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Aaron Bockover | 1 Apr 2007 07:57
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ANNOUNCE: Banshee 0.12.1

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BANSHEE 0.12.1
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 * 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/0.12.1

 * This release is the first maintenance release in the 0.12.x series; it
   only contains critical and important bug fixes, and translation updates

 * Most importantly, this release (along with ipod-sharp and libipoddevice)
   brings iTunes 7.1 iPod compatibility, iPod Shuffle 2 support, and improved
   HFS+ read-only iPod support

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

 * Welcome
 * Module Notes
 * Get The Goods
   - Sources
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Ravi Kiran U V S | 1 Apr 2007 15:20
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csboard 0.8 released

We are happy to announce the long waited release of CsBoard. This release has got a lot of new features

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

CsBoard is a small GUI for playing chess with programs like gnuchess,
crafty, play on Internet Chess Servers like freechess.org, viewing games
in PGN format, save and organize games into collections to search them later.

It is written in C# and uses gtk-sharp and mono. CsBoard
uses gnuchess as an engine, but you can also play with crafty or phalanx.

* Where to get it ?
===================

http://download.berlios.de/csboard/csboard-0.8.tar.gz

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

Release 0.8 contains:

* Internet Chess Server (ICS) client
* You can play on the ICS server, watch other games (especially the games played by Grand Masters live, if there are any tournaments going on)
* save games into a database and organize them into collections
* rate games and tag them so that they can be searched easily
* Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) database
* 'csboard' is the main command to start the app. The viewer can be started with 'csviewer'
* Screencasts posted on the site http://csboard.berlios.de
* uses cairo graphics

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James "Doc" Livingston | 2 Apr 2007 16:20
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Rhytymbox 0.10.0 "The City Above"

G'day everyone,

On behalf of the Rhythmbox developers, I'm happy to announce the
first[0] release in our new stable series is out. Rhythmbox 0.10.0 "The
City Above" has no additional features over 0.9.8, only bug fixes and
updated translations, so we suggest that everyone using 0.9.8 upgrade to
0.10.0.

What is Rhythmbox?
------------------

Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally
inspired by Apple's iTunes. It is free software, designed to work well
under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media
framework.

Bug Fixes
---------

* Fix assorted crashers (410601, 411783, 411558, 411189, 413206, 393642,
416024)
* fix build issues (411141, 380411, 411145, 413301, 419874)
* Fix typos (411584, 413640)
* stop some critical warnings (411703)
* Improve Jamendo error handling (411038)
* Make compatible with libsoup other than 2.2.99 (410940)
* Italisise Magnatune text correctly (412931)
* Fix some memory leaks
* Use AudioScobbler logo properly (409164)
* Don't cause gnome-power-manager to start (416213)
* Fix some threading issues (420444)
* Don't add files starting with a period (395124)
* Improve Magnatune error handling (414980)
* Fix sizing of playlist format combo box (419153)
* Copy MP3s to audio players without lame installed

Contributors to the release
---------------------------

* Kjell Bradan
* Gilles Dartiguelongue
* Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
* Christophe Fergeau
* Andreas Hanke
* Irene Huang
* Alex Jones
* James Livingston
* Og Maciel
* Jonathan Matthew
* Julien Puydt
* Edward Rudd
* Adam Zimmerman

Updated Translations
--------------------
* ar	Ahmad Farghal
* da	Peter Bach
* dz	Pema Geyleg
* en_GB	David Lodge
* fr	Claude Paroz and Stéphane Raimbault
* hu	Gabor Kelemen
* it	Luca Ferretti
* pt_BR	Lucas Mazzardo Veloso, Og Maciel and Raul Pereira
* sv	Daniel Nylander
* zh_CN	Funda Wang

Where can I get it?
-------------------

Source code:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/rhythmbox/0.10/rhythmbox-0.10.0.tar.bz2
[MD5 sum: 0cbd4339aebc2be4ffc29aa70809f589]
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/rhythmbox/0.10/rhythmbox-0.10.0.tar.gz
[MD5 sum: 53cba6d1302b41a0354aa8348c51fc4e]

Home Page:
http://www.rhythmbox.org/

[0] Since this version is just 0.9.8 with bug fixes, 0.9.8 was obviously
the zeroeth release in the 0.10 series.

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Janina Sajka | 2 Apr 2007 17:52

Accerciser 0.1.0 (stretch) RPM Available

Source and binary rpms of Accerciser 0.1.0  are now available from the
SpeakupModified.Org repository via all the usual methods: yum, rsync,
http, and ftp.To add the SpeakupModified repository to your yum:

rpm -iv http://SpeakupModified.Org/speakupmodified-release.rpm

If you need to add our GPG key by hand:

rpm -iv http://RPM-GPG-KEY-speakupmodified

The above steps need be performed only once. Thereafter you can install
Accerciser via yum:

yum install accerciser 

Janina

Peter Parente writes:
> Accerciser is an interactive Python accessibility explorer for the
> GNOME desktop. It uses AT-SPI to inspect and control widgets, allowing
> you to check if an application is providing correct information to
> assistive technologies and automated test frameworks. Accerciser has a
> simple plugin framework which you can use to create custom views of
> accessibility information.
> 
> In essence, Accerciser is a next generation at-poke tool.
> 
> == Features
> 
> * ORBit, not cspi, based
> 
> Like the modern LSR and Orca screen readers, Accerciser uses pyORBit to talk
> AT-SPI with other applications. The legacy cspi module is avoided.
> 
> * Plugin architecture
> 
> Create a Python module, drop it in a folder, and have it load as a plugin pane
> with full access to AT-SPI and the selected element in the accessibility tree
> view.
> 
> * Interface browser and event monitor plugins
> 
> All the features you've come to expect from a poke tool, and then some.
> 
> * IPython console plugin
> 
> A full, interactive Python shell with access to the accessible object selected
> in the tree view; all AT-SPI interfaces, methods and attributes; and any other
> Python modules. Supports autocompletion and a million other niceties thanks to
> IPython.
> 
> * API browser plugin
> 
> Shows the interfaces, methods, and attributes available on the selected
> accessible object.
> 
> * Global hotkeys
> 
> Move the tree view quickly to the last focused accessible or the one under the
> mouse pointer. Insert a marker into the event monitor log for easy
> identification at a later time.
> 
> * Customizable UI layout
> 
> Move plugin tabs to different panels or even separate windows to view them
> concurrently.
> 
> * Accessibility!
> 
> Accerciser does not disable its own accessibility.
> 
> * Yelp documentation
> 
> Included in the package.
> 
> * Python powered
> 
> Brits, not serpents.
> 
> == Authors
> 
> Eitan Isaascon (eitan <at> ascender.com) is responsible for taking a mock-up from
> Peter Parente (parente <at> cs.unc.edu) and turning it into the wonderful, useful
> tool that it is today.
> 
> == For more information
> 
> Visit the Accerciser web site at http://live.gnome.org/Accerciser.
> _______________________________________________
> gnome-accessibility-list mailing list
> gnome-accessibility-list <at> gnome.org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

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Damon Chaplin | 6 Apr 2007 17:57
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ANNOUNCE: GooCanvas 0.8


Application
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GooCanvas 0.8

Description
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GooCanvas is a cairo-based canvas widget for GTK+.

I want to freeze the API soon, so now is the time to discuss any
problems with it.

GooCanvas Features:

 o Optional model/view split.
 o Uses interfaces for items & views.
 o Basic items - rect/ellipse/polyline/text/image/group.
 o Path item, using SVG path specification strings.
 o Table item for layout of other items (similar to the GtkTable
   widget). (This also supports items whose requested height changes
   according to their allocated width, such as text items.)
 o Embedded GTK+ widgets.
 o Layers/stacking order with raise/lower functions.
 o Cascading styles - line width/style/dashes, colors, fill patterns.
 o Affine transformations for all items - rotations/scales/skews.
 o Clip paths to support clipping items.
 o Event handling - button/motion events, "pointer-events" property like
   SVG.
 o Grabs - support for pointer & keyboard grabs.
 o Keyboard focus traversal.
 o Accessibility (item title & description properties and hierarchy
   stuff).
 o Printing (output to a given cairo_t).
 o Scrolling.
 o Zooming.
 o Item visibility setting - on/off/above zoom threshold.
 o Simple animation.
 o Scalable - support for thousands of items over a large canvas area.
 o Support for different units - pixels/points/inches/millimeters.
 o API docs.

GooCanvas 0.8   (Apr 3 2007)
=============

 o Added support for "width-for-height" layout - items whose requested
   height changes according to their allocated width (typically text 
   items).
 o Added "background-color" and "background-color-rgb" properties to
   GooCanvas.
 o Added "ellipsize" property to GooCanvasText.
 o Added goo_canvas_item_remove() and goo_canvas_item_model_remove()
   convenience functions to remove an item or model from the canvas.
 o Fixed bug removing widget items.
 o Fixed bug which meant that the fill pattern couldn't be reset to 
   NULL.
 o Fixed the item event signals, so that returning TRUE from a handler
   stops the signal emission.
 o Added a few things that will be needed to support tooltips, when GTK+
   2.12 is available. (Though I don't want to depend on GTK+ 2.12 yet.)
 o Added "const" to arguments, where appropriate.

Download
========

  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=173653

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Gian Mario Tagliaretti | 3 Apr 2007 23:55
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[Announce] PyGooCanvas 0.8.0

I am pleased to announce version 0.8.0 of the Python bindings for
Goocanvas.

It is available at:

https://developer.berlios.de/projects/pygoocanvas/

The bindings are updated with the new Goocanvas API

PyGooCanvas 0.8.0	(Apr 03 2007)
=================

 o Register some const-GooCanvasBounds* argtypes (Gustavo)
 o Fix ellipse animation by proppy <at> gmail.com fixes LP#95468
 o Restructured examples and docs (Gian Mario)
 o Add new API following goocanvas (Gian Mario)
   goo_canvas_item_remove
   goo_canvas_item_model_remove
   goo_canvas_create_cairo_context
   goo_canvas_item_get_requested_height
 o Fix goo_canvas_item_get_transform and
   goo_canvas_item_model_get_transform (Gian Mario)
 o Wrap wrap goo_canvas_item_get_items_at(Gian Mario)
 o Fix goo_canvas_item_simple_get_path_bounds (Gian Mario)
 o Wrap goo_canvas_get_items_at goo_canvas_get_items_in_area (Gian Mario)
 o Wrap few more methods as classmethod (Gian Mario)
   GooCanvasItem.install_child_property
   GooCanvasItemModel.install_child_property
   GooCanvasItemModel.find_child_property
   GooCanvasItem.list_child_properties
   GooCanvasItemModel.list_child_properties

Blurb:
======

Goocanvas [1] is a canvas widget for GTK+, It is similar in many ways
to  FooCanvas, hence the name, but it uses cairo for rendering, it has
an optional  model/view split, and uses interfaces for items & views
(so you can easily turn any application object into a canvas item or
view).

PyGooCanvas is a wrapper which exposes the goocanvas API to the
python world.  It is fairly complete; most of the API are covered.

The documentation is done, anyway bug reports on docs are really
important to improve the documentation.

Like the GTK+ library, PyGTK and GooCanvas itself PyGooCanvas is
licensed under  the GNU LGPL, so is suitable for use in both
free software and proprietary applications.

PyGooCanvas requires:
=====================

 o Goocanvas >= 0.8.0
 o PyGObject >= 2.10.1 (2.11.3 to build the docs)
 o PyGTK >= 2.10.4
 o PyCairo >= 1.2.0

Bug reports should go to
https://launchpad.net/pygoocanvas/

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/goocanvas

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Nate Nielsen | 7 Apr 2007 22:25

ANNOUNCEMENT: Seahorse 1.0.1

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

Important Notes:
=================

    * Seahorse now properly requires GTK+ 2.10

Changes between 1.0 and 1.0.1:
===============================

    * Fix a crash when deleting keys.
    * Require GTK+ 2.10 without which 1.0 didn't build
    * Use /tmp directory for agent sockets, so that seahorse
      works for people with home directories on NFS/AFS
    * Fixed importing of private keys from ssh-keygen
    * Fixed checks for memory locking
    * Epiphany plugin now builds with Epiphany 2.18 [Adam Schreiber]
    * Set a default icon for all seahorse windows.
    * Now able to use ports other than 22 when sending an SSH
      key to another computer.
    * Internationalization fixes [Bjoern Voigt]
    * Handle openssh's authorized_keys file more cleanly
    * Handle spaces in a search text when searching an LDAP server
    * Help now works in 'Search Results' window [Adam Schreiber]
    * Other minor fixes

Updated Translations:
======================

    * Djihed Afifi (ar)
    * Alexander Shopov (bg)
    * Josep Puigdemont i Casamajó (ca)
    * Peter Bach (da)
    * Pema Geyleg (dz)
    * Nikos Charonitakis (el)
    * Claudio Saavedra (es)
    * Ivar Smolin (et)
    * Ilkka Tuohela (fi)
    * Claude Paroz (fr)
    * Luca Ferretti (it)
    * Ankit Patel (gu)
    * Takeshi AIHANA (ja)
    * Gintautas Miliauskas (lt)
    * Jovan Naumovski (mk)
    * Kjartan Maraas (nb)
    * Duarte Loreto (pt)
    * Washington Ferreira Lins Neto (pt_BR)
    * Daniel Nylander (sv)
    * Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th)

Downloads:
===========

Source code:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/seahorse/1.0/seahorse-1.0.1.tar.gz
[MD5 sum: 50510a1fc0d5875788c070a26f55f8dd]

Notes:
=======

    * Bug reports are appreciated and should be filed in the
      GNOME Bugzilla.

Cheers,
Nate Nielsen

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Nate Nielsen | 7 Apr 2007 22:38

ANNOUNCEMENT: gnome-keyring 0.8.1

gnome-keyring is the part of the GNOME Desktop that saves your network
and other passwords securely.

Changes between 0.8 and 0.8.1:
===============================

    * Fix crash when called with a NULL keyring [Halton Huo

Updated Translations:
======================

    * Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl)

Downloads:
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Source code:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-keyring/0.8/gnome-keyring-0.8.1.tar.gz
[MD5 sum: e4408d994c5e438d6135a2eea654a122]

Cheers,
Nate Nielsen
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Brian Cameron | 9 Apr 2007 09:19
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GDM2 2.18.1 (stable), the "Yisi" Release


AOOH-GAH
--------

If you have no clue what GDM is, refer to the documentation links
at the bottom of this announcement.

The 2.18.1 release is a stable release of the GNOME Display Manager
(GDM) program with the following bug fixes and improvements:

- The GDM configuration option daemon/PidFile is now deprecated and
   GDM now always uses /var/run/gdm.pid.  The location can be configured
   at compile time with the configure --with-pid-file option.  This
   fixes bug #162849.  (William Jon McCann)

- Now GDM supports Xephyr as the Nested Xserver command.  GDM will use
   Xephyr by default if it is on the system, and fallback to Xnest.
   Xephyr works much better than Xnest.  (Brian Cameron)

- GDM application desktop files now use the correct categories, so the
   menu choices should appear in the correct place in the menu.  (Brian
   Cameron)

- Remove the userlist from the circles and happygnome themes since this
   was causing problems for some users.  This change will go into 2.20
   where we are fixing the problem better by fixing gdmsetup to support
   setting the configuration so that gdmlogin and gdmgreeter work the
   same way with the Browser key.

- Now gdmgreeter has an ATK label for the entry field.  (David Zeuthen)

- Fix check so language combo style works.  Fixes bug #423063.  (Simon)

- Now "Configure GDM" menu choice is not available when accessibility is
   turned on since running gdmsetup in this configuration causes GDM to
   hang.  Until the hanging bug is fixed, it's better to not allow the
   user to get into this situation.  (Brian Cameron)

- Now support XnestUnscaledFontPath configuration option, which allows
   GDM to work with Xnest.  Xorg 7.2 XGetFontPath function now returns
   fontpath with the ":unscaled" prefix, which Xsun Xnest cannot handle.
   Setting XnestUnscaledFontPath=false, will strip the ":unscaled" prefix
   from the fontpath so that it can work.  (Brian Cameron)

- GDM daemon no longer links with D-Bus if ConsoleKit is not enabled.
   (William Jon McCann)

- Translation updates (Takeshi AIHANA, Jakub Friedl, Leonardo Ferreira
   Fontenelle, Pema Geyleg, Priit Laes, Kjartan Maraas, Inaki Larranaga
   Murgoitio, Kostas Papadimas, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, Hendrik Richter,
   Changwoo Ryu, Claudio Saavedra)

Note:  GDM2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen <mkp <at> mkp.net>.
Much work has been done on GDM2 by George Lebl; and Brian Cameron
now currently shares maintainership duties with the Queen of England.

Note2:  If installing from the tarball do note that make install
overwrites most of the setup files, all except gdm.conf.  It will
however save backups with the .orig extension first.

#ifndef GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
Note3:  Note3 has been depracated ...
#endif /* GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED */

Downloading:
============

Online Documentation - http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/
Latest Stable        - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.18/
Latest Unstable      - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.17/

Have fun,

Brian
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Brian Cameron | 9 Apr 2007 09:24
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GDM2 2.14.12 (stable), the "Ai" Release


AOOH-GAH
--------

If you have no clue what GDM is, refer to the documentation links
at the bottom of this announcement.

The 2.14.12 release is a stable release of the GNOME Display Manager
(GDM) program with the following bug fixes and improvements:

- The GDM configuration option daemon/PidFile is now deprecated and
   GDM now always uses /var/run/gdm.pid.  The location can be configured
   at compile time with the configure --with-pid-file option.  This
   fixes bug #162849.  (William Jon McCann)

- Fix strcpy so source and destination do not overlap.  Fixes bug
   #424299.  (Ray Strode)

- Remove gnome glade references since GNOME does not use libglade
   anymore. (Kristof Vansant)

- Fix comparison with string literal in gdmdynamic.  (Hans Petter
   Jansson)

Note:  GDM2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen <mkp <at> mkp.net>.
Much work has been done on GDM2 by George Lebl; and Brian Cameron
now currently shares maintainership duties with the Queen of England.

Note2:  If installing from the tarball do note that make install
overwrites most of the setup files, all except gdm.conf.  It will
however save backups with the .orig extension first.

#ifndef GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED
Note3:  Note3 has been depracated ...
#endif /* GDM_DISABLE_DEPRECATED */

Downloading:
============

Online Documentation - http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/
Latest Stable        - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.18/
Latest Unstable      - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdm/2.17/

Have fun,

Brian
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