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Release Digest: GNOME, March 2, 2003

Balsa 2.0.9

Application
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Balsa 2.0.9

Description
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Balsa is an email client for GNOME. It supports POP3, IMAP,
local folders, and goodies like multithreading.

Fixes
=====

- some crashes and deadlocks fixed.
- bugs in --without-esmtp build fixed.
- autocommit feature misbehaviors fixed.
- filtering in presence of deleted messages fixed.

Download
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http://balsa.gnome.org/download.html
http://balsa.gnome.org/balsa-2.0.9.tar.bz2
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libgnomecanvas 2.2.0.2

Dear lovers of idle loops,

Version 2.2.0.2 of the libgnomecanvas library has been released.  Many
thanks to Hans Petter and Jody for making the tarball release and for
tracking down the horrible idle handler bug.

* Availability:

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgnomecanvas/2.2/libgnomecanvas-2.2.0.2.tar.gz

(You may have to wait for the file to appear on the mirror sites.)

* What is libgnomecanvas?

It is the GNOME Canvas library, which is a widget for structured
graphics.

* Changes in this release:

- Fixed the way the idle loop is set up around the update/redraw flags
(Hans Petter, Jody).

- Fixed event copying (Mike Kestner).

- Added translations --- fa, kn, id (Roozbeh, Christian).

Enjoy,

  Federico
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SquirrelFax 0.6

Application
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SquirrelFax SquirrelFax 0.6

Description
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Receive and send faxes using SquirrelFax. 
Main features:
- view and print sent and received faxes
- delete sent and received faxes
- re-send faxes
- send ps and pdf files as fax
- interface with OpenOffice.org
- reads evolution and gnomecard phone book
- fully configurable, works with mgetty+sendfax
- supports most options of mgetty+sendfax
- comes with automatic installer, also sets up mgetty+sendfax for automatic
receiving and sending faxes.

This is the first beta version of this software. It is already highly
usable - though a lot of work remains to be done. All comments and
bug-reports are highly appreciated!
SquirrelFax is targeted at GnomeOffice, it can read Gnomecard and Evolution
phone books, and in the current version can automatically add a fax-printer
to OpenOffice.org.
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Straw 0.17

Application
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Straw 0.17

Description
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A GNOME 2 desktop news aggregator, using the RSS syndication format

Enhancements
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- Items can be marked to be non-expirable
- The preferences dialog allows the selection of and operations on multiple
feeds
- Send a Referer header pointing to the RSS feed when fetching images
- Added a French translation (thanks, David)

Fixes
=====

- Don't send bogus Referer headers anymore
- Dialogs are now transient and we call present() on them when displaying
them
- Don't report parsing failure on status 304

Download
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http://savannah.nongnu.org/files/?group=straw

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Quick Lounge 1.1.3

Application
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Quick Lounge 1.1.3

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

Enhancements
============

Added multihead support

Download
========

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/quick-lounge-applet/1.1

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/quick-lounge/quick-lounge-applet-1.1.3.tar.gz

Web page: http://quick-lounge.sourceforge.net
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Spheres and Crystals 0.6

Hi,
I made a new release of the Spheres and Crystals SVG metatheme. Mostly
small bugfixes. New things include proper themeing of optiontab, more
correctly sized icons, logos added to rpm and deb mimetype icons,
non-sheet nicer looking gnome-info logo and other misc fixes.

Screenshots of latest incarnation:
http://librsvg.sourceforge.net/images/phoebespheresandcrystals.png
http://librsvg.sourceforge.net/images/spheresandcrystal.png

Download and theme info:
http://librsvg.sourceforge.net/theme.php

There are some known issues with this theme, I have most of the noted
with corresponding bugzilla nu,ber in the KNOWNISSUES file:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/librsvg/spherecrystal/KNOWNISSUES?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

The Spheres and Crystals theme is also packaged in Debian, so Debian
users should be able to apt-get this theme.

Christian
-- 
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus@linuxrising.org>

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gThumb 2.1.0

Application
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gThumb 2.1.0 (for GNOME 2.2)

Description
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Image viewer and browser.

Enhancements
============

* New (faster) icon list widget.
* Use the new thumbnail system (share thumbnails with Nautilus 2.2).
* Print dialog ported to libgnomeprint 2.2.
* New tool: Create Web Album.
* Added ability to change list view (list or thumbnails).
* Compile some tools as dynamic modules, and load them only 
  when needed.
* Slideshow includes only selected images when more than one 
  image is selected.
* Update the icon theme on the fly.
* Added a black_background option to always use a black 
  background for the image viewer (only settable via gconf).

Download
========

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

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gthumb/gthumb-2.1.0.tar.gz

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

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Inti-GConf-1.0 Beta3

Application
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Inti-GConf 1.0 Beta3

Description
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Inti-GConf is the second module in the Integrated Foundation Classes. It
is an Inti binding for GConf, the GNOME Configuration System. Inti-GConf
makes accessing the GConf database from your Inti applications easy and
intuitive. Its API and documentation are complete and it comes with
several examples.

Enhancements
============

- Requires Inti-1.0 Beta5.

Fixes
=====

- Updated several out-of-date projects files.

- Fixed a few small typos in the reference documentation.


Download
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http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/inti/inti-gconf-1.0beta3.tar.gz?download


The Inti Development Team.



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Inti-1.0 Beta5

Application
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Inti-1.0 Beta5

Description
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The Integrated Foundation Classes, are a set of C++ classes for
developing Gnome and GTK+ applications on UNIX-like systems such as
Linux. They are designed to work nicely with the GNU toolchain and take
advantage of the standard C++ features provided by the GNU compiler.
Currently there are two modules, the core application development
platform Inti and a binding for the Gnome Configuration System Inti-GConf.

Inti combines the power of GTK+ and the power of C++ into a
state-of-the-art GUI toolkit that makes developing applications easy,
intuitive and efficient. There are more than 330 classes that wrap most
of the objects found in the ATK, GDK, GDK-PIXBUF, GLIB, GTK and Pango
libraries. It has its own system of signals and slots which make using
native GTK signals or creating your own signals easy. There is a
standard string compatible UTF-8 string class, a full set of simple
example programs, a C++ version of the GTK+ demonstration program,
extensive reference documentation and a tutorial.


Enhancements
============

- Finished adding doxygen reference documentation to the
   header files in the Inti, Main, G Gdk and Gtk namespaces.

- Minor Gdk API cleanups.

Fixes
=====

- Updated Gtk::Itemfactory tutorial page.

- Fixed several C++ problems with the Sun compiler.

- Several small bug fixes.

Download
========

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/inti/inti-1.0beta5.tar.gz?download


The Inti Development Team.

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GNOME Fifth Toe 2.1.99

Heya,

The Fifth Toe crew [1] is happy to announce the availability of Fifth
Toe 2.2 RC1 aka 2.1.99 [2]. This is a release of extra applications that
aren't part of the core/desktop releases.

Still, you'll really want those apps installed because they're pretty
cool. Of course, them being cool and knowing about it makes them even
cooler. Whaooo.

Development
--------
Ghex    2.2.0
Glade   1.1.3
Gcm     2.0.4
GOB     2.0.5
Memprof 0.5.1
Regexxer 0.4=09

Internet
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Drivel - 0.9.1
gnomeicu - 0.98.126
Gnomemeeting 0.96 + 2 libraries
Pan - 0.13.3.93
tsclient - 0.104
Xchat - 2.0.0


Productivity
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Abiword 1.1.3
Dia 0.91pre4
gcalctool - 4.2.43
libgda - 0.10.0
libgnomedb - 0.10.0
mergeant - 0.10.0
libmrproject - 0.9.1
mrproject - 0.9.1

Video/Sound
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camorama - 0.16
gnomeradio - 1.4
gthumb - 2.0.1
totem - 0.95.1

Misc
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fontilus - 0.4
gnome-chord2 - 0.7.0
gok - 0.6.0
gswitchit - 2.0.2
gucharmap - 0.2
seti-applet 2.1.2
stickynotes - 1.0.11
zenity - 1.0
seahorse - 0.6.2

Find out the descriptions, home pages and ChangeLogs for all these nice
applications on http://5toe.lyrical.net/
Download this all on:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/fifth-toe/2.1/2.1.99/sources

Enjoy,

Bastien Nocera, on behalf of the Fifth Toe Team

[1]: Will LaShell, Scott Sibley and yours truly
[2]: Will likes numbers ;)
--=20
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net

#2  0x4205a2cc in printf ("Oh my %sn", preferred_deity) from
/lib/i686/libc.so.6 printf ("Oh my %sn", preferred_deity);
Segmentation fault


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Phone Manager 0.2.0


Application
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Phone Manager 0.2.0

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

Description
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Send and receive SMS messages on a mobile phone connected to your computer
via Bluetooth, IrDA or serial cable.

Enhancements
============

- Added SMS send capability and activated "Reply" functionality
in
  message alert dialog

Download
========

http://usefulinc.com/software/phonemgr/#download
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Devhelp 0.5

Application
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Devhelp 0.5

Description
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A developers help program.
Browse and search GNOME API & GNU Manuals.

Web page
========

http://devhelp.codefactory.se/

Enhancements
============
* GNOME 2 port             (Mikael, Richard)
* LOTS of code cleanups    (Mikael)
* Support gzipped books    (Ross Burton)
* Better activation        (Richard)
* Support for gtk-doc built .devhelp files (Mikael)
  (Thanks Jamesh!!)

Download
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ftp://ftp.codefactory.se/pub/software/devhelp

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