Release Digest: GNOME, October 19, 2004

Seahorse 0.7.4

Seahorse is alive!

About Seahorse:

Seahorse is a GNOME application for managing PGP keys. It also
integrates with nautilus, gedit and other places for encryption,
decryption and other operations. Seahorse is based on GPG and
GPGME.

Changes between 0.7.3 and 0.7.4:

• Key manager now uses new file chooser dialogs
• For detached signatures, prompt when missing plain text
  files
• Import/Export to clipboard implemented as copy/paste
• Dragging keys into the key manager import
• All file operations work with gnome-vfs remote URIs (ie: smb,
  ftp, http etc…)
• Proper sort support for key listings
• Filter support on key manager and recipients windows
• Multiple file and folder support in nautilus
• Fixed MIME type integration with nautilus
• Rework the ‘Key Properties’ dialog
• Can now change primary user id, or delete user ids on a secret
  key
• Can sign individual user ids on a key
• Can now list signatures on a key
• Respects ‘Encrypt to Self’ option when encrypting files or
  text
• Gnome HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) compliancy updates and
  fixes
• gedit plugin for encrypting, decrypting, signing and verifying
  text
• ‘Seahorse Agent’ for caching passwords on system
• Updated to a new version of GPGME (1.0)
• Fixed startup crashers
• New Key generation assistant (wizard/druid)
• A multitude of smaller bug fixes

Translations:

• Metin Amiroff (az)
• Miloslav Trmac (cs)
• Manuel Borchers (de)
• Adam Weinberger (en_CA)
• David Lodge, Gareth Owen (en_GB)
• Francisco Javier F. Serrador, Pablo Gonzalo del Campo, Jose
  Carlos Garcia Sogo (es)
• I. Larragaga (eu)
• Ilkka Tuohela, Tommi Vainikainen (fi)
• Christophe Merlet (fr)
• Robert Sedak (hr)
• Andras Timar (hu)
• Alessio Frusciante (it)
• Takeshi Aihana (ja)
• Hasbullah Bin Pit (ms)
• Vincent van Adrighem (nl)
• Kjartan Maraas (no)
• Artur Flinta (pl)
• Duarte Loreto (pt)
• Raphael Higino, Gustavo Maciel Dias Vieira, Evandro Fernandes
  Giovanini (pt_BR)
• Valek Filippov (ru)
• Stanislav Visnovsky (sk)
• Danilo Segan (sr)
• Laurent Dhima (sq)
• Christian Rose (sv)
• Baris Cicek (tr)
• Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)
• Funda Wang (zh_CN)

Downloads:

Source code:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/seahorse/0.7/seahorse-0.7.4.tar.gz
[MD5 sum: 419b79e05cae6f96046e87b94f6cb525]

Seahorse 0.7.4 requires GPGME 1.0 or later:
http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/download/index.html#gpgme

Notes:

• The website and other online resources haven’t been updated to
  reflect the new release. This will occur shortly.
• Bug reports are appreciated should be filed in the GNOME
  Bugzilla.

Cheers,
Nate Nielsen

NetworkManager 0.3.1

NetworkManager 0.3.1 has been released.

WHAT’S NEW:

Everything!

This is the first public release of NetworkManager. It is still
early in the development stage but is usable. There are versions
for Debian, Fedora, Gentoo and Slackware. It should be easy to port
it to any desktop that runs HAL.

DESCRIPTION:

NetworkManager makes your Linux desktop’s network go
VROOM!!!

It serves as a network policy manager for the HAL-ized
freedesktop.org stack. It will automatically establish wired and
wireless connections, manage wireless keys, and provides developers
with a high-level DBus API for controlling networking.

The watchwords for NetworkManager are “Just Works(TM)”:

• Unplug from wired connections and stand in Amazement as it
  finds your favorite wireless network!
• Painlessly switch between wireless networks!
• Tremor Awestruck as you plug in a new wireless card and behold
  its miraculous appearance on your desktop!

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

More information about NetworkManager can be found at its
homepage:

http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager/

There is also a mailing list.

http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

GNOME-Fx 0.10.0

GNOME-Fx 0.10.0

GNOME-Fx is a theme for Mozilla Firefox which tries to make
Firefox look like a native GNOME application. GNOME-Fx is intented
to blend in well with the default GNOME theme. GNOME-Fx (blue) is a
slight variation which uses the blue instead of the green GTK
theme.

Changes

This is the initial release of GNOME-Fx. If you have any
improvements (better icons/ new icons etc) or comments please send
them to the gnomefx mailinglist. See http://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomefx

GNOME-Fx versioning follows the versioning scheme of Firefox. So
the first two numbers of the GNOME-Fx version indicate for which
version of Firefox the theme is.

Download / Install / Homepage

http://gnomefx.mozdev.org/

Screenshots

http://gnomefx.mozdev.org/screenshots.html

gNumExp 0.9

gNumExp is a gui frontend to NumExp, a math-oriented programming
language. It provides a graphic console with integrated help
system, and a powerful function plotter.

Overview of changes in gnumexp
0.9

• Integration with new MIME system
• Prettier highlighting of functions on mouse hover
• Some performance improvements in plot window
• Better startup time, due to component merge into a single
  process
• More robust VFS loading
• New load/save progress dialog with cancel button
• New Console setting “Simplification”
• Improved MathML rendering
• Bug fixes
• New bugs introduced

Requirements

• pygtk 2.4.0, gnome-python 2.6.0
• libnxplot 0.2 [1]
• pymathml 0.2 [2]
• XHTML + MathML 2.0 DTD [3]

Download

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/numexp/gnumexp-0.9.0.tar.gz?download

Bug reporting

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=333&atid=100333

[1]
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/numexp/libnxplot-0.2.tar.gz?download

[2]
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pymathml/pymathml-0.2.tar.gz?download

[3]
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/numexp/xhtml-mathml-svg-dtd-2.tar.bz2?download

—
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
<gjc@inescporto.pt>
<gustavo@users.sourceforge.net>
The universe is always one step beyond logic

glibmm 2.5.0

gtkmm and glibmm 2.5/2.6

glibmm 2.5 wraps new API in glib 2.5, and is API/ABI-compatibile
with glibmm 2.4. The new API is unstable, until this become the
API/ABI-stable glibmm 2.6 when glib 2.5 becomes the API-stable glib
2.6.

glibmm stays in-sync with GTK+ by following the official GNOME
release schedule: http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable/

Bindings for the rest of the GNOME Platform are also available,
and are also API-stable.

http://www.gtkmm.org

Changes

glibmm 2.5.0:

• Added OptionContext, OptionGroup, and OptionEntry classes, for
  parsing of command-line options. See examples/options/ This is a
  first version of this API. It needs some work. (Murray
  Cumming)

Download

http://www.gtkmm.org/download.shtml

You will need libsigc++ 2.0, available here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970

Development

There is active discussion on the mailing list: http://www.gtkmm.org/mailinglist.shtml

and in the #c++ channel on irc.gnome.org/

—
Murray Cumming
murray@usa.net
www.murrayc.com