Release Digest: GNOME, May 19, 2002

Guikachu 1.2.0: "The Inevitable Return" released


Guikachu is the premiere solution for creating PalmOS resource files
on UNIX operating systems, and it is also available as Free Software,
as defined by the GNU GPL. "Resources" are data statically linked into
PalmOS applications, and contain information about user-visible things
like strings, windows, and menu structures. Guikachu, based on the
GNOME 1.4 libraries, makes it possible to edit these files in an
easy-to-use way, under the popular GNOME desktop environment.

Guikachu is available for immediate download at
         

After half a year of development, we are proud to offer version 1.2,
our new production-quality release, with several new features,
including the following:

        * Support for string list resources
        * Usability improvements in the form editor, including
          resizing of widgets via drag-and-drop, and selecting widgets
          by drawing a bounding box with the mouse
        * Support for projects targeting non-Palm handhelds
          (currently, this is limited to eBookMan palmtops)
        * Improved font support, including escape sequences
        * And, of course, lots of bug fixes and miscellaneous small
          usability improvements

Now that Guikachu 1.2 is out, we'll discuss our future road-map on the
Guikachu mailing list, open to participation to anyone at
        

Guikachu is created by Gergõ Érdi, with contributions from Jay
Bloodworth and Christopher Keith Fairbairn. The Guikachu artwork was
done by Basilico Briceno. Source code includes code snippets by Martin
Schulze. Widget icons are taken from the excellent UI editor Glade, by
Damon Chaplin. Special thanks to Murray Cumming and Daniel Elstner for
their C++ hints every now and then, to Marco Antonio Cabazal, Erich
Douglass and Roger So for providing binary packages of Guikachu for
various Linux distributions, and to all our translators who made our
application easier to use for non-English speakers.


-- 
   .--= ULLA! =---------------------.   `We are not here to give users what
        http://cactus.rulez.org        they want'  -- RMS, at GUADEC 2001
    `---= cactus@cactus.rulez.org =---'
A man's best friend is his dogma.

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gThumb 1.100

Application
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gThumb 1.100

Description
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Image viewer and browser.

Enhancements
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* Ported to GNOME 2.
* Added ability to go back and forward in history.
* Added ability to rename and delete folders.
* Better error reporting.
* Removed redundant options.

Download
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http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gthumb/gthumb-1.100-7.i386.rpm
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gthumb/gthumb-1.100-7.src.rpm
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gthumb/gthumb-1.100.tar.gz
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intltool 0.20

People probably wonder why 0.20 is released so early after 0.19. The
reason is that I added support for .schemas (note the s at the end)
files, and people have asked me to do a new release.

Since none of my testers so far has had any throuble using the schemas
support I decided to do the release.

I strongly encourage every package maintainer and translator to upgrade
to this release, and I encourage people who use schemas support to
require the 0.20 release of intltool. This is very easy with the
following macro

  AC_PROG_INTLTOOL([0.20])



You can find the source code for intltool 0.20 on gnome ftp:

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

If you have problems with intltool, please report bugs at
bugzilla.gnome.org.

    -- Kenneth