Release Digest: GNOME, August 6, 2002 | Linux Today

Release Digest: GNOME, August 6, 2002

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 7, 2002

Yelp 1.0.2

Application
===========

Yelp 1.0.2

Description
===========

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

Changes in 1.0.2:
-----------------

* Fixed missing info pages and sort info pages  (Mikael Hallendal)
* Remove duplications in manpath                (Yogeesh MB)
* Support for gnome2-*2html in libexec          (Brian Cameron)
* Buffer overflow fix                           (Laavanya K R)
* Stylesheet fixes                              (Sander Vesik)
* Fixes for toolbar style                       (Kang Jeong-Hee)
* Fixed window icon and about box icon          (Nicholas Curran)
* Various minor fixes                           (Mikael Hallendal,
                                                 Padraig O'Briain)
* Updated translations 
  (lv, de, am, ca, bg, sv, et, ru, pl, no, sk, fr, ms, ko, nl, da, 
   wa, vi, hu)

Download
========

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/
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eel 2.0.3
nautilus 2.0.3

New versions of:

- Eel, the Eazel Extension Library

and

- Nautilus, the GNOME file manager

are available for download at:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/pre-gnome2/sources/eel/eel-2.0.3.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/pre-gnome2/sources/nautilus/nautilus-2.0.3.tar.gz

Major Changes:

Eel 2.0.3
---------

- EelBackground fixes.

Nautilus 2.0.3
--------------

- Drag and drop has been implemented in the list view.

- Performance enhancements in the icon factory.

- Various bugfixes.
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Eye of Gnome 1.0.2

Hello everyone,

"Eye of Gnome" 1.0.2 has been released.

* What is "Eye of Gnome"?

  Eye of Gnome is an image viewer for the Gnome desktop, which uses the Gnome
  infrastructure intensively (like bonobo and gnome-vfs). For Nautilus2 the
  bonobo component of EoG is also used as the default image viewer. EoG shows
  and zooms even large images very fast and in very good quality.

* Changes/fixes in this release:

 * We don't crash anymore if the user doesn't have permissions to read
   a file - #85263 (Federico).
 * We do the right thing to destroy the window list on File/Exit -
   #86469 (Federico).
 * Components are installed in $(libexec) (Michael).
 * The window is correctly sized upon startup, and you can shrink it
   again - #72352, #75713 (Jens).
 * No distorted view when resizing an empty window - #85927 (Jens).
 * DnD into an empty window doesn't open a new window. (Jens)
 * New Bulgarian translation (Borislav Aleksandrov).
 * Load control ui xml file correctly - (Ross Burton).
 * New Albanian translation (Laurent Dhima, Christian Rose).

* Requirements:

  EoG 1.0.2 needs the Gnome 2.0 development platform. It does not work
  with only Gnome 1.4.x development libraries installed.

* Availability:

  http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/2.0.0/sources/eog/eog-1.0.2.tar.bz2

Please report bugs and/or feature requests through bugzilla.gnome.org/.  Use the
EOG module and choose 1.0.2 as version.


   Jens

-- 
 -= http://triq.net/~pearl =-   -= jens@triq.net =-

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Meld 0.5.0

Meld 0.5.0

Description
===========

Meld is a gnome2 diff and merge tool with some CVS integration features.

Enhancements
============

- enhancements to the merge view
- a cvs browsing component (run from toplevel directory for best results)

Download
========

http://meld.sourceforge.net
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MrProject 0.5.94

MrProject 0.5.94 - the "Wentworth" release
========================================================================

This is mostly a bug fix release of MrProject. Other than bug fixes,
this release also contains the beginnings of a resource dialog and
basic task cost calculations.


What is MrProject? 
------------------

MrProject is a project management application under development, that
will help build project plans and track the progress of a project.

The development of MrProject is led by CodeFactory as a free software
project, and all code is licensed under the GNU General Public
License.

More information is available at the MrProject home page:
http://mrproject.codefactory.se/


What does it look like?
-----------------------

Take a look at:
http://people.codefactory.se/~rhult/mrproject/


Ok, I really want to try it out, where do I get it?
---------------------------------------------------

You can download the packages from:
ftp://ftp.codefactory.se/pub/software/mrproject/unstable/


Hmm, it looks nice and everything, but...
-----------------------------------------

Ok, ok, we get it, you want to file bugs and feature
requests. You can do this at:

http://freedom.codefactory.se/bugzilla/

Enjoy,
  The MrProject Team.

-- 
Richard Hult                    rhult@codefactory.se
CodeFactory AB                  http://www.codefactory.se/
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Pan 0.12.93

Pan 0.12.93, `life is but a dewdrop on the lotus leaf.',
has been released.  It can be found at http://pan.rebelbase.com/.
 
What is Pan?

        Pan is a newsreader, loosely based on Agent and Gravity, which
        attempts to be pleasant to use for new and advanced users alike.
        It has all the typical features found in newsreaders and also
        supports yEnc, offline newsreading, article filtering, multiple
        connections, and a number of extra features for power users and
        alt.binaries fans.
        
        It's also the only Unix newsreader to get a perfect score on the
        Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval evaluations.  See
        http://pan.rebelbase.com/features/ for the rest of the
        sales pitch.

About 0.12.93

        This is the fourth 0.13.0 beta release. It fixes a small
        handful of bugs, mostly related to saving attachments and
        posting articles. Barring any showstoppers, this is 0.13.0
        except for the language translations, so please downloaded it,
        test it, and report anything unusual. 

        A revision number of >= 90 is used to flag this release
        as a beta without confusing RPM with the name `0.13.0-pre4'.

Changes Since 0.12.92

    UPDATES

        * Pan now handles https:// URLs in the text pane correctly.
          Thanks to Adam Huffman for suggesting this. (#89293)

    BUG FIXES (sorted by date)

        * Fixed another 0.12.90 crash that occurred in the composer.
          Thanks to DevilKin for reporting this bug. (#89603)

        * Fix 0.12.90 bug that caused the Message-Id header of some
          outgoing posts to be folded.  This appears to be legal,
          but annoys some NNTP servers.  (#88100)

        * Fix 0.12.90 bug that encoded outgoing posts in the wrong
charset.
          Thanks to Martin Tomasek for reporting this bug. (#88670)

        * Fixed 0.12.90 bug that caused `save article attachments' to
          not mark the article as read.  Thanks to Aaron Digulla for
          reporting this bug. (#88729)

        * Fixed 0.12.90 bug `Show All Headers' didn't show mime headers.
          Thanks to Christian Lohmaier for reporting this bug. (#88632)

        * Fixed minor 0.12.90 memory leaks.

        * Fixed 0.12.0 bug that caused Pan to crash on mouseover of some
          URLs.  Thanks to DevilKin for reporting this bug.(#89584)

        * Fixed 0.12.0 shortcut bug in the Feedback window.
          Thanks to Philippe Gramoull for reporting this bug.

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gtkmm 1.3.19

*** gtkmm2

gtkmm provides a C++ interface to GTK+. This development branch of gtkmm
wraps gtk+ 2.0.x.

We are now seriously pushing for a binary API frozen 2.0 release. There
are no known API issues apart from these, which will be punted to some
future version:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T2A121471


*** Changes

* Gtk::TreeView classes:
  - Added TreeModel::RowReference wrapper - it remains valid even when the 
    rows are sorted.
  - All methods that take a Model::iterator can also take a Model::Row.
    (Murray Cumming)
  - Added TreeView::append_column_editable() method. It creates columns whose
    cells automatically store new values in the model when they are edited.
    See documentation:
    http://www.gtkmm.org/gtkmm2/tutorial/html/ch10s02.html#id2837147
  - Added TreeModel::foreach() wrapper.
  - Added TreeView::remove_all_columns().
  - treestore demo: Parent rows don't show toggle cells anymore.
    (Daniel somebody)
* Box::pack_start() and pack_end() API:
  - Restore the old (bool, bool) methods as overload, so it's easier to 
    port to gtkmm2.
  - Changed the ORed flags to a simpler set of 3 mutually-exclusive enums.
  (Michael Babcock)
* Menu API:
  - Main Menu items are now accelerated automatically.
  - Popup menus need to be accelerated at the appropriate time - handy
    accelerate() overloads were created for this.
  - AccelMap: New wrapper.
   (Andreas Holzmann)
  - ImageMenuElem items now show their icons automatically.
   (Murray Cumming)
* Lifecycle:
  - Top-level windows are now properly destroyed, and definitely can't be
    manage()d.
  - Added test for this (Michael v. Szthombathely)
  - Prevented some double-destruction of signal connections.
  - Prevented recreation of 2nd C++ instances by Glib::wrap() during 
    destruction of the C instances.
  - Prevented calling of signal handlers of destroyed C++ instances.
  (Murray Cumming, Valgrind)
  - Corrected refounting of some get*() methods. (Christof Pettig)
* Sun Forte compiler fixes:
  - Examples use more lengthy code when Sun's compiler can't handle the 
    templated TreeView methods.
  - Explicit specification of templated Glib::wrap() specializations.
  (Michael v. Szthombathely, Murray Cumming)
* gcc 3.1 fixes (Jarek Dukat)
* Added vast number of const get_*() const overloads. (Jarek Dukat)
* Added alignment enum, used in overloads as an alternative to 0.5, 1.0, etc.
  (Murray Cumming)
* Gtk::Style: Added const overloads of get_*gc() methods. 
* Documentation:
  - Allow use of a local DocBook stylesheet, for people who aren't connected.
  (Marcelo E. Magallo)
  - Added Gtk::Main::run(window) overload reference docs.
    (Moreten Brix Pedersen)
  - Added RefPtr<> reference docs. (Ole Laursen)
  - Prevented reuse of C docs that talk about free-ing stuff. (Murray Cumming)
* autogen fix for GTKMM_VC_PERL_VERSION problem. (Marcel E. Magallo)
* Corrected library versioning of the internal gtk_extra_defs library.
  (Bradley Bell)
* FontSelection example fixed. (Morten Brix Pedersen)


*** Download 

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1161

You will need the alpha release of libsigc++1.1, available here: 
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970

If you wish to install this in parallel with gtk--1.2, you will first 
need to update to the latest libsigc++1.0.x, available here: 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970


*** Development 

This is an unstable release, currently under heavy development. You can find 
cvs instructions here: 
http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gtkmm-root/base/README

The CHANGES file describes some of the more significant differences 
compared to gtkmm 1.2: 
http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gtkmm-root/base/CHANGES

There is also ongoing discussion on the mailing list: 
http://gtkmm.sourceforge.net/mailinglist.html
and in the #c++ channel on irc.gnome.org/  

-- 
Murray Cumming
murrayc@usa.net
www.murrayc.com
Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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