Release Digest: GNOME, January 1, 2003 | Linux Today

Release Digest: GNOME, January 1, 2003

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 2, 2003

gtkmm 2.1.2

*** gtkmm 2.2

gtkmm provides a C++ interface to GTK+. gtkmm 2.2 wraps GTK+ 2.2
http://www.gtkmm.org.

We expect no major changes before gtkmm 2.2.0. Please consider this a release 
candidate.

Like GTK+ 2.2, gtkmm 2.2 contains only API addition, without API or ABI
breakage. We might do bug-fixing work on gtkmm 2.0, but most work will
happen on HEAD, because a stable GTK+ 2.2.0 has already been released.

Contrary to the gtkmm 2.0.2 announcement, gtkmm 2.0.2 will not build
with GTK+ 2.1.x, due to minor API breakage in GTK+. 


*** Changes

2.1.2:

* Gtk::Clipboard API finished, with examples, and a book chapter:
  http://www.gtkmm.org/gtkmm2/docs/tutorial/html/ch16.html
  (Murray Cumming, Daniel Elstner)
* Gtk::TreeView: Some drag-and-drop API improvements, with examples.
  (Murray Cumming)
* Gtk::TreeModelSort added. (Daniel Elstner)
* Glib::RefPtr: Added swap(). (Daniel Elstner)
* Gtk::ColorSelection: catch exceptions. (Daniel Elstner)
* Gdk::Pixmap: Prevent rare segfault in creation. (Daniel Elstner)
* Gtk::AccelGroup::activate(): Implemented as a wrapper of 
  gtk_accel_groups_activate().  (Daniel Elstner)
* Glib::file_open_tmp() and Glib::file_open_contents() implemented.
  (Daniel Elstner)
* win32: Glib::Dispatcher compilation fix. (Naofumi Yasufuku)


*** Download

http://www.gtkmm.org/download.shtml

You will need libsigc++ 1.2, available here: 
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970


*** Development 

There is ongoing discussion on the mailing list: 
http://www.gtkmm.org/mailinglist.shtml
and in the #c++ channel on irc.gnome.org/  

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

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gcompris 2.0.0

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

gcompris 2.0.0

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

GCompris is a full featured education game for kids between 3 and 8. 
The game includes many different activities like teaching how to use a
mouse and keybord, memory games, vector drawing, basic educational games,
reading, algebra exerciser and more.

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

GCompris has been ported to GNOME 2.0.
Starting at gcompris 2.0, you now need GNOME 2 on your system to run it.

The advantage of using GNOME 2 are a complete UTF-8 support, better fonts
display and support for alpha blending in PNG images in the canvas.

- New board in the puzzle boards menu :
  traffic board based on the GPL code from Geoff Reedy 
  <vader21@imsa.edu>

- New board in the algebra menu:
  A money counting activity based on real Euro coins and papers.

Many graphical enhancements all arounds.


Fixes
=====

Usual bugfixes.

Download
========

http://ofset.sf.net/gcompris

_____________________________________________
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Bug Buddy "I should be there, baby!" 2.2.100 is out!
  
Bug Buddy is the GNOME bug reporting tool.

We are very near to GNOME 2.2 release. So this version is ui and string
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Changes
-------
  * Fixes:

        - Workaround for all-applications gnome-vfs bug.

        - Change "Refresh" button to "Update" (bug #101693).

        - Some text corrections (bugs #86410, #99564)


  * Improvements:

        - When reporting a bug from scratch, after the app is selected, if 
          the component is known, preselect it. Thanks to Kristian Rietveld

        - Use the GNOME 2 cool logo for GNOME products.


Download
--------

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/bug-buddy/2.2/bug-buddy-2.2.100.tar.gz
          

About "I should be there, baby!"
--------------------------------

No, this time the release code-name is not the title of a beautiful song from
Tom Waits neither a Mozart's opera as I would like to name all of them. The
name is the reality: that I should be there, in Granada, this nigth, with my
baby, but I can't.


Salu2

-- 
Fernando Herrera de las Heras
Onírica: análisis, diseño e implantación de soluciones informáticas
http://www.onirica.com
_____________________________________________

gtkmm 2.1.3

*** gtkmm 2.2

gtkmm provides a C++ interface to GTK+. gtkmm 2.2 wraps GTK+ 2.2
http://www.gtkmm.org.

We expect no major changes before gtkmm 2.2.0. Please consider this a release 
candidate. I know I said that last time.

Like GTK+ 2.2, gtkmm 2.2 contains only API addition, without API or ABI
breakage. We might do bug-fixing work on gtkmm 2.0, but most work will
happen on HEAD, because a stable GTK+ 2.2.0 has already been released.

Contrary to the gtkmm 2.0.2 announcement, gtkmm 2.0.2 will not build
with GTK+ 2.1.x, due to minor API breakage in GTK+. 


*** Changes

2.1.3:

* Changed library binary version so libtool knows that
  2.2 is API compatible with 2.0. We did this wrong in the past
  so people MUST do this:

    rm <prefix>/lib/lib{glib,pango,atk,gdk,gtk}mm-[12].0.so.[345]*

  where <prefix> is something like /usr/local or /opt/gnome2
  This will remove previous bad versions of 2.1.x.
* atkmm: Lots of new interfaces wrapped. (Daniel Elstner).
* Gtk::TextView:: Fixed bytes/length confusion in TextBuffer's 
  insert_text callback. (Daniel Elstner)


*** Download

http://www.gtkmm.org/download.shtml

You will need libsigc++ 1.2, available here: 
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970


*** Development 

There is ongoing discussion on the mailing list: 
http://www.gtkmm.org/mailinglist.shtml
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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