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George | 2 Aug 2002 07:02
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ANNOUNCE: GDM 2.4.0.5, the "Late announcement" release


EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK

(If you have no clue what gdm is, skip a few paragraphs down first)

As some of you may have noticed, 2.4.0.5 has been on the ftp sites for a day
or two already.  Yes, you are right, it is a conspiracy.  The CIA is making
me delay these announcements in order to subdue the free world.  In my
opinion though it is those damn aliens that are making them do it, so it's
not really their fault.  Me being a resident alien, I should know something
about it.

In any case, this release comes with a whole bunch of minor, and some not
so minor fixes.  Some of them are bordering on improvements, but I classified
them all as fixes.  You wouldn't believe how many small errors you find in
any code given enough time to look at it.  The biggest improvement in this
version is the new config file reader/writer.  This is a much saner
implementation then the gnome_config one.  In fact it will keep around
comments and generally be a lot nicer about human editted files.  This makes
using both gdmsetup and a text editor for gdm configuration easier (it also
makes debugging easier for me:)

Also another thing that was bugging me and is now fixed is that the login
window yet again resizes properly when the label doesn't fit.  Yes it means
it may jump around and resize but at least it doesn't cut text.  Better gui
layout should be done for the standard greeter so that it doesn't need to
resize much at all.

And now for the standard part of the release announcement:
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Sebastian Rittau | 3 Aug 2002 01:21
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ANNOUNCE: GNOME Personal Information Manager 1.4.8

                               GNOME-PIM 1.4.8
                               ===============

This is a bug fix release for GNOME-PIM, the GNOME Personal Information
Manager. GNOME-PIM includes an iCal based calendar and a vCard based
address book application.

This version fixes the calendar conduit as well as some other bugs.

GNOME-PIM 1.4.8 is available at:

  http://me.in-berlin.de/~jroger/gnome-pim/gnome-pim-1.4.8.tar.gz

The GNOME 2 Porting Effort
--------------------------

The effort to port GNOME-PIM to the GNOME 2 platform, while modernizing
its code base at the same time, is going on well. We have released an
early preview version, dubbed 1.91.1 "Only 48 Hours, NOT!", available at

  http://me.in-berlin.de/~jroger/gnome-pim/libmimedir-0.2.0.tar.gz
  http://me.in-berlin.de/~jroger/gnome-pim/gnome-pim-1.91.1.tar.gz

For the current development efforts, see the gnome-pim-2-branch branch
in GNOME CVS's gnome-pim module.
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Owen Taylor | 3 Aug 2002 21:32
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ATK-1.0.3 released


ATK-1.0.3 is now available for download from:

 ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.0/

This is a bug fix release and is source and binary compatible with
ATK-1.0.2.

About ATK
=========

The ATK library provides a set of interfaces for accessibility.
By supporting the ATK interfaces, an application or toolkit can
be used with such tools as screen readers, magnifiers,
and alternative input devices.

Atk provides a core set of interfaces which are common to all 
widgets and "additional" interfaces that are appropriate to certain 
classes of widgets and whose existence can be queried at run time. 
It also provides interfaces which an application can use to provide 
additional accessibility information to assistive technology tools.

The GAIL package, available from:

 http://download.gnome.org/GNOME/pre-gnome2/sources/gail/

provides an implementation of the ATK interfaces for the GTK+
user interface toolkit.

More information about ATK is available from:
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Owen Taylor | 3 Aug 2002 21:35
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GLib-2.0.6 released


GLib-2.0.6 is now available for download at:

 ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.0/

GLib-2.0.6 is a bug fix release, and compatible with GLib-2.0.4.

About GLib
==========

GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects
such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C,
portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as
an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system.

More information about GLib is available at:

 http://www.gtk.org/

An installation guide for the GTK+ libraries, including GLib, can
be found at:

 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-building.html

Overview of Changes in GLib 2.0.6
=================================

* Fix problem with interface prerequisites [Jon Trowbridge, Dave Camp]
* Clean up debug spew from GObject [Anders Carlsson]
* Compiler warning fixes [David L. Cooper II]
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Owen Taylor | 3 Aug 2002 21:38
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Pango-1.0.4 released


Pango-1.0.4 is now available for download at:

 ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.0/

This release contains a number of bug fixes, as well as a
new shaper that supports Thai TrueTyep fonts via Xft and
support for a number of new X font encodings. It is source 
and binary compatible with Pango-1.0.3.

About Pango
===========

Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis
on internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout
is needed; however, most of the work on Pango-1.0 was done using the
GTK+ widget toolkit as a test platform. Pango forms the core of text
and font handling for GTK+-2.0.

Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used
with four different font backends:

 - Core X windowing system fonts
 - Client-side fonts on X using the Xft library
 - Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library
 - Native fonts on Microsoft backends

Dynamically loaded modules then handle text layout for particular
combinations of script and font backend. Pango-1.0.0 ships with a wide
selection of modules, including modules for Hebrew, Arabic, Hangul,
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Owen Taylor | 3 Aug 2002 21:57
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GTK+-2.0.6 released


GTK+-2.0.6 is now available for download at:

 ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.0/

along with new versions of the 3 base libraries, GLib, Pango and ATK.
This is a bug-fix release, and is source and binary compatible
with GTK+-2.0.5.

What is GTK+
============

GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user
interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for
projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application
suites.

GTK+ has been designed from the ground up to support a range of
languages, not only C/C++. Using GTK+ from languages such as Perl and
Python (especially in combination with the Glade GUI builder) provides
an effective method of rapid application development.

GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project. However, the
licensing terms for GTK+, the GNU LGPL, allow it to be used by all
pdevelopers, including those developing proprietary software, without
any license fees or royalties. 

Where to get more information about GTK+
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Ali Akcaagac | 4 Aug 2002 00:20
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ANNOUNCE: CVSGnome Build Script 0.2.8

Application
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CVSGnome Build Script 0.2.8

Description
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CVSGnome is a modern powerfull GNOME build script. It's able to build from
stable Tarballs or CVS.

Enhancements
============

- updated to the most recent tarball versions.
- changed gnome-panel to point to gnome-2-0.
- changed gnome-session to point to gnome-2-0.
- changed yelp to point to gnome-2-0.
- updated automake to use a new version.
- added gob2 to the list of checkouts and tarballs.
- added gnome-games to the list of checkouts and tarballs.
- complete locking system got rewritten.
- FAQ reworked.

Download
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http://www.fh-wilhelmshaven.de/~akcaagaa/
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Mark McLoughlin | 5 Aug 2002 11:18
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gnome-panel, gnome-session and gnome-desktop releases

Hey,

* What are they ?
=================

	gnome-panel contains the GNOME panel which the area
on your desktop from which you can run applications and
applets, and perform other tasks.

	gnome-desktop contains the libgnome-desktop library
which contains APIs that really belong in libgnome[ui] but
have not seen enough testing or development to be considered
stable. It also contains documents installed as part of the
core GNOME distribution, e.g. the GPL, GNOME's .desktop files,
the gnome-about program, some manpages and GNOME's core graphics
files and icons.

	gnome-session contains the GNOME session manager, the GNOME
session manager configuration program and several other session
management related utilities and the GNOME session manager proxy,
which handles basic session management for applications that do not
support XSMP.

* What's changed ?
==================

=================
gnome-panel 2.0.4
=================
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Mikael Hallendal | 5 Aug 2002 22:17
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ANNOUNCE: Yelp 1.0.2

Application
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Yelp 1.0.2

Description
===========

Help browser for GNOME 2.0 which supports docbook documents, info and
man.

Changes in 1.0.2:
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* Fixed missing info pages and sort info pages  (Mikael Hallendal)
* Remove duplications in manpath                (Yogeesh MB)
* Support for gnome2-*2html in libexec          (Brian Cameron)
* Buffer overflow fix                           (Laavanya K R)
* Stylesheet fixes                              (Sander Vesik)
* Fixes for toolbar style                       (Kang Jeong-Hee)
* Fixed window icon and about box icon          (Nicholas Curran)
* Various minor fixes                           (Mikael Hallendal,
                                                 Padraig O'Briain)
* Updated translations 
  (lv, de, am, ca, bg, sv, et, ru, pl, no, sk, fr, ms, ko, nl, da, 
   wa, vi, hu)

Download
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Dave Camp | 6 Aug 2002 03:37

eel 2.0.3 and nautilus 2.0.3

New versions of:

- Eel, the Eazel Extension Library

and

- Nautilus, the GNOME file manager

are available for download at:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/pre-gnome2/sources/eel/eel-2.0.3.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/pre-gnome2/sources/nautilus/nautilus-2.0.3.tar.gz

Major Changes:

Eel 2.0.3
---------

- EelBackground fixes.

Nautilus 2.0.3
--------------

- Drag and drop has been implemented in the list view.

- Performance enhancements in the icon factory.

- Various bugfixes.
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