Release Digest: GNOME, September 8, 2003

ooo-build-1.1.39

OpenOffice.org build:

This package contains the Gnome integration work for
OpenOffice.org, and a much simplified build wrapper, making an OO.o
build / install possible for the common man.[1]

Lots of changes in this release:

ooo-build-1.1.39

features
- switch to the RC3 tree (Michael)
bug fixes
- font munging fixes (Michael)
- wrapper cleans (Michael)
- improved patching fuzziness (Michael)
- more word count translations (Martin)
- crashdump build fixes (Michael)
- bin MS format default duplication (Michael)

ooo-build-1.1.38

bug fixes
- vicious bindings crasher (Michael)
- export ‘no color’ bg to .doc (Chris)
- source EOF massage (Chris)
- build fixes (Michael, Martin)
features
- elisp for OO.o source (Martin)
pending
- improved gtk+ integration
- layout prototype

Package available from:

http://ooo.ximian.com/packages/OOO_1_1_RC3/ooo-build-1.1.39.tar.gz

To find out more see http://ooo.ximian.com/ and/or
subscribe to the Gnome / OO.o development mailing list at:

http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/openoffice.

[1] – assuming the common man has 4Gb+ of spare space and lots
of

idle CPU time.
—
[email protected]
<><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot

PyGtkGLExt 0.99.2

Description

PyGtkGLExt is Python language binding for GtkGLExt, OpenGL
Extension to GTK. Python programmers can use it to write GTK-based
OpenGL applications using PyGTK.

http://gtkglext.sourceforge.net/

This is the 1.0 release candidate for PyGtkGLExt. If all goes
smoothly, 1.0.0 will appear in 1 week.

Enhancements

Requires PyGTK 2.0.0.
Added new gtk.gdkgl.ext/()
function to add OpenGL extension methods to a instance of gtk.gdk.Pixmap/ or gtk.gdk.Window/.
Some examples have been rewritten in OO-style.

Download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtkglext/

GNOME Software Map entry

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

GGV 2.4.0

here comes the latest and greatest postscript viewer to go with
your brand new shining Gnome 2.4 desktop.

this is release, features updated help files, courtesy of Irene
Ryan of the sun documentation team and many updated translations:
cy (Dafydd), no (Kjartan), sr (Danilo), zh_CN (Liu), pt (Duarte),
ja (takeshi), nl (Kees), es (Francisco Javier), zh_TW (Abel), sk
/Stanislav), ro (? Moldovan), bn (Sayamindu).

as usual, you’ll find it at

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ggv/2.4/

enjoy,

jaKa

—

email: [email protected]
w3: http://fish.homeunix.org/people/jaka

GnomeMeeting 0.98.4

Application

GnomeMeeting 0.98.4

Description

GnomeMeeting is an H.323 compatible videoconferencing and
VOIP/IP-Telephony application that allows you to make audio and
video calls to remote users with H.323 hardware or software (such
as Microsoft Netmeeting). It supports all modern videoconferencing
features, such as registering to an ILS directory, gatekeeper
support, making multi-user conference calls using an external MCU,
using modern Quicknet telephony cards, and making PC-To-Phone
calls.

Fixes and Enhancements

Better HIG compliance for the GUI,
Fixed possible crash at startup,
Fixed possible crash when registering to ILS,
Fixed possible loop when trying to refresh the list of users on
a broken ILS server,
Many translations updated.

Download

http://www.gnomemeeting.org

GNOME Software Map entry

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

Epiphany 1.0

Hi,

What is it?

Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla rendering
engine. It aims to be simple and easy to use.

What’s changed?

Epiphany 1.0

Bugfixes

fix crashes when dragging on bookmarks topics (Marco)
fix wrap around option in find dialog (Marco)

Translations

bn (Taneem Ahmed)
fi (Pauli Virtanen)
el (Nikos Charonitakis)
hi (Guntupalli Karunakar)
ja (Takayuki KUSANO)
ko (Young-Ho Cha)
mn (Sanlig Badral)
sk (Marcel Telka)

Where can I get it?

Source code:
http://downloads.mozdev.org/epiphany/epiphany-1.0.tar.gz

Epiphany 1.0 requires 1.4, 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.

Marco

GOK 0.8.0

Application

GOK

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gok/0.8/gok-0.8.0.tar.gz

Overview

This is the official GNOME 2.4 GOK release.

The GNOME On-screen Keyboard (GOK) is a dynamic on-screen
keyboard for UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems and is made
possible by the Gnome Accessibility Project (GAP). For more info
please visit the GOK project homepage at:
http://www.gok.ca

Changes in version 0.8.0

Fix for bugs #120914
Fix for conflict with gtk+ version 2.2.3.
new translations: sq (Laurent Dhima); mk, zh_TW (Abel
Cheung).
updated README to give detailed directions on configuring GOK
to use extended input devices (e.g. non-corepointer XInput
devices), and updates to Known Issues section.

Best wishes,

The entire GOK Team

General GNOME User Documentation 2.4.0

Application

General GNOME User Documentation 2.4.0

Description

This package contains general GNOME user documentation which is
not directly associated with any particular GNOME application or
package.

Enhancements

Updates to User Guide for 2.4 release – Eugene O’Connor

Download

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome2-user-docs/2.4/

—
John Fleck
[email protected]
(h)
http://www.inkstain.net
http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/latest/

“Become as one with the ball and the pin. Then return shoes to
the counter after use.”

Zippy the Pinhead

Gnome 2 version
support firstday variable of the pppcounter (v0.3.3)

Download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pppcost

GNOME Software Map entry

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

support firstday variable of the pppcounter (v0.3.3)

Fixes

compiling bugfixes

Download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pppcost

GNOME Software Map entry

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

Enhancement of malformed links detection.
Enhancement of the chroot mode management: 1/ only check the
given directory and its subdirectories, 2/ only check local links,
or both options.