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Release Digest: GNOME, September 12, 2003

Wallpaper Tray 0.3.3

Application

Wallpaper Tray 0.3.3

Description

Wallpaper Tray is a wallpaper utility that sits in your GNOME
Panel Notification Area. It gives you a random wallpaper from a
list of directories (at login, on a timed basis or on demand), and
allows you to select a new wallpaper at random from its menu. It
also includes a search tool to manage your wallpaper
collection.

Enhancements

  • Improved configuration dialog
  • New wallpaper search tool
  • Stock icons on menu’s

Fixes

  • General code clean up’s and fixed –

Download

http://earthworm.no-ip.com/wp_tray/

GNOME Software Map entry

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


GnuCash 1.8.6

Application

GnuCash 1.8.6

Description

Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash
allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. It
is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced
books and accurate reports.

Fixes

  • Updated Spanish, Greek, French, Czech, Slovak,
    translations
  • Fixed extremely stupid bug in the import value setting
    workaround.
  • Fixed problem with SX formula_cell calls
  • Merge missing part of 2003-05-28 commit. The log format changes
    didn’t get commited for some reason, making the log replayer
    completely unusable.
  • Fixed crash during dialog startup on Solaris.
  • Turn off scheme garbage collection during query->scm and
    scm->query conversion. It shaves about 50% off the
    test-scm-query-string tests.
  • Make test-scm-query-string test deterministic by seeding the
    RNG with a known value.
  • Add a “slots” parameter to allow for future expansion. Right
    now this is completely ignored.

Download

http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/

GNOME Software Map entry

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


SLgtk v0.3.7

Announcement

Versions 0.3.7 of SLgtk and 0.9.5 of SLIRP are now available
at

http://space.mit.edu/~mnoble/slgtk

The highlghts of this release are the several extensions made to
the vwhere guilet, which now supports the incremental application
of region filters applied to existing plots when new plots are
generated from the current dataset, as well as improved
configurability via an enhanced preferences dialog. Details on
these and other enhancements are given in the CHANGELOG excerpt
below.

Description

The SLgtk package binds the Gtk2 and GtkExtra widget sets to the
S-Lang scripting language (www.s-lang.org). SLgtk wraps over 2000
functions from Gtk2 and its constituent libraries, includes over
4000 lines of sample code in 40+ working guilets, provides a code
generator (SLIRP) which can be useful for building additional
S-Lang modules. Both SLgtk and SLIRP are reasonably documented for
their age.

SLgtk also includes a visual version of the powerful S-Lang
“where” command, extensions to and performance enhancements for
GtkExtra, and a pixbuf loader for the FITS image file format widely
used within astronomy.

Regards,

-Michael S. Noble

Changes in v0.3.7 (9/11/2003):

  1. Use -n slsh option for builds, to avoid side effects from
    $HOME/.slshrc.
  2. SLIRP 0.9.5 changes:
    • Ensure that the bizarre obfuscation performed by f2c of
      suffixing two underscores to FORTRAN routine names containing one
      or more underscores is excised by SLIRP from the S-Lang scoped func
      name.
    • Prepend $PWD to S-Lang load path at startup, to ensure that
      even a vanilla slsh has a chance of finding a local $PWD/slirprc
      file.
  3. vwhere 1.0.3 changes:
    • Incremental filtering, which dramatically increases the utility
      of vwhere for visual data inspection. By default region filters
      from currently visualized plots will be used to mark
      included/excluded points on newly created plots (suggested by Dave
      Huenemoerder, [email protected]).
    • Expanded preferences dialog, to provide support for . combining
      filter indices from multiple plots via either intersection or union
      (see docs/help for more). . setting foreground/background colors
      for included/excluded points
    • be more memory conservative when combining vwhere() region
      filters
  4. Created packages/Makefile for installing .sl files, r/t using
    src/Makefile.
  5. Added a bit of compulsiveness to the top-level Makefile, to
    maximize consistency from release to release (vis-a-vis build
    summaries, etc)
  6. Added palette to color selector example.
  7. Added gtk_color_selection_[set|get]_color functions to ignore
    list, as per the Gtk 2.x docs they have been deprecated.
  8. Added gdk_colorselection_getcurrent_color() to ignore list, in favor
    of manual coding which rtns GdkColor struct on stack [like
    gdk_color_parse()]
  9. Added powerful color selection via _color_button_new() function
    (see docs).

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