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Janina Sajka | 1 Dec 2006 04:05

Re: LSR 0.3.2 - BSD Licensed!

Congrats on the move to BSD licensing. This is excellent news!

And, the rpms for LSR-0.3.2 are now also available as follows. Please
note that thee directory structure at the SpeakupModified.Org domain has
changed in preparation for our launch of yum repositories coming soon.

the lsr-0.3.2 binary rpm is available at:
http://SpeakupModified.Org/current/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/lsr-0.3.2-1.i386.rpm

the lsr-0.3.2 source rpm is available at:
http://SpeakupMOdified.Org/current/source/SRPMS/lsr-0.3.2-1.src.rpm

Or, if you prefer, use anonymous ftp or rsync:
ftp://ftp.SpeakupModified.Org/speakupmodified/fedora/current/
rsync -l SpeakupModified.Org::speakupmodified/current/

Peter Parente writes:
> ==============
> * What is it ?
> ==============
> 
> Linux Screen Reader (LSR) is an extensible assistive technology for people with
> disabilities. The design philosophy behind LSR is to provide a core platform
> that enables the development of LSR extensions for improving desktop
> application accessibility and usability and shields extension developers from
> the intricacies of the desktop accessibility architecture.
> 
> The primary use of the LSR platform is to give people with visual impairments
> access to the GNOME desktop and its business applications (e.g. Firefox,
> OpenOffice, Eclipse) using speech, Braille, and screen magnification. The
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Bart Hakvoort | 1 Dec 2006 16:30
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ANNOUNCE: GParted-0.3.2

Application
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GParted-0.3.2

Description
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GParted stands for Gnome Partition Editor. Among other features it
supports creating, resizing, moving and copying of partitions.

Features: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php

New Features:
* read and display volumelabels (#338528)
* added 'Check' operation so the user can schedule check/repair actions on filesystems

Translations (new/updated):
* nl    : Tino Meinen
* en_GB : David Lodge
* el	: Dimitris Glezos
* mk	: Jovan Naumovski
* sv	: Daniel Nylander
* es    : Francisco Javier F. Serrador
* ca	: Gil Forcada
* ne	: Mahesh subedi
* fi 	: Ilkka Tuohela
* dz	: Jurmey Rabgay
* hu	: Gabor Kelemen
* gl	: Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
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Willie Walker | 3 Dec 2006 12:53
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Announcing Orca v2.17.3

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* What is Orca?
===============

Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader that
provides access to the graphical desktop via user-customizable
combinations of speech, braille, and/or magnification.  Orca development
has been led by the Sun Microsystems, Inc., Accessibility Program Office
via continued engagement with its end users and contributions from 
wonderful community members.

The Orca 2.17.x series are designated for the GNOME 2.17.x releases, 
but should also work well on the GNOME 2.16.x releases.

NOTE ON FIREFOX SUPPORT: we know many of you are anxiously awaiting
compelling access to the web via Orca and Firefox.  As of v2.17.3, 
the support is still under development and both the Orca and Firefox 
teams are working feverishly to get it there for Firefox 3.

==================================
* What's changed for Orca v2.17.3?
==================================

* Implementation of RFE 373566: Added support to switch between
  desktop and laptop bindings.  Also added support for allowing the
  Caps Lock key to act as the Orca modifier.

* Added feature to the preferences dialog to present the key bindings
  as progress towards RFE 354970.  Many thanks to Jorge Sandín for
  this work!
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Phil Cowans | 3 Dec 2006 19:49
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Dasher 4.3.2 released

I'm pleased to announce that Dasher 4.3.2 is now available for
download from:

  http://download.gnome.org/sources/dasher/4.3/

Windows and unofficial Debian/Ubuntu binaries will shortly be
available from:

  http://www.dasher.org.uk/Download.html

Dasher is a predictive text input system for the GNOME Desktop,
suitable for any situation in which a conventional keyboard cannot be
used.

This release is the next installment in the new development series,
fixing a few compile time bugs and updating translations.

As always, thanks to all Dasher developers and contributors. Please
file any bug reports in the GNOME Bugzilla, and send any comments and
feedback to dasher <at> mrao.cam.ac.uk.

Yours,

Phil Cowans and the Dasher team,
3rd December 2006
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Tristan Van Berkom | 4 Dec 2006 04:19
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Glade 3.1.1 snapshot

Hi,
    This is the second snapshot of the 3.1 series (keeping in sync with
gnome 2.17.3). As I mentioned in the 3.1.0 announcement, we are doing a
big UI overhaul in this release cycle so we are eager to hear any comments
people have about the UI, we need your critical eye for detail to help
model a good and usable interface that will hopefully meet everyones needs.

I'm happy to say there's been steady development and we're sure you'll like
what's on the menu :)

What is Glade ?
===============
Glade is a RAD tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces
for the Gtk+ toolkit and the GNOME desktop environment.
The user interfaces designed in Glade are stored in XML format,
enabling easy integration with external tools.
In particular libglade can load the XML files and create the interfaces
at runtime. The DTD for the XML files is included with libglade, and is
also at http://glade.gnome.org/glade-2.0.dtd.
Other tools are available which can turn the XML files into source code
in languages such as C++, Perl and Python.

===========
Glade 3.1.1
===========

New features and fixes
======================
    - Use GtkRecent and removed manual recent project handling (Vincent 
Geddes)
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Nate Nielsen | 3 Dec 2006 22:46

ANNOUNCEMENT: Seahorse 0.9.8

More fine tuning...

About Seahorse:
================

This is a development release.

Seahorse is a GNOME application for managing encryption keys. It also
integrates with nautilus, gedit and other places for
encryption/decryption operations.

Current work on seahorse is going into making encryption easier for end
users to use and (where needed) comprehend.

Changes between 0.9.7 and 0.9.8:
=================================

    * Tons of Manual and Documentation updates by
      <milo_casagrande <at> yahoo.it>
    * Work out how seahorse-daemon should be started properly.
      See: http://live.gnome.org/Seahorse/SessionIntegration
    * GUI fixes:
      * Generate dialogs are now more consistent.
      * Make passphrase prompts more consistent.
      * Hook up help button in SSH generate dialog.
      * Better describe what part of key is being exported.
    * Cleaner SSH proxy initialization.
    * Don't prompt for each public key deleted.
    * Show GPG 'valid' keys on the trusted tab.
    * Fix unneeded syncing error messages.
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Richard Hughes | 4 Dec 2006 02:41
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GNOME Power Manager 2.17.3

GNOME Power Manager is a session daemon that makes it easy to manage the
power on your laptop or desktop system.

This _unstable_ release contains lots of new features since 2.17.2 was
released.

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Version 2.17.3
==============

Released December 04, 2006

General

 - Add the initial versions of the inhibit and brightness applets.
 - Update the window title to be Power History rather than Power Graphs to
   match the drop down menu. #364200
 - Only allocate a buffer once, globally. #363991 (Stu Hood)
 - Fix several build errors on Solaris. #364621 (Harry Lu)
 - Lots of code structure changes, so now task-gobjects are now responsible
   for applying policy. Actions are now mostly asyncronous and modular.
   Code is now easier to understand IMO, and has a better structure.
 - Add really basic support for sounds when critical events happen, for
   instance if suspend fails and the lid is shut. Prevents melting.
   This uses gst-launch to use gstreamer. Add some sample sounds done by me.
 - Convert multi-instance code from libguniqueapp to GtkUnique.
 - Add gnome-keyring functionality to lock keyrings when sleeping. #375681
 - Use GtkUnique rather than libguniqueapp. Optional but recommended dep.

Power Manager
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Paolo Borelli | 4 Dec 2006 14:31
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gedit 2.17.1

gedit is the official text editor of GNOME

While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general
purpose text editor.

Among others, it features full UTF-8 support, syntax highlighting and a
powerful plugin system.

Web site: http://www.gedit.org
Mailing list: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gedit-list

gedit 2.17.1 is a the first release of the 2.17 development series.
Despite being part of a development series it should be stable.

There weren't any major changes (see below for a detailed list), the
most notable thing is that the spell plugin now uses the enchant library
and the iso-codes package: distros should update the dependencies in
their package.

Download:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gedit/2.17/gedit-2.17.1.tar.gz

ciao
	Paolo

News:

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gedit 2.17.1
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Brian Cameron | 4 Dec 2006 21:17
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GDM2 2.17.3 (unstable), the "Boy Its Cold In Chicago" Release


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

The 2.17.3 release is an unstable release of GDM with the following
new features.

- Now all GDM GUI's are run as the gdm user.  This change ensures
   that all GDM GUI's can talk to the at-spi-registryd that is
   running.  This change involved making the forked slave talk
   to the the GDM daemon so that the dialogs can be displayed.
   The response from the dialog can be returned to the slave.
   There are reports that this bug triggers GDK bug #376315 on
   Linux when a11y is turned off.  This will need to be fixed
   before the next GDM stable release.  Workaround is to turn
   on a11y until this bug is fixed.  (Leena Gunda and Srirama
   Sharma)

- gdmsetup has a new tooltip suggestion.  (Calum Benson)

- Now "Default System Session" is renamed to "Run Xclient
   script" which is more accurately what this does.  Use xterm
   as fallback instead of xsm, since xsm is not available on all
   Linux.  Now zenity pop-up message is displayed when Xclient
   script is not found.  (Brian Cameron)

- Fix for TryExec check in gdmsession to make sure that any
   arguments are not passed to g_find_program_in_path since
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Behdad Esfahbod | 5 Dec 2006 02:01
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Pango-1.15.1 released [unstable]

Pango-1.15.1 is now available for download at:

  http://download.gnome.org/sources/pango/1.15/
or
  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/pango/1.15

bb24f4fd3d303e84827f852b38a682f7  pango-1.15.1.tar.bz2
3d2bd774728c11728e15ba429c67e6d5  pango-1.15.1.tar.gz

This is a development release leading up to Pango-1.16.0, which
will be released just in time for GNOME-2.18.

Notes:

 * This is unstable development release. While it has had
   fairly extensive testing, there are likely bugs
   remaining to be found. This release should not be used
   in production.

 * Installing this version will overwrite your existing
   copy of Pango. If you have problems, you'll need
   to reinstall Pango-1.14.x

 * Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.

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
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