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Release Digest, GNOME, February 19, 2003

Bitstream Vera Fonts 1.0

The "Not Quite Ready For Prime Time" release.

Application
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Well, not an application.  But they will enhance your applications!

Description
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Beta test versions of Bitstream Vera Font family.  Note that while you may
download these fonts for your personal use,  the beta
test versions may not be redistributed at all.  The link below describes
both the current version, (named 1.0, as that is the versions embedded in
the font files), and the draft copyright for the final version, due out
next month.

Enhancements
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Your desktop will look nicer!

Download
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Please see and read http://www.gnome.org/fonts.

Bug reports
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Even fonts can have bugs.  Please report problems to fonts at gnome.org.

Acknowlegements
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Our great thanks to Bitstream, Inc., for the donation of high quality fonts.

                                      - Jim Gettys
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Jim Gettys
Cambridge Research Laboratory
HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company
Jim.Gettys@hp.com

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Straw 0.16

Application
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Straw 0.16

Description
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A GNOME 2 desktop news aggregator, using the RSS syndication format

Enhancements
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- Asynchronous networking
- Improved error handling and reporting
- German translation
- Save and restore main window size
- Improved image loading feedback

Fixes
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- About box can be displayed more than once
- Only fetch blogroll/subscriptions information when polling
- Find works for Freshmeat-specific information, too
- Deal with broken gettext in older Pythons

Download
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http://savannah.nongnu.org/files/?group=straw

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