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GtkImageView is a simple image viewer widget for GTK. Similar to the image viewer panes in gThumb or Eye of Gnome. It makes writing image viewing and editing applications easy. Among its features are:

* Mouse and keyboard zooming.
* Scrolling and dragging.
* Adjustable interpolation.
* Fullscreen mode.

Download
--------
Check it out from Subversion::

svn co http://publicsvn.bjourne.webfactional.com/gtkimageview

Or download the latest release tarball::

http://trac.bjourne.webfactional.com/attachment/wiki/WikiStart/gtkimageview-1.0.0.tar.gz

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Here's to you another release for the stable cycle of GNOME Utilities package. this release was made to package a fix written by Jan Arne Petersen to the blocker bug #364106 of the System Log Viewer; so, if you were bitten by this nasty bug, download and install the 2.18.1 release right away. many thanks to Jan for his great work!

you can download gnome-utils from the usual place:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-utils/2.18/

ciao,
Emmanuele.

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

A new cairo release 1.4.4 is now available from:

http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.4.4.tar.gz

which can be verified with:

http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.4.4.tar.gz.sha1
71a7ce8352500944f7b2b73d4dc25ee947ec56ec cairo-1.4.4.tar.gz

http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.4.4.tar.gz.sha1.asc
(signed by Carl Worth)

Additionally, a git clone of the source tree:

git clone git://git.cairographics.org/git/cairo

will include a signed 1.4.4 tag which points to a commit named:
ebba4a6d1467a8e5db5cc43eb08e8fc98c39b30a

which can be verified with:
git verify-tag 1.4.4

and can be checked out with a command such as:
git checkout -b build 1.4.4

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

This is an update of Ekiga 2.0.

* What is it ?
=============

Ekiga is a free Voice over IP softphone allowing you to do free calls over the Internet.

Ekiga is the first Open Source application to support both H.323 and SIP, as well as audio and video. Ekiga was formerly known as GnomeMeeting.

More information can be found at http://www.ekiga.org

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Changes since 2.18.0
--------------------
sound:
- Initialize threads earlier (Christian Persch) (#416239)
- Fix option context translation (Christian Persch)
- Fix button label alignment (Christian Persch) (#416238)
- Ellipsize the device combo box (Matthias Clasen) (#425650)

theme switcher:
- Disable revert button when using theme engine defaults colors
(Frederic Crozat) (#417423)
- Don't crash if the color string is mangled (Jens Granseuer)
- Close small memory leak (Jens Granseuer)

shell:
- Build libslab statically to avoid conflicts with gnome-main-menu (Rodrigo Moya)

settings daemon:
- Fix multimedia window appearing in a different position when shown for the first time (Jens Granseuer) (#400915)

updated translations:
- ca (Josep Puigdemont i Casamaj)
- da (Peter Bach)
- dz (Pema Geyleg)
- es (Claudio Saavedra)
- gl (Ignacio Casal Quinteiro)
- it (Alessio Dess=EC)
- mk (Jovan Naumovski)
- nl (Vincent van Adrighem)
- pt_BR (Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle)
- uk (Maxim Dziumanenko)

Availability
------------
http://download.gnome.org/sources/control-center/2.18/

Contact
-------
* Bugs in http://bugzilla.gnome.org
* Mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomecc-list

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

The latest release of GNOME is here: GNOME 2.18.1! This is the first release in a series of point releases for the 2.18 branch.

Come and see all the bug fixing, all the new translations and all the updated documentation brought to you by the wonderful team of GNOME contributors! While development has started on the GNOME 2.19/2.20 road, work on the stable branch continues to make it even more solid.

The notes that describe the changes between 2.18.0 and 2.18.1 are here:

admin - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.18/2.18.1/NEWS
bindings - http://download.gnome.org//bindings/2.18/2.18.1/NEWS
desktop - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.18/2.18.1/NEWS
platform - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.18/2.18.1/NEWS

The GNOME 2.16.1 release is available here:

admin sources - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.18/2.18.1/
bindings sources - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.18/2.18.1/
desktop sources - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.18/2.18.1/
devtools sources - http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.18/2.18.1/
platform sources - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.18/2.18.1/

To compile GNOME 2.18.1, you can use GARNOME (http://www.gnome.org/projects/garnome/, which supports users), or the jhbuild (http://www.gnome.org/~jamesh/jhbuild.html) modulesets available at:

http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.18.1/

We hope you'll love it,
The GNOME Release Team

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

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.

What's new?
=========

* New and updated translations
- Baris Cicek

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

* What's changed in 2.18.1 ?
==========================

- Build fixes (Lucas Rocha) [#398250]
- Code cleanups (Felix Riemann)
- Fixed critical warning when launching EOG without input URIs (Claudio Saavedra) [#417196]
- Updated translations: Laurent Dhima (sq), Luca Ferretti (it), Claudio Saavedra (es), Josep Puigdemont i Casamaj=F3 (ca), Ignacio Casa Quinteiro (gl), Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio (eu), Pema Geyleg (dz)
- Updated manual translations: Claudio Saavedra (es), Daniel Nylander (sv), Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle (pt_BR)

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

This email is to announce Tomboy 0.6.3! This will be released as part of GNOME 2.18.1. It includes translation updates added since 0.6.1 and fixes the tarball released as 0.6.2 (which was missing some source files).

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

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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 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

gnubiff is a mail notification program that checks for mail and displays headers when new mail has arrived. gnubiff features include:
* Multiple mailbox support
* pop3, apop, imap4, mh, qmail and mailfile support
* SSL & certificates support
* GNOME support with complete integration to panel
* GTK stand-alone support
* Support for the system tray
* Support for running without GUI or X
* Automatic detection of mailbox format
* Mail header & content display
* IDLE state support for imap4
* FAM support for mh/qmail/mailfile
* PNG animation support
* Highly configurable
* HIG 2.0 compliance
* Small memory usage

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

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.

This release is for GNOME 2.18.1.

=======================================
* What's changed for gnome-speech 0.4.11?
=======================================

* Fix for bug 416586 to call espeak_Info for eSpeak version information (Gilles Casse)

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

Source code:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-speech/0.4/gnome-speech-0.4.11.tar.bz2
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-speech/0.4/gnome-speech-0.4.11.tar.gz

Enjoy.

Will

GNOME 3687 Published 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.

Download at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/at-spi/1.18