GNOME System Tools 0.28.0
The GNOME System Tools version 0.28.0 “Juggling knives” have
been released.
The GNOME System Tools are a set of cross-platform configuration
utilities for Linux and other Unix systems. Internally they are
divided in frontends and backends. The frontend knows nothing about
the underlying system and provides the same user interface across
the different types of systems. The backend knows how to read and
write the configuration information. The GNOME System Tools do not
impose a new database on the system: they work with the default
configuration files so that configuration can still be done by hand
or by other tools.
Screenshots
You can view screenshots of the most recent tools at http://www.gnome.org/projects/gst/screenshots.html
Changes since last release
General
- Added HIGified “apply” “cancel” and “OK” buttons in all the
main dialogs (Carlos Garnacho) - Several HIG improvements (William Jon McCann)
- Improved communication between backend and frontend (Carlos
Garnacho) - Added Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1 support (Carlos Garnacho)
- Added OpenNA 1.0 support for all tools (Gerhard Mourani)
- Improved auto* use in backends, added independent pkg-config
file for the backends, made the backends to configure independently
of the frontends (Eduardo Garcia Cebollero)
Boot
- fixed bug #121744 (Carlos Garnacho)
- made the tool somewhat independent from the devices.map file
when configuring GRUB (Carlos Garnacho)
Network
- fixed a crasher when trying to add a new interface (Carlos
Garnacho) - added the –configure <interface> command line parameter
(Carlos Garnacho) - made it to throw the druid if there aren’t configured
interfaces (Carlos Garnacho)
Time
- HIG improvements (Carlos Garnacho)
Users
- UI improvements (Carlos Garnacho)
- Fixed bugs #122174 and #113423 (Carlos Garnacho)
… plus other lots of bugfixing
Thanks to Gerhard Mourani and William Jon McCann for sending
patches
Thanks too to all the translators 🙂
Thanks to everybody who’s worth of it and I’ve forgot to thank
Downloading
You can get it from :
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-system-tools
Help Wanted
We still need lots of help from anybody interested in contributing
to GST, even if it’s only an email letting us know whether the
tools worked for your system. You can also submit bug reports at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org
Testing
Testing that the tools work correctly on your system and either
filing detailed bug reports or confirming that they work correctly
is greatly appreciated. If you test a tool on an unsupported
distro/system and find out that it works correctly, please let us
know so that we can update the supported tools matrix (see below).
Porting
The backends are designed as to minimize the effort needed to
support more distros/systems. A great way to contribute is to port
the tools to another distribution/system.
Prerequisites
- GNOME 2 libraries
- GConf
- LibGlade
Stability
The tools have been stable on our systems recently. However, since
this tools modify your system configuration we suggest that only
people which are going to be able to solve a problem if something
goes wrong use them at the time. We have created a backup system so
that the changes made to the configuration files are tracked and
stored.
Mailing list / IRC
For discussion and feedback, sign up for our mailing list:http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/setup-tool-hackers
You can also find us in the #gst channel on IRC server irc.gnome.org/
Whitepaper
You can find the latest version of the GST whitepaper at: http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/helix-setup-tools.html
Backup system
Every time a tool modifies your system configuration files, it
makes backups of those files. The backups are rotated (for 9 levels
in total), and the backup made the first time the tool was run is
kept forever. This means that you can revert your system
configuration to the point before you ever ran a GNOME System Tool.
The backup path is
/var/cache/setup-tools-backends/backup/<tool>/<id>/. In
this directory, you’ll find a complete snapshot of the files that
were modified. The original directory structure leading up to these
files is also kept. <id> runs from 1-9, and when the first
backup is rotated out, it is kept in a special catalog called
“First”, which is never touched again.
Current Tool Set
- Services admin
Allows you to configure:- the services your computer will run at startup
- in which runlevels do they run
- Network admin
Allows you to configure your:- hostname
- samba hostname and workgroup
- DNS servers
- search domains
- hosts (/etc/hosts)
- Network interfaces
- ppp
- ethernet
- slip
- wavelan (limited support)
- Time admin
Allows you to configure your:- Date & Time
- Timezone
- NTPD servers
- Users admin
Allows you to manage:- Users
- username / full name
- password
- home dir
- shell
- groups
- Groups
- Boot admin
Allows you to set:- Default boot partition
- Partition type and label
- Timeout
- Kernel image
- Kernel extra parameters (append)
- adding or deleting partitions from the boot manager
Credits
Maintainer
Carlos Garnacho Parro <[email protected]>
Developers
Arturo Espinosa <[email protected]>
Hans Petter Jansson <[email protected]>
Tambet Ingo <[email protected]>
Chema Celorio <[email protected]>
Bradford Hovinen <[email protected]>
Israel Escalante <[email protected]>
Jacob Berkman <[email protected]>
Carlos Garnacho Parro <[email protected]>
Carlos García Campos <[email protected]>
Christian Neumair <[email protected]>
Artists
Jakub Steiner <[email protected]>
Anna Dirks <[email protected]>
Tuomas Kuosmanen <[email protected]>
Joakim Ziegler <[email protected]>
GGV 2.4.0.2
“Bring It On”
this release brings you a fix for the “zoom to fit [width]”
feature that used to miscalculate the appropriate zoom factor.
apart from that the russian translation team and Augusta Marques
da Silva have updated their respectful translations.
the sources are available at the usual place,
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ggv/2.4/
regards,
jaKa
email: [email protected]
w3: http://fish.homeunix.org/people/jaka
Epiphany 1.0.2
Hi,
What is it?
Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla rendering
engine. It aims to be simple and easy to use.
What’s changed?
Epiphany 1.0.2
Bugfixes
- Don’t show session resume dialogue in server mode
(Christian) - Fix http accept language header when running in C locale
(Christian)
Translations
- hu (Tímár András)
- sr, sr@Latn (Danilo Å egan)
Where can I get it?
Source code:
http://downloads.mozdev.org/epiphany/epiphany-1.0.1.tar.gz
Epiphany 1.0 requires Mozilla 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.5a, 1.5b or
1.6a.
The suggested version is Mozilla 1.4.1:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.4.1/src/mozilla-source-1.4.1.tar.bz2
More about dependencies and installation tips:
http://epiphany.mozdev.org/downloads.html
Regards,
Christian
gcalctool 4.3.16
Application
gcalctool
Description
gcalctool is the desktop calculator that’s in GNOME 2.4.
It has Basic, Financial and Scientific modes. Internally it uses
multiple precision arithmetic to produce results to a high degree
of accuracy.
This re-release is for the GNOME 2.4.1 call for tarballs.
Changes since the last version
(4.3.15).
Three important things since the 4.3.15 release on Friday:
- Fixed bug 124377 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124377)
- Fixed rounding errors when the radix character for a locale
isn’t “.”. - Online help is now in-sync with the application (thanks to
Breda McColgan). - Various translation updates (thankyou!)
Download
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gcalctool/4.3/
[Although some of the ftp mirrors may take a little while to
sync].
—
Rich Burridge