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Epiphany 1.2.0

Hi,

What is it ?

Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla rendering
engine. It aims to be simple and easy to use.

http://gnome.org/projects/epiphany

What’s changed ?

Epiphany 1.2.0

Bug fixes:

  • Fix a crash when dragging an url from an external application
    to epiphany (Marco)
  • Fix crash when downloading a link on Freebsd (Joe Marcus
    Clarke)

Translations:

  • Asmund Skjuveland (nn)
  • Gustavo Maciel Dias Vieira (pt_BR)
  • John C Barstow (mi)
  • Ma SivaKumar (ta)
  • Miloslav Trmac (cs)
  • Priit Laes (et)
  • Progga (bn)
  • Roozbeh Pournader (fa)
  • Takeshi AIHANA (ja)
  • tunggul arif siswoyo (id)
  • Vladimir Petkov (bg)

Where can I get it ?

Source code:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/epiphany/1.2/epiphany-1.2.0.tar.gz

Epiphany 1.2.0 requires mozilla 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 or mozilla
cvs.

The suggested version is Mozilla 1.6:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.6/src/mozilla-source-1.6.tar.bz2

More about dependencies and installation tips: http://gnome.org/projects/epiphany/downloads.html

Enjoy.

Marco

gnopernicus 0.8.0

Hi,

I have the pleasure to announce the release of version 0.8.0 of
gnopernicus, the screen reader for GNOME desktop.

What is it ?

gnopernicus is designed to allow blind and visually impaired
user to use the computer. gnopernicus presents the information
using three devices: speech, magnifier and braille.

What’s new in 0.8.0 ?

Translation:

Update translations for Ukrainian, German, Arabic, Italian,
Mongolian, Greek, Canadian English.

Where can I get it ?


http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnopernicus/0.8/gnopernicus-0.8.0.tar.gz

Regards,
Remus

GOK 0.9.11

Hi:

We’d like to announce the release of version 0.9.11 of GOK, the
GNOME Onscreen Keyboards Suite.

Thank you Bill H, for scads of great gok commits! Thank you
Peter K, David H, and others for finding and posting gok bugs!

What is it ?

GOK is designed to allow access to the GNOME desktop and other X
applications by people who cannot use a physical keyboard (or
mouse), or in situations where a physical keyboard is not present.

What’s new in 0.9.11 ?

This dist has mainly just bug fixes. Sorry we missed announcing the
last few dists.

New Translations:

Arafat Medini (ar)
Funda Wang (zh_CN)
Nikos Charonitakis (el)

Where can I get it ?

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gok/0.9/gok-0.9.11.tar.gz

go gok!

regards,
David, Bill, and the rest of the GOK team

gtkmm 2.3.6
glibmm 2.3.7

Special notes:

The API is now frozen. Only incredibly important API changes
will be allowed before the final fully-frozen gtkmm 2.4.0 release
on April 5th.

gtkmm and glibmm 2.4:

gtkmm provides a C++ interface to GTK+. The 2.3.x tarballs are
the unstable development series that will become the stable gtkmm
2.4. gtkmm 2.3/2.4 will wrap any additional API in GTK+ 2.4. glibmm
is now a separate module, for use in non-GUI software.

gtkmm 2.3/2.4 installs in parallel with gtkmm 2.2, so you can
install this unstable library without the risk of breaking existing
applications. This allows us to break ABI and API, though we will
try not to break API unless it is absolutely necessary.

We recommend the use of jhbuild or garnome for testing in a
separate prefix.

The stable (API/ABI-frozen) gtkmm 2.4.0 will be released soon
after GTK+ 2.4.0.
gtkmm is on the official GNOME Platform Bindings release schedule:
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/

http://www.gtkmm.org

Changes

glibmm 2.3.7:

  • Added configure macros to detect SUN compiler oddities.
  • Various SUN Forte C+ and g++ 3.4 (cvs) build fixes. (Murray
    Cumming)
  • gmmproc: Improved parsing of C docs. (Hagen Moebius)

gtkmm 2.3.6:

  • Build fixes:
    • Partial Sun Forte C++ build fixes. (Murray Cumming, Michael
      v.Szombathely)
    • gcc 3.4 (cvs) build fixes (Murray Cumming, Matthew Tuck)
    • win32 (cygwin) build fixes: (Cedric Gustin)
    • Doxygen is, again, not required when building from tarballs.
      (Murray Cumming)
  • Gtk: RadioButton, RadioMenuItem: Added group_changed signal.
    (Murray Cumming)
  • Documentation: _Lots_ of added, and improved reference
    documentation. (Hagen Moebius)

Download

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

and
http://www.gtkmm.org/download.shtml

You will need libsigc++ 2, available here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970

Development

There is active discussion on the mailing list:
http://www.gtkmm.org/mailinglist.shtml

and in the #c++ channel on irc.gnome.org/

—
Murray Cumming
[email protected]
www.murrayc.com

gnome-games 2.5.9

gnome-games “Zero Gravitas” 2.5.9

This is also a release candidate. Naturally there was a
brown-paper-bag bug discovered the day after the last release. This
has been fixed. Also, the credits have been updated and of course
there have been more translations (does the translation team never
sleep ?!).

You can find it at:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-games/2.5/

  • Callum

gnome-games 2.4.3

gnome-games “Of Course I Still Love You”
2.4.3

This is the 2.4 release that follows the “last ever” 2.4
release. Some more bugs have been fixed and there has been some
more translation work. The next stable release will be 2.6 at which
point maintanence of the 2.4 line will stop.

You can find it at :

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-games/2.4/

  • Callum

gtkmm 2.2.10

gtkmm 2.2

gtkmm provides a C++ interface to GTK+. gtkmm 2.2 wraps GTK+ 2.2
http://www.gtkmm.org

This is the stable branch. gtkmm 2.3.x is also available, and
can be installed in parallel.

Changes

2.2.10:

  • Build:
    • SUN Forte C++ (see README.SUN): Now builds. This is probably
      the first time since gtkmm 2.0.x. There are still some
      “anachronism” warnings, which someone might like to fix with a
      patch. (Murray Cumming, Michael v.Szombathely)
    • gcc++ 3.4 (cvs): Lots of issues fixed, though you might see an
      internal compiler error. (Murray Cumming, Matthew Tuck)
  • Documentation:
    • Book: Mention CellRenderer’s “editable” property. (Murray
      Cumming, Roger Leigh)

Download

http://www.gtkmm.org/download.shtml

You will need libsigc++ 1.2, available here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970

Development

There is ongoing discussion on the mailing list:
http://www.gtkmm.org/mailinglist.shtml

and in the #c++ channel on irc.gnome.org/

—
Murray Cumming
[email protected]
www.murrayc.com

GGV 2.5.99.1

“Bredazzled”, which is not a spelling error, but a hommage to
GGV’s documentation author, Ms Breda McColgan.

This release, destined to become the 2.6 release candidate 1,
incorporates two patches by a guy (or a gal, who’d know…) who
goes under the name of chenthill, fixing accelerator behaviour and
a few bug fixes by myself. Apart from these, Breda fixed the
documentation once again, and M=C9=99tin, Ales, Funda, Sanlig,
Francisco Javier, Stanislav, Gustavo Maciel Dias and Maxim have
updated their respectful translations.

Available at the no. 1 repository of great PostScript viewers,
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ggv/2.5/

Have fun,

jaKa

—

email: [email protected]
w3: http://fish.homeunix.org/people/jaka

galculator 1.2.0

Application

galculator 1.2.0

Description

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

Enhancements

  • formula entry mode (enter expression string and get
    result)
  • right mouse button click gives popup menu ((un-)hide
    menubar)
  • translation updates

Fixes

  • bugfixes: tooltips in RPN mode, char conversion in HEX
    mode

Download

http://galculator.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

GNOME Software Map entry

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

Ruby-GNOME2 0.9.1

Hi,

Ruby-GNOME2-0.9.1 is now available.
This is a bugfix release of Ruby-GNOME2-0.9.0.

Enjoy!

Highlights

  • Improved to support Win32. Binary version is also available for
    Ruby Installer For Windows. (ruby-gtk2-0.9.1-1-i386-msvcrt-1.8.zip/
    on download page)
  • Ruby/Libgda: Support libgda-1.0.3(stable branch).
  • Ruby/GTK: Fix a bug of Gtk::Combo.
  • Ruby/GConf: Fix some bugs.

See NEWS[1] for more details.
[1] http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?News_20040314_1

Downloads

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53614

  • ruby-gtk2 The minimum package which includes Ruby/GLib2,
    Ruby/ATK, Ruby/GdkPixbuf2, Ruby/Pango, Ruby/GTK2.
  • ruby-gstreamer The minimum package for Ruby/GStreamer.
    Ruby/GLib2, Ruby/GStreamer.
  • ruby-gnome2 All of Ruby-GNOME2 libraries.

What’s Ruby-GNOME2?

Ruby-GNOME2 is a set of Ruby language bindings for the GNOME 2.x
development environment.

Supported libraries are:

  • Ruby/GLib2
  • Ruby/ATK
  • Ruby/GdkPixbuf2
  • Ruby/Pango
  • Ruby/GTK2
  • Ruby/GNOME2
  • Ruby/GnomeCanvas2
  • Ruby/Libart2
  • Ruby/Libglade2
  • Ruby/GConf2
  • Ruby/GnomeVFS
  • Ruby/GStreamer
  • Ruby/GtkHtml2
  • Ruby/GtkGLExt
  • Ruby/Libgda

Resources

—
Laurent

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