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Release Digest: GNOME, July 25, 2004

Devhelp 0.9.1

Imendio is proud to present the release of Devhelp 0.9.1!

Devhelp is a developer tool for browsing API documenation for
GNOME.

Read the full announcement at:

http://www.imendio.com/archive/projects/devhelp/20040725-devhelp-0.9.1.html

Enjoy!

Imendio HB, http://www.imendio.com/


GNOME 2.7.4 Development Release

GNOME 2.7.4 Development Release

Here’s the latest set of tarballs for the GNOME 2.7 development
branch. We have now entered our API/ABI, Feature and Module
freezes, with our modules decision to be finalised next week. The
biggest change in this release is the new MIME system, masterfully
wrangled by Jonathan Blandford, Dave Camp and Ray Strode. Please
read the extra notes regarding this change below…

platform: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/platform/2.7/2.7.4/NEWS

tar.gz: 44M total
tar.bz2: 31M total

desktop: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.7/2.7.4/NEWS

tar.gz: 142M total
tar.bz2: 102M total

bindings: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/bindings/2.7/2.7.4/NEWS

tar.gz: 13M total
tar.bz2: 8.1M total

Notes about the new MIME system

With GNOME 2.7.4, we have rewritten the old MIME system and
replaced it with the current shared specification found on
freedesktop.org. We expect things to be somewhat buggy with the
initial release, but are working quickly to improve matters. There
are a couple comments to go along with this release:

  • In order the to see any applications available, they must be
    registered with the MIME system. This can be done by getting the
    latest verion of desktop-file-utils and running:

    update-desktop-database $PREFIX/applications

    jhbuild in CVS has been modified to build this, and we expect
    applications to do this on install automatically in the future.
    Additionally, not every application used the new system as
    released. This will also be fixed over the next week.

  • The new user interface is modeled after the proposal at:

    http://www.gnome.org/~jrb/files/mime/

    Work on it isn’t complete yet, but it’s progressing well. Also,
    the old File Types capplet has been removed in favor of a
    nautilus-only interface.

  • Monitoring of MIME changes doesn’t fully work yet. Changes
    won’t be noticed until you hit reload in nautilus.

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!

This release is a snapshot of development code. Although it is
buildable and usable, it is primarily intended for testing and
hacking purposes. Like the Linux kernel, GNOME uses odd minor
version numbers to indicate development status. Please check the
2.7 start page for more information:

http://www.gnome.org/start/2.7/

Happy testing!

  • The GNOME Release Team


OSCON 2004: Portland OR, USA http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/

“I think we agnostics need a term for a holy war too. I feel all
left out.” – George Lebl


GNOME CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor 0.2.1

Application

GNOME CPUFreq Applet 0.2.1

Description

GNOME CPUFreq Applet is a CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor for
GNOME Panel

Features

  • Support for proc or sys filesystems
  • Support for multiprocessor systems

Prerequisites

  • GNOME 2 libraries
  • GNOME Panel libraries
  • GNOME-VFS libraries
  • GConf

Overview of Changes in GNOME CPUFreq Applet 0.2.1

  • Fixed Debian bugs #250547, the applet made the panel unusable
    (Carlos Garcia)
  • Improved the installation in a non /usr prefix (like
    /usr/local) (Stephen J. Smith)

Tarballs can be downloaded from


http://carlosgc.linups.org/files/gnome-cpufreq-applet/gnome-cpufreq-applet-0.2.1.tar.gz
-0.2.1.tar.gz

CVS

http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-cpufreq-applet/

GNOME CPUFreq Applet is currently being packaged as part of
Debian Unstable


http://packages.debian.org/unstable/gnome/gnome-cpufreq-applet.html

Other Binaries

http://carlosgc.linups.org/files/gnome-cpufreq-applet/

Screenshots

http://carlosgc.linups.org/files/gnome-cpufreq-applet/shots/

Bugs can be reported to

carlosgc gnome org

Suggestions, patches, comments, etc can be sent to

carlosgc gnome org

GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=3D71


Carlos Garcia Campos a.k.a. KaL
elkalmail@yahoo.es
carlosgc@gnome.org
http://carlosgc.linups.org
PGP key:
http://pgp.rediris.es:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dget&search=3D0x523E6462


Liferea 0.5.2 & 0.5.2b

Liferea 0.5.2

Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is a fast, easy to use, and easy to
install GNOME news aggregator for online news feeds. It supports a
number of different feed formats including RSS/RDF, CDF, Atom, OCS,
and OPML.

Bugfixes

  • 0.5.1 did falsely encode HTTP URL hash marks as %23. This is
    fixed now. (Lars Lindner)
  • When a feed source command is executed a useful return code is
    set so it won’t be unavailable due to missing status information.
    (Christophe Barbe)

Changes

  • A middle mouse click on the itemlist now toggles read status or
    the headline flag depending on the column you click. (Lars
    Lindner)
  • Now favicons that are older than one month are automatically
    updated (Lars Lindner)
  • The search result now provides an extra column with the favicon
    of the feed the found headline belongs to. (Lars Lindner)
  • The mozilla browser module now respects the configured proxy
    settings. (Lars Lindner)
  • Feed and item information is now properly localized. (Lars
    Lindner and Nathan Conrad)

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS BREAKS FEED CACHE DOWNWARD COMPATIBILITY
WITH OLDER RELEASES! WHEN YOU FALLBACK YOU WON’T SEE THE METADATA
OF ALL NEWLY AQUIRED HEADLINES. ALSO USING OLDER VERSIONS OF
LIFEREA WILL STRIP THE METADATA INFORMATION FROM THE FEED
CACHE!

  • Popup menu for the systray icon. (James Bowes)
  • Improvements for the favicon handling. favicon.ico files are
    now retrieved from the webserver path where the feed is located.
    favicon.ico in the webserver root is tried only if this first
    attempt fails. favicons are now redownloaded every 30 days. (Lars
    Lindner & Nathan Conrad)
  • Liferea now saves when the mainwindow is maximized. (Marc
    Deslauriers)
  • The gnomevfs2 dependency from GtkHTML2 was removed. (Nathan
    Conrad)

Download

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87005

Lars Lindner

Liferea 0.5.2b

Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is a fast, easy to use, and easy to
install GNOME news aggregator for online news feeds. It supports a
number of different feed formats including RSS/RDF, CDF, Atom, OCS,
and OPML.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug that permanently destroys your subscription URLs
    when favicons are updated or initially downloaded. (Christophe
    Barbe)

Download

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87005

Lars Lindner

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