes to the window menu (Rob)
  • Fix a compile issue on Solaris (Peter, Mike)
  • Allow struts to go past the middle of the screen, provided
    there’s a gap between them, fixing an issue with gnome magnifier
    (Bill)

Translations

  • fi (Pauli Virtanen), ja (Takeshi AIHANA), ko (Young-Ho, Cha),
    pl (Gnome PL Team), ru (Dmitry G. Mastrukov), sr (Danilo A egan),
    tk (Gurban M. Tewekgeli), zh_CN (Funda Wang)

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