The Inkscape community today announces the newest version of its vector graphic drawing software. Inkscape 0.45 features a new Gaussian Blur SVG filter. Sponsored by Google's Summer of Code program, Gaussian Blur allows you to softly and naturally blur any Inkscape objects, including shapes, text, and images. This enables a wide range of photorealistic effects: arbitrarily shaped shades and lights, depth of field, drop shadows, glows, etc. Also, blurred objects can be used as masks for other objects to achieve the "feathered mask" effect.
Numerous other new features, enhancements to existing features, and bug fixes have been included. A history dialog allows you to browse your change history. Many new extension effects are added including Pattern along Path and Color Effects. There have been performance improvements to rendering speed, on the order of 2-3% in general, and up to 5-10% for drawings using heavy transparency and/or radial gradients. Compositing quality is also improved through the removal of banding seen in gradients.
Tomboy 0.5.6 has been released:
This mail is to announce the new Tomboy version 0.5.6 development release. If you're running a previous 0.5.4 or older, you'll want to update to this release before you hit the bulleted list serialization problem (fixed in 0.5.5).
Tomboy is a simple note-taking application designed to be unobtrusive and friendly, while supporting inter-note links similar to a WikiWikiWeb to help you organize your notes and ideas. It can run either as a Gnome panel applet or a notification tray-icon.
See the website at
http://www.gnome.org/projects/tomboy for downloads, screenshots, and more information.
The Linux Screen Reader (LSR) project is an open source effort to develop an extensible assistive technology for the GNOME desktop environment. The goal of the project is to create a reusable development platform for building alternative and supplemental user interfaces in support of people with diverse disabilities.
Devhelp 0.13 has been released!
Devhelp is a developer tool for browsing and searching API documentation for GTK+ and GNOME.
The "I, Robot" release.
We are pleased to announce the release of GARNOME 2.16.3. This release incorporates the GNOME 2.16.3 Desktop and Developer Platform, fine-tuned and updated with love by the GARNOME Team.
To find out what Genius is, skip a few paragraphs down, or go to
http://www.jirka.org/genius.htmlWell, here is one of the now sort of twice yearly release cycles of genius. Basically whenever I need to do something and genius doesn't do it, I have to implement it. Apart from some UI improvements (for example "show full answer" menu item which is absolutely needed if you get large matrices as results), the biggest new thing I suppose is the fact that I've implemented the cubic and quartic formulas correctly. As a result we can of course now compute eigenvalues for matrices up to 4x4, yay!
Kiwi is a PyGTK framework for building graphical applications loosely based on MVC Model-View-Controller (MVC) and Allen Holub's Visual proxy [1]. Think of Kiwi as a high-level, object-oriented layer built on PyGTK. Its design is based on real-world experience using PyGTK to develop large desktop applications, which use many concepts common to most graphical applications: multiple windows and dialogs, forms, data persistence, lists and high-level classes that support domain objects directly.
GNOME 2.16.3 has been released:
The latest stable release of GNOME is here: GNOME 2.16.3! This is the final release in a series of point releases for the 2.16 branch.
Come and see all the bug fixing, all the new translations and all the updated documentations brought to you by the wonderful team of GNOME contributors! While development continues on the GNOME 2.17/2.18 road, we didn't forget about making a new release that is rock solid. And simply better than the previous one.
If you meet any GNOME contributors while shopping, in a bus, or even on the Internet, don't forget to thank them!
Changes since 2.16.2
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fontilus:
- Fixed memory corruption problem (Luca Cavalli) (#356435)
theme-switcher:
- Fixed leak (Thomas Wood) (#378680)
sound:
- Mark sound system names for translation (Gabor Kelemen) (#393472)
- Do propert dbus/libhal error handling (Jan Arne Petersen) (#363005)
- Set play button to insensitive when no sound is selected (Sylvain Defresn
e) (#353828)
GNOME Power Manager is a session daemon that makes it easy to manage the power on your laptop or desktop system.
This stable release contains fixes since 2.16.2 was released. Distributions should consider upgrading gnome-power-manager via errata packages if possible.
Vte-0.14.2 is available for download at:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/vte/0.14/Vte is GNOME 2's virtual-terminal emulation widget.
Pango-1.14.10 is now available for download at:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/pango/1.14/or
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/pango/1.14e9fc2f8168e74e2fa0aa8238ee0e9c06 pango-1.14.10.tar.bz2
2dbdd32c18dcea2fbccf3980c43f945d pango-1.14.10.tar.gz
This is a follow-up stable release to fix various Indic shaper bugs and to add a new Thai language engine using libthai, and is source and binary compatible with 1.14.x.
Tomboy 0.5.5 has been released:
This mail is to announce the new Tomboy version 0.5.5 development release. If you're running a previous 0.5.x release, you'll want to update to this release before you hit the bulleted list serialization problem (fixed in 0.5.5, see below
for details).
Tomboy is a simple note-taking application designed to be unobtrusive and friendly, while supporting inter-note links similar to a WikiWikiWeb to help you organize your notes and ideas. It can run either as a Gnome panel applet or a notification tray-icon.
metacity 2.16.5 has been released:
Metacity is a simple window manager that integrates nicely with GNOME 2.
* What's changed ?
=================
Thanks to Dan Mick for improvements in this release.
- fix problem with strict focus mode (Dan) [#361054]
Translators
Khaled Hosny (ar), Ihar Hrachyshka (be), Ivar Smolin (et), Christophe Merlet (RedFox) (fr), Yuval Tanny (he), Marek Stepien (pl), Mugurel Tudor (ro)
Kiwi is a PyGTK framework for building graphical applications loosely based on MVC Model-View-Controller (MVC) and Allen Holub's Visual proxy. Think of Kiwi as a high-level, object-oriented layer built on PyGTK.
Its design is based on real-world experience using PyGTK to develop large desktop applications, which use many concepts common to most graphical applications: multiple windows and dialogs, forms, data persistence, lists and high-level classes that support domain objects directly.
This is zenity - a rewrite of gdialog, the GNOME port of dialog which allows you to display dialog boxes from the commandline and shell scripts. If you understand, things are just as they are. If you don't understand, things are just as they are.
This is a stable maintenance release of the 2.16 branch of gnome-games.
Download:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-games/2.16/Overview of changes:
Tetravex:
- Open high scores dialog on correct page (Bug #391216).
Mahjongg:
- Fix broken layout in some locales because of floating numbers (Bug #386213).
- Enable menu item when game is won (Bug #380623).
Iagno:
- Cancel AI operations when undo selected (Bug #386165).
Gnibbles:
- Allow gnibbles to save preferences for sound and fakes (Bug 374981).
Translations updated:
- ar.po: Arabic translation
- hu.po Hungarian translation
- ko.po: Korean translation
Eye of GNOME (eog) is the image viewer for the GNOME desktop.
* What's changed in 2.16.3 ?
=========================
- Several code cleanups (Felix Riemann) [#390268, #354106, #365136]
- Updated translations: Wouter Bolsterlee (pl), Djihed Afifi (ar), Laurent Dhima (sq), Raphael Higino (pt_BR)
* Where can I get it ?
=====================
Source code:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/eog/2.16/eog-2.16.3.tar.gzmd5sums: e23215a93a527ae99a3a55df7e3cfe0f
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/eog/2.16/eog-2.16.3.tar.bz2md5sums: 82468185d766b9676d7f06c124939f9d
Enjoy!
--lucasr
gnome-mag 0.13.2 has been released:
gnome-mag provides a command-line interface for standalone use, although its primary goal is to provide a set of magnification services for use by other client applications and assistive technologies.
GDM2 2.16.5 (stable) has been released:
(If you have no clue what GDM is, skip a few paragraphs down first)
The 2.16.5 release is a stable release of GDM with the following new features.
- Fix so we only hide userlist if there is one.
- Translation updates (Subhransu Behera, Gabor Kelemen, Ani Peter, Amitakhya Phukan, Danilo \305\240egan, Tyronne Wickramaratne, Matic Zgur)
