GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

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.

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

GnomePython 2.11.3 has been released. This is an unstable release for your testing pleasure.

GnomePython provides python interfacing modules for most of the GNOME Developer Platform libraries (except those already wrapped somewhere else.) Currently the list of provided python modules includes:

- gnome, gnome.ui
- gnomecanvas
- gnomevfs
- gconf
- bonobo, bonobo.activation, bonobo.ui

The source tarball can be found here:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-python/2.11/

Please file bug reports (bugs, missing APIs) here:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gnome-python

Please note that the API is now frozen for the GNOME 2.12 branch of GnomePython.

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

OnTV is a GNOME Applet written in Python using PyGTK, it uses XMLTV files to monitor current and upcoming TV programs.

OnTV 1.2:
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* Added support for channel logos (see FAQ).
* Added translations (de, en_GB, en_CA, zh_CN).

Screenshots and downloads are availible at:
http://johan.svedberg.com/projects/coding/ontv/

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Metacity is a simple window manager that integrates nicely with GNOME 2.

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Mergeant is a personal database administration tool, based on libgda/libgnomedb.

Changes since mergeant 0.60
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- Explicitly require libgda/libgnomedb-2.0 (Rodrigo)
- Use GType for GObject-based classes, not guint (Vivien)

Tarballs are available at
http://download.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/mergeant/0.61/

To install this new version, you'll need:
* libgda, libgnomedb, libgnome/ui, libglade.

You can find more information at the projects' homepage (http://www.gnome-db.org), or you can ask any question/propose anything you want in the GNOME-DB mailing list, which is available at http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-db-list.

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Gcalctool is the default GNOME desktop calculator.

It has Basic, Advanced, Financial and Scientific modes. Internally it uses multiple precision arithmetic to produce results to a high degree of accuracy.

This release is for the GNOME 2.11 release train

Note that in order to build, gcalctool now requires Gtk+ v2.6.1 (or later).

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*** gtkmm

gtkmm 2.7 wraps new API in GTK+ 2.7, and is API/ABI-compatibile with gtkmm 2.4 and 2.6. The new API is unstable, until this become the API/ABI-stable gtkmm 2.8 when GTK+ 2.7 becomes the API-stable GTK+ 2.8

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

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GTK+ 2.7.2 is now available for download at:

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.7/

gtk+-2.7.2.tar.bz2 md5sum: d8b78b20725eb38dcc545a0499aa68ff
gtk+-2.7.2.tar.gz md5sum: 92ae255168642787582539437c2eae3c


This is the third development release loading up to GTK+ 2.8.

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*** Glom

With Glom you can design table definitions and the relationships between them, plus arrange the fields on the screen. You can edit and search the data in those tables, and specify field values in terms of other fields. It's as easy as it should be.

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GLib 2.7.2 is now available for download at:

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.7/

glib-2.7.2.tar.bz2 md5sum: df221afd5f475ba99f2afc1320f7693e
glib-2.7.2.tar.gz md5sum: 1554be4c910e3f5d1357c7bf93748525

This is the second development release leading up to GLib 2.8.

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

libgda/libgnomedb are a complete framewok for developing database-oriented applications, and currently 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 the base of the database support in the GNOME Office application suite, providing database access for many features in both Gnumeric and Abiword.

1.3.4 is another step in the road to 2.0, which will be out with GNOME 2.12

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Release 0.15 of the Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) is now on-line for download as an individual package consisting of 4336 images submitted by over 430 artists from around the world. The amount of high quality clip art has increased much with the inclusion of Nicu Buculei's Playing Cards collection and Gerald Ganson's package submission.

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The System Tools Backends version 1.3.0 "Learning to hate autotools" have been released.

The System Tools Backends are a set of cross-platform scripts for Linux and other Unix systems. The backends provide an standard XML interface for modifying the configuration regarless of the distribution that's being used.

Right now the System Tools Backends fully support various distros/OS such as: Redhat, Mandrake, SuSE, Fedora, Debian (and derivations like Ubuntu, Linex, Guadalinex...), Gentoo, Slackware, FreeBSD, OpenNA, PLD, Vine and Specifix.

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The GNOME System Tools version 1.3.0.1 "Not this often!" have been released.

The GNOME System Tools are a set of cross-platform configuration utilities for Linux and other Unix systems. The frontends knows nothing about the underlying system and provide the same user interface across the different types of systems. Internally they use the system-tools-backends package.

Changes since last release
=========================

General
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- Depend on system-tools-backends >= 1.3.0, necessary for
services-admin

Downloading
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You can get it from :
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-system-tools/1.3/

GNOME 3687 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

A 'VGA Planets' client for the GNOME platform. VGA Planets is a turn-based space strategy game that can be played by 11 players at once. This game is being played since Fidonet times, and have lots of fans that still play on those old DOS clients, it's time for a GNU/Linux one :):

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.