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Release Digest: GNOME, November 2, 2003

Straw 0.20

Application

Straw 0.20

Description

A GNOME 2 desktop news aggregator, using the RSS and Atom
syndication formats.

Thank yous

Thanks once again to Jan Alonzo for development help and Ryan
Skadberg for hunting bugs. And Scott Douglas-Watson is a welcome
new addition to the development crew.

Enhancements and bug fixes

  • Atom support
  • Reduced memory consumption
  • Eliminated the worst freezes in the UI
  • Switched completely over to Mark Pilgrim’s FeedParser, no
    longer two separate parsers
  • Improved the UI a bit
  • Fix bugs with mixed up feeds
  • Live with slightly broken HTTP servers that use just LF as a
    header separator
  • Reduced dependencies: no more need for PyXML, make ADNS
    optional
  • No more HTML in Article list
  • SubscribeDialog is now a GNOME Druid
  • Dragging of URLs from browsers now works
  • Move configuration stuff to gconf
  • Change timings and number of connections, should be faster
    now
  • Various bug fixes

Download

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

GNOME Software Map entry

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


gLabels 1.92.2

Application

gLabels 1.92.2

Description

gLabels is a lightweight program for creating labels and
business cards for the GNOME desktop environment. It is designed to
work with various laser/ink-jet peel-off label and business card
sheets that you“ll find at most office supply stores.

Fixes

  • Fixes glabels-batch command line front-end.

Download

http://glabels.sourceforge.net/download/

GNOME Software Map entry

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


gThumb 2.1.8

Application

gThumb 2.1.8

Description

Image viewer and browser.

Enhancements

  • Bugfixes.

Download

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

GNOME Software Map entry

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


Gewels G2-1.0.0

Application

Gewels G2-1.0.0

Description

Gnome version of Jewels with multiplayer deadmatch mode.

Enhancements

Gnome2 based version.

Download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gewels/

GNOME Software Map entry

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

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