Release Digest: GNOME, July 6, 2003

libgda 0.90.0
libgnomedb 0.90.0

libgda/libgnomedb 0.90.0 have been released.

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.

This release marks the beginning of the end of the normal
development process, since this is one of the latest releases
before the 1.0 beta testing cycle starts.
This release also does not include Mergeant, which has been
detached from the libgda/libgnomedb release process to allow us to
get a 1.0 version of those 2 libraries for a (hopefully) GNOME
Office release during this summer. Since Mergeant still needs some
work to be in a 1.0 state, we will continue its development as
we’ve been doing all this time, but it will keep separate version
numbers and (possibly) schedules than libgda/libgnomedb. Once we
get libgda/libgnomedb 1.0 out of the door, we will concentrate on
making Mergeant 1.0.

Changes in this release since 0.12.1:

libgda 0.90.0

Added missing stanzas for MDB and LDAP providers in spec file
(adam)
Added version 3 support for the mSQL provider (dschoene)
Added support for unsigned integer values (dschoene)
Added DONT_SHARE option for connections (rodrigo)
Some more documentation (rodrigo)
Updated translations:
- cs (mitr)
- es (pablodc)
- ml (karunakar)
- nl (vincent)
- pt (dnloreto)
- ru (frob)
- zh_TW (baddog)

libgnomedb 0.90.0

Added missing entry points to GnomeDbLoginDialog API
(rodrigo)
Removed non-working MIME components (rodrigo)
Added MIME actions component for SQL and connection files
(rodrigo)
Removed dependencies on GTK+ 2.2 (rodrigo)
Added missing files to spec file (adam)
Added preloading of GConf keys (rodrigo)
Catched missing translatable strings (baddog)
HIG-ify the error dialog widget (rodrigo)
Updated translations:
- be (dmitrym)
- cs (mitr)
- es (pablodc)
- ml (karunakar)
- nl (vincent)
- pt (dnloreto)
- ru (frob)
- sv (menthos)
- zh_TW (baddog)

Tarballs are available at
ftp://ftp.gnome-db.org/pub/gnome-db/sources/v0.90.0/

To install this new version, you’ll need: * libgda: glib,
libxml2, libxslt, and (optionally) the DBMS-related libraries
* 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.

Terminal Server Client 0.116

Application

Terminal Server Client 0.116

Description

tsclient == a frontend for rdesktop and other remote desktop
tools

Enhancements & Fixes

Rework interface and more HIGification
Fixed launch asynch bug with applet
Fixed segfault after launch
Fixed problem loading banner
Added tooltips for everything
Remove protocol kludge and added protocol option
update some translations, almost all need updating
Added support fot X via Xnest (experimental)

Download

http://www.gnomepro.com/tsclient/

GNOME Software Map entry

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

Libcroco 0.2

Application

Libcroco 0.2

Description

Libcroco is a CSS parsing and manipulation library written in C
for the gnome project.

Provides more parsing/rendering functionalities and a couple of
bugfixes.

Download

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libcroco

GNOME Software Map entry

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

gnome-panel 2.3.3.3
gnome-session 2.3.3.1
gnome-desktop 2.3.3.1

Hey,

What are they ?

gnome-panel contains the GNOME panel which is the area on your
desktop from which you can run applications and applets, and
perform other tasks.

gnome-session contains the GNOME session manager, the GNOME
session manager configuration program and several other session
management related utilities and the GNOME session manager proxy,
which handles basic session management for applications that do not
support XSMP.

gnome-desktop contains the libgnome-desktop library which
contains APIs that really belong in libgnome[ui] but have not seen
enough testing or development to be considered stable. It also
contains documents installed as part of the core GNOME
distribution, e.g. the GPL, GNOME’s .desktop files, the gnome-about
program, some manpages and GNOME’s core graphics files and
icons.

What’s changed ?

gnome-panel 2.3.3.3

Panel
- Fix location of arrow on rectangular menu buttons (Mark)
- Fix issue with buttons refusing to get smalled with the panel
  (Mark)
- Fix unnecessary padding around some applets (Mark)
- Fix re-entrancy issues with applet loading (George)
- Only delete an applet from configuration if writable
  (George)
- Delete the drawer panel when deleting the drawer button
  (Mark)
- Implement a fallback panel for when the default configuration
  cannot be found (Mark)
- Clean up the about dialog immensely (Mark)
- Register the panel correctly with bonobo-activation on
  multihead (Kaushal Kumar)
- Remove some unnecessary gnome-vfs includes (Christophe
  Fergeau)
Applets
- Make Window List and Workspace Swicther respect readonly keys
  (George)
- Make clock applet use time admin from system tools (Carlos
  Garnacho Parro)
Misc
- Fix issue with taking screenshots of obscured windows (Fernando
  Herrera)
- Fix inconsistency in schemas (Daniel Baeyens)

gnome-panel 2.3.3.2

Panel
- Much work to respect the writability of GConf keys
  (George)
- Fix race condition where the window list becomes tiny
  (Mark)
- Allow SVG icons (Mark)
- Allow rectangular icons for launchers etc. (Mark)
- Make the default panel width 32 pixels (Mark)
- Huge speedup when rendering transparent backgrounds (Mark)
- Fix problem with menus being positioned twice (Padraig)
- Draw launcher’s focus lines the correct colour when prelit
  (Raj)
- HIG work on various dialogs (Dennis)
- Make “Screenshot…” “Take a Screenshot…” in the actions menu
  (Mark)
- Remove panel help from launcher’s context menus (Mark)
Applets
- Make the clock and fish respect mandatory settings
  (George)
- HIGify the clock menu (Mariano
  SuÃ¡rez-Alvarez)
- Make the Notification Area Fitt’s Law compliant (Kevin)
- Allow only numeric values for number of workspaces (Pasu)
Misc
- Add icon for Notification Area (Mark Finlay)
- HIG work on screenshot utility (Dennis)
Translators
- Christian Rose (sv), Dafydd Harries (cy), Dmitry G. Mastrukov
  (ru), Erwin Sanjaya (id), Gustavo Noronha Silva (pt_BR), Hasbullah
  Bin Pit (ms), Jordi Mallach (ca), Miloslav Trmac (cs), Pablo G. del
  Campo (es), Pauli Virtanen (fi), Reinout van Schouwen (nl) and Runa
  Bhattacharjee (bn).

gnome-panel 2.3.3.1

Panel
- Make the minimum panel size relative to the font size
  (Mark)
- Hide autohide panels into the nearest corner to where the mouse
  left (Mark)
- Fix i18n issue with default panel names (Ray Strode)
- Fix error messages so as to not translate pango markup (Thomas
  Benson)
- Detach drawer panels from their parent if the parent is
  destroyed (Mark)
Misc
- Install panel-default-setup.entries (Mark)
- Dist xmldocs.make and omf.make again (Mark)
Translators
- Abel Cheung (zh_TW), Alessio Frusciante (it), Christian Rose
  (sv), Christophe Merlet (RedFox) (fr), Pablo G. del Campo (es) and
  Reinout van Schouwen (nl).

gnome-session 2.3.3.1

Add support for launching assistive technologies (Bill
Haneman)
HIG fixes for the logout dialog (Dennis Cranston)
Reduce flicker in logout effect (Anders)
Make the splash screen no be override redirect (Havoc)
Only allow numeric values in spin buttons (Pasupathi
Duraisamy)
Enabled “Edit” and “Delete” buttons only if something is
actually selected (Balamurali Viswanathan)

Translators

Abel Cheung (zh_TW), Arman Aksoy (Armish) (tr), Christian Rose
(sv), Christophe Merlet (RedFox) (fr), Christopher R. Gabriel (it),
Dafydd Harries (cy), Dmitry G. Mastrukov (ru), Gil ‘Dolfin’ Osher
(he), GNOME PL Team (pl), Jeroen van der Vegt (nl),
JoÃ«l Brich (eo), Jordi Mallach (ca), Kjartan Maraas
(no), Laurent Dhima (sq), Miloslav Trmac (cs), Ole Laursen (da),
Pablo Gonzalo del Campo (es), Pauli Virtanen (fi) and Samuel Jon
Gunnarsson (is).

gnome-desktop 2.3.3.1

Misc

Added a default desktop background image (Mark Finlay)
Removed icons which belong to gnome-control-center (Mark
Finlay)
Use macros in gnome-version.xml so we have the correct version
number (Andrew Sebola)
Renamed “Sound & Video” to “Multimedia (Mark)
Use different icon for the “Other” menu (Mark)
Fix issues with backwards compat with old icon names (Mark
Finlay)
Fix gnome-about build with gcc 2.95 (Mark)
HIG fixes for .desktop file editing dialog (Dennis
Cranston)

Translators

Abel Cheung (zh_TW), Christian Neumair (de), Christian Rose
(sv), Christophe Merlet (RedFox) (fr), Christopher R. Gabriel (it),
Dafydd Harries (cy), Dmitry G. Mastrukov (ru), Gil ‘Dolfin’ Osher
(he), Gnome PL Team (pl), GÃ¶rkem Ã‡etin
(tr), Hasbullah Bin Pit (ms), Jordi Mallach (ca), Juan Manuel
GarcÃa Molina (es), Kjartan Maraas (no), Miloslav Trmac
(cs), Ole Laursen (da), Paul Duffy (ga), Samuel Jon Gunnarsson (is)
and Vincent van Adrighem (nl).

Where can I get them ?

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-panel/2.3/gnome-panel-2.3.3.3.tar.gz

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-session/2.3/gnome-session-2.3.3.1.tar.gz

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-desktop/2.3/gnome-desktop-2.3.3.1.tar.gz

Regards,
Mark.

libbonobo 2.3.4

Since Michael can’t do a release at the moment, I did one for
GNOME 2.3.3.

libbonobo 2.3.4

Bugs fixed
- don’t use C++ keyword in C code (Frederic Crozat)
- fix activation test linking and script (Michael)
Translations
- az (Metin Amiroff)
- id (Mohammad Damt)
- ml (Guntupalli Karunakar)
- nl (Huib Kleinhout)
- bn (Mahmudur Rahman)
- fi (Pauli Virtanen)
- ru (Russian team, Dmitry G. Mastrukov)
- da (Ole Laursen)
- sr (Serbian team, Danilo ÅÃ‚ egan)
- sq (Laurent Dhima)

—
Frederic Crozat <<A
HREF=”mailto:[email protected]”>[email protected]>
Mandrakesoft

ginterface-1.2.5

Application

ginterface-1.2.5

Description

ginterface is an instant messenger application for easy
communication between people working in Linux Desktops.

Enhancements

–

Fixes

–

Download

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/

GNOME Software Map entry

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

Gnome Jabber Instant Messenger 0.1.0

Application

Gnome Jabber Instant Messenger 0.1.0

Description

An Instant Message Client for Gnome using the Jabber Protocol
(which supports all major IM protocols, like ICQ, MSN, AIM,
etc).

Changes

First release! 🙂

Download

http://gnome-jabber.sourceforge.net/download.html

GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gnome-jabber

totem 0.99.2

Hello,

Totem “Girls Own Love” 0.99.2 is out.

Totem is movie player for the Gnome desktop based on xine. It
features a playlist, a full-screen mode, seek and volume controls,
as well as a pretty complete keyboard navigation.

It comes with added functionality such as: – Video thumbnailer
for GNOME
– Webcam utility
– Nautilus properties tab

Requirements

GNOME 2.2

And for the backend:
– xine-lib 1.0 beta 12 or better
or
– gstreamer 0.6.x from CVS or 0.7.x

It is advised that distributors ship the xine backend by
default.

If Totem locks up on startup, before showing the main window,
please read:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111349
and for possible work-arounds:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111880

The upstream bug is:
http://bugs.xfree86.org//cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=260

Changes

Fixed XFree86 lockup on start bug (see http://bugs.xfree86.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=260
for the patch)
Automatic resolution switching when going to fullscreen with
auto-resize enabled (useful for TV output)
Audio output selection: stereo, 4.0, 5.0 or 5.1 channels
Changed default command-line action to replace, not
enqueue
Stop the stream before exiting, fixes the long waits on
exit
Fix display of non-UTF8 id3 tags
Rewrote most of the screensaver disabling code
Implemented Winamp m3u compatibility and relative paths
resolution
Don’t take more than 30 seconds to thumbnail a movie
Fix the location of the screenshots if ~/Desktop exists (GNOME
2.3)
Implemented seek to time (GStreamer)
Sync’ed visuals quality with the xine backend (GStreamer)
Really fix the position of the popup controls on first
appearance

Transations

Christian Rose (Swedish)
Ole Laursen (Danish)
Kjartan Maraas (Norwegian)
Jordi Mallach (Catalan)
Pauli Virtanen (Finnish)
Artur Flinta (Polish)
Prevod.org (Serbian)