GNOME System Tools 0.24.0
I'm pleased to announce GST 0.24.0, here is the full announcement:
The GNOME System Tools version 0.24.0 have been released.
The GNOME System Tools are a set of cross-platform configuration
utilities for Linux and other Unix systems. Internally they are divided
in frontends and backends. The frontend knows nothing about the
underlying system and provides the same user interface across the
different types of systems. The backend knows how to read and write the
configuration information. The GNOME System Tools do not impose a new
database on the system: they work with the default configuration files
so that configuration can still be done by hand or by other tools.
Screenshots
===========
You can view screenshots of the most recent tools at
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gst/screenshots.html
Changes since last release
==========================
This is mostly a bugfix release
Downloading
===========
You can get it from :
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-system-tools/0.24/
Help Wanted
===========
We still need lots of help from anybody interested in contributing to
GST, even if it's only an email letting us know whether the tools worked
for your system. You can also submit bug reports at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org
Testing
-------
Testing that the tools work correctly on your system and either filing
detailed bug reports or confirming that they work correctly is greatly
appreciated. If you test a tool on an unsupported distro/system and find
out that it works correctly, please let us know so that we can update
the supported tools matrix (see below).
Porting
-------
The backends are designed as to minimize the effort needed to support
more distros/systems. A great way to contribute is to port the tools to
another distribution/system.
Prerequisites
=============
* GNOME 2 libraries
* GConf
* VTE
* gnome-print
Stability
=========
The tools have been stable on our systems recently. However, since this
tools modify your system configuration we suggest that only people which
are going to be able to solve a problem if something goes wrong use them
at the time. We have created a backup system so that the changes made to
the configuration files are tracked and stored.
Mailing list / IRC
==================
For discussion and feedback, sign up for our mailing
list:http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/setup-tool-hackers
You can also find us in the #gst channel on IRC server irc.gnome.org/
Whitepaper
==========
You can find the latest version of the GST whitepaper at:
http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/helix-setup-tools.html
Backup system
=============
Every time a tool modifies your system configuration files, it makes
backups of those files. The backups are rotated (for 9 levels in total),
and the backup made the first time the tool was run is kept forever.
This means that you can revert your system configuration to the point
before you ever ran a GNOME System Tool.
The backup path is /var/cache/setup-tools-backends/backup/<tool>/<id>/.
In this directory, you'll find a complete snapshot of the files that
were modified. The original directory structure leading up to these
files is also kept. <id> runs from 1-9, and when the first backup is
rotated out, it is kept in a special catalog called "First", which is
never touched again.
Current Tool Set
================
- Runlevel admin
Allows you to configure:
* the services your computer will run at startup
* in which runleves do they run
- Network admin
Allows you to configure your:
* hostname
* samba hostname and workgroup
* DNS servers
* search domains
* hosts (/etc/hosts)
* Network interfaces
* ppp
* ethernet
* slip
* wavelan (limited support)
- Time admin
Allows you to configure your:
* Date & Time
* Timezone
* NTPD servers
- Users admin
Allows you to manage:
* Users
* username / full name
* password
* home dir
* shell
* groups
* Groups
- Boot admin
Allows you to set:
* Default boot partition
* Partition type and label
* Timeout
* Kernel image
* Kernel extra parameters (append)
* adding or deleting partitions from the boot manager
Credits
=======
Maintainer
Carlos Garnacho Parro <garnacho@tuxerver.net>
Developers
Arturo Espinosa <arturo@ximian.com>
Hans Petter Jansson <hpj@ximian.com>
Tambet Ingo <tambet@ximian.com>
Chema Celorio <chema@ximian.com>
Bradford Hovinen <bradford@ximian.com>
Israel Escalante <israel@ximian.com>
Jacob Berkman <jacob@ximian.com>
Carlos Garnacho Parro <garnacho@tuxerver.net>
Artists
Jakub Steiner <jimmac@ximian.com>
Anna Dirks <anna@ximian.com>
Tuomas Kuosmanen <tigert@ximian.com>
Joakim Ziegler <joakim@ximian.com>
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Themus 0.1.2
What is Themus?
===============
Themus is a collection of theme utilities for GNOME. It currently consists
of:
* A themes:/// VFS method. You can go to themes:/// in Nautilus to view
your
themes.
* A thumbnailer. Themes in Nautilus will appear as previews.
* A properties page. The Nautilus properties will have a "Theme" tab
containing
details about the theme selected.
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This is a development release. It is known to be unstable. Do not install
it
if you are not willing to suffer crashes.
On the other hand, if you like using unstable software to help squash
bugs,
this release is for you!
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What's new?
===========
This release just fixes dependency issues, so it should compile
"out-of-the-box" without needing to change anything. It also has updated
translations. People with existing installed versions should only upgrade
if they want the updated translations.
Where can I get it?
===================
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/themus/
Known issues
============
* The VFS method leaks small amounts of memory.
* Anything in bugzilla.gnome.org/ under the product "themus"
Thanks
======
* To Jonathan Blandford for writing most of the theme-handling code
* To all our translators:
Vincent van Adrighem (nl), Metin Amiroff (az), David Bellot (fr),
Pablo Gonzalo del Campo (es), Abel Cheung (zh_TW), Paul Duffy (ga),
Ole Laursen (da), Alexandre Folle de Menezes (pt_BR), Christian Rose
(sv),
Pablo Saratxaga (vi), Miloslav Trmac (cs), Artis Trops (lv),
GNOME PL team (pl)
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libgnomeprint 2.1.2.2
libgnomeprintui 2.1.2.2
What is libgnomeprint[ui]?
==========================
Libgnomeprint[ui] is the the printing library for GNOME and gtk+
applications.
Download
========
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libgnomeprint/2.1
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libgnomeprintui/2.1
Bugs fixed since 2.2.1.1
========================
105904 printing multiple pages per side comes out wrong (Chema)
102400 libgnomeprint does not contains font aliases (Chema)
104710 .font isn't checked (Akira)
104754 affines get whacked with gnome_canvas_hacktext item (William Guelker)
104932 gnome-print-setlinecap has no effect (Jean Bréfort)
105006 Aliases need to contain alias familiyname not the font's familyname (Chema)
106984 Robust handling of default values (Owen)
103857 Duplicated fonts in font dialog (Chema)
105063 Duplicated font->psname create invalid glyph index in output (Chema)
105089 data files installed outside of PREFIX if gettext is not installed (Chema)
105096 Problems with configure scripts and --prefix (Chema)
105819 configre should check for zlib-devel (Chema)
106143 not closing job makes preview show an incorrect error message (Chema)
106162 Printer setting strings not localizable (Chema)
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gedit 2.2.1
Application
===========
gedit 2.2.1 - More time
Description
===========
Small and lightweight UTF-8 text editor for the GNOME environment.
It supports most standard editing features, plus several not found in your
average text editor (plugins being the most notable of these).
Complete GNOME integration is featured.
It requires GNOME 2.2
Updates
=======
- Updated user manual (Breda McColgan)
Fixes
=====
- Bug #103844 - Sort plugin installs symlinks and .0.0.0 (Paolo Maggi)
- Bug #105416 - Missing #include <sys/time.h> (Jim McElwaine)
- Bug #98798 - Crash on close (Paolo)
- Bug #107168 - Title string not localized from plugin manager browsing dlg
(Paolo)
- Bug #104940 - Don't add "Dump XML" and "Dump the UI Xml description" to
the .po files (Paolo)
- Bug #106677 - "Farsi" should be changed to "Persian" (Paolo)
- Bug #106456 - Theme problems with the popdown menu (James Willcox)
- Bug #107491 - Use ISO-2022-JP/ISO-2022-KR instead
of ISO2022JP/ISO2022KR (Hidetoshi Tajima)
- Cut and paste bug in the undo manager code (Paolo)
- Bug #106471 - Use the application font size for the font in
the font pickers (Paolo)
New and updated translations
============================
- Belarusian (Belarusian team)
- Brazilian Portuguese (Evandro Fernandes Giovanini)
- Catalan (Jordi Mallach)
- Chinese traditional (Abel Cheung)
- Czech (Miloslav Trmac)
- Danish (Ole Laursen)
- Dutch (Vincent van Adrighem)
- Finnish (Jarkko Ranta)
- Greek (Kostas Papadimas)
- Kannada (Pramod)
- Lithuanian (Vaidotas Zemlys)
- Norwegian (Kjartan Maraas)
- Persian (Roozbeh Pournader)
- Polish (GNOME PL Team)
- Portuguese (Duarte Loreto)
- Russian (Russian team)
- Spanish (Pablo Gonzalo del Campo)
- Swedish (Christian Rose)
- Turkish (Erkan)
Download
========
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gedit/2.2/gedit-2.2.1.tar.gz
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gQueue 0.7
Application
===========
gQueue 0.7
Description
===========
Gnome frontend for cups queues. It shows the printing jobs queue and let
you remove some jobs.
What's new since 0.6:
gqueue lock file rewrite (too buggy)
add estonian (et.po) translate
update nl.po
bugfixes
this release is more stable
