libbtctl and gnome-bluetooth 0.9

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Quite a few fixes in those new versions. They're ABI compatible with 0.8.x, so if you package those for a distro, please make sure to upgrade.

* What is it?
- libbtctl is a (deprecated) library for discovering Bluetooth devices, and contains the backend for the Obex server and client
- gnome-bluetooth is a (deprecated) collection of widgets for use with GNOME applications, and an Obex server and client applications

Those 2 libraries will soon be rendered useless by the advent of the OpenObex D-Bus server (a Google Summer of Code project), and the move of the applications and widgets into the bluez-gnome package.

* Changelog, short version:
- Discovering new devices works again
- Sending files to some device works for the first time (those devices were waiting for a disconnect before handling the file, and we weren't disconnecting cleanly)

Full version in the ChangeLog and NEWS files in each package.

* Download:
Tarballs are available at:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-bluetooth/0.9/
and
http://download.gnome.org/sources/libbtctl/0.9/

GARNOME 2.19.5 -- "pleasantly punctual patch"

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

GARNOME 2.19.5 has been released:

The "pleasantly punctual patch" release.

We are pleased to announce the release of GARNOME 2.19.5 Desktop and Developer Platform. This release includes all of GNOME 2.19.5 plus a bunch of updates that were released after the GNOME freeze date.

This is the fifth release in the unstable cycle, with more features, more fixes and yet more madness added. Also icons. Indeed, icons. ;-) 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.

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

PyGTK 2.10.6

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Version 2.10.6 of the Python bindings for GTK is available. It fixes a regression introduced in 2.10.5 affecting a number of popular applications.

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/

This is an unstable release and should be used with caution. It requires either GTK+ 2.8.x or GTK+ >= 2.10.

Evince 0.9.2 released

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

With the amazing work of Julien and Carlos we now have initial PDF forms support in Evince. SoC 2006 project finally landed in svn. Currently it requires poppler HEAD, but let's hope we'll see a new release of poppler.

* 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/

at-spi 1.19.5

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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.

Download at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/at-spi/1.19

=======================================
* What's changed for at-spi 1.19.5?
=======================================

* We add pyatspi into at-spi. pyatspi is an unified python binding used by ATs.
* Bugfixes: #446277, #450897, #433802.

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

Source code:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/at-spi/1.19/at-spi-1.19.5.tar.bz2
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/at-spi/1.19/at-spi-1.19.5.tar.gz

GDM2 2.19.4 (unstable), the "Home On The Range" Release

GNOME 3687 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 2.19.4 release is an unstable release of the GNOME Display Manager (GDM) program with the following bug fixes and improvements:

Deskbar-Applet 2.19.5 released

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

This release is the first release that contains the work from the Summer of Code branch. It features massive code refactoring including a new modules API[1] that replaces the old one. Therefore, old modules won't work. In addition, a new default GUI has been added, the other GUIs have been removed and the preferences dialog has slightly changed. This release does not contain any new big features, but it should provide almost all the features that Deskbar had before refactoring.

Download
========
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/deskbar-applet/2.19/

[1]: http://www.k-d-w.org/deskbar/new-style_modules.html

gtk-engines 2.11.3 (unstable)

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

gtk-engines provides a central location for commonly used GTK+ engines. It currently supplies several engines and default themes for those which have one.

THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT RELEASE
=============================

This is an unstable development release, so there are certainly plenty of bugs remaining to be found. This release should not be used in production environments.

GOK v1.3.1

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

GOK enables users to control their free desktops without having to rely on a standard keyboard or mouse. It includes a suite of on-screen keyboards as well as dynamic keyboard generation. Please see http://www.gok.ca/ for details.

===============================
* What's changed for GOK v1.3.1?
===============================

* 1.3.x Releases are targeted for GNOME 2.19.x

* Improved user experience with latest Firefox accessibility.

* Note: GOK's gnome-2-18 branch will continue to support Firefox 2.x based linux accessibility for hyperlinks.

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

You can obtain GOK v1.3.1 in source code form here:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gok/1.3/gok-1.3.1.tar.gz

best regards,
The GOK Team

Dasher 4.5.2 released

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Dasher 4.5.2 is now available for download from:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/dasher/4.5/

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.

This is primarily a bugfix release, including updated translations.

gnome-speech v0.4.15

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.

The gnome-speech v0.4.15 release is designated for GNOME 2.16.x, GNOME 2.18.x, and GNOME 2.19.4.

Accerciser 0.1.5 released

GNOME 3687 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.

GARNOME 2.18.3 -- "Yes, we did"

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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.

PyGTK 2.10.5

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

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.

Evince 0.8.3 released

GNOME 3687 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

GDM2 2.18.3 (stable), the "Minor Difference" Release

GNOME 3687 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/

gtkmm 2.11.4 and glibmm 2.13.7

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

*** 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

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