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Release Digest: GNOME, November 9, 2003

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November 10, 2003

Anjuta 1.1.98

Dear all,

Anjuta version 1.1.98 [1] has been released.

Download:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14222&release_id=196047

Anjuta is a versatile IDE for C and C++, written for GTK/GNOME.
Features include project management, application wizards, an
onboard interactive debugger, and a powerful source editor with
browsing and syntax highlighting.

Home page: http://anjuta.org/.
Screenshots: http://anjuta.org/right_pannel.php?load=screenshots

There are source .tar.gz, Red Hat Linux 9.0 binary, source and
documentation packages available at the download page. Other
distribution specific binary packages are likely to be released
soon by other vendors. It should install fine in RedHat 9, but may
require some additional dependencies to be satisfied for RedHat 8.0
systemss.

Release notes for 1.1.98:

New: Double click on margin toggles bookmark.
New: Double click on margin (debugger mode) adds/removes
breakpoints.
New: Single click on margin (debugger mode) enables/disables
breakpoints New: Find previous added.
New: Emacs style file modeline in files.
Updated: Removed ‘page setup’ item from the file menu.
Updated: Scintilla (cvs 2003-09-29 — ver 1.55+)
Updated: No libzvt dependency (means faster operation).
Updated: Performance improvements in Editor.
Updated: Documentations revived in docbook xml format.
Bug fix: Symbol browser now loads properly for new projects.
Bug fix: Fixed many compiler warnings.
Bug fix: Fixed crash bug in Application wizard.
Bug fix: Fixed crash bug in Project Import.
Bug fix: Printing in proper UTF8
Bug fix: Fixed crash bug during project creation.
Bug fix: Fixed clean-before-build bug.
Bug fix: Fixed find in files bugs.
Bug fix: Fixed gettext bug with projects.
Bug fix: Fixed Autoformat
Bug fix: Fixed crash bug with ‘Add watch expression’
Bug fix: Fixed debugger freeze ups due to uninitialized strings in
target programs.

Happy coding!

Regards,
-Naba

[1] This is also the Release Candidate 2 for 1.2.0 final.

gcompris 4.1

Application

gcompris 4.1

Description

GCompris is a full featured education game for kids between 3
and 10. The game includes many different activities like teaching
how to use a mouse and keybord, memory games, vector drawing, basic
educational games, reading, algebra exerciser and more.

Enhancements

In 4.0 we included the first usable activity developped using
the python bindings in gcompris. This showed how great it works and
how easy it is now to develop in gcompris. Hope some will take this
opportunity.

Here is the description of the water cycle activity in python:
http://www.ofset.org/gcompris/boards/fun/watercycle_en.html

Now, using gcompris command line option, you can now use:

A to select the audio output device (esd, alsa, oss,
arts,…)
d <difficulty level> it tells gcompris to display only
activities matching this difficulty level.

As for 4.1 release, there as been many improvement in the vector
drawing activity. They can now rotate and flip images and items.
That’s the only vector drawing activity (including proprietary
windows software) that I know to be targeting kids.

It’s excellent, I moved my older son clement (10 years old) from
gcompris to sodipodi without trouble, he knew all the concept, just
the buttons changed.

Even with 40 different activities, gcompris maybe looks like a
complete education application.

Not to me. We can and must go further there is many activity
missing that could help schools and kids all over the worlds.

We also miss an integrated reporting system so that it will be
easy for their teachers to monitor what kids are doing well or bad
in the school computer lab.

With gcompris, we already created a top level education
application that makes most prorietary applications useless and
inferior.

Hope to see you soon on the gcompris mailing list 😉

Fixes

In the board compilation process, activities are no more dinamic
linked with anything.

about: added credit to the Background Music to Rico Da
Halvarez.
changed the compilation process (configure.in) to compile
python by default now.

Translation Updates

Translation updates:

cs.po:Updated Czech translation by Miloslav Trmac
fr.po:Updated French translation by Bruno
it.po:Updated italian translation by Immacolata Arenga .
nl.po:Dutch translation updated by Tino Meinen.
sk.po:Updated Slovak translation by Zdenko Podobny.
sl.po:created by damjan kovac
sr.po, sr@Latn.po: Updated Serbian translation by Danilo
Åegan
sv.po:Updated Swedish translation by Christian Rose

Download

Gcompris:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6865

Assetml data (minimum you need the libassetml and
assetml-flags): http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13320

Optionnaly you can get these one if there is one in your locale:
assetml-voices-alphabet
assetml-voices-colors
assetml-voices-geography
assetml-voices-misc-en
If they are not available, please help the schools and kids of your
country, pick up a mic and contribute with your voice.

GNOME Software Map entry

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

libxml++ 0.27

The libxml++ team is pleased to annouce the release of libxml++
0.27.

libxml++

libxml++ is a C++ wrapper for the libxml XML parser library. It
has SAX and DOM-like APIs, but does not attempt to conform exactly
to the DOM specifications because they are not aimed at C++. Its
API is much simpler than the underlying libxml C API.

Notes

This release is normaly the last one before API freeze. Next one
will be a 1.0 release candidate.

Changes

Completed documentation
Added Element::add_comment (Dan Dennedy)
Wrapped xmlIO output buffers and added
Document::write_to_stream (Christophe de Vienne)
Cleaned and made more consistent Element API (Murray
Cumming)
Added entities support in DomParser (Murray Cumming)

Download

You can download libxml++ 0.27 from here :

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12999&release_id=196056

Regards,

Christophe de Vienne

GNOME Terminal 2.4.2

Application

GNOME Terminal 2.4.2

Description

Standard GNOME terminal application.

Enhancements

Thanks to Kjartan Maraas for hunting memleaks, and Olav Vitters
for helping with the herding and tending of bugs.

Updated manual.
Fix a few minor memory leaks.
Translation updates: Jordi Mallach (ca), Miloslav Trmac (cs) G.
Karunakar (hi)

Download

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

GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gnome-terminal/

totem 0.99.8

Hey,

Totem “the Sound of Silence” 0.99.8 is released.

Totem is movie player for the Gnome desktop based on xine. It
features a playlist, a full-screen mode, seek and volume controls,
as well as a pretty complete keyboard navigation.

It comes with added functionality such as:

Video thumbnailer for GNOME
Webcam utility
Nautilus properties tab

Requirements

GNOME 2.2

And for the backend:

xine-lib 1.0 rc0a or better (CVS recommended for ALSA users)
or
gstreamer 0.6.x or 0.7.x

It is advised that distributors ship the xine backend by
default.

If Totem locks up on startup, before showing the main window,
please read:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111349
and for possible work-arounds:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111880

The upstream bug is:
http://bugs.xfree86.org//cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=260

Changes

Online manual from Chee Bin HOH
Use the statusbar for buffering feedback
Use less memory when there’s no video output
Fix playback of Quicktime files with reference urls
Fix Real playlists support with “stop” commands
Support the XvMC video driver
Support audio/x-ms-asf data type
Added ability to launch totem in fullscreen mode
Fix compilation with GTK+ 2.3.x

Translations

Abel Cheung: zh_TW.po
David O’Callaghan: ga.po
Kjartan Maraas: no.po
Duarte Loreto: pt.po
Hasbullah Bin Pit: ms.po
Miloslav Trmac: cs.po
Veljko M. Stanojevic: sr.po
Veljko M. Stanojevic: sr@Latn.po
Jordi Mallach: ca.po
Christian Rose: sv.po

Download

http://hadess.net/totem.php3
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/totem/0.99/

—
Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
Break into jail and claim police brutality.

now requires rdesktop 1.3 and vnc 4.0
remove compact mode
add default option, save defaults in ~/.tsclient/default.tsc
and it will load at startup
added manpage from debian (thanks Andrew “Netsnipe” Lau)
added hostname to window title in rdesktop
added support for rdesktop sound redirection
lots of automake voodoo (thanks Andrew “Netsnipe” Lau)
fix location of .desktop file for VFS
fixed bug in VNC code