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Atomix 1.0

Application

Atomix 1.0

Description

A mind game about atoms and molecules.

Changes

  • Build fixes, so it works with Gnome 2.4 and unstable
    relases.
  • New and updated translations:
    Christophe Merlet (fr), Stanislav Brabec (cs), Fatih Demir (ta),
    Dmitry G. Mastrukov (be), Pablo Saratxaga (wa), Naba Kumar (hi),
    Tatiana Gutierrez Bunster (es), Daniel Yacob (am), Roozbeh
    Pournader (fa), Laurent Dhima (sq), Metin Amiroff (az), Gil
    “Dolfin” Osher (he), Danilo Åegan (sr, sr@Latn), Alessio
    Frusciante (it), Abel Cheung (ta),Vincent van Adrighem (nl), Andras
    Timar (hu), Álvaro Peña González (es), Young
    nskystars-goo (ko).

Special thanks to all the translators.

Download

http://triq.net/~jens/download/atomix-1.0.tar.gz

GNOME Software Map entry

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

Scrollkeeper 0.3.13

Scrolkeeper 0.3.13 has now been released.

Scrollkeeper is a document meta-data storage system. It enables
applications to access a list of all installed documentation and
retrieve individual documents in a uniform fashion. It is currently
used extensively by the GNOME help system for retrieving help
documentation for each application.

Downloading:

Download the tarball from the main SourceForge page at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/scrollkeeper/

or from the GNOME FTP sites, including

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/scrollkeeper/0.3/

Bug reports:

Bug reports or problems with the release should be filed at the
SourceForge bug tracker

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11543&atid=111543

Changes:

This is primarily an overdue bug-fixing release designed to get the
number of outstanding bug reports down to a reasonable number. A
brief summary of the major changes follows:

0.3.13

Released on: 5 December 2003.

  • Runtime fixes:
    • Use a per-user directory for storing the extracted contents
      files. This avoids problems when multiple users share /tmp and use
      scrollkeeper.
    • Do XInclude processing on documents before extracting
      information.
    • By default, do not use the network to retrieve required DTDs.
      • Can be changed using the ‘-n’ parameter to scrollkeeper-install
        and friends.
    • Do not segfault if an OMF file is invalid.
  • Build fixes:
    • Install various package documentation files.
    • Tidy up the build process a little bit and fix some portability
      bugs.
    • Update included gettext code.
    • Build fixes for specific platforms (Solaris and *BSD
      systems).
    • Detect installed version of the DocBook DTD at build time.
    • Allow the location of system XML catalog to be specified.
      • see the –with-xml-catalog flag.
    • Install locale-specific program files correctly (i.e.
      portably).
    • Allow scrollkeeper data directory to be customised
      • see the –with-partial-db-dir flag.
    • Upgrade supplied gettext and automake versions.
  • Miscellaneous:
    • Correctly register translated versions of documents by
      considering their category, rather than their titles.
    • Don’t leak file descriptors when updating the database. This
      fixes resource starvation problems on some systems.
    • Fix some memory leaks.
    • Should now work with IPv6-enabled systems.
    • When using a non-default prefix, the scrollkeeper log files are
      updated correctly.
    • Many Sourceforge bug tracker bugs fixed and all outstanding
      patches in the patch tracker evaluated and applied if
      appropriate.
  • New maintainers
    • Malcolm Tredinnick
    • Miloslav Trmac (i18n maintainer)
  • Translation updates:
    • All translations coordinated via the Translation Project now.
      (http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/index.html)
    • Updated translations
      • am (Amharic) – Ge’ez Frontier Foundation
      • ca (Catalan) – Jordi Mallach
      • cs (Czech) – Miloslav Trmac
      • da (Danish) – Ole Laursen
      • hu (Hungarian) – Emese Kovacs
      • ja (Japanese) – Yukihiro Nakai, Shun-ichi Tahara
      • kn (Kannada) – Pramod
      • nl (Dutch) – Tino Meinen
      • no (Norwegian) – Kjartan Maraas
      • ro (Romanian) – Marius Andreiana
      • ru (Russian) – Dmitry Mastrukov
      • sk (Slovak) – Stanislav Visnovsky
      • sr (Serbian) – Danilo Segan
      • sv (Swedish) – Christian Rose
      • tr (Turkish) – Gorkem Cetin
      • vi (Vietnamese) – pclouds
      • zh_TW (Traditional Chinese) – Abel Cheung

gcalctool – v4.3.28
gcalctool – v4.3.29

gcalctool – v4.3.28

Application

gcalctool

Description

gcalctool is the default GNOME desktop calculator.

It has Basic, Financial and Scientific modes. Internally it uses
multiple precision arithmetic to produce results to a high degree
of accuracy.

This release is for the GNOME 2.5.1 call for tarballs.

Changes since the last version
(4.3.22).

  • On a Solaris keyboard, Shift-“^” is
    GDK_asciicircum/GDK_SHIFT_MASK. This keyval/state pair needed to be
    added to the Xor recognized mappings.
  • Re-fixed bug 127672. The fix for Shift-“=” should have been for
    GDK_equal not GDK_Return. Needed to add in support for Shift-“/”
    too.
  • Implemented enhancement request 125873. gcalctool can now
    optionally show the thousands seperator character for fixed point
    numbers displayed in the decimal base. Same for numbers stored in
    the memory registers. There is a new “Show Thousands Separator”
    menu entry in the View menu to set this. As the user is typing in
    input, the display will now show the thousands separator (if
    checked).
  • Fixed bug 126626. gcalctool no longer causes a Gtk-CRITICAL
    error when the user enters “9*(1<Xor>”. The problem was
    caused because a non-UTF character was being inserted into the text
    string to be displayed for the Xor function.
  • Fixed bug 125782. If the user is entering a left parenthesis
    and it is the first one being displayed and there is no current
    arithmetic operand, then the current display is initially cleared
    to avoid the confusion of showing something like “0(“.

New translations (thankyou!)

“eu” (Basque) – Iaki Larraaga

Download

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gcalctool/4.3/

[Although some of the ftp mirrors may take a little while to
sync].

—
Rich Burridge

gcalctool – v4.3.29

(Well I get to join the elite group of GNOME developers who have
generated two releases of their project on the same day).

Application

gcalctool

Description

gcalctool is the default GNOME desktop calculator.

It has Basic, Financial and Scientific modes. Internally it uses
multiple precision arithmetic to produce results to a high degree
of accuracy.

This re-release is for the GNOME 2.5.1 call for tarballs.

Changes since the last version
(4.3.28).

  • Fixed bug 128603 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128603)
    The changes for enhancement request #126626 which added thousands
    separator support caused a crash at startup time on a Debian
    system. The initial constant strings are being put in read-only
    memory either by gcc (or because of the way that x86 arch is
    designed). This was not a problem when tested with the Sun
    compilers on a Solaris SPARC machine. The remove_tsep() routine is
    display.c has been rewritten to correctly handle this.

Download

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gcalctool/4.3/

[Although some of the ftp mirrors may take a little while to
sync].

—
Rich Burridge

gnome-netstatus 0.12

Hey,

What is it?

The Network Monitor is a little applet which sits on your panel
flashing away at you so as to give you an idea of whats happening
on your network interface.

It also has a little dialog to give you more information about
the network interface.

Needless to say, this applet is not based in any way on any
similar feature in any other operation system. This is a genuine
original work. Um, well …

What’s changed?

  • Applet
    • Add a “Configure” button to invoke a configuration tool (Carlos
      Garnacho Parro, Mark)
    • Add keynav support to the icon (Mark)
    • Allow the detection of loopback interfaces (Mark)
    • Changed spacing in the dialog to be HIG compliant (Christian
      Neumair)
    • Fixed i18n issue with hardware labels (Christian Neumair)
  • Misc
    • Spec file (Rui Miguel Seabra)
    • Fix build issue with netstatus-fallback-pixbuf.h (Mark)
  • Translators
    • Bojan Suzic (sr)
    • Christian Neumair (de)
    • Christian Rose (sv)
    • Dmitry G. Mastrukov (ru)
    • Duarte Loreto (pt)
    • Elros Cyriatan (nl)
    • Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
    • GNOME PL Team (pl)
    • Hasbullah Bin Pit (ms)
    • Jean-Michel Ardantz (fr)
    • Kjartan Maraas (no)
    • Kostas Papadimas (el)
    • Mai Hao Hui (zh_CN)
    • Miloslav Trmac (cs)
    • MÉtin Æmirov (az)
    • Pablo Saratxaga (wa)
    • Takeshi AIHANA (ja)
    • Trinh Minh Thanh (vi)

Where can I get it from?


http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-netstatus/0.12/gnome-netstatus-0.12.tar.bz2

Regards,
Mark.

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