Release Digest: GNOME, September 1, 2003

Bond 2.0.0-pre1

Bond is a rapid application development tool which can be used
to create GTK database pplications. By creating a xml file defining
widget and database abstraction you can generate powerful user
interface front ends to postgreql databases.

Enhancements

This is a complete re-write from the ground up.

Download

http://bond.treshna.com

GTetrinet 0.7.4

Application

GTetrinet 0.7.4

Description

GTetrinet is a Tetrinet client for GNOME2. 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.

News

After two months of silence, the EVIL GTetrinet Team strikes the
GNOME community with yet another EVIL release. The main purpose of
releasing 0.7.4 is to try to get all the hackers under the Tetrinet
spell again, in a desperate attempt to delay GNOME 2.4. Why?
Because GTetrinet wasn’t included in the Desktop release! We’ll
rejoice when we see the module maintainers playing tetrinet at 3AM
instead of releasing their already 3 or 4 days late final tarballs.
Ha ha ha.

The secondary purpose of this release is to fix a few new bugs
that have been detected. One is a silly crash when restoring the
default keybindings. Another one is a weird case where keyboard
wouldn’t work when games started. Ah, and the tons of translation
work, of course. Besides of the usual updates, we’re pleased to
have Polish, Malay and Welsh new translations.

Fixes

Fix configure.in so nobody needs intl/ dir. (Jordi)
Connect and Team dialogs now have “OK” as default action
(Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker).
Fix a crash when restoring the default keys (Dani).
Cursor fixes for the game fields (Dani).
Fix bug where keyboard would become unusable on game start
(Benjamin Drieu).
Disable channel list by default to avoid problems with weird
servers (Dani).
New and updated translations: Spanish (Francisco Javier F.
Serrador), Czech (Miloslav Trmac), Dutch (Kees van den Broek),
Polish (Artur Flinta), Serbian (Danilo Segan), Malay (Hasbullah Bin
Pit), Catalan (Jordi Mallach), Welsh (Dafydd Harries), Traditional
Chinese (Abel Cheung), German (Gerfried Fuchs).

Download

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtetrinet/0.7/

GNOME Software Map entry

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

Conglomerate 0.7.0

Application

Conglomerate 0.7.0

Description

Conglomerate is an XML editor for GNOME, aiming to be as
user-friendly as possible, to help non-technical people to use
DocBook and similar formats.

Enhancements

Danish translations (Michael Rasmussen)
Dutch translation (Mark Van den Borre)
Improvements to core architecture (me)
- Most important structs are now GObjects
- MVC framework now uses GObjects signals
- MVC framework allows updates to be amortized, allowed a big
  optimisation of the “View Source” feature.
Complete rewrite of the main editor control: (me)
- Fixes numerous bugs
- In theory, now supports all possible XML
- Should be more maintainable than old implementation
- Support for plugin rendering of tags; initial support for
  various types of list tag and for paragraphs.
- Various usability fixes; typing now works a lot more like a
  regular word-processor.
Better support for namespaces (me)
Complete rewrite of clipboard, fixing various bugs (me)
Online help, integrated with Scrollkeeper/Yelp (Jeff
Martin)
Reimplementation of tree views, with big optimisations to the
change-notification handling. (me)
Adjacent text nodes get merged where necessary. (me)
Stylesheets are now located using the XML catalog (Varga
Robert)
Improvements to automatic generation of display specs (Jeff
Martin)
Support for the Kernel Cousin newsletter format (me)
Various bug-fixes (me)
Anything else I’ve forgotten.

Thanks

Jeff Martin
Geert Stappers
Michael Rasmussen
Mark Van den Borre
Varga Robert plus anyone else I’ve missed!

Download

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82766

GNOME Software Map entry

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

Dave Malcolm

meld-0.8.5

Application

Meld meld-0.8.5

Description

Meld is a GNOME 2 visual diff and merge tool. It integrates
especially well with CVS. The diff viewer lets you edit files in
place and diffs update dynamically.

Enhancements

Fix warnings for python2.3
Add user definable dirdiff filters. (see manual)
CVS Context menu for common ops.
CVS Partial tree refreshing.
Better parsing of CVS/Entries
CVS updates status when files are edited.
Dirdiff now has case insensitive option.
CVS warns if the patch is empty.
Fix CVS modification times when UTC != localtime. Thanks to and
Martin Pool (report+patch) and Mike Grant (report)
Initial i18n support.
Dirdiff speedup by using filecmp instead of homegrown function.
Thanks to Benoit Dejean.

Fixes

All files appear to be modified under CVS if localtime!=UTC
time

Download

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/meld/meld-0.8.5.tgz?download

GNOME Software Map entry

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

totem 0.99.3

Hello,

Totem “Play Some Rock” 0.99.3 is out.

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 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

On-the-fly switching between visual effects plugins
Allow AC3 passthrough sound
Fix races when getting errors on startup
Fix vanity compilation
Better error messages
Implement recursive directory loading in the playlist
Update the playlist title when playing a CD with CDDB
Check that we could get tracks before trying to playback
optical media
Don’t tell nautilus we can’t thumbnail a file if it just takes
a long time
Don’t show the window in the current workspace when enqueuing
songs
Remember “Always On Top” setting, and video widget size across
sessions
Added Startup Notification for files opened from Nautilus
Use Konqueror when clicking on the “Add proprietary plugins”
button when KDE is running
Make the screenshot menu item unsensitive when no file is
playing
Save screenshots to the right place when “desktop directory is
selected”, and the home directory is the desktop
Make the CD selector work on FreeBSD
Hide the popups when changing workspaces
Fixup argument parsing
Fix a memleak in the recent files
Make lirc silent on startup
Detect libcurl version properly
Build fixes for XRandR

Download

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

—
Bastien Nocera <<A
HREF=”mailto:[email protected]”>[email protected]>

gThumb 2.1.6

Application

gThumb 2.1.6

Description

Image viewer and browser.

Download

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gthumb/2.1/

GNOME Software Map entry

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

gnome-network 1.99.1

GNOME Network is a set of client network-oriented tools, which
currently contains a network information tool, a remote shell and
desktop client.

Changes since 1.99.0

General:

Removed the backup tool, which is now in its own module
(Rodrigo Moya)
Fixed translations of .desktop files (Rodrigo Moya)
Updated RPM spec file for GNOME 2 (William Jon McCann)

Network information tool:

Improved support for wireless cards (Germán Poo)
Changed most tabs to use GtkTreeView (Germán Poo)
Added runtime detection of program installed (Germán
Poo)
Uses traceroute if tcptraceroute is not installed
(Germán Poo)
Fixed calculation of ping’s transmitted packets (Germán
Poo)
HIGification of all tools (William Jon McCann)
Added support for copying output to the clipboard
(Germán Poo)
Get link speed for Ethernet cards (Germán Poo)
Added autoupdate of packets transmitted/received (Germán
Poo)
Added transmission information in bytes (Germán
Poo)
Added lookup tool (William Jon McCann, Germán Poo)
Added Port scan tool (William Jon McCann, Germán
Poo)
Added Finger tool (William Jon McCann)
Use GnomeEntry to keep history for host names (William Jon
McCann)
Added new icon found by apg on jimmac’s website (William Jon
McCann)

Remote clients:

Use vncviewer if xvncviewer is not found (Rodrigo Moya)
Gladify interface for remote shell client and made dialog
usable with the

keyboard only (Theo van Klaveren)
Use default terminal (Theo van Klaveren)
Improved UI on remote desktop client (Rodrigo Moya)
Added new icons (Álvaro Peña)
HIGification of dialogs (Álvaro Peña)
Fixed typo in command strings (Carlos García)
Check the availability of the server before running SSH/Telnet
(Carlos García)

Translations:

Czech (Miroslav Trmac)
Dutch (Vincent van Adrighem)
French (Christophe Merlet)
Irish (Paul Duffy)
Macedonian (Stojmir)
Norwegian (Kjartan Maraas)
Polish (Artur Flinta)
Portuguese (Duarte Loreto)
Serbian (Danilo Å egan)
Spanish (Pablo del Campo)
Swedish (Christian Rose)
Traditional Chinese (Abel Cheung)
Walloon (Pablo Saratxaga)

Tarballs can be downloaded from
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-network/1.99/

Bugs can be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org

Suggestions, patches, comments, etc can be sent to [email protected]

Gnome-games 2.3.90

Another release that is mostly about getting the translations
out there. There is also a section in the README file outlining the
changes between 2.2 and 2.4. Find it at the usual place:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-games/2.3/

Callum

File Roller 2.3.6

Application

File Roller 2.3.6

Description

File Roller is an archive manager. It lets you open, modify
extract archive files sush as tar and zip.

Fixes

Use unrar if rar is not available.

Download

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/file-roller/2.3/

GNOME Software Map entry

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

Conglomerate 0.7.1

Application

Conglomerate 0.7.1

Description

Conglomerate is an XML editor for GNOME, aiming to be as
user-friendly as possible, to help non-technical people to use
DocBook and similar formats.

Enhancements

(i) German Translation (Christian Neumair) (ii) Completely
rewritten Text->DocBook importer; it now attempts to:

spot lines that have been wrapped manually in the source
document, and merges them back into lines.
figure out where the actual paragraphs are and put them in para
tags accordingly
spot headings (either due to block capitals, or underlining),
and create sect1 and title tags
spot bullet points, and creates itemizedlist and listitem tags
(very primitive at the moment).

It works quite well for our TODO document, and most other
documents I’ve been playing with.

Fixes

Fixed bug #115993 (Copy/Paste Not working at end of line)
(me)
Added some bulletproofing to the get next/prev word routines
(me)
Fixed various warnings and prototype problems (Pav Lucistnik,
me)

Download

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82766

GNOME Software Map entry

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

Yelp 2.3.90

Application

Yelp 2.3.90

Description

Help browser for GNOME 2.4 which supports DocBook documents,
info and man.

Changes

Updated README (Shaun McCance)
Removed C99-dependant code, fixes #120135 (Shaun McCance)
Gnomeified admonition graphics (Jakub Steiner)
Removed yelp-base from OAF server file, (Mikael Hallendal)
should fix #11974
Save window size, fixes #90451 (Shaun McCance)
Fixed CFLAGS, fixes #118984 (Steve Chaplin)
Don’t forkbomb when restoring session (Mikael Hallendal)
Fix layout problem introduced by a11y fixes (Shaun
McCance)
Fix bad XSLT syntax in getting admonitions (Shaun McCance)
Updated translations:
az (Metin Amiroff)
be (Ales Nyakhaychyk)
ca (Jordi Mallach)
cy (Dafydd Harries)
fi (Lauri Nurmi)
it (Allessio Frusciante)
ko (Changwoo Ryu)
mn (Sanlig Badral)
ne (Pewan Chitrakar)
no (Kjartan Marass)
sk (Stanislav Visnovsky)
sr, sr@Latn (Danilo Segan)
zh_TW (Abel Cheung)

Download

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/yelp/2.3/

GNOME Software Map entry

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

Epiphany 0.9.3

Hi,

What is it?

Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla rendering
engine.
The name meaning:
“An intuitive grasp of reality through something (as an event)
usually simple and striking”

You can find more info about the project goals at: http://epiphany.mozdev.org

What’s changed?

Epiphany 0.9.3

Translations

cy (Dafydd Harries)
es (Francisco Javier F. Serrador)
fr (Eric Seigne)
it (Alessio Frusciante)
ko (Changwoo Ryu)
nl (Vincent van Adrighem)
sq (Laurent Dhima)
ta (Dinesh Nadarajah)
zh_CN (Wang Jian)

Where can I get it?

Source code:
http://downloads.mozdev.org/epiphany/epiphany-0.9.3.tar.gz

Epiphany 0.9.3 requires 1.4 or 1.5a.
The suggested version is Mozilla 1.4:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.4/src/mozilla-source-1.4.tar.gz

More about dependencies and installation tips: http://epiphany.mozdev.org/downloads.html

Enjoy.

Christian

Release Digest: GNOME, September 1, 2003

Bond 2.0.0-pre1

GTetrinet 0.7.4

Conglomerate 0.7.0

meld-0.8.5

totem 0.99.3

gThumb 2.1.6

gnome-network 1.99.1

Gnome-games 2.3.90

File Roller 2.3.6

Conglomerate 0.7.1

Yelp 2.3.90

Epiphany 0.9.3

What is it?

What’s changed?

Where can I get it?

gURLChecker 0.6.0

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