headers
Murray Cumming | 1 Apr 2004 11:52
Gravatar

ANNOUNCE: GNOME Platform Bindings 2.5.7 (Release Candidate)

*** GNOME Platform Bindings

Please note that the GNOME Platform Bindings are now in API freeze, 
so only very important API changes will be allowed before the 
fully-frozen GNOME Platform Bindings 2.6.0 release, on April 12th.

(See the big list of changes below if you've read this blurb before.) 

This is a scheduled developement release of the GNOME Platform Bindings, 
which provide a stable GNOME development platform for programming 
languages other than C, in the style of those languages. We very much 
hope that Linux distributions will distribute these bindings as a 
supported development platform.

For the GNOME 2.5/2.6 schedule, we have bindings for C++, Java, and Perl:
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/modules.html

These bindings follow these rules:
http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/bindings/rules.html
and this schedule:
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/bindings/

Note that those rules do not guarantee 100% API coverage, but they do 
guarantee API/ABI stability.

There are also "Beta Bindings" for C#, which are likely to be on the 
full release schedule for GNOME 2.7/2.8, but they are not yet following 
the official schedule or rules for 2.5/2.6.

Note that other bindings also exist:
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
Rodrigo Moya | 1 Apr 2004 17:34
Favicon

libgda/libgnomedb 1.1.1 released

libgda/libgnomedb are a complete framewok for developing
database-oriented applications, and actually 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.

This is another development release in the road to 1.2, which will be
the next stable release, and which shows a preview of the new features
getting into the 1.2 final release. It is not intended for production
use, but by people wanting to experiment with the new features and to
help on the development.

Tarballs are available at
ftp://ftp.gnome-db.org/pub/gnome-db/sources/v1.1.1/
                                                                                
To install this new version, you'll need:
* libgda: glib, libxml2, libxslt
* libgnomedb: libgda and dependencies, libgnome/ui, libglade,
libbonoboui and, optionally, gtksourceview

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.
Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
Murray Cumming | 2 Apr 2004 13:00
Gravatar

ANNOUNCE: gtkmm 2.2.11

*** gtkmm 2.2

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

This is the stable branch. gtkmm 2.3.x is also available, and can be installed in parallel.

*** Changes

2.2.11:

* gtkmm 2.2.10 had an incorrect configure-time test, that mistakenly
  disabled some template code for gcc, used to convert from 
  intermediate C++ containers to STL containers. For instance, this
  broke the gnome-vfsmm build.

*** Download

http://www.gtkmm.org/download.shtml

You will need libsigc++ 1.2, available here: 
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970

*** Development 

There is ongoing discussion on the mailing list: 
http://www.gtkmm.org/mailinglist.shtml
and in the #c++ channel on irc.gnome.org

--

--
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
Colin Walters | 3 Apr 2004 01:18
Gravatar

Rhythmbox 0.7.2

Hi,

Here's a new version in the Rhythmbox development series.  We're rapidly
approaching 0.8.0.  A lot of bugs have been fixed.

I'd like to take this space to explain what's going on with tag
editing.  The situation is that almost all the work for this inside
Rhythmbox is already finished.  What needs to be done now is for the
underlying media library like GStreamer or Xine to support it. 
GStreamer's actually getting pretty close, and you may even see it in
the GStreamer 0.8.0 series.

That out of the way, here is the download location:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/rhythmbox/0.7/

And NEWS:

Overview of Changes in Rhythmbox 0.7.2
======================================

* Many crasher bugfixes [Ben Liblit, Colin Walters]
* Initial work on saving database and playlists while running [David Dollar] 
* Fix mime type detection [Colin Walters]
* Fix import of non-UTF8 filenames [Colin Walters]
* Actually respect Cancel in import dialog [Colin Walters]
* Several fixes for GTK+ 2.4 file dialogs [Colin Walters]
* Display buffering progress for Xine backend [David Dollar]
* iPod fixes [Christophe Fergeau]
* Remove deprecated casting usage [Christophe Fergeau]
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
Jorn Baayen | 3 Apr 2004 14:51
Picon

ANNOUNCE: Muine 0.5.1

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

Muine is a new music player using some new UI ideas. The idea is that it
will be much easier and comfortable to use than the iTunes model, which is
used by both Rhythmbox and Jamboree. 

Changes
=======

- New xine backend, which is currently built by default [Jorn Baayen]
- Updated gstreamer backend to work with gstreamer 0.8 and GstPlay [Jorn Baayen]
- Grab multimedia keys globally [Lee Willis]
- Major improvements to the db rebuilding and changes handling [Jorn Baayen]
- Fixes to the replaygain support [Jorn Baayen]
- Tray icon improvements [Jorn Baayen]
- Pressing the window close button hides the window [Jorn Baayen]
- Various other fixes [Edd Dumbill, Jorn Baayen]

Updated translations:
- Basque [Mikel Olasagasti, Iñaki Larrañaga]
- Brazilian Portuguese [Everson Santos Araujo]
- Croatian [Robert Sedak]
- Czech [Miloslav Trmac]
- Dutch [Daniel van Eeden, Timo Meinen]
- French [Vincent Carriere]
- German [Matthias Debus]
- Korean [Young-Ho Cha]
- Norwegian [Kjartan Maraas]
- Serbian [Danilo Šegan]
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
Frank Rehberger | 4 Apr 2004 15:30
Picon

ANNOUNCE: gnome-ior 0.3

*** gnome-ior 0.3

gnome-ior provides a GUI for parsing, displaying and lifeness-test of
CORBA object references (IORs). Implementation is based on ORBit2 and
libglade-2.0.

*** Changes

0.3:

* Using  Gnome-2.0 widgets GtkTreeView and GtkTextView and
construction is based on libglade-2.0 completely.
* Object-ping is using "_non_existant" operation to query lifeness of
object in container. This operation is not delegated to object
implementation but processed by container itsself.
* Addditional Text-Entry for alternative represenation of IOR as URI,
ie. corbaloc:iiop:www.gnome.org:8884/NameService

*** Download

http://casa.in-berlin.de/gnome-ior.xml

*** Development

There is ongoing discussion on the mailing list:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/ORBit2/contact.html
Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
Rodrigo Moya | 5 Apr 2004 13:31
Favicon

Mergeant 0.50 released

Mergeant is a database user and administration tool based on GNOME-DB.
It allows users to easily manage any database supported by GNOME-DB.

This is a development release, the first one after the splitting of
Mergeant into libmergeant and the GUI frontend, resulting in a much
better architecture.
This release works pretty well with PostgreSQL, but it does not work so
well for other databases. Please report any bug to
http://bugzilla.ximian.com.

Changes since release 0.12.1:

 - Splitted data dictionary management to libmergeant.
 - New frontend.

Tarballs can be found at:

	http://download.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/mergeant/0.50/

Mailing list is at:

	http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-db-list/

To install Mergeabt, you'll need:

 - libgda >= 1.1.0
 - libgnomedb >= 1.1.0
 - GTK >= 2.0.x
 - libgnome/ui, libbonobo/ui >= 2.0.x
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
Murray Cumming | 5 Apr 2004 19:45
Gravatar

ANNOUNCE: libgdamm 1.3.2

*** libgdamm

libgdamm provides C++ wrappers for libgda for use with gtkmm. libgda is a generic 
database API with several database provider implementations.

libgdamm is now becoming usable, with actual working examples.

Contact us in the usual gnomemm places - see http://www.gtkmm.org. There is a libgdamm
component in bugzilla's gnomemm product. It is waiting eagerly for your patches.

It's in gnome's cvs in gnomemm/libgdamm.

*** Changes

1.3.2:

* Command, Connection: Added default parameter values, so you don't have to specify so much.
* Added Parameter, ParameterList, Value, and used them in the API.
* Added "simple" and "introspection" examples, which work.
(Murray Cumming)

*** Download 

ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libgdamm/
and the mirrors.

You will need glibmm 2.4 and libgda, available from the same place.

--

-- 
Murray Cumming
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
Michael S. Noble | 5 Apr 2004 20:50
Picon
Favicon

SLgtk 0.5.6 and Vwhere 1.2.0 released

Announcement
============

Version 0.5.6 of SLgtk is now available at

	http://space.mit.edu/CXC/software/slang/modules/slgtk

Release highlights are given in the CHANGELOG excerpt below.

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

The SLgtk package binds the Gtk2 and GtkExtra widget sets to the S-Lang
scripting language (www.s-lang.org).  SLgtk wraps more than 2200 functions
from Gtk2 and its constituent libraries, includes over 4000 lines of
sample code in 40+ working guilets, and bundles a code generator (SLIRP)
which can be 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.

Regards,

-Michael S. Noble

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Version 0.5.6 (04/02/04):
(Continue reading)

Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |
headers
arjanmolenaar | 6 Apr 2004 10:52
Picon

ANNOUNCE: DiaCanvas2 0.12.0

Hi,

A new release has teken place of DiaCanvas2, the GTK/Gnome diagramming widget.

This release includes:
- Better DiaCanvasGroupable API
- Better Python support
- much pof memleak fixes

Check it out at:

    http://diacanvas.sourceforge.net

Regards,

Arjan
Permalink | Reply | 0 comments |

Gmane