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Release Digest: GNOME, October 15, 2003

MyNetMonitor 1.0

Application

MyNetMonitor 1.0

Description

Mynetmonitor is a gtk2 net monitor with system tray support

1 – Shows various status icons in gnome2, kde3, xfce4 system
tray

2 – Uses connect and disconnect commands, show net speeds and
times

Download

http://web.tiscalinet.it/diegobazzanella


Tenth release of PythonCAD

I’d like to announce the tenth development release of PythonCAD,
a CAD package for open-source software users. As the name implies,
PythonCAD is written entirely in Python. The goal of this project
is to create a fully scriptable drafting program that will match
and eventually exceed features found in commercial CAD software.
PythonCAD is released under the GNU Public License (GPL).

PythonCAD requires Python 2.2 or Python 2.3. The interface is
GTK 2.0 based, and uses the PyGTK module for interfacing to GTK.
The design of PythonCAD is built around the idea of separating the
interface from the back end as much as possible. By doing this, it
is hoped that both GNOME and KDE interfaces can be added to
PythonCAD through usage of the appropriate Python module. Addition
of other interfaces will depend on the availability of a Python
module for that particular interface and developer interest and
action.

The tenth release contains many fixes for running PythonCAD on
Python 2.3. The latest Python release has a variety of internal
changes, and various bits of code in PythonCAD triggered
deprecation warnings from Python. All known warnings have been
removed, so PythonCAD should run cleanly on this new Python
release, as well as the older 2.2 releases.

This release also includes the code for reading AutoCAD DWG
files, though PythonCAD still is unable to import the files. This
code will be the basis for importing DWG files into PythonCAD
directly. A number of entity clipping algorithms have been added
for use in redrawing the screen and future use in improving the
internal entity storage and access. Radial dimensions entities now
can display the diameter value of a circle instead of just the
radius. This release also contains a number of other small bug
fixes and code improvements, though the redraw bug in release eight
is still not fixed.

The DWG file format information came from the OpenDWG group, so
my thanks to them for providing this information on the web. The
OpenDWG website is at http://www.opendwg.org

The mailing list for the development and use of PythonCAD is
available. Visit the following page for information about
subscribing and viewing the mailing list archive:

http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythoncad

Visit the PythonCAD web site for more information about what
PythonCAD does and aims to be:

http://www.pythoncad.org/

Come and join me in developing PythonCAD into a world class
drafting program!

Art Haas

Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against
absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is
the sport of every wind.

-Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822

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