Metacity is a simple window manager that integrates nicely with GNOME 2.
* What's changed ?
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Thanks to Arthur Taylor for improvements in this release. This release fixes a bug with missing pixels in themes with rounded corners.
Translators
Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl), Espen Stefansen (nb)
* Where can I get it ?
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Source code
http://download.gnome.org/sources/metacity/2.18/MD5SUMs
45cdadd7d6213aeca3d9f1acc1d1d70f metacity-2.18.2.tar.bz2
fa372a9382fee132490aac0477ba8598 metacity-2.18.2.tar.gz
I'm pleased to announce that Dasher 4.4.1 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.htmlDasher is a predictive text input system for the GNOME Desktop, suitable for any situation in which a conventional keyboard cannot be used.
This release is the first update to the new stable series. The release fixes some minor bugs and updates translations.
As always, thanks to all Dasher developers and contributors. Please file any bug reports in the GNOME Bugzilla, and send any comments and feedback to dasher@mrao.cam.ac.uk.
Yours,
Phil Cowans and the Dasher team,
8th April 2007
If you have no clue what GDM is, refer to the documentation links at the bottom of this announcement.
The 2.18.1 release is a stable release of the GNOME Display Manager (GDM) program with the following bug fixes and improvements:
- The GDM configuration option daemon/PidFile is now deprecated and GDM now always uses /var/run/gdm.pid. The location can be configured at compile time with the configure --with-pid-file option. This fixes bug #162849. (William Jon McCann)
- Now GDM supports Xephyr as the Nested Xserver command. GDM will use Xephyr by default if it is on the system, and fallback to Xnest. Xephyr works much better than Xnest. (Brian Cameron)
- GDM application desktop files now use the correct categories, so the menu choices should appear in the correct place in the menu. (Brian Cameron)
- Remove the userlist from the circles and happygnome themes since this was causing problems for some users. This change will go into 2.20 where we are fixing the problem better by fixing gdmsetup to support setting the configuration so that gdmlogin and gdmgreeter work the same way with the Browser key.
gnome-keyring is the part of the GNOME Desktop that saves your network and other passwords securely.
Changes between 0.8 and 0.8.1:
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* Fix crash when called with a NULL keyring [Halton Huo
Updated Translations:
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* Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl)
Downloads:
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Source code:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-keyring/0.8/gnome-keyring-0.8.1.tar.gz[MD5 sum: e4408d994c5e438d6135a2eea654a122]
Cheers,
Nate Nielsen
I am pleased to announce version 0.8.0 of the Python bindings for Goocanvas.
It is available at:
https://developer.berlios.de/projects/pygoocanvas/The bindings are updated with the new Goocanvas API
Linux.com posted an article on GNOME 2.18
Linux.com posted an article of GNOME Foundation's Dave Neary
CsBoard is a small GUI for playing chess with programs like gnuchess, crafty, play on Internet Chess Servers like freechess.org, viewing games in PGN format, save and organize games into collections to search them later.
It is written in C# and uses gtk-sharp and mono. CsBoard uses gnuchess as an engine, but you can also play with crafty or phalanx.
Chronojump 0.52 has been released:
ChronoJump is an application for jump, run, reaction time and pulse timetracking
Chronojump uses a contact platform suitable for two events (in-platform, out-platform), and also a chronometer printed circuit designed ad-hoc in order to obtain precise and trustworthy measurements.
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
gdl 0.7.3 has been released. This release is a bug-fix release.
What is gdl?
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GNOME Development Library. A library to contain source code development widgets and tools. Currently it has complex-docking widgets, data view widgets, theme based mime icons widget and some other titbits.
What is new in this release?
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* Improved docking algorithm
Where to get it?
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http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdl/0.7/Screenshots?
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http://anjuta.org/screen-shotsEnjoy!
Regards,
-Naba
Giggle is a graphical frontend for the git directory tracker (think of gitk on GTK+).
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
Just two weeks since we made our RC 1 release, here is the WengoPhone 2.1rc2 from the Openwengo project. The release is available for download from:
http://download.wengo.com/releases/WengoPhone-2.1/RC2/OpenWengo is a project aimed toward providing the best possible communication over IP program, both easy to use and conforming to industry standards.
A large number of issues were identified and fixed between the RC1 and RC2 releases, including several bugs which resulted in application crashes.
As always, feedback in greatly appreciated at
http://www.openwengo.orgCheers,
Dave.
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.
I'm pleased to annouce that version 0.66 of mergeant has been released.
Mergeant benefits from libgda and libgnomedb features and amis at being a simple yet powerfull DBMS administration utility. Changes from version 0.65 include:
- Adaptations to Libgda and Libgnomedb's API changes
- Better handling of transaction status when closing a workspace
- Translations:
- New 'sl' translation (Matic Zgur)
- ca (Josep Puigdemont i Casamaj=F3)
- dz (Pema Geyleg)
- en_GB (David Lodge)
- vi (Clytie Siddall)
I'm pleased to annouce that libgda/libgnomedb version 2.99.6, AKA 3.0 RC1 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 Gnumeric.
10.000 lines of code changed, and suddenly Swfdec plays Youtube. Here's the release that makes it possible:
swfdec-0.4.3 "Your tube"
http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/download/swfdec/0.4/swfdec-0.4.3.tar.gzMD5: 7a857dcc9228ac590327b04a90db2e64
This release focused on supporting video features and scripting features. It's been a lot of under-the-hood changes. While it's still nowhere near complete, some video sites - in particular Youtube - now show their videos. Of course, a lot of files still don't work.
swfdec-mozilla-0.4.3 "Now this puny world will bow down to me!"
http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/download/swfdec-mozilla/0.4/swfdec-mozilla-0.4.3.tar.gzMD5: b2a412a9cd603e6769a402bd0b68451b
The plugin has seen some important bugfixes. The properties dialog has also become a lot nicer and you can even watch large files downloading.
Swfdec still is development software, but has also followed a rigid no-crashes-allowed policy. I believe it's stable enough now to be installed as a default plugin for people that can live with occasional crashes of their browser. But don't blame me if it does crash. File a bug at
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=swfdecFor additional info, see the homepage at
http://swfdec.freedesktop.orgHappy video watching,
Benjamin
Celebrating shiny new GNOME 2.18, I am happy to release another libxklavier stable tarball of the desktop-agnostic keyboard utility library.
Changes from 3.1 are bugfixes only, big and small.
The tarball is available from SourceForge.net:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gswitchit/libxklavier-3.2.tar.gz?downloadThe CVS repository is on cvs.freedesktop.org (the one on sf.net is totally obsolete!), module xklavier, tag v_3_2
