Gnome-speech provides a simple general API for producing text-to-speech (TTS) output. It also provides drivers for several TTS engines, both commercial and open source.
The gnome-speech 0.4.9 release is designated for GNOME 2.17/18 but also works well with GNOME 2.16.x.
Many thanks to Gilles Casse and Leonardo Boshell for their contributions to this release.
If you have no clue what GDM is, refer to the documentation links at the bottom of this announcement.
The 2.17.7 release is an unstable release of GDM with the following
new features.
This is Gtk2-Perl 2.17.91, a set of Perl bindings for various GNOME libraries. It includes:
* Glib 1.143
* Gnome2 1.040
* Gnome2::Canvas 1.002
* Gnome2::GConf 1.040
* Gnome2::VFS 1.060
* Gtk2 1.142
* Gtk2::GladeXML 1.006
OnTV is a GNOME Applet written in Python using PyGTK, it uses XMLTV files to monitor current and upcoming TV programs.
USBSink is a GNOME program for automatic file synchronization over USB. It is designed for users of removable drives, such as flash drives or external hard disks. In USBSink you define a task associated to a particular USB drive, and then have a complete automation of data trasfers. With file monitoring and hardware detection features, USBSink is able to respond and act according to relevant events on the desktop.
new-stuff-manager is a program that runs in the background and downloads /installs plugins. It can be used by any application through its D-Bus interface. Currently, support for Deskbar-Applet is available.
And here is yet another release on the steady road to a great Free Flash player.
swfdec-0.4.2 "Two completely different numbers"
http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/download/swfdec/0.4/swfdec-0.4.2.tar.gzMD5: 851b8891299b68f84dc731441188b261
The major change in this release is switching from compiled to interpreted Actionscript bytecode. This gives better conformance for different Flash versions, more supported bytecodes and improved stability. Another big plus is the improved image rendering. Swfdec renders lots of Ad banners right now. You decide if this is a plus.
swfdec-mozilla-0.4.2 "Kill animals, or else they'll die!"
http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/download/swfdec-mozilla/0.4/swfdec-mozilla-0.4.2.tar.gzMD5: 55de4eb6d2b7820c56eac3520c8f1734
Yay, new features. The Mozilla plugin now makes use of Gtk and as such can display a right click menu for your Flash file. And a properties page has been added that allows you to save your Flash file for later watching. Now that's a feature that you don't get from every Flash plugin.
Of course, this is still a development release. But I'm actually confident in using it on my regular browser and letting it loose on all the weird files my browsing habits throw at it.
For additional info, see the homepage at
http://swfdec.freedesktop.org
I'm pleased to announce the release of Beagle 0.2.16. This is strictly a bug fix release.
THE SHORT OF IT
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To download the 0.2.16 release or learn more about Beagle, visit the Beagle web page:
http://beagle-project.org
This is to announce the Gimmie version 0.2.3 release. Gimmie is a unique desktop organizer designed to allow easy interaction with all the applications, contacts, documents and other resources you use every day. Gimmie can be run as a stand-alone application or as a GNOME Panel-applet.
To see some pictures of Gimmie in action, check out the Developer Resource Page located at:
http://beatnik.infogami.com/Gimmie.This is the third release since the Panel-applet version was introduced, and there has been great progress. 0.2.3 comes hot on the heals of the 0.2.2 release, with an important crash fix that some early testers uncovered.
This is to announce the Gimmie version 0.2.3 release. This is the third release since the Gnome panel applet version was introduced, and there has been great progress. This release comes hot on the heals of the 0.2.2 release, with an important crash fix that some early testers uncovered.
This new release includes the following features and bug fixes:
Version 0.2.3, February 6, 2007
* Fix crash opening People pane (bug #404909)
* Support different panel layouts (Markus Jonsson)
* Favorite items get a heart
* GTK 2.10 RecentManager support (James Bowes)
* Install Gimmie icons from Drew Kerr
* Remove devel package dependencies
* "All Favorites" support in Computer
* Fix bug with missing .gtk-bookmarks file
* Give applet transparent background (Christian Hammond)
* Support for running uninstalled build
I am pleased to announce the stable version 2.10.4 of the Python bindings for GTK.
The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org and its mirrors as soon as its synced correctly:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pygtk/2.10/Blurb:
GTK is a toolkit for developing graphical applications that run on systems such as Linux, Windows and MacOS X. It provides a comprehensive set of GUI widgets, can display Unicode bidi text. It links into the Gnome Accessibility Framework through the ATK library.
PyGTK provides a convenient wrapper for the GTK+ library for use in Python programs, and takes care of many of the boring details such as managing memory and type casting. When combined with PyORBit and gnome-python, it can be used to write full featured Gnome applications.
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)
