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Release Digest: GNOME, July 7, 2003

Phone Manager 0.2.1

Application

Phone Manager 0.2.1

Description

Send and receive text messages from a mobile phone connected to
your computer via Bluetooth, IrDA or serial cable.

Enhancements

  • Support for sending cluepackets when text messages are received
    to Dashboard
  • French translation from Gaël Chamoulaud

Fixes

  • Should work with Nokia 7650 over Bluetooth now: goes to connect
    to the DUN port rather than the Serial port

Download

http://usefulinc.com/software/phonemgr/

GNOME Software Map entry

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


gThumb 2.1.3

Application

gThumb 2.1.3

Description

Image viewer and browser.

Enhancements

  • Web Album: added ability to resize images before copying them
    to the destination, and to personalize the theme choosing the image
    caption.
  • Print dialog: the user can choose the comment font; better
    preview; remember all settings; allow to set a custom paper
    size.

Download

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gthumb/2.1/

Web Page: http://gthumb.sourceforge.net

GNOME Software Map entry

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


Quick Lounge 2.0.0

Application

Quick Lounge 2.0.0

Description

An applet to orginize your preferred applications on the GNOME
Panel.

Enhancements

  • Allow svg icons.

Download

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/quick-lounge-applet/2.0

Web page: http://quick-lounge.sourceforge.net

GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/quick-lounge


File Roller 2.3.3

Application

File Roller 2.3.3

Description

File Roller is an archive manager. It lets you open, modify
extract archive files sush as tar and zip.

Enhancements

  • Updated manual.
  • Make dialogs more HIG compliant.
  • Removed “Extract Here” and “Extract in a Folder” from the
    Nautilus context menu.

Download

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/file-roller/2.3/

Web Page: http://fileroller.sourceforge.net

GNOME Software Map entry

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


GNOME Development Series Desktop 2.3.3

GNOME Development Series Desktop 2.3.3:
“The Four Hounds”

The GNOME Development Series Desktop 2.3.3 “The Four Hounds”, is
ready for your bug-busting and testing pleasure! It is available
for immediate download on ftp ftp.gnome.org and mirrors:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.3/2.3.3/sources/

tar.gz:120M total
tar.bz2: 90M total

For Developers and Testers!

This release is a feature-frozen, development series snapshot.
It is used by developers and testers as their day-to-day working
desktop, and is ready for wider testing by our user community. Like
the Linux kernel, GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate
development status, so this 2.3.x series will eventually become the
official 2.4 release. Please check the 2.3 start page for more
information: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.3/

ChangeLogs

Thanks very much to Luke Stroven for compiling these awesome
extended ChangeLogs, which you can find on FootNotes:

http://gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1205

Build Requirements

  • The tarballs included in the release. 🙂
  • Some very basic packages not distributed with this release,
    such as image libraries, popt and freetype. These should all be
    included with or available for your distribution.
  • Xft2 and fontconfig for superior font rendering and
    configuration, preferably from http://fontconfig.org/ NOT XFree86
    4.3.x.
  • Docbook DTD 4.1.2, Docbook XSL stylesheets and a valid system
    catalogue file for scrollkeeper (which in turn is required by many
    desktop components for documentation).

Happy testing!

  • The GNOME Release Team


linux.conf.au 2004:
Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/

Patches are like Free Software love letters.


CVSGnome Build Script 0.4.2

Application

CVSGnome Build Script 0.4.2

Description

CVSGnome is a modern powerful GNOME build script. It’s able to
build from stable Tarballs or CVS.

Enhancements

  • updated to most recent tarball versions.
  • removed linc from the list of checkouts.
  • removed bonobo-activation from the list of checkouts.
  • removed fontilus from the list of checkouts.
  • removed themus from the list of checkouts.
  • updated gettext to use a new version.
  • added gnome-themes-extras to the list of checkouts and
    tarballs.
  • FAQ reworked.

>>> gnome 2.3.3 snapshot version compliant <<<
>>> for the installed tarballs. <<<

note: people that build cvs need to manually checkout and

install gstreamer and gst-plugins.

note: – linc is now part of orbit2 (privatized).

  • bonobo-activation is part of libbonobo (privatized).
  • fontilus & themus are part of gnome-control-center.

Download

http://www.akcaagac.com/

GNOME Software Map entry

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


galculator 1.1.2

Application

galculator 1.1.2

Description

a GTK 2 based scientific calculator featuring algebraic mode as
well as RPN, different number bases (decimal, hexadecmimal, octal
and binary) and angle bases (radiant, degree, grad).

Enhancements

  • Complete rewrite of basic computation code.
  • French translation

Fixes

  • display_length (in HEX/OCT/BIN mode)
  • working keypad in preferences dialog
  • gcc-2.95
  • check for glade’s XML

Download

http://galculator.sf.net/download_frame.html

GNOME Software Map entry

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


Gossip 0.3

Imendio is proud to announce the first release of Gossip, an
easy to user Jabber client for the magnificent GNOME platform.

What is Gossip?

Gossip aims at making Jabber easy to use and tries to give GNOME
users a real user friendly way of chatting with their friends.
Since this is the first release (even though we have used it
ourselves for over six months) we are not there yet but we are
working hard on getting Gossip to be the natural choice for people
who want instant messaging without fuzz.

What is Jabber?

Jabber is an open instant messaging XML-based protocol. It can be
used instead of ICQ, AIM, MSN, … or together with them through
gateways (not supported in Gossip yet).

More information

The project page (also includes screenshots) can be found at:
http://www.imendio.com/projects/gossip

and tarballs can also be found at:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gossip

Gossip uses the library Loudmouth:
http://www.imendio.com/projects/loudmouth/

Enjoy,

Mikael and Richard

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