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This is a new release of gnome-games moving us toward a stable release. Much more work has gone in to the two new games in the gnome-games distribution. Here is a shortended list of changes:

* Gnometris: Always show "Pause" when starting a new game. #391638
* Gnome Sodoku: Fix syntax error introduced by change in #385937
* Gnome Sodoku: Fix crash when closing game with "X": #384684
* Gnome Sodoku: Disable generate options while puzzle generator
is running: #392947
* Gnome Sodoku: Fix three issues with the progress bar in the puzzle
generator: #392616
* Gnome Sodoku: Keep puzzle generator from generating more puzzles
than asked: #392165
* Gnotravex: Enabled colours be default. New colored background.
* Gnotravex: Open high scores dialog on correct page: #391216
* Gnotravex: Quit / New Game with the end-of-game dialog. #316361
* Aisleriot: Integrate Spider shuffle variations into one game.
#393709
* Mahjongg: Correctly decode in all locales: #386213
* GLChess: Implement gnome-doc-utils support #369550
* GLChess: Continue UI improvements.
* GLChess: Added hitch to gtkui.py to import PyGTK before GTK.
* GLChess: Bring up dialog about 3D mode if do not have libraries
installed #389371
* Revert update of ggz.h from the latest version to fix Solaris

#363444

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GnomePython 2.17.1 has been just released. This a development release for testing.

GnomePython provides python interfacing modules for most of the GNOME Developer Platform libraries (except those already wrapped somewhere else.) Currently the list of provided python modules includes:

- gnome, gnome.ui
- gnomecanvas
- gnomevfs
- gconf
- bonobo, bonobo.activation, bonobo.ui

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

This is a development release.

Seahorse is a GNOME application for managing encryption keys. It also integrates with nautilus, gedit and other places for encryption/decryption operations.

Current work on seahorse is going into making encryption easier for end users to use and (where needed) comprehend.

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gnome-keyring is the part of the GNOME Desktop that saves your network and other passwords securely.

This is a development release.

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

new-stuff-manager is a program that runs in the background and and downloads /installs plugins. It can be used by any application through its D-Bus interface.

Everything else you might want to know is available at
http://www.k-d-w.org/clipboard/NewStuffManager/

Changes:
* Re-written in C#
* The author element will now be stored directly in an serializable dictionary
* Changed directory structure. new-stuff-manager sources moved to src/
* Added: Create $(datadir)/new-stuff-manager/specs on install
* Removed cachedir variable, changed the way how directories are expanded and added configuration summary
* Supplying a a plugin id that isn't in the repository doesn't throw an exception anymore. Instead, it's just ignored
* Installation is aborted, if checksum or signature is invalid
* Added API documentation

Download it at
http://www.k-d-w.org/clipboard/NewStuffManager/new-stuff-manager-0.2.1.tar.gz

P.S.: To see new-stuff-manager in action download http://www.k-d-w.org/clipboard/deskbar/install-nsm.sh to patch Deskbar-Applet

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Hipo 0.1 has been released:

Hipo, is an application that allows you to manage the data of your iPod, Hipo is based on the cute ipod-sharp library and for tag editing it uses taglib-sharp. Hipo pretends to be an application almost complete for manage your iPod. For now it allows you to add, remove and edit your favorites tracks and playlists. If you wanna see the Roadmap of hipo please visit the Hipo Website.

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swfdec-0.4.0 has been released:

After starting a hacking spree and being rather silent about for the last 3 months, going on and on about it, I've finally made releases. So here they are.

swfdec-0.4.0 "festivally plump"
http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/download/swfdec/0.4/swfdec-0.4.0.tar.gz
MD5: 157d31c9dc02aa22b5f27323e5a203fc

Swfdec is a library for reading and playing back Shockwave Flash files. A focus compared to 0.3.6 has been on improving interactivity and adding better ActionScript support.

swfdec-mozilla-0.4.0 "They killed Kenny"
http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/download/swfdec-mozilla/0.4/swfdec-mozilla-0.4.0.tar.gz
MD5: d14c35a7f1eda647efd227f1857fad16

This includes a Netscape/Mozilla plugin for playing back Flash files in
browsers using Swfdec.
Unlike in previous versions, the plugin is shipped in a seperate package.

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Revelation 0.4.8 has been released:

Revelation is a password manager for the GNOME 2 desktop, released under the GNU GPL license. It stores all your accounts and passwords in a single, secure place, and gives you access to it through a user-friendly graphical interface.

This release adds support for translations, including 4 new translations. It is also a port to GTK 2.8 / GNOME 2.10, adds support for LUKS-encrypted files and SplashID data files, and fixes quite a few bugs including issues with icon loading, file saving, and more.

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We are now hosted by code.google.com. The project page is http://code.google.com/p/superswitcher/

What is SuperSwitcher?
A more feature-ful replacement of the Alt-Tab window switching behavior, including dynamic workspace management, and find-as-you-type window title search. For more information, see the project page.

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I'm pleased to annouce that the first beta version of mergeant (version 0.65) has been released.

Mergeant benefits from libgda and libgnomedb features and amis at being a simple yet powerfull DBMS administration utility. Changes from version 0.64 include:

- Tables contents are now displayed as a grid and as a form with a toggle option (Vivien)
- Various other GUI improvements (Vivien)
- Translations:
- New Arabic translation (Djihed Afifi)
- es (Francisco Javier F. Serrador)
- en_GB (David Lodge)
- nl (Wouter Bolsterlee)

Tarballs are available (or should soon be) at
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/mergeant/0.65

To install this new version, you'll need:
* libgda: glib, libxml2, libxslt
* libgnomedb and libgda >= 2.99.2

You can find more information at the projects' homepage (http://www.gnome-db.org), or you can ask any question/propose anything you
want in the GNOME-DB mailing list, which is available at http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-db-list.

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I'm pleased to annouce that the first beta version of libgda/libgnomedb (version 2.99.2) have been released.

libgda/libgnomedb are a complete framewok for developing database-oriented applications, and actually allow access to PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, SQLite, FireBird/Interbase, IBM DB2, mSQL and MS SQL server, as well as MS Access and xBase files and ODBC data sources.

libgda/libgnomedb are part of the GNOME Office application suite, providing database access for many features in both Gnumeric and Abiword.

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GARNOME 2.17.4 has been released:

The "Duck and Cover" release.

A bunch of updates have been trickling in within the last two days, latest ones are just an hour old...

We are pleased to announce the release of GARNOME 2.17.4 Desktop and Developer Platform. This release includes all of GNOME 2.17.4 plus a whole bunch of updates that were released after the GNOME freeze date.

This is the fourth release in the unstable cycle, with more features, more fixes and yet more madness added. It is for anyone who wants to get his hands dirty on the development branch, or who'd like to get a peek at future features. If you want to help spot issues in GARNOME, (or, better yet, fix 'em ;-) this release is for you as well.

As usual, you can get the tarball directly from the gnome.org site:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/garnome/2.17/

Note: GNOME 2.17.x is an unstable branch and is assumed to be a moving target. Therefore, things in this release may not work as advertised.

If you find any issues with this release, feel free to contact the GARNOMEies in the #garnome channel on GIMPNet (irc://irc.gnome.org), where we hang out, or post to the mailing list.

More information is available at our project website:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/garnome/

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Pango-1.15.2 is now available for download at:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/pango/1.15/
or
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/pango/1.15

3a57ff08498a210892fe665bf4812011 pango-1.15.2.tar.bz2
063c3ea8eb8931290546a197bd444e2a pango-1.15.2.tar.gz

This is a development release leading up to Pango-1.16.0, which will be released just in time for GNOME-2.18. The major change in this release is addition of lots of new, useful, public API. For details, scroll down.

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I'm pleased to announce the thirty-fifth development release of PythonCAD, a CAD package for open-source software users. As the name implies, PythonCAD is written entirely in Python. The goal of this project is to create a fully scriptable drafting program that will match and eventually exceed features found in commercial CAD software. PythonCAD is released under the GNU Public License (GPL).

PythonCAD requires Python 2.2 or newer. The interface is GTK 2.0 based, and uses the PyGTK module for interfacing to GTK. The design of PythonCAD is built around the idea of separating the interface from the back end as much as possible. By doing this, it is hoped that both GNOME and KDE interfaces can be added to PythonCAD through usage of the appropriate Python module. Addition of other PythonCAD interfaces will depend on the availability of a Python module for that particular interface and developer interest and action.

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This is a development release.

Seahorse is a GNOME application for managing encryption keys. It also integrates with nautilus, gedit and other places for encryption/decryption operations.

Current work on seahorse is going into making encryption easier for end users to use and (where needed) comprehend.

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GAIL provides accessibility support for gtk+ and libgnomecanvas by implementing AtkObjects for widgets in gtk+ and libgnomecanvas. The GAIL library is a GTK+ module.

=======================================
* What's changed for gail 1.9.4?
=======================================

* Bugfixes: #350215, #336644, #315065, #359843, #368602, #369267, #353542, #132323, #368625.

Great thanks for the new translations:

* Djihed Afifi (ar)
* Matic Zgur (pl)
* Laurent Dhima (sq)

====================
* Where can I get it?
====================

Source code:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gail/1.9/gail-1.9.4.tar.bz2
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gail/1.9/gail-1.9.4.tar.gz

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at-spi (assistive technology service provider interface) is the primary assistive technology infrastructure for the Solaris and Linux operating environments. Applications and toolkits supporting the AT-SPI include the GNOME GTK+ toolkit, the Java platform's Swing toolkit, OpenOffice, and Mozilla.

Download at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/at-spi/1.7

=======================================
* What's changed for at-spi 1.7.14?
=======================================

* We now get te value of display using the env var DISPLAY rather than using the gdk_display_get_default to avoid dependancy of gdk. Also, once the registry is started, we set the ior of the registry as an X property.

* Bugfixes: #361386, #369377, #382271, #372172, #163132, #377079,
#352444

====================
* Where can I get it?
====================

Source code:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/at-spi/1.7/at-spi-1.7.14.tar.bz2
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/at-spi/1.7/at-spi-1.7.14.tar.gz