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Epiphany 1.0.7

Hi,

What is it ?

Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla rendering
engine. It aims to be simple and easy to use.

What’s changed ?

Epiphany 1.0.7

Code changes:

  • Support for mozilla 1.6 (ported from HEAD) (Christian)

Bugfixes:

  • Fix a compiler warning introduced in 1.0.6 (Christian)
  • Monitor /system/http_proxy too (Christian)
  • Fix recovery from corrupted session, bookmarks and history
    files (Christian)
  • Fix some mem leaks (JF Rameau)
  • Don’t remember last action from location entry, fixes short
    hostname urls (Marco, Christian)
  • Fix crash when printing from js (Christian)
  • Delete host entries from history db when there are no more
    pages from that host in the history (Marco, Christian)
  • Fix crash of nautilus view after using the find dialogue
    (Christian)
  • Fix toolbar drag handle drag data (Christian)
  • Fix a crasher when deleting a bookmark (Marco, Christian)
  • Fix epiphany freezing when editing a bookmark while loading the
    page it points to (Marco, Christian)
  • Fix crash when calling epiphany from thunderbird (Marco,
    Christian)
  • Don’t close all epiphany window when exiting the last nautilus
    view (Christian)
  • Fix crash when printing a frame from javascript
    (Christian)
  • Fix window position restoring (Dave Jones)
  • Fix documentation OMF file (ported from HEAD) (Christian, Piers
    Cornwell)
  • Fix a mem leak (Christian)

Translations:

  • Danilo Segan (sr)
  • Priit Laes (et)
  • Alessio Frusciante (it)

Where can I get it ?

Source code:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/epiphany/1.0/epiphany-1.0.7.tar.bz2

Epiphany 1.0.6 requires Mozilla 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.5 or 1.6. The
suggested version is Mozilla 1.6.

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.6/src/mozilla-source-1.6.tar.gz

More about dependencies and installation tips: http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/downloads.html

Regards,

Christian

gnome-applets-2.4.2

Hi all.

There’s a new gnome-applets release out for the stable series to
start warming up for the GNOME 2.4.2 release 🙂

Tarball:


http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-applets/2.4/gnome-applets-2.4.2.tar.bz2

Bugs:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/

>From NEWS:

Changes in GNOME-Applets 2.4.1 and
2.4.2

  • Overall
    • Help updates (Irene Ryan Breda McColgan)
  • AccessX applet
    • Fix memory management and pixbuf handling (Jody and Bill)
  • Battstat
    • Leak fixes (Kjartan Maraas)
    • Distribute the soundlist file (Stanislav Brabec)
    • Major improvements in cpu usage with ACPI (David Moore)
    • Fix event handling after above patch (Brian Perkins)
  • Cdplayer
    • Clean up and fix leaks (Kjartan)
    • Dist file for NetBSD (Kevin)
  • Charpick
    • Remove unneeded include that broke build on some platforms
      (Kjartan)
  • Gweather
    • Fix a whole bunch of locations and add some new ones
      (Bugreporters)
    • Fix warning on help invocation (Muktha Naranya)
  • Mailcheck
    • Remove duplicate definitions causing build time warnings
      (Kjartan)
  • Mini-commander
    • Remove compiler warning (George)
  • Mixer
    • Leak fixes (Kjartan)
  • Modemlights
    • Leak fixes (Kjartan)
  • Multiload
    • Fix memory reporting (Kevin)
  • Wireless
    • Fix help in context menu and preferences (Muktha Naraya)
    • Fix leaks (Kjartan)
  • Translations
    • Abel Cheung (zh_TW)
    • Ales Nyakhaychyk (be)
    • Andras Timar (hu)
    • Christian Neumair (de)
    • Gustavo Noronha Silva (pt_BR)
    • Jordi Mallach (ca)
    • Miloslav Trmac (cs)
    • MÉtin Smirov (az)
    • Ole Laursen (da)
    • Stanislav Visnovsky (sk)
    • Takeshi AIHANA (ja)
    • Tino Meinen (nl)
    • Åygimantas BeruÄka (lt)

Revelation 0.1.0

Revelation 0.1.0 “I didn’t know that horse was a diabetic!”

Revelation is a password manager for the GNOME 2 desktop. It
organizes accounts in a tree-structure, and stores them as
AES-encrypted XML. This is the first release, with most basic
functionality in place.

Project home page:
http://oss.wired-networks.net/revelation/

Download:
http://oss.wired-networks.net/revelation/download/

—
Erik Grinaker <erikg@wired-networks.net>
http://erikg.wired-networks.net/

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements
of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be
enthusiastic about.”

  • Albert Einstein

Balsa 2.0.16

Application

Balsa 2.0.16

Description

Balsa is an email client for GNOME. It supports POP3, IMAP,
local folders, and goodies like multithreading.

Enhancements

  • libgtkhtml3 support added.
  • bonobo is used to avoid running of multiple balsa
    instances.

Fixes

  • updated GPGME support: much more reliable gpgme-0.4.3 is used
    now when gpg support is enabled.
  • bugs: 103639, 124550, 127422, 129316 and number of others were
    fixed.

Download

http://balsa.gnome.org/download.html#gnome2

GNOME Software Map entry

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

General Applet Interface Library 0.5.1

Application

General Applet Interface Library 0.5.1

Description

A library to simplify the writing of Gnome Panel applets

Enhancements

  • New sizing strategy when it comes to tiny applets.
  • Simplified docking mechanism and size request for eventual
    support for other panels.
  • Wrote simple example panel to show how to incooperate GAI
    applets into any program.

Fixes

  • Many visual bugs are fixed.
  • Some configuration fixes
  • Darwin and Solaris fixes.

Download

http://gai.sf.net

GNOME Software Map entry

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

Balsa 2.1.0

Application

Balsa 2.1.0

Description

Balsa is an email client for GNOME. It supports POP3, IMAP,
local folders, and goodies like multithreading.

Enhancements

  • completely new, high-performance mailbox backend
  • new design lowering the memory footprint.

Download

http://balsa.gnome.org/download.html#dev

GNOME Software Map entry

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

Gretools vocabulary builder 1.1

Application

Gretools vocabulary builder 1.1

Description

Gretools consists of a synonym quiz and a word guessing game. It
also allows you to look up words. It automatically remembers the
words you had difficulty with and lets you revise them. Gretools is
very useful for preparing for word tests.

Enhancements

  • UI changes for better usability
  • HIGification of UI (thanks James Cape)
  • autotools integration
  • wrote help file
  • support for multiple wordlists
  • new wordlist {freevocabulary.com}

Download


http://theory.cs.iitm.ernet.in/~arvindn/gretools/1.1/gretools-1.1.tar.gz

GNOME Software Map entry

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

Muine 0.1

Hi,

I just released Muine 0.1.

Muine is a music player for GNOME. It has a music library, but
in a very different way from Rhythmbox and Jamboree. I personally
find this much more comfortable to use.

It is written in C and C#, uses Gtk# for its UI, GStreamer for
music playback, GNU dbm for data storage, libid3tag for ID3 tag
reading and libvorbis for ogg tags.

Requirements

  • GNOME >= 2.2
  • GStreamer 0.6.x
  • Gtk# >= 0.15
  • gdbm
  • libid3tag >= 0.15.0b
  • Ogg Vorbis >= 1.0

Changes

This is the first official release.

Download

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

Cheers,

Jorn

libgda 1.0.3
libgnomedb 1.0.3

libgda/libgnomedb are a complete framewok for developing
database oriented applications, and actually allow access to
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, SQLite, FireBird/Interbase, IBM
DB2, mSQL and MS SQL server, as well as MS Access and xBase files
and ODBC data sources.

libgda/libgnomedb are the base of the database support in the
GNOME Office application suite, providing database access for many
features in Gnumeric, Abiword and Planner.

This is a bugfix release, containing fixes for various bugs
found by users in the 1.0.2 release.

libgda 1.0.3

  • Backported gda_data_model_foreach from HEAD (gonzalo)
  • Python bindings related issues (jon)
  • Fixed documentation typos (rodrigo)
  • Fixed C99’isms (rodrigo)
  • Fixed replacement of files in gda_file_save (laurent)
  • Fixed startup commands execution in SQLite provider
    (nikolai)
  • Updated translations:
    • es (serrador)
    • nl (adrighem)
    • pt (dnloreto)

libgnomedb 1.0.3

  • Fixed sorting in grid widget (marius)
  • Fixed selection signal emission in grid widget (rodrigo)
  • Fixed libglade module compilation problems (rodrigo)
  • Fixed compilation problems on Debian (jdassen)
  • Use a grid instead of a list in form widget (jon)
  • Updated translations:
    • ja (aihana)
    • nl (adrighem)

Tarballs are available at ftp://ftp.gnome-db.org/pub/gnome-db/sources/
v1.0.3/

To install this new version, you’ll need:

  • libgda: glib, libxml2, libxslt
  • libgnomedb: libgda and dependencies, libgnome/ui, libglade,
    libbonoboui and, optionally, gtksourceview

You can find more information at the projects’ homepage
(http://www.gnome-db.org), or
you can ask any question/propose anything you want in the GNOME-DB
mailing list, which is available at http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-db-list.

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