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Johan Dahlin | 1 Feb 18:27
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ANNOUNCE: kiwi 1.9.13

Kiwi is a PyGTK framework for building graphical applications loosely
based on MVC Model-View-Controller (MVC) and Allen Holub's Visual proxy
[1]. Think of Kiwi as a high-level, object-oriented layer built on
PyGTK.
Its design is based on real-world experience using PyGTK to develop
large desktop applications, which use many concepts common to most
graphical applications: multiple windows and dialogs, forms, data
persistence, lists and high-level classes that support domain objects
directly.

Download
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Grab the latest sources from:

  http://www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi/download/kiwi-1.9.12.tar.gz

What's new since 1.9.12?
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    - Workaround GtkEntry bug when resizing the size of its GtkWindows.
      (Johan, Ronaldo)
    - Include _kiwi.c in tarball, fixes build. (Johan)
    - Use pkg-config to find pygtk version. (Johan)

Features
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* An MVC-derived framework of classes:
  * Views, which represent the graphical display
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George | 2 Feb 19:55
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ANNOUNCE: GENIUS 0.7.7 the "Yay! I got job(s)!" release


To find out what Genius is, skip a few paragraphs down, or go to
http://www.jirka.org/genius.html

Well, here is one of the now sort of twice yearly release cycles of genius.
Basically whenever I need to do something and genius doesn't do it, I have to
implement it.  Apart from some UI improvements (for example "show full
answer" menu item which is absolutely needed if you get large matrices as
results), the biggest new thing I suppose is the fact that I've implemented
the cubic and quartic formulas correctly.  As a result we can of course now
compute eigenvalues for matrices up to 4x4, yay!

As for the release title, I have 2 job offers now.  I just have to decide
what kind of weather I like: central Illinois deep freeze cold (UIUC) or
deadly Texas head (Texas A&M).

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 (at
least glib2 if you don't want a GUI) and a recent enough gmp library.
However you can still use the command line version if you prefer non-gui
interface.

Here are the news in 0.7.7:

* Add IsPositiveDefinite, IsPositiveSemidefinite, QuarticFormula
* SEMANTICS: QuadraticFormula, CubicFormula, Eigenvalues, and DiagonalOf
  now consistently return a column vector
* Fix CubicFormula for complex coefficients and better handle real roots,
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guenther | 3 Feb 00:49
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GARNOME 2.16.3 -- "I, Robot"

GARNOME 2.16.3
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The  "I, Robot"  release.

We are pleased to announce the release of GARNOME 2.16.3. This release
incorporates the GNOME 2.16.3 Desktop and Developer Platform, fine-tuned
and updated with love by the GARNOME Team.

As usual it includes a lot of updates and fixes, together with a host of
third-party GNOME packages, Bindings and the Mono(tm) Platform -- this
is the last release of the current stable GNOME branch.

As usual, you can get the tarball directly from the gnome.org site:
 http://download.gnome.org/sources/garnome/2.16/

If you got any issues with this release, feel free to contact the
GARNOMEies in the #garnome channel on GIMPNet (irc://irc.gnome.org),
where we hang out, or post to the mailing list.

More information is available at our project website:
 http://www.gnome.org/projects/garnome/

Enjoy,

  The GARNOME Team

--

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Richard Hult | 3 Feb 11:58
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Devhelp 0.13 released

Devhelp 0.13 has been released!

Devhelp is a developer tool for browsing and searching API documentation
for GTK+ and GNOME.

This is a maintenance release containing mostly small improvements and
bug fixes. The full list of changes:

- Revert theme change since it breaks gecko < 1.9
- Make deprecated keywords grey
- Only search for books in the XDG data/home directories
- Fixed #310542, Improve the gtk-doc devhelp format (Richard)
- Fixed #349229, Documentation page header is transparent (Richard)
- Fixed #349352, GConf schema has wrong key (Jonathon Jongsma)
- Fixed #349880, add a generic name to the .desktop file (Matthias Clasen)
- Fixed #341170, Added gecko_home variable to .pc file (Naba Kumar)
- Fixed #334867, Initialize the HTML view to display about:blank (David 
Trowbridge)

Translations:
- Updated el: Kostas Papadimas
- Updated fr: Christophe Merlet
- Updated bg: Alexander Shopov
- Updated sv: Richard Hult
- Updated pt: Duarte Loreto
- Updated vi: Clytie Siddall
- Updated nb: Kjartan Maraas
- Updated de: Hendrik Richter
- Updated ko: Changwoo Ryu
- Updated ne: Pawan Chitrakar
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Peter Parente | 2 Feb 17:23
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LSR 0.4.0

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* What is it ?
==============

The Linux Screen Reader (LSR) project is an open source effort to
develop an extensible assistive technology for the GNOME desktop
environment. The goal of the project is to create a reusable
development platform for building alternative and supplemental user
interfaces in support of people with diverse disabilities.

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

For users

* LSR now supports Braille output using the current development snapshot of
  BrlAPI 0.5.0. Basic input commands are also supported such as scrolling,
  touch cursor clicking, etc. Many options are available such as caret padding,
  scrolling behavior, custom ellipsis rendering, custom caret rendering, and
  dead Braille cell skipping. Thanks to Scott Haeger for his hard work in
  adding initial Braille support.
* Screen magnification is now available using the GNOME magnifier. All options
  supported by the magnifier are available in LSR's settings dialog. Additional
  features such as independent mouse, focus, and caret tracking and smooth
  panning are also configurable. Thanks to Eitan Isaacson for his efforts in
  supporting the GNOME magnifier.
* Supporting Firefox 3.0 (Minefield) remains a top priority. Item, word, and
  character navigation function properly on many pages. How to treat trivial
  elements is now user configurable. The next LSR release will focus heavily on
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Aaron Bockover | 5 Feb 08:52
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ANNOUNCE: Banshee 0.11.6

===============================================================================
BANSHEE 0.11.6
===============================================================================

 * Banshee is a music management and playback application for GNOME.

   "Import, organize, play, and share your music using Banshee's simple, 
    powerful interface. Rip CDs, play and sync your iPod, create playlists, 
    and burn audio CDs. Most portable music devices are supported. Banshee 
    also has support for podcasting, smart playlists, music recommendations, 
    and much more."

 * Learn More: http://banshee-project.org/Discover
 * Release Overview Page: http://banshee-project.org/Releases/0.11.6

===============================================================================
TABLE OF CONTENTS
===============================================================================

 * Welcome
 * Module Notes
 * Get The Goods
   - Sources
   - ChangeLogs
   - Dependencies
 * Major Feature/Fixes/Performance Updates
   - Cool New Features
   - For all the Awesome Banshee Developers
 * Bugzilla Overview
   - Noteworthy bugs fixes/enhancements embraced in this release
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Boyd Timothy | 5 Feb 17:26
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ANNOUNCE: Tomboy 0.5.6 Released

Hey Everyone,

This mail is to announce the new Tomboy version 0.5.6 development
release.  If you're running a previous 0.5.4 or older, you'll want to update
to this release before you hit the bulleted list serialization problem (fixed
in 0.5.5).

Tomboy is a simple note-taking application designed to be unobtrusive
and friendly, while supporting inter-note links similar to a
WikiWikiWeb to help you organize your notes and ideas.  It can run
either as a Gnome panel applet or a notification tray-icon.

See the website at http://www.gnome.org/projects/tomboy for
downloads, screenshots, and more information.

Tomboy's Road Map: http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/RoadMap
Brainstorming: http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/PlaceForNewIdeas

Tomboy is available at:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/tomboy/0.5/tomboy-0.5.6.tar.gz
  md5sum: 5ee60285f487a7a81f5223e039b54971
  size: 1.2M

http://download.gnome.org/sources/tomboy/0.5/tomboy-0.5.6.tar.bz2
  md5sum: 598327a3988e776c5be04b4e27953049
  size: 1.0M

This newest release (0.5.6) includes the following:
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Bryce Harrington | 5 Feb 21:10
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Inkscape Announces 0.45 Release

                    Inkscape Announces 0.45 Release
                http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.

The Inkscape community today announces the newest version of its vector
graphic drawing software.  Inkscape 0.45 features a new Gaussian Blur
SVG filter.  Sponsored by Google's Summer of Code program, Gaussian Blur
allows you to softly and naturally blur any Inkscape objects, including
shapes, text, and images.  This enables a wide range of photorealistic
effects: arbitrarily shaped shades and lights, depth of field, drop
shadows, glows, etc. Also, blurred objects can be used as masks for
other objects to achieve the "feathered mask" effect. 

Numerous other new features, enhancements to existing features, and bug
fixes have been included. A history dialog allows you to browse your
change history.  Many new extension effects are added including Pattern
along Path and Color Effects.  There have been performance improvements
to rendering speed, on the order of 2-3% in general, and up to 5-10% for
drawings using heavy transparency and/or radial gradients.  Compositing
quality is also improved through the removal of banding seen in
gradients.

Download Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X packages:

     http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438

For many more details, see the complete Release Notes for 0.45:

     http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_Notes045

Community submitted screenshots:
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Johan Dahlin | 5 Feb 22:11
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ANNOUNCE: PyGTK 2.10.4

I am pleased to announce the stable version 2.10.4 of the Python bindings
for GTK.

The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org and its mirrors
as soon as its synced correctly:

     http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pygtk/2.10/

Blurb:

GTK is a toolkit for developing graphical applications that run on
systems such as Linux, Windows and MacOS X. It provides a comprehensive set
of GUI widgets, can display Unicode bidi text.  It links into the Gnome
Accessibility Framework through the ATK library.

PyGTK provides a convenient wrapper for the GTK+ library for use in
Python programs, and takes care of many of the boring details such as
managing memory and type casting.  When combined with PyORBit and
gnome-python, it can be used to write full featured Gnome applications.

Like the GTK+ library itself PyGTK is licensed under the GNU LGPL, so is
suitable for use in both free software and proprietary applications.  It
is already in use in many applications ranging from small single purpose
scripts up to large full features applications.

What's new since 2.10.3 ?

    - Documentation build fixes (John Finlay, Gustavo)
    - Return NULL on error in TextBuffer.register_serialize_format
      (Paolo Borelli)
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Jon Phillips | 5 Feb 22:45
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http://www.inkscape.org :: Draw Freely.

Draw Freely: Inkscape Announces 0.45 Release

February 5, 2007 - The Inkscape community today announced the newest
version of its cross-platform open source vector graphic drawing software,
Inkscape.  Inkscape 0.45 features a new Gaussian Blur SVG filter.
Sponsored by Google's Summer of Code program, Gaussian Blur allows you
to softly and naturally blur any Inkscape objects, including shapes,
text, and images.  This enables a wide range of photorealistic effects:
arbitrarily shaped shades and lights, depth of field, drop shadows,
glows, etc. Also, blurred objects can be used as masks for other objects
to achieve the "feathered mask" effect.

Numerous other new features, enhancements to existing features, and bug
fixes have been included. A history dialog allows you to browse your
change history.  Many new extension effects are added including Pattern
along Path and Color Effects.  There are performance improvements to
rendering speed, on the order of 2-3% in general, and up to 5-10% for
drawings using heavy transparency and/or radial gradients.  Compositing
quality is also improved through the removal of banding seen in gradients.

The Inkscape community invites anyone to contribute to the project. The
project is now working on the upcoming 0.46 release which will focus
on the initial stages of adding SVG animation support, increasing the
apps PDF functionality, and other refactoring tasks. On a global scale,
Inkscape is pushing for version 0.50 to have full compatibility with
SVG Mobile/Tiny. Then, the ultimate large goal is to get to Inkscape
1.0 which will be a fully W3C SVG 1.1 compliant application. The more
help the project receives, the faster the aforementioned goals will
be accomplished.
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