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Fernando Herrera | 1 Jan 2003 02:59

Bug Buddy "I should be there, baby!" 2.2.100 released


Hello, and welcome to the first release of the year (and happy new year!)

Bug Buddy "I should be there, baby!" 2.2.100 is out!

Bug Buddy is the GNOME bug reporting tool.

We are very near to GNOME 2.2 release. So this version is ui and string
frozen.

Please, try it a lot, and of course, reports bugs using itseft!

        and if you want to know about the release name... read the bottom of
the announcement!

Changes
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  * Fixes:

	- Workaround for all-applications gnome-vfs bug.

	- Change "Refresh" button to "Update" (bug #101693).

	- Some text corrections (bugs #86410, #99564)

  * Improvements:

	- When reporting a bug from scratch, after the app is selected, if 
	  the component is known, preselect it. Thanks to Kristian Rietveld
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Jody Goldberg | 1 Jan 2003 05:59
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Gnumeric 1.1.15

Gnumeric 1.1.15 aka '1.2.0 will be delayed' is now available.

    Sigh, so much for the accuracy of my worst case estimate on the next stable
    release of Gnumeric.  Were it not for our troubles finding a gnome-2
    graphing engine things would have released long ago.  The core is in great
    shape and getting better by the day.  Frankly its raining features.  Things
    like pivots, extended conditionals and 100% XL function coverage are now in
    easy range.  Thankfully graphs are starting to sort out.  More news soon.

    This release is mainly patches to clean up some of the instability that
    crept in with the parser and autofilter changes.  It has seen more testing
    and should again be stable enough for general kicking around.

    NOTE : Although this is a development release it should be quite
      stable.  There are is still feature regressions from 1.0
      (porting graphs to gtk2) but other than that this release should
      be usable.  Please play with it.

Jody:
	* Fix some XL95 object issues.
	* Find a few undocumented corners of XL's format.
	* Fix XL97 export of validation and filters for simple sheets.
	* Misc screwups with autofilters
	* Ins/Del Col/Row now does mostly the right thing with filters.
	* Ins/Del Col/Row now handles frozen panes.
	* Lower right of merge extends sheet bounds.
	* Fix parser's handling of unknown function.
	* Remove unnecessary new/free of dates.

Jon Kåre:
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Murray Cumming | 1 Jan 2003 17:25
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ANNOUNCE: gtkmm 2.1.3 - READ CHANGES if you installed previous gtkmm 2.1.x versions.

*** gtkmm 2.2

gtkmm provides a C++ interface to GTK+. gtkmm 2.2 wraps GTK+ 2.2
http://www.gtkmm.org.

We expect no major changes before gtkmm 2.2.0. Please consider this a release 
candidate. I know I said that last time.

Like GTK+ 2.2, gtkmm 2.2 contains only API addition, without API or ABI
breakage. We might do bug-fixing work on gtkmm 2.0, but most work will
happen on HEAD, because a stable GTK+ 2.2.0 has already been released.

Contrary to the gtkmm 2.0.2 announcement, gtkmm 2.0.2 will not build
with GTK+ 2.1.x, due to minor API breakage in GTK+. 

*** Changes

2.1.3:

* Changed library binary version so libtool knows that
  2.2 is API compatible with 2.0. We did this wrong in the past
  so people MUST do this:

    rm <prefix>/lib/lib{glib,pango,atk,gdk,gtk}mm-[12].0.so.[345]*

  where <prefix> is something like /usr/local or /opt/gnome2
  This will remove previous bad versions of 2.1.x.
* atkmm: Lots of new interfaces wrapped. (Daniel Elstner).
* Gtk::TextView:: Fixed bytes/length confusion in TextBuffer's 
  insert_text callback. (Daniel Elstner)
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George | 2 Jan 2003 21:05
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ANNOUNCE: GDM 2.4.1.0, the "I should be working on my thesis instead" release


BLAMBLAMBLAMFLAMBLAM

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

Wow, that was a long time since any release.  My official excuse is that
I'm busy with school.  But the truth is, I ran out of imagination for release
announcements.  Come to think of it.  I still have no imagination, and most
would argue that I never did have any.

OK, so the idea of this release is to accompany gnome 2.2.  But it should
just work with gnome 2.0 just as well.  In fact it is still considered a
stable release.  Pretty much just bugs have been fixed and there isn't much
new stuff.  This has been allowed to happen due to the excuse I have given
above.

Of course some people have not been lazy like me and have actually done
some work.  So there are lots of new translations.

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
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George | 3 Jan 2003 20:56
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ANNOUNCE: GENIUS 0.5.1 the "$\frac{\infty}{0}$" release


SOITWAS100ANDNOT10SUEME

In the course of human history it sometimes happenes that bugs turn up
in calculators.  And so it has happened to genius and so here is a fix
release.  Unless you think that sometimes reporting 10 instead of 100
is a good thing it may be time to upgrade.

In any case, Genius is one 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 0.5.1:

* Fix rounding when first digit is rounded and is 9 (reported by
  Kai Arstila)
* Fix atan by using implementation from Guillermo Ballester Valor
  (reported by Kai Arstila)
* Few more functions: Stupid eigenvalue function for 2x2 matrices,
  RaleighQuotient
* Reverse the direction of the vandermonde matrix to coincide with how
  we use polynomials
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Pascal Haakmat | 4 Jan 2003 06:19
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GNUsound 0.5.1

GNUsound is a sound editor for Linux/x86. It supports multiple tracks,
multiple outputs, and 8, 16, or 24/32 bit samples. It can read a
number of audio formats through libaudiofile, and saves them as WAV.
GNUsound supports a large number of high-quality audio effects through
the LADSPA plugin architecture (see http://www.ladspa.org).

GNUsound 0.5.1 adds an amplitude treshold module, fixes a cuepoint
drawing bug, fixes the behavior of the fast-forward/fast-rewind
buttons, fixes a potential crash in the LADSPA dialog, and fixes a GCC
2.95 compilation problem.

Homepage: http://awacs.dhs.org/software/gnusound
Mirror  : http://gnusound.sf.net
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Paolo Bacchilega | 4 Jan 2003 10:20
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ANNOUNCE: Quick Lounge 1.1.1

Application
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Quick Lounge 1.1.1 (for GNOME 2.2)

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

An applet to orginize your preferred applications on the GNOME Panel.

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

Update the icons when the icon theme changes.
Bugfixes.

Download
========

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/quick-lounge/quick-lounge-applet-1.1.1.tar.gz

Web page: http://quick-lounge.sourceforge.net
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J.H.M. Dassen (Ray | 4 Jan 2003 22:13
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Gnumeric 1.0.12

Gnumeric 1.0.12 'Coochie coo Balder' is now available.

This is a maintenance release. New development is being done in the 1.1.x
series which is based on gnome2.

Probably the most important change is a reversal of the XML importer change
made in 1.0.11 which turned out to cause problems when importing XML files
that contained non-ASCII characters. The original problem that was the
reason for that change is now being worked around in a different fashion.

* Changes

	Jody
		http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101204
		* Fix crash on explicitly scoped ranges in regressions

		* backport small text import cleanup.

		* Remove the patch to the xml importer in 1.0.11 and solve 
		  the problem using a blunt object.

	Morten:
		* Improve determinant calculation for singular matrices.

* Availability                                                                  

	http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric/1.0
	http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnumeric/
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TV is the worst of both worlds. It's not as good at words as radio is
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Juri Pakaste | 5 Jan 2003 22:24
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ANNOUNCE: Straw 0.15

Application
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Straw 0.15

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

A GNOME 2 desktop news aggregator, using the RSS syndication format

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

- create links to creative commons licenses
- previous/next now wrap around the feed list if needed
- deal with entities in titles so they aren't displayed in the item list
- filter out font tags from item descriptions, so some feeds using font
size=2 aren't unreadable any more

Fixes
=====

- fix problem with web servers which don't support if-none-match
- save more data from articles: freshmeat data, dc creator, cc license
urls
- fix a problem with sessions
- fix broken makefile

Download
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Jordi Mallach | 5 Jan 2003 23:09
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GTetrinet 0.5.0


Application
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GTetrinet 0.5.0

Description
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GTetrinet is a Tetrinet client using Gtk+ and GNOME-libs.
Tetrinet is a variant of the popular Tetris brick game, that can be played
simultaneously by 6 players. GTetrinet's goal is to remain completely
compatible with the Windows, original client. Tetrinet clients need to
connect to a dedicated server in order to be useful. GTetrient only provides
the client part, but there are plenty of available servers around.
Look at http://www.tetrinet.org/ for a list of servers.

Notes
=====

Here it is! GTetrinet 0.5.0 is our first GNOME2-based version. Besides the
port, many improvements have been introduced in the UI, and some bugs have
been squashed, but most people will just care of how nice GTetrinet looks
with their desktop now :) Or, mostly nice, because we need to work on the
icons a bit more... but that'll be in another version :)

I'd like to thank James Antill and Dani Carbonell for all their work on this
release. Without them, 0.5.0 would not be out at this time.

Please contact me at jordi <at> sindominio.net to report problems with this version.
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