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GTK+ 2.10.11

GNOME 3715 Published 2007-03-14 18:14 by Philipp Esselbach 0

GTK+ 2.10.11 is now available for download at:

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.10/
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk+/2.10/

gtk+-2.10.11.tar.bz2 md5sum: 3b32eab43bf5195d981867d25ba55d66
gtk+-2.20.11.tar.gz md5sum: 770aa9106b79cad9563566217d942b2b

This is a quick followup release to fix a problem with 2.10.10 and tabbed browsing in the Epiphany web browser.

Deskbar 2.18.0 released

GNOME 3715 Published 2007-03-14 18:13 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Yeah, it's late, but my monitor is literally blinking useless (shakes fist at Dell) and I'm on my lappy.

Download it from
http://download.gnome.org/sources/deskbar-applet/2.18/

Changes since 2.17.5 below.

Gnome Subtitles 0.2.1 - Bugfix Release

GNOME 3715 Published 2007-03-13 10:02 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Gnome Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop. It supports the most common text-based subtitle formats and allows for subtitle editing, conversion and synchronization.

* About: http://gnome-subtitles.sf.net/about

* Screenshots: http://gnome-subtitles.sf.net/screenshots

* Download: http://gnome-subtitles.sf.net/download

Eye of GNOME 2.18.0.1

GNOME 3715 Published 2007-03-13 09:59 by Philipp Esselbach 0

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

Evince 0.8.0 released

GNOME 3715 Published 2007-03-13 09:46 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Evince is a document viewer. It primarily displays pdf, though djvu, tiff, dvi, impress slides, postscript and even comics archives are also supported.

More information can be found at http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/

gnome-games 2.18.0 released & branched

GNOME 3715 Published 2007-03-13 09:45 by Philipp Esselbach 0

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

Pango-1.16.1 released

GNOME 3715 Published 2007-03-13 09:41 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Pango-1.16.1 is now available for download at:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/pango/1.16/

4aa720633e53701a652f27700a7946dd pango-1.16.1.tar.bz2
8002b54b956e1194a6145a765a267638 pango-1.16.1.tar.gz

This is a stable release and is source and binary compatible with 1.16.0.

vte-0.16.0 released

GNOME 3715 Published 2007-03-13 09:39 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

Gtk2-Perl 2.18.0

GNOME 3715 Published 2007-03-13 09:32 by Philipp Esselbach 0

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

Orca v2.18.0

GNOME 3715 Published 2007-03-13 09:32 by Philipp Esselbach 0

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.

control-center 2.18.0 released

GNOME 3715 Published 2007-03-13 09:31 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)

Dasher 4.4.0 released

GNOME 3715 Published 2007-03-13 09:21 by Philipp Esselbach 0

I'm pleased to announce that Dasher 4.4.0 is now available for download from:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/dasher/4.4/

Windows and unofficial Debian/Ubuntu binaries will shortly be available from:

http://www.dasher.org.uk/Download.html

Dasher is a predictive text input system for the GNOME Desktop, suitable for any situation in which a conventional keyboard cannot be used.

gail 1.18.0

GNOME 3715 Published 2007-03-13 09:20 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.

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* 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

at-spi 1.18.0

GNOME 3715 Published 2007-03-13 09:20 by Philipp Esselbach 0

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.

atk 1.18.0

GNOME 3715 Published 2007-03-13 09:19 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The interface definitions of accessibility infrastructure.

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* What's changed for atk 1.18.0?
=======================================

Fixes #408527, #398038, #367627.

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

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

Enjoy,
Li

gnome-keyring 0.8

GNOME 3715 Published 2007-03-13 09:17 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

Tomboy 0.6.1 Released

GNOME 3715 Published 2007-03-12 18:23 by Philipp Esselbach 0

This will be released as part of GNOME 2.18.0. It includes translation updates (updates since 0.6.0).

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.

Tomboy's Website: http://www.gnome.org/projects/tomboy

Tomboy's Wiki: http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy
* Road Map: http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/RoadMap
* Brainstorming: http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/PlaceForNewIdeas

GNOME Utilities 2.18.0 - "Don't Get Lost In Heaven"

GNOME 3715 Published 2007-03-12 18:22 by Philipp Esselbach 0

good news, everyone! here's the shiny new release of the GNOME Utilities, the first of the 2.18 stable cycle. thanks to the hard work of the gnome-utils maintainers, developers, documenters and translators, this release is ready to rock your world. for those not following the development releases, here's what's changed since the last stable release:

GDM2 2.18.0 (stable), the "Configuration Upgradation" Release

GNOME 3715 Published 2007-03-12 14:01 by Philipp Esselbach 0

If you have no clue what GDM is, refer to the documentation links at the bottom of this announcement.

There has been a good deal of work improving GDM in the 2.17 cycle. Check the module NEWS for more details. Highlights include:

- gdmsetup has been enhanced to support many more configuration options, making it easier to configure GDM via the GUI. (Lukasz Zalewski)

- New GDM socket commands (FLEXI_XNEST_USER and FLEXI_XSERVER_USER) to make it easier for programs like xscreensaver and the Fast User applet integrate with GDM.

- Support for Console Kit (William Jon McCann)

- Improvements to PAM so it works more generically and has fewer hacks (Ludwig Nussel)

- GDM dialogs now work with accessibility.

- Support for Combo Style lists for session/language selection.

Eye of GNOME 2.18.0

GNOME 3715 Published 2007-03-12 06:29 by Philipp Esselbach 0

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

* What's changed in 2.18.0 ?
==========================

- Avoid ellipsizing image position in statusbar for with big numbers (Lucas Rocha) [#357427]
- Fix crasher when trying to print an already removed image (Claudio Saavedra) [#414547]
- Correctly handle external file removals (Claudio Saavedra) [#399982]
- Update image list position and length when image are externaly removed or added (Lucas Rocha, Claudio Saavedra) [#414968]
- Removed 'Application' category from desktop file (Claudio Saavedra).
- Updated manual translations: Daniel Nylander (sv), Amadeu A. Barbosa (pt_BR), Christophe Bliard (fr), David Lodge (en_GB)
- Updated translations: Ankit Patel (gu), Artur Flinta (pl), Erdal Ronahi (ku), Gintautas Miliauskas (lt), Reinout van Schouwen (nl), Goran Raki=E6 (sr, sr@Latn), Nickolay V. Shmyrev (ru)