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GNOME Platform Bindings 2.5.3

GNOME Platform Bindings

Here is another scheduled release of the GNOME Platform
Bindings, which provide a GNOME development platform for
programming languages other than C, in the style of those
languages. This release set gives some bindings a schedule and
rules to work within, so we can endorse those bindings. We very
much hope that Linux distributions will therefore choose to
distribute these bindings as a supported development platform.

For the GNOME 2.5/2.6 schedule, we have bindings for C++, Java,
and Perl: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/modules.html

These bindings follow these rules:
http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/bindings/rules.html

and this schedule:
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/

Note that those rules do not guarantee 100% API coverage, but
they do guarantee API/ABI stability.

There are “Beta Bindings” for C#, which are likely to be on the
full release schedule for GNOME 2.7/2.8. Note that other bindings
exist: http://www.gtk.org/bindings.html

but they are not on this release schedule and they do not
necessarily follow the same rules.

If you have questions about the GNOME Platform Bindings release
set please send email to language-bindings@gnome.org.
If you have questions about the individual bindings, please send
email to their own mailing lists. You can find links to the
individual projects here: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/modules.html

Download

You can download source tarballs from
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/bindings/2.5/2.5.3/

  • Changes, for each binding:
    • C++ (gtkmm):

glibmm 2.3.3:

  • gmmproc (code generator)
    • properties: Make read-only properties have const accessors, and
      add a second read-only const accessor for normal properties. Wrap
      construct-only properties as read-only, instead of ignoring
      them.
    • vfuncs: Really generate const vfuncs when requested. Put the
      method declaration directly into the .h file, so that the doxygen
      documentation can be next to it.
    • documentation:
      • Remove mergecdocs configure option – always merge the C docs,
        to avoid any risk of uploading or releasing empty documentation.
        Just delete the *_docs.xml files to make building from cvs
        faster.
      • Install a GLIBMM_CHECK_PERL() macro, for use by gtkmm and other
        *mm projects, to get the perl path needed by doxygen.
      • Install beautify_docs.pl so it can be reused in gtkmm and other
        *mm projects, instead of having lots of copies.
  • Glib::ObjectBase: The default constructor, never before used,
    now generates a custom GType, for use when creating new
    implementations of Glib::Interfaces – for instance, see the new
    custom tree model example in gtkmm.
  • Glib::Date: Added clamp_min() and clamp_max(). (Murray
    Cumming)
  • Documentation:
    • Added reference documentation for MainLoop, MainContext,
      Source, and Date. (Alberto Paro)

gtkmm 2.3.2:

  • Gtk:
    • AccelMap: Added lock_path() and unlock_path().
    • Button: Added get/set_alignment().
    • CellLayout: Added reorder().
    • Clipboard: Added wait_for_targets(), and a simpler
      request_targets().
    • MenuShell: Added cancel().
    • ListStore, TreeStore: Added set_model_columns() for use by
      derived classes.
    • TreeModel: vfuncs now use C++ types, and are documented.
    • TreeModelFilter: Wrapped set_modify_func().
    • Window: Added get_group() and set_accept_focus().
  • Gdk:
    • Colormap: Added get_system().
    • Device: Added get_name(), get_source(), get_mode() and
      get_has_cursor()
    • Display: Added set_double_click_distance() and
      get_default_group().
    • DragContext: Added get_targets().
    • Added rgb_*() methods.
  • Pango:
    • LayoutLine: Added get_length(), get_start_index(), and
      get_layout().
  • Atk:
    • Added Document, Hyperlink, Hypertext, and StreamableContent
      classes.
  • Portability:
    • Atk::Text build fix for Intel compiler. (Takashi Takekawa)
  • Documentation:
    • devhelp file now installs correctly, with working
      hyperlinks.
    • Documented Gtk::AccelMap methods.
    • Documented Atk classes.
    • TreeView, TextView, and associated classes are almost fully
      documented. (Murray Cumming)
  • Also:
    • build fix. (Billy O’Connor)
    • spec file fix. (Eric Bourque)
      • Java (java-gnome):

2.5.3
– Known Issues

ActionGroup.addRadioActions causes application to crash.

  • New Classes:

    FontButton [Jeffrey Morgan]
    FontButtonEvent [Jeffrey Morgan]
    ToolItem [Jeffrey Morgan, Luca De Rugeriis]
    ToolBarEvent [Jeffrey Morgan]
    ActionEntry [Jeffrey Morgan]
    ToggleAction [Jeffrey Morgan]
    ToggleActionEntry [Jeffrey Morgan]
    RadioAction [Jeffrey Morgan]
    RadioActionEntry [Jeffrey Morgan]
    DataBlockStockItem [Mark Howard]
    DataBlockIconSize [Mark Howard]

  • New Interfaces:

    FontButtonListener [Jeffrey Morgan]
    ToolBarListener [Jeffrey Morgan]
    ActionEntryListener [Jeffrey Morgan]
    ToggleActionEntryListener [Jeffrey Morgan]
    RadioActionEntryListener [Jeffrey Morgan]

  • Updated Classes

    Action – Added public interface & docs [Luca De
    Rugeriis]
    ActionGroup – Added public interface [Jeffrey Morgan]
    Alignment – Added setPadding method. [Mark Howard]
    BindingSet – Amended activateBinding methods to use gdk KeySymbol
    [Luca De Rugeriis]
    Expander – Added public interface & docs [Luca De Rugeriis]
    GtkTextView get/set acceptsTab/overwrite (public API & docs)
    [Mark Howard]
    TextBuffer selectRange (public API & docs) [Mark Howard]
    ToolBar – Deprecated 8 methods and added 9 new methods and proper
    event handling. [Jeffrey Morgan]
    ConfClient – Cleaned up JNI code [Joe Marcus Clarke]
    UIManager – Added public interface [Jeffrey Morgan]
    ListStore, TreeStore – Added setValue methods for new
    DataBlock

types

  • Deprecated Classes/Interfaces:

    FontPicker [Jeffrey Morgan] FontPickerEvent [Jeffrey
    Morgan] FontPickerListener [Jeffrey Morgan] ToolBarChildType
    [Jeffrey Morgan] ToolBarSpaceStyle [Jeffrey Morgan] OptionMenu
    [Mark Howard] ItemFactory [Mark Howard] ItemFactoryEntry [Mark
    Howard]

  • Fixed creation of symlinks in build scripts [Mark Howard]
  • Fixed gconf tarball configure script [Mark Howard]
  • Only include class files in Jar archive. [Mark Howard]

Perl (gtk2-perl):

Various – see the annoucements on the list. No NEWS-style list
is available at this time.

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

Gossip 0.7

The Gossip hackers are proud to announce the release of Gossip
0.7!

Gossip is an instant messaging client for GNOME with an
easy-to-use interface, providing users of the GNOME Desktop with a
friendly way to keep in touch with their friends.

We’d like to dedicate this release to our friend Mark Finlay,
who is greatly missed. He was always full of energy and a driving
force for usability in the early days of Gossip, and had the
ability to find ways we wouldn’t think of. Thank you Mark, you will
be remembered.

News in this release:

  • Fixes to the chat window (URL matching, clear chat)
  • New application icon from Dan Taylor
  • Chat window entry autoexpands instead of using a disclosure
    widget
  • Store state of contact list (visibility, position and size)
    between sessions
  • Don’t show groups with no contacts
  • Presence setting system greatly improved
  • Edit groups support added
  • Made the autoback timeout longer (30 secs)
  • Better keynav support
  • A couple of crash fixes
  • Several smaller bugs fixed
  • Updated and new translations (ca, cs, da, es, eu, it, ms, nl,
    no, pt, sr@Latn, sr, sv)

For more information about Gossip, see the project web pages at
http://gossip.imendio.org/.

Enjoy!

—

Richard Hult

Rhythmbox 0.6.5

Hi,

Here’s another set of bugfixes from the Rhythmbox 0.6
branch:

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox
0.6.5

  • Work with session management [Matt Hughes]
  • Improved dashboard support [Lee Willis]
  • Fix length calculation for some VBR MP3s [Christophe
    Fergeau]
  • Jump to songs added via commandline [Colin Walters]
  • Avoid segfaults with some commandline bits [Colin Walters]
  • Fix volume popup near bottom of screen [Johnathan Taylor]
  • Update Bonobo interface for play order work [Colin
    Walters]
  • Avoid some unlikely but possible use of freed strings [Colin
    Walters]
  • Fix compilation with G_DISABLE_ASSERT [Colin Walters]
  • Correctly encode URIs when upgrading from 0.5.x [Colin
    Walters]
  • Fix changing sorting with active genre/artist filtering [Colin
    Walters]

Updated translations:

Jordi Mallach (ca)

Downloads at the usual location:

http://rhythmbox.sf.net/download.html

http://web.rhythmbox.org/download.html

Enjoy!

libxml++ 1.0.1

Hi,

This is a bugfix release.

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.

Homepage

http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/

Notes

This is a bugfix release.

Changes

Download

You can download libxml++ 1.0.1 from here :

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libxml++/1.0/

Best Regards,

Christophe de Vienne

GNUbik 2.1

Application

GNUbik 2.1

Description

A 3 dimensional magic cube puzzle, like that invented by Erno
Rubik. The program displays an 3D image of the cube and you have to
solve it — or you
can write a script so it can solve itself.

Enhancements

  • Added a Guile interface so that Scheme scripts can manipulate
    the cube.
  • Various new localisations.

Fixes

Minor bugs fixed

Download

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnubik/gnubik-2.1.tar.gz

GNOME Software Map entry

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

Muine 0.2

Application

Muine 0.2

Description

Muine is a music player.

You’re probably wondering why another one. We’ve got Rhythmbox,
Jamboree, and who knows what else. The difference is that Muine has
a very different interface which I find very comfortable to use. I
dislike the iTunes model that both Rhythmbox and Jamboree use.

Enhancements

  • Playlist opening and saving [Jorn Baayen]
  • First run “Import music” window [Viet Yen Nguyen, Jorn
    Baayen]
  • Interface polish [Viet Yen Nguyen, Jorn Baayen]

Fixes

  • Various bugfixes [Jorn Baayen]
  • Build fixes [Jorn Baayen]

Download

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

GNOME Software Map entry

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

GTK+-2.3.2

GTK+-2.3.2 is now available for download at:

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.3/

gtk+-2.3.2.tar.bz2 md5sum: b82e22ec7c4d9a0670fd56b1c29dcc35
gtk+-2.3.2.tar.gz md5sum: 26366b28cface259ba96b80856c9d611

This is a development release leading up to GTK+-2.4. Changes
since GTK+-2.3.1 include many API fixes for new widgets and bug
fixes in new and old code, along with various new API enhancements,
such as allowing saving a GdkPixbuf to an in memory buffer, and a
blazingly fast fixed-height mode that can be enabled for
GtkTreeView.

Notes:

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:

http://www.gtk.org/

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 from GTK+ 2.3.1 to
GTK+ 2.3.2

  • GdkPixbuf
    • Add functions to save pixbufs to non-file locations. [Tim
      Evans]
    • Add a function to determine the type and size of a file without
      loading it completely. [Matthias Clasen]
    • Turn pixbuf attributes into construct-only properties.
      [Matthias]
    • Fix building gdk-pixbuf with –disable-modules
      –with-included-loaders. [Matthias, Owen Taylor]
  • Fix the logic for changing the toplevelness of a window.
    [Soeren Sandmann]
  • Do not interpret distant clicks as double clicks, using a new
    double-click-distance setting. [Matthias]
  • Improve the GDK API for dealing with group leaders.
    [Matthias]
  • Utility function for application launching in multi-screen
    scenarios. [Mark McLoughlin]
  • Support big and small and alpha-blended icons under Win32. [Tim
    Evans]
  • Misc Win32 improvements [Tor Lillquist, Hans]
  • GtkFileChooser [Federico]
    • Fix new filename entry in Save mode [Jan Arne Petersen]
    • Improved the look of GtkFileChooserDefault. [Tuomas
      Kuosmanen]
    • Added support for file system volumes such as CD-ROMs,
      floppies, and network shares.
    • Add a “New Folder” button for Save mode in GtkFileChooser.
    • Better support for Folder mode.
  • GtkTreeView
    • Speed up by adding a fixed height mode. [Kristian
      Rietveld]
    • Add a single-paragraph mode and a language property to
      GtkCellRendererText [Kristian Rietveld]
    • Add a editing-canceled signal to GtkCellRenderer [Federico Mena
      Quintero]
    • Misc GtkTreeView bug fixes [Kristian, Soeren, Jonathan
      Blandford]
  • Add a way to list the supported targets of a clipboard. [Dom
    Lachowicz]
  • Add stock icons: harddisk, indent, unindent. [Hans Breuer, Jody
    Goldberg]
  • Improve the GtkCalendar drawing code. [Matthias]
  • GtkCalendar supports starting the week on any day
    [Matthias]
  • Make GtkToolbar compatible with 2.2 again [Soeren]
  • Misc GtkToolbar fixes and API improvements [Christian Persch,
    Olivar Avramchenko, Jody, Soeren]
  • Misc GtkUIManager fixes and API improvements. [Jody, Matthias,
    Jeff Franks]
  • Add a way to lock individual accelerator paths [Matthias]
  • Add gtk_menu_shell_cancel() to emit the “cancel” signal on a
    menu shell. [Matthias]
  • Fix dynamic menus. [Matthias, Michael Meeks]
  • Add xalign, yalign properties to GtkButton. [Jody]
  • Implement or improve RTL support in GtkComboBox, GtkCellView,
    GtkViewport [Semion Chichelnitsky, Matthias, Kristian]
  • Support for “no focus” windows. [Matthias]
  • Documentation improvements [Matthias, Federico, Manish, Murray
    Cumming, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]
  • FAQ updates [Tony Gale]
  • Split the translations into two domains: ui strings and error
    messages go to gtk20, property nicks and blurbs to
    gtk20-properties. [Matthias]
  • New and updated translations
    (af,ar,bn,br,cs,cy,da,de,es,et,fa,fr,ga,hr,
    it,ja,ko,lt,mn,ms,nl,nn,no,pl,pt,pt_BR,ru,sr,sr@Latn,sv,sq,wa)

Other contributors: Olivier Andrieu, Herman Bloggs, Anders
Carlsson, Marco Pesenti Gritti, Bill Haneman, Alexander Larsson,
Noah Levitt, Kjartan Maraas, Evan Martin, Tim-Philipp
MÃ&fraq14;ller, Christian Neumair, Joshua N Pritikin,
Sebastian Rittau, Daniel Rogers, Manish Singh, Torsten Schoenfeld,
Alexander Winston, Johannes Weißl, Morten
Welinder, Adam Wright

22 January 2004

GLib-2.3.2

GLib-2.3.2 is now available for download at:

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.3/

glib-2.3.2.tar.bz2 md5sum: 84bd1116d79580d89131182967db4bb8
glib-2.3.2.tar.gz md5sum: e9179cde001b048d3faa6e2383b2512e

This is a development release loading up to GLib-2.4. Changes
since GLib-2.3.1 consist manly of bug fixes and small API
enhancements. The default seeding of GRand is much improved thanks
to work by George Lebl.

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.x are
    not yet absolutely 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:
    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=glib&target_milestone=2.4+API+Freeze&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED
  • 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:

http://www.gtk.org/

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 from GLib 2.3.1 to
GLib 2.3.2

  • Add G_MAXSIZE. [Manish Singh]
  • Add g_randnew_withseed_array(),
    g_randsetseed_array(), implementing the
    init-by-array functionality of the original mersenne twister. Add
    g_rand_copy(). Improve seeding. [George Lebl]
  • Add a lowercase_name option to glib-mkenums. [Murray
    Cumming]
  • Add g_ptr_array_foreach(). [Matthias Clasen]
  • Add g_timer_continue(). [Tim-Philipp
    MÃ&fraq14;ller]
  • Fix a threadsafety issue in mem chunks. [Matthias, Balazs
    Scheidler]
  • Fix g_filename_{to,from}_utf8() on Win32 and improve
    g_file_test() there too [Hans Breuer]
  • Add a boxed type for NULL-terminated string arrays.
    [Matthias]
  • Add G_DEFINE_TYPE() plus variants to ease the constuction of
    GObject boilerplate code. [Tim Janik]
  • Support & in password GECOS field [Matthias, Soeren Boll
    Overgaard]
  • Documentation improvements [Matthias, Manish]
  • Win32 build fixes [Hans]
  • Misc bug fixes [Damien Carbery, Matthias, Manish, Olivier
    Poncet, Zack Rusin]
  • Updated translations (ar,de,fa,ga,mn,nn,no,sq)

22 January 2003

Pango-1.3.2

Pango-1.3.2 is now available for download at:

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.3/

pango-1.3.2.tar.bz2 md5sum: 724cbc3236b99a43b5b077cb9801ec19
pango-1.3.2.tar.gz md5sum: 3ea2e21dd7a9c5fdab926de98aa9518d

This is a development release loading up to Pango-1.4; changes
in since Pango-1.3.1 consist mainly of of bug fixes.

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 1.4 release.
  • Remaining API issues for Pango-1.4 can be found with following
    bugzilla query:


http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=pango&target_milestone=1.4+API+Freeze&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED

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 between 1.3.1 and
1.3.2

  • Correct a mixup between ZWJ and ZWNJ in the Arabic engine
    [Roozbeh Pournader]
  • Build and bug fixes for Win32 [Hans Breuer]
  • Fix a problem with RTL scripts on Win32 [Tor Lillquist,
    Shoshannah Forbes]
  • Documentation improvements [Ross Burton, Matthias Clasen]

Owen Taylor
22 January 2004

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