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Release Digest: GNOME, February 12, 2004

The GNOME XML toolkit 2.6.6

Application

The GNOME XML toolkit 2.6.6

Description

Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome
project (but usable outside of the Gnome platform). It also
provides the xmllint XML/HTML processing tool. This release fix a
potential security problem, people are advised to upgrade.

Enhancements

  • Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte offest
    in input.
  • XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning.
  • reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball)

Fixes

  • nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing
    (Igor and William) reported by Yuuichi Teranishi
  • make test and path issues
  • xmlWriter attribute serialization (William Brack)
  • xmlWriter indentation (William)
  • schemas validation (Eric Haszlakiewicz)
  • XInclude dictionnaries issues (William and Oleg
    Paraschenko)
  • XInclude empty fallback (William)
  • HTML warnings (William)
  • XPointer in XInclude (William)
  • Python namespace serialization
  • isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch)
  • output of parameter entities in internal subset (William)
  • internal subset bug in push mode
  • <xs:all> fix (Alexey Sarytchev)
  • Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston) warnings
    removal (Philip Ludlam) SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard)
    fix –with-minimum configuration.
  • Documentation: missing example/index.html (John Fleck) version
    dependancies (John Fleck)
  • Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail Grushinskiy),
    function prototype (Cameron Johnson), MSVC6 compiler warnings,
    _WINSOCKAPI_ patch

Download

ftp://xmlsoft.org/

Website

http://xmlsoft.org/

GNOME Software Map entry

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


gnome-mud 0.10.5

Application

gnome-mud 0.10.5

Description

GNOME-Mud is a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) client, which aims to
make mudding a bit easier.
It can define aliases, triggers, variables. keybind shortcuts and
has a connection wizard to easily manage different player
characters and MUDs. GNOME-Mud is the

Notes

  • Reapply a fixed version of the plugin interface patch [Dani
    Carbonell]
  • Tabs are shown only if there are 2 or more open [Nuno
    Sousa]
  • Show connection status in the connection tabs [Nuno Sousa]
  • Add a notification area icon to hide/show main window and to
    notify new incoming data [Nuno Sousa]
  • Fixed PyGTK support [Adam Luchjenbroers]
  • Fixed longstanding bug when exiting gnome-mud using the window
    manager close button [Robin]
  • Added a HP/mana monitor python plugin [Adam Luchjenbroers]
  • Enhances for the python plugin API [Adam Luchjenbroers]
  • New application icon [Daniel Taylor]
  • Workaround inability to configure the MUD charset by sending
    the text in the user’s locale charset [Juliano Ravasi Ferraz]
  • Updated translations:
    + ca [Jordi Mallach]
    + cs [Miloslav Trmac]
    + es [Francisco Javier F. Serrador]
    + hr [Robert Sedak]
    + nl [Vincent van Adrighem]
    + pt [Duarte Loreto]
    + sr [Danilo Segan]

Download

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-mud/0.10/

GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gnome-mud


meld-0.9.2

Application

Meld meld-0.9.2

Description

Meld is a GNOME 2 visual diff and merge tool. It integrates
especially well with CVS. The diff viewer lets you edit files in
place and diffs update dynamically.

Enhancements

  • Many translations added and updated. Thanks to the gnome
    translation team. Benoit Dejean (French), Danilo Segan (Serbian),
    Duarte Loreto (Portuguese), Miloslav Trmac (Czech), Daniel van
    Eeden, Kees van den Broek (Dutch), Dongsu Jang (Korean)
  • Differences within a line are now highlighted.
  • Meld can now launch an external editor.
  • CVS console state is remembered.
  • Now using bugzilla.gnome.org/ for bug
    tracking
  • Added keyboard navigation for directory diffs.
  • Work around some pango/gtk font rendering issues where
    monospaced fonts are not monospaced vertically. (Most noticibly non
    breaking spaces)

Fixes

  • Text search now works for multibyte character sets.

Download


http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/meld/0.9/meld-0.9.2.tar.bz2

GNOME Software Map entry

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


Muine 0.4.0

Application

Muine 0.4.0

Description

Muine is a new music player using some new UI ideas. The idea is
that it will be much easier and comfortable to use than the iTunes
model, which is used by both Rhythmbox and Jamboree. It is written
in C and C#, using GStreamer for music playback.

Enhancements

  • Get the album cover from the ID3 tag if available
  • Sort artists like “Cardigans, The” instead of “The
    Cardigans”
  • Include playlist duration in playlist label when in shuffle
    mode
  • Further UI enhancements
  • Improved first start window (Disabled for now)

Fixes

  • Reduce memory footprint
  • Reduce startup time
  • Code cleanups
  • Various fixes

Download

http://nl.linux.org/~jorn/Muine/

GNOME Software Map entry

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


gnocl 0.5.15

Gnocl 0.5.15 is available at

http://www.dr-baum.net/gnocl/

This release introduces for several widgets new options
-onRealize and -data. The tree and list widgets got a new
subcommand columnCget, which retrieves the options set for a
column. Stub support should finally work correctly. Thanks to
valgrind some mem leaks were closed.
For a detailed list of changes see the NEWS file.

Gnocl is a GTK+ / Gnome extension for the programming language
Tcl, loosely modeled after the Tk package. It provides easy to use
commands to build quickly GTK+ / Gnome compliant applications
including canvas widget, GConf and the Gnome applet. It consists of
several libraries: one for GTK+ widgets, one for the Gnome canvas
widget, one for the GConf database and one for other Gnome related
commands.

This version has been tested with GTK+ 2.2.1, Gnome 2.2.0 and
Tcl 8.4.2 under Linux. A FreeBSD port is also available.

License: BSD type (same as Tcl)
Homepage: http://www.dr-baum.net/gnocl/

Contact: Peter G. Baum (peter@dr-baum.net)


Sodipodi 0.34

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen!

The version 0.34 of your favourite vector drawing application
has been released.

Availablility

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4054

Sodipodi 0.34 release notes

This release incorporates for the first time path composition
operations (union, intersection and subtraction) and new,
calligraphic pen based freehand drawing. Plus many bugfixes and
smaller features, as usual.

  • Fixed file and font name handling in Win9X/ME (Lauris)
  • Use full bounding box for calculating export region (John)
  • Support xml:space attribute for text (Mitsuru)
  • Support CDATA nodes (Lauris)
  • Preserve arbitrary namespace declarations (Lauris)
  • Path uncross, union, intersection and subtraction (Lauris)
  • Reimplemented printing from command line (Emile)
  • Bugfixes (everyone)

11/02/2003
Lauris Kaplinski


gramps 1.0.0

Application

gramps 1.0.0

Description

GRAMPS is a GNOME/Python based genealogy program.

Enhancements

  • First official “stable” release.
  • Manuals translated to French and Russian.
  • Norwegian translation added, German and Hugarian relationship
    calculators added
  • Improved reports, including iso-8859-1 support in PostScript
    and PDF outputs.

Fixes

  • Numerous minor bugfixes
  • Sorting order remembered for Source and Place view.

Download


http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25770&package_id=109309&release_id=216321

GNOME Software Map entry

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


gnopernicus 0.7.4

Hi,

I have the pleasure to announce the release of version 0.7.4 of
gopernicus, the screen reader for GNOME desktop.

What is it ?

gnopernicus is designed to allow blind and visually impaired user
to use the computer. gnopernicus presents the information using
three devices: speech, magnifier and braille.

What’s new in 0.7.4 ?

Presentation

  • Store presentation items in XML files, not not in gconf
    keys.

UI

  • Map shutup function on control-left key.

Where can I get it ?

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnopernicus/0.7/gnopernicus-0.7.4.tar.gz

Regards,
Remus

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