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I'm happy to announce the 0.7.1 version of Gazpacho. This release is mainly a bug fixing release and it is the first release since we moved our svn repository to GNOME servers.

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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 added 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.

Version 0.2.5 sees an amazing run towards stability as user interest begins to pick up: more and more people are using Gimmie and filing bugs. In fact, this release brings with it upwards of *48* bugs fixed since 0.2.4!

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Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.18, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform Free Desktop environment.

We are pleased to announce the release of GARNOME 2.18.0. This release incorporates the GNOME 2.18.0 Desktop and Developer Platform, fine-tuned with love by the GARNOME Team.

It includes updates and fixes after the GNOME 2.18.0 freeze, together with a host of third-party GNOME packages, Bindings and the Mono(tm) Platform -- this release is the first of a new stable GNOME branch and ships with the latest and greatest releases.

As usual, you can get the tarball directly from the gnome.org site:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/garnome/2.18/

If you got 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/

A wealth of information about the new stable branch can be found in the GNOME 2.18 Release Notes:
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.18/

Enjoy,

The GARNOME Team

GNOME 3719 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.18, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment.

Released on schedule, to the day, it is the culmination of six months effort by GNOME contributors around the world: hackers, documentors, usability and accessibility specialists, translators, maintainers, sysadmins, companies, artists, users and testers. Due to their hard work, we have another great release to be proud of - thanks very much to every contributor!

You'll find information about GNOME 2.18 in our release notes, linked from the 2.18 start page.

About GNOME 2.18: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.18/

Meanwhile, GNOME developers around the world are looking forward to working on fresh new features for the next version of GNOME, due in September, 2007.

Enjoy!

- The GNOME Release Team

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Eye of GNOME (eog) is the image viewer for the GNOME desktop.

* What's changed in 2.18.0.1 ?
=============================

- Build when libexif is not installed in the system [#417684].
- Updated translations: Nikos Charonitakis (el).
- Updated manual translations: Maxim Dziumanenko (uk), A S
Alam (pa).

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

Source code:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/eog/2.18/eog-2.18.0.1.tar.gz
md5sums: 41648c6a137d0626da487c81b226d46c

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/eog/2.18/eog-2.18.0.1.tar.bz2
md5sums: 32f4cd4cd3108522eccf0b8fd85c8bbd

Enjoy!

Claudio

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gnome-games 2.18.0 has been released!

Mayor changes in gnome-games 2.18.0 include:
- Two new games: glChess and GNOME Sudoku.
- Ataxx has been removed.
- Nibbles, Iagno, Four-in-a-Row have network multiplayer.
- Nibbles has got AI worms.
- Tetravex with new coloured tiles.
- Tali has a new Kismet compatible mode.
- Many bugfixes and a lot of good translation work.

A new stable branch for the 2.18.x versions has been created in SVN.

Get gnome-games 2.18.0 at:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-games/2.18/

Web: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGames

GNOME 3719 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Vte-0.16.0 is available for download at:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/vte/0.16/

Vte is GNOME 2's virtual-terminal emulation widget.

This is the stable release targeted for GNOME 2.18.

Changes from vte-0.15.6:
- Fix some minor bugs. More regressions to be fixed later.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 414716 gnome-terminal-2.17.92: terminal window dies..
.
Bug 414586 Terminal screen blinks when menu is opened for
the first time
Bug 413068 new line added to tab when opened

Behdad Esfahbod
12 March 2007

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This is Gtk2-Perl, a set of Perl bindings for various GNOME libraries. It includes:

* Glib 1.144
* Gnome2 1.040
* Gnome2::Canvas 1.002
* Gnome2::GConf 1.040
* Gnome2::VFS 1.060
* Gtk2 1.144
* Gtk2::GladeXML 1.006

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Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader that provides access to the graphical desktop via user-customizable combinations of speech, braille, and/or magnification. Orca development has been led by the Sun Microsystems, Inc., Accessibility Program Office via continued engagement with its end users and contributions from wonderful community members. You can also read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca.

NOTE ON FIREFOX 3.0 SUPPORT: we know many of you are anxiously awaiting compelling access to the web via Orca and Firefox. As of v2.18.0, the support is still under development and both the Orca and Firefox teams are working feverishly to get it there for Firefox 3.0. We're getting there step by step.

GNOME 3719 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Changes since 2.17.92
---------------------
about-me:
- Really fixed #411697 (Jens Granseuer)
- Use proper shadow type for the address fields (Jens Granseuer) (#414061)

background:
- Plug leaks (Jens Granseuer) (#396069)

display:
- Fix double free (Sandino Flores-Moreno) (#413352)

fontilus:
- Fix linker flags (Loic Minier) (#413468)

mouse:
- Add 2 popular cursor sizes to the filter (Thomas Zajic)
- Sort "Pointers" list alphabetically (Thomas Zajic)
- Fix build with gcc2 (Jens Granseuer)

GNOME 3719 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

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 1.18.0?
=======================================

Release 1.18.0 for GNOME 2.18.0.

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

Source code:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gail/1.18/gail-1.18.0.tar.bz2
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gail/1.18/gail-1.18.0.tar.gz

Enjoy,
Li

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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.

GNOME 3719 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

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

Major changes between 0.6 and 0.8:
==================================

* Add method for library to discover daemon via DBus. Adds soft DBus dependency.
* Added GNOME_KEYRING_ITEM_APPLICATION_SECRET which allows an item to be for a single application only with strict access controls.
* New function gnome_keyring_item_get_info_full(_sync) which allow retrieval of item meta data without the secret, thus not incurring an ACL prompt.
* Sync files to disk after writing to keyring.
* Don't have multiple password dialogs presented for the same keyring
* Crasher and hanger fixes