Release Digest: GNOME, October 17, 2002

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 18, 2002

Emphetamine 0.99.6

Application
===========

Emphetamine 0.99.6

Description
===========

A download manager for GNOME using gnome-vfs. It supports
downloading via http, ftp, and smb. Other protocol modules
can easily be added.

Enhancements
============

- Uses new libelysiumui EFileSel api

Fixes
=====

- Fix the systray icon sizing
- Make the properties capplet execution work

Download
========

http://sourceforge.net/projects/elysium-project/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/emphetamine/
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gtetrinet 0.4.2

Application
===========

gtetrinet 0.4.2

Description
===========

GTetrinet is a Tetrinet client using Gtk+ and GNOME-libs.
Tetrinet is a variant of the popular Tetris brick game, that can be played
simultaneously by 6 players. GTetrinet's goal is to remain completely
compatible with the Windows, original client. Tetrinet clients need to
connect to a dedicated server in order to be useful. GTetrient only provides
the client part, but there are plenty of available servers around.
Look at http://www.tetrinet.org/ for a list of servers.

Notes
=====

This is the first release of GTetrinet in over two years, and hopefully
will be the last one for GNOME 1.4. The port to GNOME 2 will start
immediately in CVS.

Enhancements
============

- Pages can now be detached (configure with --enable-detach).
- TetriFast support.
- Game messages are not longer cleared when games end.
- Fix potential segfaults in ARM, PowerPC and S/390.
- Internationalization support, please submit translations!
- Catalan translation.
- Manpage added.
- GTetrinet now installs in $(prefix)/games, not $(prefix)/bin.
- Focus fixes in partyline.
- Blockbomb behaviour fix.
- Fix sound support.

Download
========

http://people.debian.org/~jordi/gtetrinet/

Jordi "temporarily doing gtetrinet releases" Mallach
-- 
Jordi Mallach Pérez  --  Debian developer     http://www.debian.org/
jordi@sindominio.net     jordi@debian.org     http://www.sindominio.net/
GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/~jordi/


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gtkmm 1.3.25
gtkmm 1.3.26

*** gtkmm2

gtkmm provides a C++ interface to GTK+. This development branch of gtkmm
wraps gtk+ 2.0.x.

We are now seriously pushing for a binary API frozen 2.0 release. There
are no known API issues apart from these, which will be punted to some
future version:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T2A121471

*** Changes

* Now requires libsigc++ 1.2.0
* Gtk::Entry::get_layout(): refcounting fixed. (Daniel Elstner)
* gcc 3.2 warnings fixes. (Daniel Elstner)
* Gtk::TextBuffer::iterator::operator bool() now works.
 (Daniel Elstner)

API changes:
* Gtk::TextBuffer:
  * create_mark() Added overload for anonymous marks.
  * iterator: Return values instead of references, for UTF8.
  * insert_interactive() and erase_interactive now return a pair, 
    with a bool to indicate success, like std::map::insert().
  * insert_range()renamed to insert().
  * insert_range_interactive() renamed to insert_interactive().
  * delete_text() renamed to erase()
  * delete_interactive_text() renamed to erase_interactive()
  * delete_selection() renamed to erase_selection().
  * insert_child_anchor() now returns an iterator.
  * signal_insert_text() renamed to signal_insert().
  * signal_delete_range() renamed to signal_erase().
  * assign(): New alias method for set_text().
  (Daniel Elstner)
* Gtk::TreeView:
  * Added scroll_to_row() and scroll_to_column()
  * Added unset_hadjustment(),unset_vadjustment(), and 
      unset_expander_column().
    Added set_cursor() overload taking a TreePath.
    * enable_drag_model_source() now takes a Gtk::TargetEntry instead
      of the C type.
  (Daniel Elstner)
* Glib::IOChannel StreamIOChannel: new wrappers.
  (Tassos Bassoukos, Martin Schulze, Daniel Elstner)
* Glib::IOSource: Added create() overload that takes IOChannel.
  (Martin Schulze).

* Documentation:
  * Book: Some Sections on common widgets updated and rearranged, 
    with screenshots. Example code is now linked instead of being
    inline.
  * examples:
      Several examples rewritten and moved into examples/book.
  (Murray Cumming)
  * demos: warnings in TextBuffer demo fixed. (Daniel Elstner)


*** Download

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1161

You will need the unstable release of libsigc++ 1.2, available here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970

If you wish to install this in parallel with gtk--1.2, you will first
need to update to the latest libsigc++ 1.0.x, available here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970


*** Development

This is an unstable release, currently under development. You can find
cvs instructions here:
http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gtkmm-root/base/README

The CHANGES file describes some of the more significant differences
compared to gtkmm 1.2:
http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gtkmm-root/base/CHANGES

There is also ongoing discussion on the mailing list:
http://gtkmm.sourceforge.net/mailinglist.html
and in the #c++ channel on irc.gnome.org/

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*** gtkmm2

gtkmm provides a C++ interface to GTK+. This development branch of gtkmm
wraps gtk+ 2.0.x.

We are now seriously pushing for a binary API frozen 2.0 release. There
are no known API issues apart from these, which will be punted to some
future version:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T2A121471

*** Changes

* GCC 2.95 build fixed. (Daniel Elstner)


*** Download

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1161

You will need the unstable release of libsigc++ 1.2, available here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970

If you wish to install this in parallel with gtkmm-1.2, you will first
need to update to the latest libsigc++ 1.0.x, available here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970


*** Development

This is an unstable release, currently under development. You can find
cvs instructions here:
http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gtkmm-root/base/README

The CHANGES file describes some of the more significant differences
compared to gtkmm 1.2:
http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gtkmm-root/base/CHANGES

There is also ongoing discussion on the mailing list:
http://gtkmm.sourceforge.net/mailinglist.html
and in the #c++ channel on irc.gnome.org/


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Gdk-pixbuf 0.21.0

Dear lovers of correct releases,

Version 0.21.0 "Deadly Fumes" of the Gdk-pixbuf library has been
released.  This fixes a little thinko that prevents linking the JPEG
loader.

* What is Gdk-pixbuf?

It is the library that the GNOME 1.4 platform uses for loading images.

* Availability:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdk-pixbuf/0.21/gdk-pixbuf-0.21.0.tar.gz

* Changes in this release:

- Fixed g_object_unref() -> gdk_pixbuf_unref() from the backport
(Federico).

Enjoy,

  Federico
Web Webster

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