# Release Digest: GNOME, January 4, 2004

## BEAST/BSE v0.5.6

BEAST/BSE version 0.5.6 is available for download at: ftp://beast.gtk.org/pub/beast/v0.5/  
or  
http://beast.gtk.org/beast-ftp/v0.5/ BEAST (the Bedevilled Audio SysTem) is a graphical front-end to BSE (the Bedevilled Sound Engine), a library for music composition, audio synthesis, MIDI processing and sample manipulation. The project is hosted at: http://beast.gtk.org A mailing list is available at: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/beast/ This new development series of BEAST comes with a lot of the internals redone, many new GUI features and a sound generation back-end separated from all GUI activities. The most outstanding new features are the demo song, the effect and instrument management abilities, the track editor which allowes for easy selection of synthesizers or samples as track sources, loop support in songs and unlimited Undo/Redo capabilities. Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.5.6:

  * New (or ported) modules: BseEvaluator - highly experimental (available with --devel) expression evaluator by Stefan Westerfeld  
DavBassFilter - a low-pass resonant TB-303 style filter by David A. Bartold
  * Added support for author and licensing information for plugins, available as "Show Info" in the button3 popup menu on modules
  * Started MIDI file import ability
  * Started new undo-able parasite mechanism for BSE files
  * Fixed default value serialization in BSE files
  * IDL Compiler bug fixes and cleanups [Stefan Westerfeld]
  * Started C++ Language Binding [Stefan Westerfeld]
  * Added i18n support to IDL Compiler [Stefan Westerfeld]
  * Added #include-impl support to IDL Compiler [Stefan Westerfeld]
  * Added toplevel package tests in tests/ [Stefan Westerfeld]
  * Support upper case note names
  * Internationalized plugins
  * Merged translation domains
  * Updated Czech translation [Miloslav Trmac]
  * Updated Dutch translation [Vincent van Adrighem]
  * Updated German translation [Christian Neumair]
  * Updated Serbian translation [Danilo Segan]
  * Updated Spanish translation [Ismael Andres Rubio Rojas]
  * Updated Swedish translation [Christian Rose]
  * Added Catalan translation [Xavier Conde Rueda]
  * Added Greek translation [Kostas Papadimas]
  * Added Portuguese translation [Duarte Loreto]
  * Complete rebuild of the GUI code by moving to XML based widget tree stencils
  * Completely recoded menu generation, activation and sensitivity, based on new simple action lists amd a stencil factory mechanism
  * Rewrote all existing property entry fields and added new types
  * Implemented a couple new widgets to improve GUI experience (GxkMenuButton as GtkOptionMenu replacement, GxkSimpleLable for shortened widths, ...)
  * Added accelerator support for popup menus
  * Lots of overall GUI polishing
  * Added "About" box
  * Miscellaneous bug fixes, lots of code cleanups

  
ciaoTJ

## gURLChecker 0.7.4

#### Application

gURLChecker 0.7.4 (unstable branch)

#### Description

gURLChecker is a web links checker.  
It can work on a whole site, a single local page or a browser bookmarks file.

#### Enhancements

  * Added project management basics. For the moment, one can create, modify and delete a project. it is also possible to rescan a given page (full branch refresh will come soon...). For the moment Project management is for web sites only.
  * Added "Last modified" column in the main tree view.
  * Updated settings dialog appearance to be more "gnome like".
  * Added a toolbar in the main window.



#### Fixes

  * Correction of bug #6996 (Problem with base href tag).
  * Correction of bug #6998 (HTTP header parsing problem).
  * UTF-8 enhancements.
  * Other debugging.



#### Download

http://labs.libre-entreprise.org/download.php/63/gurlchecker-0.7.4.tar.gz

#### GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gurlchecker

## GGV 2.5.1

"With a Smile on My Face" Featuring:

  * defullscreenification when user requests help in order to=20 actually show the help window
  * range selection (via shift-click) in the page list
  * use of new gtk_window_fullscreen() API instead of my home-brewn code (courtesy of janecek at ucw.cz)
  * fixed a crasher caused by a missing sanity check when checking if the file is compressed
  * fixed recent-files to use GtkIconTheme instead of its deprecated Gnome counterpart
  * replaced other newly deprecated functions with the=20 non-deprecated counterparts
  * documentation was kindly updated by Ms. Brenda McColgan
  * the *_DISABLE_DEPRECATED flags are not added by default.=20 instead, a configure parameter --enable-deprecations is used to request them
  * updated translations: Azerbaijani (Metin), Japanese (Takeshi), Norwegian (Kjartan), Greek (Kostas), Czech (Miloslav), Nynorsk (Aasmund), Spanish (Lucas), Mongolian (Sanlig), Lithuanian (Tomas), Arabic (Arafat), Albanian (Laurent)

available, as usually, at: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ggv/2.5/ regards, jaKa email: jaka@gnu.org  
w3: http://fish.homeunix.org/people/jaka

## GNOME Desktop Themes 2.5.2

#### Application

GNOME Desktop Themes 2.5.2 "#FFFFFF Christmas"

#### Description

A set of desktop themes for GNOME, including the GNOME 2.5 default theme ("Simple"), and many designed for users with low or limited vision.

#### Enhancements

  * Mist engine enhancments (Dave Camp)



#### Download

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/

#### GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gnome-themes

## GTK+ OpenGL Toolkit 0.2.1

#### Application

GTK+ OpenGL Toolkit 0.2.1

#### Description

OpenGL Toolkit for GTK+ 2.x

#### Enhancements

  * API Reference documentation (Also at website - www.sandorapplications.com/ogltk )



#### Fixes

  * ogltk_view_render always returned FALSE



#### Download

http://www.sandorapplications.com/ogltk

#### GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/ogltk

## Pigeon CD Recorder 0.2

#### Application

Pigeon CD Recorder 0.2

#### Description

A Gnome2 CD Burner, designed to integrate into the gnome desktop. Can create audio CDs from Mp3s, oggs, wavs, etc., as well as data cds.

#### Enhancements & Fixes

  * Added Gstreamer support, so any gstreamer supported audio type can be burned as an audio file.
  * Can now remove files from the que with a context menu or Edit->Remove
  * Added support for either 74min or 80min CDs
  * Now check size of audio tracks, and update the progress bar accordingly
  * Set the file selector to the users home directory by default
  * Throw the cd making process to a thread, to avoid locking the ui
  * Fixed a annoying shutdown problem where Pigeon would sometimes segfault on quiting
  * Placed the file browsing widgets in scrolled windows, for maximum comfort
  * Added folder icons to the directory browser
  * Added these rad "*" to the ChangeLog. I think that small things like this will cause Pigeon to rise above the competition.



#### Screenshot

http://gnome-cd-burner.sourceforge.net/Pigeon-CD-Recorder-0.2.png

#### Download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnome-cd-burner/

## GHex 2.5.2

"Midnight's Children" A new release on the 2.5 front fixes a nasty bug that would cause ghex built without the GTK sanity checks to crash if a document was closed via File->Close menu (thanks to Shakti Sen for reporting and patching this one). Apart from that, it re-introduces rendering of the cursor in the inactive view as an outlined rectangle, allowing the user to quickly determine which view is active, allows for view switching with the tabulator key and properly redraws the offset display when the views are resized! Among the build-related issues, the *_DISABLE_DEPRECATED flags are now optional and introduced by --enable-deprecations parameter to configure.in and the -Wall flag was removed from CFLAGS to allow for non-gcc builds. The translators have, as usually, been reall busy, so we have updated Portuguese (Duarte), Norwegian (Kjartan) and Catalan (Xavier) translations. available at: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ghex/2.5/ regards, jaKa email: jaka@gnu.org  
w3: http://fish.homeunix.org/people/jaka

## GChemPaint 0.4.0

#### Application

GChemPaint 0.4.0

#### Description

A 2D chemical structures editor for the Gnome-2 desktop

#### Enhancements

There are only very little differences in this release compared to 0.3.90. French translation has been updated. This release is considered stable. Development will now mainly be made in the 0.5.x development releases. The projects are listed in the TODO file. Comments are welcome. Other 0.4.x versions will be released if bugs are found and fixed or for new or updated translations.

#### Download

Savannah repository being unavailable, files are available at:  http://jean.brefort.free.fr/info/gcp/download/gchempaint-0.4.0.tar.gz  
http://jean.brefort.free.fr/info/gcp/download/gchempaint-0.4.0.tar.bz2

#### GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gchempaint

## Yelp 2.5.2

#### Yelp 2.5.2: "Late Again"

A horrible case of bronchitis couldn't keep me from unleashing new bugs on my adoring testers. Version 2.5.2 of Yelp is ready for you. Are you ready for it?

#### What is it?

Yelp is the default help browser in GNOME 2. It boasts the awesomest DocBook transformation system in existence. It also still features the regressions for HTML, man, and info. 

#### What's changed?

  * Lots and lots of work on the Find dialog (Chee Bin HOH)
  * Page titles now show up in the titlebar (Shaun McCance)
  * Non-existent pages are discovered faster (Shaun McCance)
  * Sidebar selection follows loaded page again (Shaun McCance)
  * Previous, Next, and TOC have menu items (Shaun McCance)
  * Window icon from the icon theme, more to come (Shaun McCance)
  * Pretty colored boxes that follow the theme (Shaun McCance)
  * Admonition graphics work again (Shaun McCance)
  * Plenty more work on the DocBook XSLT (Shaun McCance)
  * Display a busy cursor while loading (Shaun McCance)
  * Put Titlepage and Contents in the right order (Shaun McCance)
  * Prevent duplicate entry in history (Shaun McCance)
  * Do startup notification right (Shaun McCance)
  * Various crashers and leaks fixed
  * Updated translations:  
ar (Arafat Medini)  
be (Ales Nyakhaychyk)  
ca (Jordi Mallach)  
cs (Miloslav Trmac)  
da (Ole Laursen)  
de (Christian Neumair)  
el (Nikos Charonitakis)  
es (Francisco Javier F. Serrador)  
ja (Takeshi AIHANA)  
nl (Tino Meinen)  
nn (Åsmund Skjæveland)  
pl (GNOME PL Team)  
sr (Danilo ¦egan)  
sr@Latn (Danilo ¦egan)  
sv (Christian Rose)



#### More credits

That one line doesn't really do Chee Bin HOH justice. He's been doing some really awesome work, and I feel I should spend another three lines here saying thanks. So, thanks. Also, no sooner do I add new strings than our translators translate them. You guys rock.

#### Where can I get it?

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/yelp/2.5/

#### Addendum

Yelp 2.5.2.1 is fixed w.r.t. intltool 0.28.   
Shaun

## GnomeSword 2.0.0

#### Application

GnomeSword 2.0.0

#### Description

GnomeSword is a Bible study tool for the GNOME desktop that uses libraries and modules provided by the SWORD project. It lets you read and search through multiple Bible texts. Features include the ability to add formatted notes to verses, bookmark passages, and reference commentary and lexicon modules.# http://gnomesword.sf.net

#### Enhancements

This is the first stable release of the GNOME2 version, supporting SWORD 1.5.6 and 1.5.7. It represents a major rewrite and features a full port to GTK2, with a new GUI which aims towards HIG compliance. It uses more GNOME functionality (including gnome-print and gnome-spell), and has support for new SWORD features such as preverse headings. A manual is now included, in both the English and French languages. There have been huge usability improvements and numerous other enhancements since the previous GNOME 1.x version. We encourage you to take a look.

#### Download

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnomesword/gnomesword2-2.0.0.tar.gz?download

#### GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gnomesword

## GENIUS 0.5.7

To find out what Genius is, skip a few paragraphs down, or go to http://www.jirka.org/genius.html There's not much news in this release except build fixes to allow building against the newest gtk. Some new functions and a couple of fixes such. In any case, Genius is one of the oldest GNOME projects, it has been the original GNOME calculator before I got wild ideas about it doing absolutely everything. It is programmable has a powerful language and handles many fun features including matlab like support for matrices. It requires GNOME2 and a recent enough gmp library. However you can still use the command line version if you prefer non-gui interface. There is still a lot of work required to make this all nice, mostly it needs to have the function library improved and verified to be correct and documentation needs to be written (the complete help system is not yet in place). Feel free to help out :) Here are the news in 0.5.7:

  * Add ErrorFunction (erf), InfiniteProduct, InfiniteProduct2
  * Allow large integer powers of 1,-1,1i,-1i and do it very fast
  * Be nicer with integer powers of pure imaginary numbers
  * mpfr seems broken in 4.1.2 causing something like 0.1^(-1.0) to come out as 0.1 rather then 10. Powers will just use exp and ln for now which are correct.
  * Fix warnings on Kernel([0])
  * Don't use DEPRECATED defines to allow compiling with newer gtk+
  * Translation updates (Vincent van Adrighem, Metin Amiroff, Jordi Mallach, Xavier Conde Rueda, Christian Rose, Miloslav Trmac, Duarte Loreto, Tino Meinen)

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/genius/0.5/  
ftp://ftp.5z.com/pub/genius/  
http://www.jirka.org/genius.html Note that making RPMS should be simple with rpmbuild -ta <tarball>, you should also get the updated GMP RPM which has MPFR enabled since that's a lot better then internal FP routines of genius. RPM for that is on the 5z site. Apparently Fedora might have MFRP at some point enabled in GMP. Note that the RPM at the 5z site is built without GtkSourceView and so there is no syntax highlighting and other such good stuff. If you install GtkSourceView then rebuild the RPM and you'll get much nicer editting capability. Have fun, George   
George <jirka@5z.com> The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

  * W. Somerset Maugham



## GHex 2.4.1

"Crime & Punishment" This maintenance release fixes a nasty bug that would cause ghex built without the GTK sanity checks to crash if a document was closed via File->Close menu (thanks to Shakti Sen for reporting and patching this one). Apart from that, it re-introduces rendering of the cursor in the inactive view as an outlined rectangle, allowing the user to quickly determine which view is active, allows for view switching with the tabulator key and properly redraws the offset display when the views are resized! The translators have, as usually, been reall busy, so we have updated Swedish (Christian), Hungarian (Andras), Portuguese (Duarte), Norwegian (Kjartan) and Catalan (Xavier) translations. available, as usually at: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ghex/2.4/ regards, jaKa email: jaka@gnu.org  
w3: http://fish.homeunix.org/people/jaka

## gLabels 1.93.2

#### Application

gLabels 1.93.2

#### Description

gLabels is a lightweight program for creating labels and business cards for the GNOME desktop environment. It is designed to work with various laser/ink-jet peel-off label and business card sheets that you``ll find at most office supply stores.

#### Enhancements

  * Added template designer assistant/wizard. (me)
  * Added line spacing property to all text objects. (Wayne Schuller)



#### Fixes

  * Make templates known when encountered for the first time in a label. This can occur when template names have changed between versions or when you receive a glabels document from someone else who has created a custom template. (me)
  * Now builds against GNOME 2.5.1 (GARNOME 0.28.3). (me)
  * Fixed button order in new label and label properties dialogs. (Wayne Schuller)
  * Fixed a bug with the preferences dialog, which resulted in ignoring default object property preferences. (me)
  * Fixed a bug which caused the waste property to function incorrectly on rectangular labels. (me)
  * Fixed bug in object editor size page which caused the height spin button to be ignored. (me)
  * Fixed bug with object editor size page that caused text object sizes to be prematurely changed when any property is edited. (me)



#### Download

http://glabels.sourceforge.net/download/

#### GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/glabels

## gnome-games 2.5.3.1

This release is mainly to fix an intltool problem. There is also a minor upgrade to the seahaven game in aisleriot: you can now drag sequences of cards to the foundations. Find it at the usual place: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-games/2.5/

  * Callum



## SLgtk v0.5.3  
SLIRP v0.9.8

#### Announcement

Versions 0.5.3 of SLgtk and 0.9.8 of SLIRP are now available at http://space.mit.edu/~mnoble/slgtk Highlights of this release include:

  * A significantly more powerful vwhere guilet, for visually exploring and filtering scientific datasets:
  * Several useful extensions to the SLIRP code generator
  * And numerous other enhancements as described below.



#### Description

The SLgtk package binds the Gtk2 and GtkExtra widget sets to the S-Lang scripting language (www.s-lang.org). SLgtk wraps approximately 2200 functions from Gtk2 and its constituent libraries, includes over 4000 lines of sample code in 40+ working guilets, and provides a code generator (SLIRP) which is useful for building additional S-Lang modules. SLgtk also includes a visual version of the powerful S-Lang "where" command, extensions to and performance enhancements for several GtkExtra widgets, and a pixbuf loader for the FITS image file format widely used within astronomy. Happy Holidays, -Michael S. Noble Changes in v0.5.3 (12/24/03):

  1. VWhere 1.1.0 enhancements: 
     * data may fabricated on the fly with arbitrary S-Lang expressions, including calls to S-Lang, C, and FORTRAN functions
     * in array mode user may now input an unlimited number of arrays, instead of just one per X/Y axis
     * plots may now be deleted (just point and click!)
  2. SLIRP 0.9.8 enhancements: 
     * support import() of >1 SLIRP-generated module into single app
     * support nested resource files, and sharing of type definitions, with new slirp_include_rc(filename) function
  3. Install src/slirprc-gtk.sl to <install>/share/slsh/local-packages, for use in other SLIRP-generated packages which wish to build against SLgtk.
  4. Added gtk_widget_show(item) calls to menus examples, to show benefit of menus knowing the size of their largest item (dburke@cfa.harvard.edu).
  5. Progress bar example enhancements: 
     * use timeout to increment progress indicator, instead of button press
     * use no file-global variables (slightly better coding style)
     * call gtk_widget_show() on menu items, for reasons similar to above
  6. Added wrappers for GTK_WIDGET_SENSITIVE and GTK_WIDGET_CAN_FOCUS macros.
  7. Percolate time field in GDK button events up to S-Lang layer.
  8. Built and tested on Mac OS/X 10.3.1, against Gtk 2.0.6 and 2.2.1.
  9. Added Makefile protection to avoid problems from false rebuilds on LANs with NFS drives hosted from machines with mismatched system clocks.

Changes in v0.5.2 (12/10/03):

  1. Removed constraint from embedded gdk_colormap_alloc_color() calls that allocated colors be 'writable', to more gracefully support smaller color systems (as writable colors cannot be shared).



## Gfax-0.6beta5

#### Application

Gfax Gfax-0.6beta5

#### Description

Gfax is a pop up fax application for Gnome. It supplies the familiar pop up window when printing to a fax printer. Gfax currently works with Hylafax.

#### Enhancements

  * proper working spec file for building rpms.
  * now compiles with mono >= 0.28 and gtk-sharp >= 0.14



#### Fixes

  * fixed schema installation, works for all users now.
  * adding new phone book didn't work quite right, fixed.
  * deleteing item in phonebook didn't allow saving after, fixed.



#### Download

http://gfax.cowlug.org  
http://gfax.cowlug.org/screenshots.php

#### GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gfax

## gnome-games 2.5.3

gnome-games "The Catastrophe" 2.5.3 has just been released. You can find it at the usual place: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-games/2.5/ The release notes follow.

  * Callum



#### gnome-games "The Catastrophe" 2.5.3

Finally, we know the answer to the question: can you make a gnome-games release with a kitten balanced on each shoulder ? The answer is yes. Mostly miscellaneous stuff. People who use the shuffle option in mahjongg will be happy. aisleriot: Double clicking in the games selection menu now works.  
blackjack: Text drawing re-write.  
glines: Avoid warnings from premature drawing. Improve the use of GamesFileList.  
gnibbles: Reworked the exit code to avoid occasional crashes on exit. Fixes for the desktop file.  
gnometris: Avoid crashing by only getting the score when a game is in progress. Avoid warnings by not trying to impose a C standard on C++ code.  
mahjongg: Shuffling is now guaranteed to produce a solvable pile (assuming a solution is possible). Undo and redo now are now disabled after a shuffle.  
same-gnome: Use GamesFileList for finding the theme files. You can now write themes in any format supported by gdk-pixbuf.  
gdk-card-image: Improve the use of GamesFileList.  
libgames-support: Improvements to GamesFileList.

## Gnumeric 1.2.4

Gnumeric 1.2.4 aka "A branching we will go" is now available. **** With a few more bugs fixed, and some final features enabled for the charting engine Gnumeric has now branched. Version 1.2.3 was not announced due to last minute fixes in xls export. The main extension in this release is the addition of value formats for the axis labels, user defined, auto generated from the source data, or from MS Excel. Development of 1.3.0 has already begun, so releases of the 1.2.x line will now be bug fix only.

  * Details 
    * Adrian Bunk: 
      * Portability fixes.
    * Andreas: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128166
      * Mark workbook as dirty on sheet deletion/addition bug
      * Minor GUI polish bug
      * Handle broken OO generated xls files bug
      * Minor changes to the sort dialog http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128936
      * Allow text export to use the rendered strings rather than the stored values bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129444
      * Fix printing of non-word-wrapped cells with hard line breaks bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129049
      * Make sure dialogs are visible on session manager communications bug
    * Jody: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128565
      * Overzealous renaming. bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128169
      * Use the right font when editing. bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127625
      * kludge around mystery inconsistent autfilters in xls bug
      * Patch a leak in the pattern selector
      * Fix a potential crash when changing labels on axis http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127734
      * Modernize the sylk importer bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129445
      * Fix xls import of plot styles that override defaults bug
      * Fix xml import of ManualRecalc flag http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128837
      * Horizontal, and Zoom scroll wheel support bug
      * User selectable format for axis labels
      * Tune 'General' format width calculation
      * Improve quoting of accounting formats
      * Auto format selection for axis value labels http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129833
      * Tweak the mime types we claim to handle bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128524
      * Some xls export problems in countries outside north america bug
    * John Gill: 
      * Add a field menu and keyboard shortcuts to the sort dialog
    * Jon Kare: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129702
      * Fix encoding of author field in summary. bug
      * Some improvements to the format selector widget
    * Jukka: 
      * GLPK upgrade to version 4.2
    * Morten: 
      * Handle fractional seconds correctly for UNIX2DATE.
      * Fix display of -0:30 again.
      * PCRE upgrade to 4.5.
      * Fix GLPK to not assert (not implemented)



#### Availability

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric/1.2/

## GtkSourceView 0.8.0

#### Application

GtkSourceView 0.8.0

#### Description

It's a text widget that extends the standard Gtk+ 2.x GtkTextView. It improves it by implementing syntax highlighting and other features typical of a source editor. It's currently being used by gedit, Glimmer source code editor and other projects like DiaSCE2 and Mono Debugger.

#### Requirements

  * GLib and GTK+ 2.3.0 or later
  * LibXML2 2.5.0 or later
  * libgnomeprint 2.2.0 or later



#### News since last release

  * SQL highlighting file [Paolo Maggi]
  * Ported file selection to GtkFileChooser [Jan Arne Petersen]
  * C# highlighting file (bug #115040) [John Luke]
  * MSIL highlighting file (bug #125252) [Antonio Ognio Cesti]
  * Added version information to the reference documentation (bug #126028) [Gustavo GirÃ¡ldez]
  * Ported GtkItemFactory code over to GtkAction/GtkUIManager [Gustavo]
  * PHP highlighting file (bug #111060) [Francesco Gigli]
  * Verilog highlighting file (bug #129942) [Paolo Borelli]



#### New and updated translations

  * Lituanian [Å&fraq12;ygimantas BeruÄka]
  * Dutch [Vincent van Adrighem]
  * Danish [Ole Laursen]
  * Indonesian (new) [Ahmad Riza H Nst]
  * Mongolian (new) [Dulmandakh]
  * Russian [Russian Team]
  * Czech [Miloslav Trmac]
  * Serbian [Danilo ï¿&fraq12; egan]
  * Spanish [Francisco Javier F. Serrador]
  * German [Christian Nuemair]



#### Download

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtksourceview/0.8/

## The GNOME XSLT toolkit 1.1.2

#### Application

The GNOME XSLT toolkit 1.1.2

#### Description

Libxml2 is the XSLT C toolkit developed for the Gnome project (but usable outside of the Gnome platform). It also provides the xsltproc XSLT transformation tool.

#### Enhancements

  * EXSLT documentation (William Brack)



#### Fixes

  * Documentation fixes (John Fleck, William Brack)
  * Windows compilation fixes for MSVC and Mingw (Igor Zlatkovic)
  * exslt:date returning NULL strings (William Brack)
  * namespaces output (William Brack)
  * key and namespace definition problem
  * passing options down to the document() parser
  * xsl:number fixes (William Brack)



#### Download

ftp://xmlsoft.org/

#### GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/libxslt

## GDM 2.4.4.7

EKITYEKITYPOO rev 2 (If you have no clue what gdm is, skip a few paragraphs down first) Damn intltool! Here's a working stable tarball for GDM ... And now for the standard part of the release announcement: GDM is the GNOME Display Manager, it is the little proggie that runs in the background, runs your X sessions, presents you with a login box and then tells you to piss off because you forgot your password. It does pretty much everything that you would want to use xdm for, but doesn't involve as much crack. It doesn't use any code from xdm, and has a more paranoid and safer design overall. It also includes many features over xdm, the biggest one of which is that it is more user friendly, even if your X setup is failing. The goal is that users should never, ever have to use the command line to customize or troubleshoot gdm. It of course supports xdmcp, and in fact extends xdmcp a little bit in places where I thought xdm was lacking (but is still compatible with xdm's xdmcp).

#### News:

Highlights of 2.4.4.7:

  * Fix build problem caused by intltool (fixes #130234)
  * Translation update (Zygimantas Berucka)

Note: GDM2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen <mkp@mkp.net>, and has for a while now been maintained by the Queen of England. She is usually not responsive to bug reports or feature requests. You can try to send them to me however. 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. Note3: Note3 has been depracated ...

#### Downloading:

Webpage: http://www.jirka.org/gdm.html  
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.4/  
ftp://ftp.5z.com/pub/gdm/ I built an RPM this time around BTW. Have fun. A spec file is included so you can also try: rpmbuild -ta gdm-whatever.tar.gz Have fun (or whatever else you wish to be having), George PS: I blame Canada for the intltool snafu!   
George <jirka@5z.com> People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

  * Otto von Bismarck



## Gnomoradio 0.7

#### Application

Gnomoradio 0.7

#### Description

Gnomoradio is a peer to peer music playing system, based on Creative Commons licenses. It has the ability to find, recommend, and play songs that are freely available.

#### Download

http://gnomoradio.org/pub/devel/gnomoradio-0.7.tar.gz

#### GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gnomoradio

## gnome-mud 0.10.4a

#### Application

gnome-mud 0.10.4a

#### Description

GNOME-Mud is a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) client, which aims to make mudding a bit easier.  
It can define aliases, triggers, variables. keybind shortcuts and has a connection wizard to easily manage different player characters and MUDs. GNOME-Mud is the

#### Notes

  * Revert plugin support patch which caused random segfaults [Jordi]
  * Updated translations:  
\+ pt [Duarte Loreto]



#### Download

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-mud/

#### GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gnome-mud

## GNOME System Tools 0.31.0

The GNOME System Tools version 0.31.0 "A brick in the sky" have been released. The GNOME System Tools are a set of cross-platform configuration utilities for Linux and other Unix systems. Internally they are divided in frontends and backends. The frontend knows nothing about the underlying system and provides the same user interface across the different types of systems. The backend knows how to read and write the configuration information. The GNOME System Tools do not impose a new database on the system: they work with the default configuration files so that configuration can still be done by hand or by other tools.

#### Changes since last release

#### General

  * Added support for Fedora Core 1 (me)
  * Added support for Slackware 9.1 for services, time, users, boot. Network is still missing (me)
  * Added i18n to the backends. for this you may need the perl gettext packages (me)



#### Network

  * Various UI fixes (me)
  * Made it to poll the status of the interfaces (me)



#### Services

  * Various UI fixes (me)



#### Time

  * Various UI fixes (me)



#### Boot

  * Added support for Yaboot (me) ... plus other lots of bugfixing

Thanks to Grzegorz Golawski <grzegol pld org pl> for submitting patches

#### Translations

  * Czech (Miloslav Trmac)
  * Danish (Ole Laursen)
  * Dutch (Vincent van Adrighem)
  * Japanese (Takeshi AIHANA)
  * Portuguese (Duarte Loreto)
  * Serbian (Danilo Åegan)
  * Spanish (Francisco Javier F. Serrador)



#### Downloading

You can get it from :  
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-system-tools/0.31/

## The GNOME XML toolkit 2.6.4

#### Application

The GNOME XML toolkit 2.6.4

#### Description

Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project (but usable outside of the Gnome platform). It also provides the xmllint XML/HTML processing tool.

#### Enhancements

  * Unix and Makefile packaging fixes (me, William Brack)
  * Documentation improvements (John Fleck, William Brack)



#### Fixes

  * XPath handling of NULL strings (William Brack)
  * Windows build fixes (Igor Zlatkovic)
  * Some serious XInclude problems reported by Oleg Paraschenko
  * example fix (Lucas Brasilino)
  * xmlTextReaderExpand() with xmlReaderWalker
  * XPath handling of NULL strings (William Brack)
  * API building reader or parser from filedescriptor should not close it
  * changed XPath sorting to be stable again (William Brack)
  * xmlGetNodePath() generating '(null)' (William Brack)
  * DTD validation and namespace bug (William Brack)
  * XML Schemas double inclusion behaviour



#### Download

ftp://xmlsoft.org/

#### GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/libxml

## Gweled Happy New Year 0.4

#### Application

Gweled Happy New Year 0.4

#### Description

A Bejeweled/Diamond Mine clone for Gnome

#### Enhancements

  * removed the toolbar (as suggested by Eugenia Loli-Queru)
  * apply a preliminary patch for timed game (by David Meggy), not usable yet
  * apply patch to unselect the selected gem (Pat Rondon)
  * switch to libglade
  * provide a spec file (Marc Deslauriers)



#### Fixes

  * buffer overflow (first reported by Joseph Antrosio)



#### Download

http://sebdelestaing.free.fr/gweled/Release/gweled-0.4.tar.gz  
http://sebdelestaing.free.fr/gweled/Release/gweled-0.4-1.i386.rpm

#### GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gweled

## Epiphany 1.1.2

Hi,

#### What is it ?

Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the mozilla rendering engine. It aims to be simple and easy to use. http://gnome.org/projects/epiphany

#### What's changed ?

You will notice that 1.1.2 is almost entirely Christian Persch fault. Big thanks to him to be doing also my part while real life keep me busy.

#### Epiphany 1.1.2

Code changes

  * Reformat spinner code to conform to epiphany coding style. (Christian)
  * Allow plugins to access the statusbar (Adam Hooper)
  * Use statusbar api directly instead of wrapping it around, so that we can have different groups of messages (Marco)
  * No need to have EphyNode thread safe since we never use it in threads anyway (Marco)
  * Brought toolbar editor code type macros in line with the rest of libegg; use gobject instance private data (Christian)

New features

  * Lockdown: set buttons insensitive when their pref key is not writable. (Christian)
  * Allow to move languages up and down in language editor (Christian)

Interface improvements

  * Make ctrl-click equivalent of middle click on links. Make shift-click save the link. (Christian)
  * Sort the list of fonts alphabetically (Christian)
  * Make toolbar editing drag icons use the same icon size as the actual toolbar icons (Jorn Baayen)
  * In history show only site title by default (Marco)
  * Make print dialogue spacing HIG-compliant (Christian)
  * Use stock icon for print setup (Christian)
  * Better way of mapping hierarchy to topics when importing bookmarks from mozilla (Christian)
  * In-line the language editor in the prefs dialog (Christian)
  * Use favicons in the back/forward menus (Christian)
  * Set the download folder selection label to "Home" if download folder is home folder (Christian Neumair)

Bugfixes

  * Fix several mem leaks (Christian)
  * Depend on automake 1.7, fix compilation from cvs on systems with 1.6 installed (Marco)
  * Restore tabs menu shortcut keys ALT-1 .. ALT-0 (Christian)
  * Don't try to save the submit button image instead of submitting the form
  * Destroy file chooser with its parent window; fixes crashes (Christian)
  * Fix coordinates of under widgets popup in RTL mode (Christian)
  * Do not try to pickup already set MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME, hopefully fix crashes oepning links from thunderbird (Marco)
  * Re-implement Pause/Resume in downloader (Xan)
  * Correctly cancel the download instead of just cancelling the request. (Marco)

Documentation

  * Updated printing docs (Piers Cornwell)
  * GDK_Meta_L is a keycode, not a modifier code. Map meta to GDK_MOD2_MASK. (Christian)

Translations

  * ar (Arafat Medini)
  * be (Ales Nyakhaychyk)
  * cs (Miloslav Trmac)
  * de (Christian Neumair)
  * el (Kostas Papadimas)
  * en_GB (Christian Persch)
  * es (Francisco F. Serrador)
  * nl (Vincent van Adrighem)
  * no (Kjartan Maraas)
  * pt_BR (Gustavo Noronha Silva)
  * sr
  * sr@Latn
  * sq (Laurent Dhima)



#### Where can I get it ?

Source code:  
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/epiphany/1.1/epiphany-1.1.2.tar.gz Epiphany 1.1.1 requires mozilla 1.4, 1.5, mozilla cvs. The suggested version is Mozilla 1.5:  
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.5/src/mozilla-source-1.5.tar.gz More about dependencies and installation tips: http://gnome.org/projects/epiphany/downloads.html Enjoy. Marco

## Gnomoradio 0.8

#### Application

Gnomoradio 0.8

#### Description

Peer to peer music playing system, based on Creative Commons licenses. Finds, shares, and downloads freely available music automatically, according to a user's inferred listening preferences.

#### Enhancements

  * Cache playlist to show downloaded songs
  * Can now remove a song from a playlist
  * Added Mozilla browser support
  * Added right click menu to songs



#### Fixes

  * Fixed internal checksum and download progress signals to make sense
  * Fixed bug where an invalid ogg never goes on to the next song
  * Fixed possible compilation error in main-window.cc
  * Only put available or downloadable songs in a radio play list
  * Position slider works
  * First _ready_ song now plays when you play a SongList w/o a position
  * Radio list is restocked when recommendations come in



#### Download

http://gnomoradio.org/pub/devel/gnomoradio-0.8.tar.gz

#### GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gnomoradio

## GDM 2.4.4.6

EKITYEKITYPOO (If you have no clue what gdm is, skip a few paragraphs down first) It appears that some bonehead mistakes made it into the stable tree recently and it also appears that some bonehead mistakes were there for some time already. I know I promissed no more 2.4.4.x releases since 2.4.4.5 was perfect enough, but oh well. Apparently it was even more crap then some of the earlier releases. So here's a fixer release. This doesn't have any coolness of recent CVS versions. I'll make a devel release at some point, so that you too can be the first kid on your block to run with these new features that no one really needs/wants. And now for the standard part of the release announcement: GDM is the GNOME Display Manager, it is the little proggie that runs in the background, runs your X sessions, presents you with a login box and then tells you to piss off because you forgot your password. It does pretty much everything that you would want to use xdm for, but doesn't involve as much crack. It doesn't use any code from xdm, and has a more paranoid and safer design overall. It also includes many features over xdm, the biggest one of which is that it is more user friendly, even if your X setup is failing. The goal is that users should never, ever have to use the command line to customize or troubleshoot gdm. It of course supports xdmcp, and in fact extends xdmcp a little bit in places where I thought xdm was lacking (but is still compatible with xdm's xdmcp).

#### News:

Highlights of 2.4.4.6:

  * Fixes xdmcp session counting (fixes #126465)
  * The programs that want to talk to gdm check ownership of /tmp/.gdm_socket for added paranoia
  * Fix assert failure when starting Xnest (fixes #127780)
  * Time for the fail delay is in microseconds (Leena Gunda, fixes #128507)
  * Translation updates (Maxim Dziumanenko, Dmitry G. Mastrukov, Russian team, Andras Timar, Sanlig Badral, Paul Duffy, David O'Callaghan, Jordi Mallach, Jordi Mas, Guntupalli Karunakar, Andras Timar)

Note: GDM2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen <mkp@mkp.net>, and has for a while now been maintained by the Queen of England. She is usually not responsive to bug reports or feature requests. You can try to send them to me however. 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. Note3: Note3 has been depracated ...

#### Downloading:

Webpage: http://www.jirka.org/gdm.html  
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.4/  
ftp://ftp.5z.com/pub/gdm/ Sorry no RPMS. There is a spec file included in the tarball and it should work. So generate an rpm with rpmbuild -ta gdm-whatever.tar.gz Have fun (or whatever else you wish to be having), George PS: Those damn canadians sending us mad cows. I say: Blame Canada!   
George <jirka@5z.com> Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who.

  * Monty Python



## Coriander 0.99.9

#### Application

Coriander 0.99.9

#### Description

Coriander is a full-featured GUI for IIDC compliant, IEEE1394 Digital Cameras

#### Enhancements

  * updated the way values are rounded for format7 controls
  * added bandwidth estimation graph
  * the information about the format7 frame is now updated
  * echo bus reset notification in status window
  * update the way interactive boxes are defined (F7 cropping)
  * little change in layout: camera info is now on first tab.



#### Fixes

  * fixed SDL close bug
  * fixed camera hotlug segfault
  * fixed FPS display bug
  * fixed issues with non-format7 cameras
  * properly restart ISO after camera removal
  * fixed problem when switching images sizes with 'm' key
  * fixed some other issues, including some serious ones.
  * fixed temp buffer pointer problem in thread_iso.c
  * fixed configure macros
  * fixed compilation problems with recent kernels (by Peter De Schrijver)
  * fixed C/C++ compilation errors



#### Download

http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/coriander

#### GNOME Software Map entry

http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/coriander

## Epiphany Extensions 0.6

Hi,

#### What is it ?

Epiphany Extensions is a collection of extensions for Epiphany, the GNOME web browser.

#### Which extensions are available ?

  * Mouse Gestures  
Perform actions with mouse gestures
  * Popup Blocker  
Block those annoying popups per-site
  * Tabs Move-To Menu  
Move tabs to other windows without drag-and-drop
  * Sample  
An extension template to ease writing your own extension



#### What's new ?

Code changes:

  * Ported to new epiphany extensions API
  * Mouse gestures: cleaned up code cruft
  * Tabsmenu: re-written to be much simpler

New features:

  * Popup Blocker



#### Where can I get it?

Source code:  
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/epiphany-extensions/0.6/epiphany-extensions-0.6.tar.bz2 Epiphany extensions requires Epiphany 1.1.2 or above:  
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/epiphany/1.1/epiphany-1.1.2.tar.bz2 Regards, Christian

## Pigeon CD Burner 0.1

Hello, I am announcing the first public release of the Pigeon CD Burner. This program is a CD burner, aiming at integration with the gnome2 desktop. It can be found at https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnome-cd-burner/. Please check the ToDo file before submitting bug reports. Here is a screenshot: http://gnome-cd-burner.sourceforge.net/Screenshot.png Currently, only wav burning is supported. Also, Pigeon does not currently check the length of the wav files to make sure that they will fit on the CD. That will come with the addition of Gstreamer, probably by next release. In addition, the interface freezes up for LONG periods of time when building the iso and when recording the CD. While nothing is wrong (running the program from the terminal shows exactly what is going on), this will need to be fixed in future versions. Finally, adding directories can take a great deal of time, as pigeon recursively goes through and calculates the total size of all the sub-directories. Feel free to email me with any questions that may come up at snyderp@lawrence.edu. Patches are greatly appreciated. Peter Snyder

## gst_0.14

#### Application

GST: a Generic Seismic Tool with GTK+ gst_0.14

#### Description

An interactive and graphic tool for seismic data processing: it works with data in SAC_bin and SAC_ASCII, and provides tools for plotting data, zoom, picking, filtering, spectral analysis, time-frequency, polarization analysis ...etc.

#### Enhancements

Upgraded now for new libraries GTK-2.x and glib2.x    
  
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