GLib-2.3.1
GLib-2.3.1 is now available for download at:
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.3/
glib-2.3.1.tar.bz2 md5sum: c320c3c883dba4759b8f04f40079a24e
glib-2.3.1.tar.gz md5sum: f3ecc10b565d097e7613584a0e04e2cf
This is a development release loading up to GLib-2.4. Changes
since GLib-2.3.0 consist mainly of bug fixes and small
improvements; among other things optional header files are now
provided to define the typical _(), N_(), etc, internationalization
macros.
Notes:
- This is unstable development release. While it has had fairly
extensive testing, there are certainly plenty of bugs remaining to
be found. This release should not be used in production. - Installing this version will overwrite your existing copy of
GLib-2.2. If you have problems, you’ll need to reinstall
GLib-2.2.4. - GLib-2.4 will be source and binary compatible with the
GLib-2.2.x series; however, the new API additions in GLib-2.2.0 are
not yet finalized, so there may be incompatibities between this
release and the final 2.2 release. - Remaining API issues for GLib-2.4 can be found with following
bugzilla query:
- Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.
About 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:
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 in GLib-2.3.1
- Add glib/gi18n.h and glib/gi18n-lib.h for common gettext
suport, including a Q() macro for translation with context
[Matthias Clasen] - Add a more flexible G_FILENAME_ENCODING variable as a
replacement for G_BROKEN_FILENAMES [Matthias] - Fix the return value g_main_context_iterate() for newly ready
sources [Padraig O’Briain] - Handle Hangul composition for normalization [Noah Levitt]
- Add G_{MIN,MAX,MAXU}INT{8,16,32}. [Mark Jones, Matthias]
- Add G_GSIZE_FORMAT/G_SSIZE_FORMAT [Manish Singh]
- Add G_STRFUNC as a portable wrapper for __func__ [Tim
Janik] - Documentation improvements [Matthias]
- GObject [Tim Janik]
- Support ‘-‘ in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names like
‘swapped-signal’. - Add g_type_class_peek_static() and use to optimize
g_object_new() for static types [Tim] - Allow setting construct-only properties from within init()
implementations - Enforce readability/writeability in g_object_set/get()
- Support ‘-‘ in g_signal_connect()/disconnect() names like
- Fix bug with g_ascii_strtod and multi-byte separator. [Behdad
Esfahbod, Roozbeh Pournader] - Misc bug fixes [Matthias, John Ehresman, Andrew Lanoix, Tor
Lillqvist, Mark McLoughlin, Tim-Philipp Müller, Manish, Morten
Welinder] - Updated translations (ca,cs,da,es,fr,ja,nn,no,pt,ru)
8 December 2003
Liferea 0.4.5
Application
Liferea 0.4.5
Description
Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an RSS/RDF news aggregator which
also supports CDF channels, Atom/Echo/PIE feeds, and OCS or OPML
directories. It’s intended to be a clone of the Windows-only
FeedReader.
Enhancements
- favicon.ico support, feeds whose webserver provides a
favicon.ico have the standard icon replaced by the favicon. - Added the new SnowNews 1.4.1 HTTP client code, which now
supports gzip/deflate compression, so Liferea helps saving some
bandwidth. - Disabled the behaviour of hiding the program window when
clicking the tray icon or minimizing, because this caused the
window to hide each time the desktop was switched (reported by Dale
K. Dicks, Christophe Barbe, Mike Rhodes and others). - Added a background shading of read items in the condensed item
view as proposed by Mike Rhodes. - Added to options to zoom in and out of the HTML view.
- Added a french (from Stephane Jourdan), a japanase (from
Takeshi Aihana) and a korean (from Park Ji-In) translation. I’ve
also added a german translation by myself. Note that while Liferea
is still changing not all text literals may be covered! - Added a dialog to create search feeds using the Feedster
(http://www.feedster.com)
search engine. - Added a possibility to subscribe to a HTML link and to copy
this link URL to the X selection. - Folders now remember their collapse state. Finally!
Fixes
- Fixed a bug with permanent URL redirection reported by
Christophe Barbe. - Fixed a bug in the blogChannel module support, that the XML
links were the same as the HTML links.
Download
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/liferea/liferea-0.4.5.tar.gz?download
GNOME Software Map entry
http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/liferea
Pango-1.3.1
Pango-1.3.1 is now available for download at:
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.3/
pango-1.3.1.tar.bz2 md5sum: c5f1689623ae04a6276327e54927b656
pango-1.3.1.tar.gz md5sum: c3a23f03b4d68b12f67720fbf6ca2bfc
This is a development release loading up to Pango-1.3.1; changes
in since Pango-1.3.0 are relatively minor; the most interesting is
some additional work by Noah Levitt on finishing Unicode-4.0
support.
Notes:
- This is unstable development release. While it has had fairly
extensive testing, there are certainly plenty of bugs remaining to
be found. This release should not be used in production. - Installing this version will overwrite your existing copy of
Pango-1.2. If you have problems, you’ll need to reinstall
Pango-1.2.5. - Pango-1.4 will be source and binary compatible with the
Pango-1.2.x series; however, the new API additions in Pango-1.3.x
are not yet finalized, so there may be incompatibilities between
this release and the final 2.2 release. - Remaining API issues for Pango-1.4 can be found with following
bugzilla query:
- Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.
About Pango
Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an
emphasis on internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that
text layout is needed, though most usage so far as been in the
context of the GTK+ widget toolkit. Pango forms the core of text
and font handling for GTK+ 2.
Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be
used with four different font backends:
- Core X windowing system fonts
- Client-side fonts on X using the Xft2 library
- Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType
library - Native fonts on Microsoft platforms
Dynamically loaded modules then handle text layout for
particular combinations of script and font backend. Pango-1.2 ships
with a wide selection of modules, including modules for Hebrew,
Arabic, Hangul, Thai, and a number of Indic scripts. Virtually all
of the world’s major scripts are supported.
As well as the low level layout rendering routines, Pango
includes PangoLayout, a high level driver for laying out entire
blocks of text, and routines to assist in editing internationalized
text.
More information about Pango is available from http://www.pango.org/.
Pango depends on version 2.2.0 or newer of the GLib library;
more information about GLib can be found at http://www.gtk.org/.
Overview of changes in Pango
1.3.1
- Support non-Unicode font encodings when supported by fontconfig
[Sven Neumann] - Draw 6-digit hex boxes for > U+FFFF [Noah Levitt]
- Update to latest fribidi [Noah]
- Honor U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR [Noah]
- Fix a problem with iteration by chars [Mariano
Suarez-Alvarez] - Misc bug and build fixes [Jeff Bonggren, Martin Kretzschmar,
Noah, Sven Neumann, Padraig O’Briain, Manish Singh, Morten
Welinder] - Fix header file includes to work with recent FreeType.
Owen Taylor
8 December 2003
GNOME-System-Monitor 2.5.2
Hi. There is a new GNOME-System-Monitor UNSTABLE release.
GNOME-System-Monitor is the app that displays process statistics
and cpu/mem/disk usage.
Here’s what’s new:
- Add process list column for X Server memory usage (Havoc
Pennington) - Add support for multiple processors – bug # 91363
- Fix color saving of graphs – bug #126612 (Kaushal Kumar)
- Fix crash when asking for root passwoard – bug #126923 (Kiran
Kumar Immidi) - Fix memory display
Get it here:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-system-monitor/2.5/
Enjoy,
Kevin
GTK+-2.3.1
GTK+-2.3.1 is now available for download at:
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.3/
gtk+-2.3.1.tar.bz2 md5sum: d19a07d0fdb04a68f7a0506900cf9691
gtk+-2.3.1.tar.gz md5sum: 432a1db1775400076e9b74b434af21c5
This is a development release leading up to GTK+-2.4. Changes
since GTK+-2.3.0 consist of numerous small bug fixes and
enhancements, with a special focus on the new GtkFileChooser.
Notes:
- This is unstable development release. There are certainly
plenty of bugs remaining to be found. This release should not be
used in production. - Installing this version will overwrite your existing copy of
GTK+-2.2. If you have problems, you’ll need to reinstall
GTK+-2.2.4. - GTK+-2.4 will be source and binary compatible with the
GTK+-2.2.x series; however, the new API additions in GTK+-2.3.x are
not yet finalized, so there are likely incompatibities between this
release and the final 2.4 release. - Remaining API issues for GTK+-2.4 can be found with following
bugzilla query:
- Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.
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:
An installation guide for GTK+-2.2 is found at:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.2/gtk/gtk-building.html
Common questions:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.2/gtk/gtk-question-index.html
http://www.gtk.org/faq/
Overview of Changes in
GTK+-2.3.1
- Improve sanity checks on gdk-pixbuf loaders [Matthias
Clasen] - GDK
- Add GDK_DEBUG=xinerama that fakes a 2×2 Xinerama mode
[Matthias] - Make gdk_drawable_copy_to_image public [Matthias, Peter
Zelezny]
- Add GDK_DEBUG=xinerama that fakes a 2×2 Xinerama mode
- Misc Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, John Ehresman, Tim
Evans] - Action-based menu/toolbar API [Matthias]
- Add “name” construct-only parameter to GtkActionGroup
- Bug fixes [Marco Pesenti Gritti, Christian Persch]
- Change ranges for Saturation/Value to be 0-100 in
GtkColorSelection [Gregory Merchan, Matthias] - GtkComboBox [Kristian Rietveld]
- Make model and text_column properties not construct-only
[Murray Cumming] - Fix sizing
- Add mouse wheel support [Matthias]
- Make model and text_column properties not construct-only
- Various GtkEntryCompletion bug fixes [Kristian, Piers Cornwell,
Marco] - GtkExpander
- Add a “use_markup” property,
gtk_expander_set/get_use_markup - Fix bugs when unrealizing/destroying [Mark McLoughlin]
- Add a “use_markup” property,
- GtkFileChooser [Federico Mena Quintero]
- Add a GtkFileSystemWin32 [Hans Breuer]
- Use GtkEntryCompletion in GtkFileChooserEntry
- Add a render_icon to GtkFileSystemIface to allow the GnomeVFS
backend to supply appropriate icons - Improve selection handling in bookmarks list [Federico, Owen
Taylor] - Support drops on the bookmarks list
- Display error dialogs on failed operations
- Many UI tweaks [Federico, Iain Holmes,Hans-Petter Jansson]
- Ignore filters for folders [Dave Malcom]
- Misc file chooser bug fixes [Owen, Christian Persch, Taavi
Talvik]
- Menus
- Make torn-off menus transient-for the window they were torn
from [Matthias, Jon-Kare Hellan] - Fix menu positioning for Xinerama, add gtk_menu_set_monitor()
for use by position functions [Matthias] - Tweak menu delay parameters, add a default width [Soeren
Sandmann]
- Make torn-off menus transient-for the window they were torn
- Make g_message_dialog_new_with_markup() automatically escape
arguments, add g_message_dialog_set_markup() [Owen] - Add read-only min-position/max-position properties to
GtkPaned - GtkToolbar [Soeren]
- Support gaps in the toolbar with expand=true/draw=false
separators - Improve drop-location preview handling
- Take a GtkRadioToolButton as the parameter to
gtk_radio_tool_button_new_from_widget [Murray Cumming] - Many misc toolbar bug fixes [Soeren, Marco]
- Support gaps in the toolbar with expand=true/draw=false
- GtkTreeView bug fixes [Morten Welinder, David Hampton]
- Add gtk_window_is_active()/gtk_has_toplevel_focus() getters to
go along with properties [Owen Taylor] - Add gtk_widget_can_activate_accel() / ::can-activate-accel
signal to fix handling of accelerators on insensitive parent
menu-items. [Tim Janik]. (Note: the details here will
probably change, since similar problems for mnemonics aren’t
handled.) - Implement or improve RTL support in GtkAlignment, GtkCombo,
GtkNotebook, GtkScrolledWindow, GtkTreeView, GtkViewport. [IBM L3
NLS Support Team] - Fix string setters for self-assignment [Matthias, Soeren]
- Finish multi-head handling in gtk-demo [Matthias]
- Fix install rules for generating gdk-pixbuf.loaders [Manish
Singh] - Reference doc improvements [Matthias, Soeren, Federico Mena
Quintero, Michael Natterer, Owen Taylor, Olexiy Avramchenko] - FAQ updates [Tony Gale]
- New and updated translations
(ca,cs,cy,de,el,es,ja,mn,nl,nn,no,pl,pt,sr, sr@Latn,sv,th)
Other contributors: Jorn Baayen,Damon Chaplin, Jeff Franks,
Diego Gonzalez, Richard Hult, Egmont Koblinger, Thomas Leonard,
Ross McFarland, Padraig O’Briain, Tomas, Danilo Segan
8 December 2004
libRSVG 2.5.0
The librsvg team is happy to anounce a new release of the
librsvg SVG rendering library. This release fixes a lot of
rendering bugs in order to enable near perfect rendering of the
Sodipodi flag collection and the gnome-themes-extras SVG
metathemes. People using SVG through the libRSVG library, for
instance with GNOME, are highly recommended to upgrade to this
release. A big thanks goes to our new contributor Caleb Moore from
Australia who did most of the fixes in this release.
Bugs fixed in this release:
80745
109367
111150
111151
114733
117316
117407
124336
125636
127111
128610
70208
117316
You find information and download information about librsvg on:
http://librsvg.sf.net
Librsvg is maintained by:
Dom Lachowicz
Anjuta 1.2.0
Hi,
Finally, after a long wait, bug squashing sessions and series of
release candidates, stable Anjuta version 1.2.0 is released! Like
all .0 releases, it is at about 99% stability (with some minority
bugs accounting to the missing 1% :)).
Download:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14222&release_id=202368
Anjuta is a versatile IDE for C and C++, written for GTK/GNOME.
Features include project management, application wizards, an
onboard interactive debugger, and a powerful source editor with
browsing and syntax highlighting.
Home page: http://anjuta.org/.
Screenshots: http://anjuta.org/anjuta.php?page=screenshots
There are source .tar.gz, Red Hat Linux 9.0 binary, source and
documentation packages available at the download page. Other
distribution specific binary packages are likely to be released by
other vendors. Binaries should install fine in RedHat 9 or similar
systems without further dependencies.
Release notes for 1.2.0:
Updated: Prompts users for unsaved files during project
closing.
Updated: Added checkbox in wizard to enable/disable glade source
generation.
Updated: Scintilla to version 1.57
Bug fix: Crash on preferences with other locales.
Bug fix: Freeze ups during build/debugging with other locales.
Bug fix: Crash with read-only project files (during saves).
Bug fix: Breakpoints bug.
Bug fix: Syntax highlighting bug.
Bug fix: Avoids error conditions for glade/glademm not found
Bug fix: Crash on anjuta exit
Bug fix: Crash on project close with unsaved files.
Bug fix: Compilation errors with old gcc.
Bug fix: Fixed debugger malfunctioning with non-english
locales.
Bug fix: Crash bug during import.
Bug fix: Dnd file drop.
Bug fix: Setting breakpoints for c++ files works.
Bug fix: Crash bug to multiple open of same file fixed.
Bug fix: Enables debug and optimization flags for new projects.
Bug fix: Fixed pascal highlighting
Bug fix: Fixed build failure with no ‘intl’ directory.
Bug fix: Added filters to find in files.
Bug fix: Fixed tutorial
Bug fix: Added horizontal scrollbar to description text in
wizard.
Bug fix: Installs properly even when system.tags file could not be
generated.
Bug fix: Compiler error with old gcc.
Happy coding!
Regards,
-Naba
gnome-games-2.5.2
gnome-games 2.5.2, “Nervous Energy” is now out there in the
usual place:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-games/2.5/
The release notes follow.
- Callum
gnome-games “Nervous Energy”
2.5.2
This release is evenly split between UI changes and back-end
code consolidation.
Code for locating files in gdk-card-image and glines has been
merged into the libgames-support library. More games will take
advantage of this as the (internal) API firms up.
The card selection widget in gdk-card-image has been changed.
This affects aisleriot and blackjack. You no longer select the
details of the card image from seven menus, instead there is one
list with a set of predefined styles. These styles are loaded from
an external file but home directories are not searched yet so
custom styles require root access. If the current style is not on
the list it is not touched, so existing preferences and direct
editing of the style using gconf-editor will work.
In addition to the gdk-card-image changes aisleriot has also had
its preferences menu renamed to “view”. This reflects the fact that
the entries under it only affect the look of the program.
Blackjack has received some cleanup work to the UI and some bug
fixes.
Mahjongg is in the middle of a rewrite of the shuffling code.
The bug where all the tiles were drawn after a shuffle has been
fixed. Also the “no more moves” dialog now has a “shuffle” option.
Unfortunately this is all still a bit ugly since it is work in
progress.
Gnometris has better high score handling. There is no longer a
duplicate score recorded when you start a new game without
finishing the old one. Also the score is recorded if you quit the
program without finishing the game: great for when the boss walks
in unexpectedly.
Greenwich 0.6.2
Application
Greenwich 0.6.2
Description
A graphical whois client for GNOME. It transparently handles
almost all gTLDs, first- and second-level ccTLDs, private domain
registries, and IP addresses.
Enhancements
This release fixes the build system to make it more
package-management friendly. No other changes have been made.
Download
http://jodrell.net/projects/greenwich
GNOME Software Map entry
http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/greenwich
libxml++ 0.28
The libxml++ team is pleased to announce the release of libxml++
0.28.
libxml++
libxml++ is a C++ wrapper for the libxml XML parser library. It
has SAX and DOM-like APIs, but does not attempt to conform exactly
to the DOM specifications because they are not aimed at C++. Its
API is much simpler than the underlying libxml C API.
Notes
Because of some API changes, we do another release before
complete API freeze and 1.0 pre-release.
Changes
- Added entity handling to the SAX parser + examples (Dan Dennedy
and Murray Cumming) - Replaced SaxParser::AttributeMap with an ordered container
(Christophe de Vienne) - Fixed an issue with threading (Christophe de Vienne)
- Completely switched to pkg-config.
Download
You can download libxml++ 0.28 from here :
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12999&release_id=202387
Regards,
Christophe de Vienne
Evolution 1.5
As per our Grand Plan (TM) Evolution 1.5 has been released in
time for GNOME 2.5.1. Download the following:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/evolution/1.5/evolution-1.5.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtkhtml/3.1/gtkhtml-3.1.4.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gal/2.1/gal-2.1.1.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/evolution-data-server/0.0/evolution-data-server-0.0.3.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/2.1/libsoup-2.1.2.tar.gz
Snapshots are also available through Red Carpet for 5 platforms
including SuSE 9 and RedHat 9.
Upgrade Notes:
Evolution 1.5 can be installed at the same time as 1.4.x. However
note that there are still some bugs migrating data from 1.4.x to
1.5 and that 1.5 stores its information in ~/.evolution rather than
~/evolution/ so that if you add new info in 1.5 in will not show up
in 1.4.x.
What Has Changed:
Evolution 1.5 has fixed some major architectural issues and sees
the splitting out of the addressbook, calendar and task data access
into a separate library for other projects to use. Shell components
are now much more simplified.
We have also untangled the GUI quite a bit making the components
(mail, tasks, etc) more individual and improving the usage
experience for the user.
Reporting Bugs
The main purpose of this release is, of course, to gather as
much testing as possible from users. Your help in testing and
submitting bugs as you find them is highly appreciated.
If Evolution 1.5 crashes, please take the time to submit the bug
using Bug Buddy, trying to fill in as much detail as you can
regarding the circumstances that lead to the crash.
If, on the other hand, you find a problem in the behavior or the
appearance of the application, please go to http://bugzilla.ximian.com/ to
use our Bugzilla interface to report the bug.
You can also check if your bug has been reported before by using
the search functionality of Bugzilla.
More information is available at the project website: http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution
-JP
JP Rosevear <jpr@ximian.com>
Ximian, Inc.