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Release Digest: GNOME, June 11, 2004

Planner 0.12

Imendio is proud to present the release of Planner 0.12!

Planner is a project management application for the GNOME
desktop.

Read the full announcement at
http://www.imendio.com/archive/projects/planner/20040708-planner
0.12.html

Enjoy!


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


criawips 0.0.6

Hi,

About criawips

Criawips aims to become a full featured presentation that offers
the perfect platform both for small presentations used to explain
things to other people and for big presentations used for
commercial presentations.

Thus it should become easy to use, provide a good integration
with other applications to become a presentation platform that can
compete with commercial applications like MS PowerPoint,
OpenImpress and Apple’s Keynote.

Criawips isbased upon the GNOME development platform [1] and
some libraries from GNOME Office [2].

About this release

This version improves the text handling for people who are using
the main window to preview presentations.=20

The text scales with other elements when zooming and the text is
automatically resiyed to the correct size when opening a
presentation.

Get Criawips

Criawips’ development takes place on the savannah platform [4].
The source code is located at the GNOME CVS repository [5].

[1] http://www.gnome.org/
[2] http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/

[3] http://www.nongnu.org/criawips/downloads.html

[4] http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/criawips/

[5] http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/criawips

Regards,
Sven

Sven Herzberg


Hardware Monitor applet 1.1

The theme of this version is less clutter and less non-sense.
I’ve made the applet determine the update interval and no. of
samples automatically. Hopefully, this will make it easier to use
the applet. And harder to get non-sensical setups which tend to
produce bug reports that are difficult to deal with. 🙂

What’s new:

  • The monitored devices now automatically choose an appropriate
    update interval.
  • The frame around the applet has been removed.
  • Preferences clean-up.
  • The max. measured device value is now saved between sessions,
    and not decreased during periods of inactivity.
  • Nice value is now set to 5 instead of 10.
  • Some translation updates.
  • Various bugfixes which I’ve already forgotten about.

Features:

  • monitor CPU/memory/swap/disk usage, load average,
    Ethernet/modem/wireless throughput, internal temperatures, internal
    fan speeds
  • multiple views that all support multiple monitors:
    • a curve view with smooth lines
    • a bar view with wacky horizontal bars
    • a column view with ultra-clear vertical blocks
    • a text view for those who want extreme precision
    • a flame view to impress your friends
  • a modular design for future enhancements
  • well-behaved GNOME panel applet (no floating gkrellm
    windows)

The source can be downloaded from here:

http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/hardware-monitor/

Screenshots are also available from the above page. The applet
requires at least Gnome 2.2 and the gtkmm 2.2 and related gnomemm*
libraries from www.gtkmm.org/.
Note that you need to install libsensors and setup lm-sensors with
your kernel if you want to monitor temperatures and fan speeds.


Ole Laursen
http://www.cs.aau.dk/~olau/


GTK+ 2.4.4

GTK+-2.4.4 is now available for download at:

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.4/

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk+/2.4/

gtk+-2.4.4.tar.bz2 md5sum: 6e6ffc9003aee319ed99336b147ad19f
gtk+-2.4.4.tar.gz md5sum: 33caf898a27c2fc173b3bb4e2a340bab

This is a bug fix release and is source and binary compatible
with 2.4.0.

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+-2.4 is found at:

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-building.html

Common questions:


http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-question-index.html

http://www.gtk.org/faq/

Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.4.3 to
GTK+ 2.4.4

  • GtkFileChooser
    • Use Save button in save mode. [Federico Mena Quintero]
    • Check for errors when opening folders [Federico]
    • Fall back to stock icons if icon theme is not found
      [Federico]
    • Bug fixes [Federico, Alex Roitman, Owen Taylor]
  • GtkComboBox
    • Make it work without a model [Mariano Suarez-Alvarez, Christian
      Persch]
    • Improve placement of popup [David A. Knight]
  • GtkImage
    • Fix issues with partial redrawing [John Ehresman, Felipe
      Heidrich, Billy Biggs]
  • GtkEntry
    • Fix cursor movement with combining marks [Theppitak
      Karoonboonyanan]
    • Protect passwords better [Morten Welinder]
  • Win32 fixes
    • Fix build without wintab [J. Ali Harlow]
    • Improve Clipboard handling [Tor Lillqvist, John Ehresman]
  • Gdk
    • Make RGBA cursors work [Michael Natterer]
      • Work with odd XServers [Bastien Nocera]
      • Handle _NET_WM_STATE_ABOVE/_BELOW better [Billy Biggs]
      • Don’t leak DND contexts [Alex Larsson]
  • gdk-pixbuf
    • Make tiff loader work with libtiff 3.6.1 [Marco Ghirlanda]
    • Fix math for GDK_INTERP_HYPER [Brian Cameron]
    • Fix Win32 exported symbols [Tor Lillqvist]
  • Documentation improvements [Billy Biggs, Matthias Clasen,
    Oliver Andrieu]
  • Other bug fixes [Federico, Michael, Matthias, Philip Kendall,
    Jean-François Wauthy, John Finlay, Jeff Franks, Tim Janik,
    Nickolay V. Shmyrev, Sampo Nurmentaus, William Jon McCann,
    Jan-Marek Glogowski, Yevgen Muntyan, Pawel Salek, Jonathan
    Blandford, Sunil, Dimitiry. M Shatrov]
  • Updated translations (bg,he,hu,ne,sq)

A list of all bugs fixed in this release can be found at


http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=143578,144198,144356,144350,144427,139785,144750,142308,141753,144808,145007,144362,137211,144851,145242,135423,138560,141728,143675,145210,145291,145134,145312,145429,144967,139187,136496,140537,144302,145585,145566,144324,145365,139290,146282,135541,112412,144583,143955,146531,137031

9 July 2004


Alexandria 0.3.1

Hi,

Alexandria 0.3.1 has just been released!

Alexandria is a GNOME application to help you manage your book
collection.

You can get more information (screenshots, features, download
links, packages…) on its web site:

http://alexandria.rubyforge.org

This is mainly a bugfix release. If you are using Alexandria you
should consider upgrading, since a lot of bugs have been discovered
and are now fixed.

Details are following. Enjoy!

Bugs fixed:

  • removed custom sorting functions as they appear not to make
    anything work better and may actually cause some problems ;
  • fixed the Amazon provider to perform another lookup using the
    next locale if the previous one gives no results ;
  • improved exception handing to have better error messages ;
  • calling providers one after one until at least one book has
    been found ;
  • sorting by rating books that were not rated yet did crash
    ;
  • sorting by edition and publisher were reversed ;
  • the Add Book dialog is now resizable in search mode ;
  • removing a book without a cover image did crash.

Updated translations:

  • Dafydd Harries (cy) ;
  • Laurent Sansonetti (fr) ;
  • Masao Mutoh (ja).


Laurent


GLib 2.4.4

GLib-2.4.4 is now available for download at:

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.4/

glib-2.4.4.tar.bz2 md5sum: ea37e29137cb988eb54ff43721143a81
glib-2.4.4.tar.gz md5sum: 2305051dad178e8d865f0d8e2b1fe308

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 2.4.2 to
GLib 2.4.4

  • Win32 bug fixes (John Ehresman)
  • Other bug fixes (Manish Singh, Matthias Clasen, Federico Mena
    Quintero, Philippe Blain, Sven Neumann, Julio M. Merino Vidal, Kaz
    Sasayama, Morten Welinder, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez)
  • Documentation updates (Crispin Flowerday, Ed Griffiths,
    Federico)
  • New and updated translations (az,ne,sq)

A list of all bugs fixed in this release can be found at


http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=143744,143812,140532,143552,83674,145153,139567,145166,146054,108038,144678,143800,146875

9 July 2004


regexxer 0.8


regexxer 0.8

http://regexxer.sourceforge.net/

Changes

  • port to new API of sigc++ 2, gtkmm 2.4 and gconfmm 2.6
  • now using libglademm to load the UI at runtime from glade XML
    files
  • polished UI: new GTK+ file chooser, Edit menu, and more
  • bugfixes, bugfixes, bugfixes
  • more translations: cs en_CA en_GB it ja nl pt pt_BR sv

Download

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=64876

About regexxer

regexxer is a nifty search/replace tool for the desktop user. It
features recursive search through directory trees and Perl-style
regular expressions (using libpcre).

regexxer is programmed in C++ and uses gtkmm (the C++ wrapper
for GTK+) for the GUI. The user interface is similar to the
project-wide search/replace dialog in the Sniff+ IDE, but regexxer
aims to surpass it.

The primary audience of this tool are Linux/Unix users who are
tired of typing find/grep/sed/awk/perl command lines.

Enjoy,
–Daniel

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