Release Digest: GNOME, January 26, 2004

libxklavier 0.97

Application

libxklavier 0.97

Description

Foundation library for XKB-related projects

Enhancements & Fixes

The library is now buildable/compilable without XKB headers
(though it does not work in such a miserable environment). This
change required some modifications in the API/ABI, so the shared
library has new interface id. The library is proven to be buildable
on Solaris. Some internal code reorganization is performed.

Download

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=319&package_id=49313

GNOME Software Map entry

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

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GNOME War Pad 0.2.9

Application

GNOME War Pad 0.2.9

Description

A ‘VGA Planets’ client for the GNOME platform

Enhancements

• Internal data redesign: planets, starbases and ships now are
  GObjects, part of a object hierarchy that will represent the entire
  data scheme on GWP. This will make very easy the binding to another
  languajes to treat this data.
• This version doesn’t add any new feature, the amount of work
  needed to change the internal data was enough to release a new
  version, the new features will arrive shortly!

Download

http://www.lunix.com.ar/~ldipenti/gwp/releases/gwp-0.2.9.tar.gz

GNOME Software Map entry

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

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gnome-games 2.5.5

It’s that time again: gnome-games “The Ends of Invention”
2.5.5

You can find it at the usual place:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-games/2.5/

This is the feature-freeze release. This should be what 2.6
looks like minus the bugs.

The major features of this release are:

Aisleriot: Statistics finally work. You saw the UI with the last
release, now you can find out just how many games you’ve played and
how often you loose.

Glines: Better versions of the SVG Balls theme from Richard
Hoelscher. Also clicking quickly does the expected thing now.

Gnome-stones: The major crash-on-startup bug that I completely
mis-diagnosed in 2.3.x has now been fixed. Really, truly,
definitely. I’m sure of it this time.

Gnomine: SVG graphics (also by Richard Hoelscher) and better
rendering of those same graphics.

Mahjongg: New layouts from Rexford Newbould and Krzysztof
Foltman. Be warned that your choice of layout will be reset to
Easy, but since you will be wanting to try out the new levels it
shouldn’t matter :).

Plus the usual long list of translations from the dedicated
people in the translation team.

• Callum