GNOME 3715 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

This is to announce the release of Accerciser 0.1.5. Accerciser is an interactive Python accessibility explorer for the GNOME desktop. It uses AT-SPI to inspect and control widgets, allowing you to check if an application is providing correct information to assistive technologies and automated test frameworks. Accerciser has a simple plug-in framework which you can use to create custom views of accessibility information.

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GARNOME 2.18.3 has been released:

The "Yes, we did" release.

Ooops. So I missed to send out the announcement immediately, and it somehow slipped my mind the next days. Sorry 'bout that. Yes, we did release it on Wed as scheduled. As always. So go grab it now, because...

We are pleased to announce the release of GARNOME 2.18.3. This release incorporates the GNOME 2.18.3 Desktop and Developer Platform, fine-tuned and updated with love by the GARNOME Team.

This is the forth (and last) release of the current stable GNOME branch, ironing out yet-more bugs, hopefully adding yet-more stability, and ships with the latest and greatest stable releases. As usual it includes updates and fixes after the official GNOME freeze, together with a host of third-party GNOME packages, Bindings and the Mono(tm) Platform.

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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.

GNOME 3715 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Previous release has problems with poppler-0.5.4, so here is a new one.

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

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/

* Where to get it ?
===================

Evince is available at:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/evince/0.8/evince-0.8.3.tar.gz
md5sum: bbf77e34286d54b8f6bd39472ad8e16f
size: 2.1M

http://download.gnome.org/sources/evince/0.8/evince-0.8.3.tar.bz2
md5sum: 0603d3f3f5648c88f10f75c89807c3d1
size: 1.4M

GNOME 3715 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

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

The 2.18.3 release is a stable release of the GNOME Display Manager (GDM) program with the following bug fixes and improvements:

- Fix crashing issue with XDMCP logic. Fixes bug #436725. (Brian Cameron)

- Translation updates (Priit Laes)

Note: GDM2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen <mkp mkp net>. Much work has been done on GDM2 by George Lebl; and Brian Cameron now currently shares maintainership duties with the Queen of England.

Note2: If installing from the tarball do note that make install overwrites most of the setup files, all except gdm.conf. It will however save backups with the .orig extension first.

#ifndef GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
Note3: Note3 has been depracated ...
#endif /* GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED */

Downloading:
===========

Online Documentation - http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/
Latest Stable - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.18/
Latest Unstable - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.19/

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*** gtkmm 2.12:

gtkmm 2.11 wraps new API in GTK+ 2.11, and will become stable gtkmm 2.12 when GTK+ becomes GTK+ 2.12. It will be API/ABI-compatibile with gtkmm 2.10. 2.8, 2.6 and 2.4. It is a version of the gtkmm-2.4 API.

gtkmm stays in-sync with GTK+ by following the official GNOME release schedule: http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable/

Bindings for the rest of the GNOME Platform are also available, and are also API-stable.

http://www.gtkmm.org


*** Changes

glibmm 2.13.7:

* Regex: Added a create() method and added default parameter values. Added a simple example.
* Added SignalTimeout::connect_seconds(), in addition to the existing SignalTimeout::connect(), as a wrapper of g_timeout_add_seconds(). Improved the documentation.
* Added get_user_special_dir(). (Murray Cumming)

gtkmm 2.11.4:

Gtk:
* Added Builder, which will eventually replace use of libglade. (Murray Cumming)
* Added Tooltip, which replaces the deprecated Tooltips class. (Marko Anastasov)
* RecentAction: Added constructor and create() method and an example. (Murray Cumming)
* Documentation: Added lots of class overview documentation. (Johannes Schmid)


*** Download

http://www.gtkmm.org/download.shtml

You will need libsigc++ 2.0, available here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970


*** Development

There is active discussion on the mailing list:
http://www.gtkmm.org/mailinglist.shtml
and in the #c++ channel on irc.gnome.org

GNOME 3715 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

gnome-voice-control 0.2 has been released:

Description:
======

* Gnome-Voice-Control is a speech recognizer to control the GNOME Desktop.

* The Gnome-Voice-Control was created to control the GNOME Desktop by voice, interacting with windows, menus, open softwares, among others.

Where can I find more information?
===================

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeVoiceControl

Screencast:
======

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeVoiceControl/Releases

New Features:
========

*Added window menu control by voice
*Added action open gedit by voice

Bugs Fixed:
======

*Stop on Calibrating

Translations:
=======

Nickolay V. Shmyrev (ru)
Daniel Nylander (sv)

Download:
=====

http://live.gnome.org/Downloads

29 June 2007
Gnome-Voice-Control Team

GNOME 3715 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

A new cairo release 1.4.10 is now available from:

http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz

which can be verified with:

http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz.sha1
8371097e30650ec817b24694367110139627403e cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz

http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.4.10.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 1.4.10 tag which points to a commit named:
107a74885a25e585b467c7841c6929a12aa62565

which can be verified with:
git verify-tag 1.4.10

and can be checked out with a command such as:
git checkout -b build 1.4.10

This is the fifth update in cairo's stable 1.4 series. It comes roughly three weeks after the 1.4.8 release. The most significant change in this release is a fix to avoid an X error in certain cases, (that were causing OpenOffice.org to crash in Fedora). There is also a semantic change to include child window contents when using an xlib surface as a source, an optimization when drawing many rectangles, and several minor fixes.

-Carl

GNOME 3715 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

gThumb is an Image Viewer and Browser.

gThumb 2.10.5 is now available for download at:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gthumb/2.10/gthumb-2.10.5.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gthumb/2.10/gthumb-2.10.5.tar.bz2

Why?
===

This is a bug-fix-only release for the stable branch. A serious bug that prevented saving after image touch-ups (changing brightness, contrast,
etc) was corrected.


All bug fixes in 2.10.5
======================

Fixed bug #448644 - Image brightness-contrast doesn't trigger save-ability.

Fixed bug #450110 - Remove extra space that causes build error.


Branches
=======

2.10.x is the current stable branch of gThumb.

Earlier versions are obsolete. Active distros that still use 2.7.x (ahem, FC6) should upgrade immediately to 2.8.1, which is the stable termination of the unstable 2.7.x series. There are no UI changes between 2.7.9 and 2.8.1. No further bug fixes are going into 2.8.x.

Development is happening in trunk and the metadata-ideas branch. No releases have been made yet from the development code.

GNOME 3715 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

gedit 2.19.1 has been released

gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop.

This is the first release of the new development series leading to GNOME 2.20.

gedit now depends on gtksourceview 1.90.1 and pygtksourceview 1.90.1, which are the beta versions of the gtksourceview 2.0 and of its python bindings.

homepage: http://www.gedit.org

downloads: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gedit/2.19/

GNOME 3715 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

gdl 0.7.6 has been released. This release fixes build issues.

What is gdl?
===========
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?
===========================
* Sun cc build fixes
* Cygwin build fixes

Where to get it?
===============
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gdl/0.7/

Screenshots?
===========
http://anjuta.org/screen-shots

GNOME 3715 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Empathy 0.8 is now available for download from:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/empathy/0.8/

43688633798403fda6612da8ccd200b1 empathy-0.8.tar.gz
752074c88667fc796ee0cebe58a1f726 empathy-0.8.tar.bz2


What is it?
==========
Empathy consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and Nokia's Mission Control, and reuses Gossip's UI. The main goal is to permit desktop integration by providing libempathy and libempathy-gtk libraries. libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets that can be embeded into any GNOME application.

GNOME 3715 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

GARNOME 2.19.4 has been released:

We are pleased to announce the release of GARNOME 2.19.4 Desktop and Developer Platform. This release includes all of GNOME 2.19.4 plus a bunch of updates that were released after the GNOME freeze date.

This is the fourth release in the unstable cycle, with more features, more fixes and yet more madness added. It is for anyone who wants to get his hands dirty on the development branch, or who'd like to get a peek at future features. If you want to help spot issues in GARNOME, (or, better yet, fix 'em ;-) this release is for you as well.

As usual, you can get the tarball directly from the gnome.org site: http://download.gnome.org/sources/garnome/2.19/

Note: GNOME 2.19.x is an unstable branch and is assumed to be a moving target. Therefore, things in this release may not work as advertised.

If you find 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/

Enjoy,

The GARNOME Team

GNOME 3715 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

goobox 1.9.1 is now available for download at:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/goobox/1.9/

5a4909c817418e42a551f10ac904ecc2 goobox-1.9.1.tar.bz2
b33d5fd7fd9c367baa3b974d78bf2b2f goobox-1.9.1.tar.gz

This is a development release in a series leading to goobox 2.0. Note that goobox 1.0 has never been released because the 0.9.x development series is based on libraries that are now obsolete.

About Goobox
===========

Goobox is a CD player and ripper for the GNOME desktop environment.

GNOME 3715 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

This release brings important improvements in rendering. Cairo-based rendering of pages and selections should make things faster. A lots of bug fixes were made too. We require latest poppler 0.5.9 now and looking forward to annotations support and images selection.