Balsa 1.4.0
Application =========== Balsa 1.4.0 Description =========== Balsa is an email client for GNOME. It supports POP3, IMAP, local folders, and goodies like multithreading. This is stable, official 1.4.0 release for common consumption built that uses GNOME-1.4 libraries. Enhancements ============ - filter help updated Fixes ===== - some of the races conditions addressed. - adding mailboxes out of mailbox tree fixed. - build fixes. Download ======== http://balsa.gnome.org/download.html _____________________________________________
gramps 0.8.0
Application =========== gramps 0.8.0 Description =========== GRAMPS is a GNOME/Python based genealogy program. Enhancements ============ * Addiition of ZODB support. Support is still preliminary, and not as feature full as the XML support. Requires python 2.1 or higher, so not a good solution for RedHat users, unless the which to compile the python and python-gnome libraries. (RH7.3 ships with python2.2, but that version is tied to an early beta of the GNOME 2 libraries) * New build structure from David Hampton. * Significant improvement in speed with the GEDCOM export. * Enhanced web page generation. * Fixed Mandrake 8.2/imlib problem the could cause GRAMPS to fail to run under Mandrake 8.2. * Better importing of GEDCOM ids. * Better handling of sources/source entry * Better handling of exception conditions. Download ======== http://sourceforge.net/projects/gramps _____________________________________________
Emphetamine 0.99.3
Application =========== Emphetamine 0.99.3 Description =========== A download manager for GNOME using gnome-vfs. It supports downloading via http, ftp, and smb. Other protocol modules can easily be added. Enhancements ============ - Renamed Elysium Download to Emphetamine Fixes ===== - Cleaned up the porting a bit, use GTK_OBJECT stuff less Download ======== http://elysium.zoned.net/edm/emphetamine-0.99.3.tar.gz _____________________________________________
libelysium 0.99.2
Application =========== libelysium 0.99.2 Description =========== An expanding set of utility functions used by projects in the Elysium GNU/Linux distribution. Fixes ===== - Install headers into the libelysium/ subdirectory - A few small make/etc.. fixes Download ======== http://elysium.zoned.net/libelysium/libelysium-0.99.2.tar.gz _____________________________________________
GDM 2.4.0.8
GEORGEISAWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANKER (If you have no clue what gdm is, skip a few paragraphs down first) I think I should get back to announcing releases when they are released rather then a bit later. I could announce releases before they are done as well. Then I could exadurate what the software does (will do that is), and drive competition out of bussiness. This will make me wear large glasses and I will never wash my hair again. I will run a large monopolistic corporation, I will develop a very evil laugh and I will roast small babies on a bonfire. Oh wait ... someone already did all that ... DAMNIT! (Hmmm ... tastes like chicken ...) In any case, here's an actually released release, as in one that has been released when the release anouncement has been released. I have actually tested another few percent of the million and one possibilities of gdm use and found a few more bugs that needed fixing. You wonder why gdm can't just be this simple program that just logs you in? HA! That would be too simple! (I'm starting to develop my evil laugh): Muhahahahaha! The thing that most people will notice is a new icon and logo (if you don't notice it, I'll kick your ass). I actually drew a different icon first, but my girlfriend said it was butt ugly and so I had to draw a different one. And now for the standard part of the release announcement: GDM is the GNOME Display Manager, it is the little proggie that runs in the background, runs your X sessions, presents you with a login box and then tells you to piss off because you forgot your password. It does pretty much everything that you would want to use xdm for, but doesn't involve as much crack. It doesn't use any code from xdm, and has a more paranoid and safer design overall. It also includes many features over xdm, the biggest one of which is that it is more user friendly, even if your X setup is failing. The goal is that users should never, ever have to use the command line to customize or troubleshoot gdm. It of course supports xdmcp, and in fact extends xdmcp a little bit in places where I thought xdm was lacking (but is still compatible with xdm's xdmcp). News: ===== Highlights of 2.4.0.8: - New script to aid in testing graphical greeter themes, gdmthemetester. It will run Xnest with gdmgreeter in debug mode with the specified theme and under the specified environment. Run it to get help. - No longer 'asks twice' in graphical login to halt, reboot or suspend Fixes #90971 - When restarting the greeter from the setup dialog the setup dialog will go insensitive and force a busy cursor on itself. - New icon! And new logo. The new icon is now girlfriend approved (she said it's not as bad as my first attempt to draw one, so I suppose that means it's ok). Not that I did ALL the drawing, I borrowed the gnome-term icon and worked on that :) - The focus stuff in both greeters is done in a nicer way. Also the graphical greeter has a "menubar" (invisible). You can activate it with F10 like any other menubar. This all should make both greeters even more accessibility friendly. - The Init/PreSession/PostSession directories can now also include Flexi, and XDMCP scripts which will be run in case the server is flexi or XDMCP. Also you can specify a script to run for specific hosts. - You can now setup the daemon to log in certain local (not logging in through xdmcp) users without a password, Just set the daemon/LocalNoPasswordUsers to a list of comma separated names. Fixes #51908 - The daemon is fixed so that if pam asks questions during autologin, they will actually get asked. - gdmphotosetup no longer hangs on "Browse". Fixes #90613 - Busy cursor will never get stuck on autologin - Wait 2 seconds beween killing local servers on daemon restart or stop. This prevents a hung keyboard on my box. - Xnest keyboard stuff solved in a better way. Remove the -kb fromt he command line so that Xnest understands XKB, and then in the Init script migrate keyboard configuration. Also read capslock state from the parent server in the greeter. - Close the 0,1,2 descriptors in the gdmXnestchooser so that things like "`gdmXnest -b`" shell things to get the display number work. - gdmXnestchooser acts more nicely on being killed - Config file is updated and includes more "documentation" comments - If you haven't changed the config then if you are using the tarball install, the config will be overwritten with the one from the tarball. - An incredible "sleep(1)" hack to fix race on server reinit - A whole bunch of random small fixes, and changes. - Translation updates (He Qiangqiang, Wang Li, Marius Andreiana, Yukihiro Nakai) Note: GDM2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen , and has for a while now been maintained by the Queen of England. She is usually not responsive to bug reports or feature requests. You can try to send them to me however. Note2: If installing from the tarball do note that make install overwrites most of the setup files, all except gdm.conf and gnomerc. It will however save backups with the .orig extension first. Note3: Distributors, packagers. Please, PLEASE use the standard Gnome script when setting things up as gnome, or at least equivalently working scripts. It should never be OK to just exec gnome-session, that is considered bad form. The script needs to read (if available) the ~/.gnomerc and otherwise read the /gdm/gnomerc file. This allows users and administrators to setup custom startup for gnome. Downloading: ============ http://download.gnome.org/GNOME/2.0.1/sources/gdm/ Sorry no RPMS. There is a spec file included in the tarball and it may or may not work (it should, and it did some time ago but I haven't tried it lately). Have fun, George PS: Wheee! Our pufferfish IS very aggressive (as he should be) after all. We have bought two more mollies (stupid fish, but the only fish that sometimes work with brackish puffers) so that the mollies would squabble amongst themselves rather then bother the puffer all the time. It seemed ok for a bit and then we left them, only for a few hours, alone, and well ... One of the fish went to fish haven (toilet) and the other one is in the other tank now. That is not all of her, large parts of her fins and other places are in the puffer. I have a lot more respect for our black molly that stays with the puffer now. She's got COJONES! -- George The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. -- Albert Einstein