Release Digest: GNOME, August 17, 2003

Straw 0.19

Description

A GNOME 2 desktop news aggregator, using the RSS syndication
format

Enhancements & Fixes

show a dialog if the user tries to poll when offline
remember the positions of the panes in the main window
try to fix the item list column size problem a bit
prettify the item display
some support for the PRISM namespace
necho support
drop threads as they weren’t of any use any more
works with berkeley db 4
dashboard front end
use the gnome_href widget in feed information view
read dublin core creator from channel
make connection timing out work independently of something
arriving down the wire
display cogwheels next to feeds being actively polled
commands for navigating between feeds
automatically change a feed’s location when the server sends a
301
updated translation for french; new, probably already outdated
translations for norweigian and russian – guys, sorry for being so
slow
plenty of bugfixes, probably plenty of new bugs

Download

http://savannah.nongnu.org/files/?group=straw

GNOME Software Map entry

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

Rhythmbox 0.5.0

Hello,

I am pleased to announce another release of Rhythmbox to the
world. For the impatient, here’s a quick link to the source
code:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/rhythmbox/0.5/rhythmbox-0.5.0.tar.gz

This is a very important release for several reasons:

First of all, the netRhythmbox branch has been merged back into
the Rhythmbox mainline. It is always a good thing when a fork is
resolved amicably.

Secondly, a very large number of outstanding bugs have been
quashed, and a number of new features have been added. This release
was a long time in the making, and we feel that it is quite solid
and usable. The code base is also cleaner in many respects, and I
think this bodes quite well for the future.

Thirdly, maintainership of Rhythmbox has switched hands again.
On behalf of the whole Rhythmbox team, I’d like to thank the
previous maintainer, Jorn Baayen, for his great work on Rhythmbox.
His design influence can be seen in almost every part of the code.
Jorn has moved on to other things, and we wish him well at whatever
he does next! =20 I am happy to be your new Rhythmbox
coordinator/patch monkey.

Finally, we have a redesigned website, for your viewing
pleasure: http://web.rhythmbox.org/

So with all that out of the way, here are the changes in
Rhythmbox 0.5.0:

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.5.0

Merge with netRhythmbox [Colin Walters]
Revamped UI [Jorn Baayen, Colin Walters]
Monkey Media is merged into the Rhythmbox tree [Colin
Walters]
Internet Radio support [Colin Walters]
Xine backend support [Jorn Baayen, Bastien Nocera]
Make MP3/Vorbis/FLAC support individually optional [Colin
Walters, Bastien Nocera]
Initial Sound Juicer integration [Bob Smith]
Refactored node system (improved stability) [Colin Walters,
Jorn Baayen]
Refactored source system [Colin Walters]
Ability to save playlists in .pls format [Colin Walters]
Startup druid [Colin Walters]
Dialog HIGification [Christian Neumair]
Context menu for Nautilus [Mark Humphreys, Yann Rouillard]
Song load failure dialog [Colin Walters]
Slightly improved RTL locale support [Colin Walters]
Save the library/playlists periodically [Colin Walters]
Work around broken id3v2 tags [Christophe Fergeau, Colin
Walters]
Read FLAC metadata [Joshua Haberman]
INTERNALS documentation [Colin Walters]
Work around GtkTreeModelSort bug [Yann Rouillard]
Work around GtkTreeView bug [Kristian Rietveld, Colin
Walters]
Initial multimedia keys support [Jan Arne Petersen]
New –print-playing and –print-playing-path cmdline args
[Colin Walters]
Some playlist support [Colin Walters]
Display watch cursor during long operations [Colin
Walters]
Updated .spec file [William Jon McCann]
Many many bugs fixed [Colin Walters, Jorn Baayen, Yann
Rouillard, Kristia n Rietveld, Bastien Nocera, James Kahn, Benjamin
Otte, Sean Harshbarger Christian Neumair, Carlos Perella Marien,
Christophe Fergeau, Mason Kidd, Jan Arne Petersen, Douglas
McMorris, and many other people helped out, thank you all!]

New or updated translations, according to
~/bin/list-translators.sh:

Abel Cheung (zh_TW)
Arman Aksoy (Armish) (tr)
Artis Trops (lv)
Christian Neumair (de)
Christian Rose (sv)
Christophe Merlet (RedFox) (fr)
Duarte Loreto (pt)
Evandro Fernandes Giovanini (pt_BR)
Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
Ge’ez Frontier Foundation (am)
GNOME PL Team (pl)
Hasbullah Bin Pit (ms)
Hile Tuohela (fi)
(jp)
Kees van den Broek (nl)
Kjartan Maraas (no)
Kostas Papadimas (el)
Luca Ferretti (it)
Miloslav Trmac (cs)
Nail Abdrahmanov (ru)
pclouds (vi)
Vital Khilko (be)
Young-Ho, Cha (ko)

General Applet Interface Library 0.5.0pre1

Application

General Applet Interface Library 0.5.0pre1

Description

A library to simplify the writing of Gnome Panel applets

Enhancements

New API. Much nice, IMHO.
Large internal changes (Mostly thanks to Guido)
Better debug system (Guido)
Three simple example applets.
New function that draws text (Creates a gdk_pixbuf from ascii
text).
Function to execute program is added. Just give gai_exec(.) a
commandline and it will preforme it.

Fixes
Very many cosmetic bugs on the gnome panel is fixed.
Drawing on backgrounds now works fine, not sometimes as
before.

Download

http://gai.sf.net

GNOME Software Map entry

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

Fix some bugs in the ‘Getting Started’ druid that prevented
users from having a valid configuration generated on the first
run.

Download

Source:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-0.5.3.tar.gz?download

RPM:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-0.5.3-1.i386.rpm?download

SRPM:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen-0.5.3-1.src.rpm?download

Debian:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sussen/sussen_0.5.3-1_i386.deb?download

GNOME Software Map entry

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

removed gtk-thinice-engine from the list of checkouts.
changed ggv to point to gnome-2-4.
changed gnome-games to point to gnome-2-4.
changed nautilus-cd-burner to point to gnome-2-4.
changed gal to point to evolution-1-4-branch.
ORBit2-2.7.6
acme-2.0.6
atk-1.3.5
bug-buddy-2.3.4
control-center-2.3.5
eel-2.3.8
esound-0.2.31
file-roller-2.3.4
gail-1.3.5
gcalctool-4.3.0
gconf-editor-2.3.6
gdm-2.4.2.100
gnome-desktop-2.3.6.1
gnome-games-2.3.7
gnome-media-2.3.7
gnome-mime-data-2.3.1
gnome-panel-2.3.6.2
gnome-session-2.3.6.2
gnome-themes-2.3.3
gnome-themes-extras-0.3
gnome-utils-2.3.4
gnome-vfs-2.3.7
gthumb-2.1.4
gtksourceview-0.5.0
intltool-0.27.2
libart_lgpl-2.3.14
libbonoboui-2.3.6
libgnome-2.3.6
libgnomecanvas-2.3.6
libgnomeprint-2.3.1
libgnomeprintui-2.3.1
libgnomeui-2.3.6
libgtop-2.0.3
libxml2-2.5.10
libxslt-1.0.32
nautilus-2.3.8
nautilus-cd-burner-0.5.0
nautilus-media-0.3.1
yelp-2.3.6

>>> gnome 2.3.6 snapshot version compliant
<<<
>>> for the installed tarballs. <<<

note: people that build cvs need to manually checkout and
install gstreamer and gst-plugins.

note: gedit-plugins-2.3.2, ghex-2.3.0 and net-rhythmbox-0.4.8
require the patches applied which are included in this archive.

note: gtk-thinice-engine is now part of gnome-themes.

Download

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

GNOME Software Map entry

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

Upgraded Interface
Upgraded SMART System

Fixes

Fixed Compilation Warnings

Download

http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/ghomemover/GHomeMover.pkg/0.12/ghomemover-0.12.tar.gz

GNOME Software Map entry

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

Windows Makefiles (William Brack)
UTF-16 support fixes (Mark Itzcovitz)
Makefile and portability (William Brack) automake, Linux alpha,
Mingw on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
HTML parser (Oliver Stoeneberg)
XInclude performance problem reported by Kevin Ruscoe
XML parser performance problem reported by Grant Goodale
xmlSAXParseDTD() bug fix from Malcolm Tredinnick
and a couple of other cleanups