Guikachu 1.4.0
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 visually edit these files in an easy-to-use WYSIWYG
way, under the popular GNOME desktop environment.
Guikachu is available for immediate download at
http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/guikachu
We are proud to offer version 1.4, our new production-quality
release, with several new features, including the following:
- RCP importing: edit your legacy PilRC files in Guikachu
- Totally redesigned the Form Editor internals, resulting in huge
speed-up and improvements in responsiveness - GnomeVFS integration
- Throughout undo system
- Cut & Paste
- Support for Bitmap resources and widgets
- New translations: Portuguese, Serbian, Czech, Dutch, Irish,
Ukrainian, Macedonian, Malaysian, and for added fun value: British
and Canadian English - And, of course, lots of bug fixes and miscellaneous small
usability improvements
Learning Guikachu is easy with the included documentation, a
complete example application, and a web-based feature guide at
<http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/guikachu/tour>;.
To lower the barrier of entry even further, Guikachu is translated
to more than twenty languages by volunteers from all over the
globe.
Now that Guikachu 1.4 is out, we’ll discuss our future road-map
on the Guikachu mailing list, open to participation to anyone at
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/guikachu-main
Guikachu is created by G. Ardi, with contributions from Nathan
Kurz, 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 Roger So for providing Debian packages of Guikachu, and to
all our translators who made our application easier to use for
non-English speakers.
gi8k 1.2.2
What is at:
gi8k is a small Gnome applet that reads the CPU temperature and
fan speeds on Dell laptops. It also allows direct control over the
fans by simply clicking on the applet. gi8k used the GAI
library.
What’s new:
This version has minor bug fixes.
- Will not crash on installations where the kernel’s Dell laptop
extensions (i8k) doesn’t work properly. However, still just gives
bogus readings in these situations (I’ve only heard of one
case). - Compiles with kernel 2.6. (tested with Mandrake 10 only)
Where to get it:
gi8k can be found at:
http://www.wm.edu/~eweuba
– or –
http://gai.sf.net
GDM 2.6.0.2
EKI FOO EKI FOO EEEEEEEE BAKA BAKA WHEEEEE
(If you have no clue what gdm is, skip a few paragraphs down
first)
You may have noticed that there wasn’t any 2.6.0.0 nor 2.6.0.1
announcement. Well that’s because (and here you have 3 options to
choose from) a) I was busy with school, b) I was lazy or c) they
were crap anyway. This release is likely crap in different ways.
2.6.0.1 was particaularly crappy since one of the minor bugfixes
created a major bug (the flexiserver stuff broke).
In any case, I’m about to take my qualification exams and so my
response time has seriously increased (as in, I’m about as
responsive as a flattened frog). I should set up an autoresponder
and whenever I get a mail with ‘gdm’ in the subject, it should
respond with: “Pffffft! Piss off!” However I’m not as polite and
thus I don’t respond at all.
This release has some major bugfixes especially some long
pending PAM fixes and basically I integrated a bunch of patches
from bugzilla. Also the IPv6 support is now off by default since
it’s still not as reliable as the IPv4 code, and really, if you
need IPv6 for your private lab of X terminals, there is something
wrong with your head. It does make for a good buzzphrase however:
“IPv6 enabled!”
And now for the standard part of the release announcement:
GDM is the GNOME Display Manager, it is the little proggie that
runs in the background, runs your X sessions, presents you with a
login box and then tells you to piss off because you forgot your
password. It does pretty much everything that you would want to use
xdm for, but doesn’t involve as much crack. It doesn’t use any code
from xdm, and has a more paranoid and safer design overall. It also
includes many features over xdm, the biggest one of which is that
it is more user friendly, even if your X setup is failing. The goal
is that users should never, ever have to use the command line to
customize or troubleshoot gdm. It of course supports xdmcp, and in
fact extends xdmcp a little bit in places where I thought xdm was
lacking (but is still compatible with xdm’s xdmcp).
News:
Some of the highlights of 2.6.0.x over 2.4.4.x
(I won’t mention specific things to 2.6.0.2, go read the NEWS
file)
- The login sound stuff is configurable
- flexiserver improvements, especially in the UI
- Accessibility work, including possibility to set themes from
the standard greeter - Optional info message on login (like motd or something like
that) - Improvements to the SUP socket protocol
- IPv6 support (must be enabled with –enable-ipv6=yes)
- Use GtkFileChooser (yay)
- Mucho fixes and some further security paranoia
- Many translation updates
- Translated docs from the sun guys
Note: GDM2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen
<mkp@mkp.net>, and has for a
while now been maintained by the Queen of England. She is usually
not responsive to bug reports or feature requests. You can try to
send them to me however.
Note2: If installing from the tarball do note that make install
overwrites most of the setup files, all except gdm.conf. It will
however save backups with the .orig extension first.
#ifndef GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
Note3: Note3 has been depracated …
#endif /* GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED */
Downloading:
Webpage: http://www.jirka.org/gdm.html
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.6/
I built an RPM this time around BTW. Have fun. A spec file is
included so you can also try:
rpmbuild -ta gdm-whatever.tar.gz
Have fun (or whatever else you wish to be having),
George
PS: Note for Ankh: I’m wearing non-white socks. In fact both
striped and of different color (red-yellow and blue-green). I
thought I’d mention that, I think it will make Ankh happy. No other
silliness is scheduled until after the qualification exams are
done.
—
George <jirka@5z.com>
Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must cut down the
mightiest tree in the forest… with… a herring!
- The Knights Who Say ‘Ni’