Callum McKenzie | 4 Aug 2008 12:30
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gnome-applets 2.23.4

Changes in GNOME-Applets 2.23.4
===============================
Codename: Irregular Apocalyse

 - General
  - Change the build conditions for gweather to be based on libgweather
    and not gnome_vfs.
 - Mixer Applet
  - Avoid polling for external volume changes if gstreamer can signal us
    instead (Bastien Nocera).
  - Code cleanups for the dock window and make its behaviour a bit more
    like the other dock windows (e.g. the clock applet) (Callum
    McKenzie).

Doc translations:
 ca, fi, ko, sv

Translations:
 ar, ca, es, et, gl, he, it, nb, nl, ps, pt_BR, ru, sv, th

You can get it from:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-applets/2.23/

 - Callum
Martyn Russell | 2 Aug 2008 13:41

ANNOUNCE: Gossip 0.31 released

Gossip 0.31 is now available for download from:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gossip/0.31/

06be796f7df49156ecdb017f852a7c61  gossip-0.31.tar.gz
feacf7a78ced249268898d2a3f7063cd  gossip-0.31.tar.bz2

What is it?
===========
Gossip is an instant messaging client for GNOME with an easy-to-use
interface, providing users of the GNOME Desktop with a friendly way to
keep in touch with their friends.

Where can I find out more?
==========================
You can visit the project web site:
http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gossip

What's New?
===========
- Loudmouth requirement has been bumped up to 1.4.1. Changed so that
normal XMPP "pings" are always sent when keep alive is enabled. This
fixes the problem where connections would drop periodically.

Bugs Fixed:
===========
- Fixed #544346, Roster contact name changes (Martyn Russell)
- Fixed #545451, Network traffic is incredibly high due to constant
vcard requests (Martyn Russell)

Translations:
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Willie Walker | 3 Aug 2008 17:16
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Announcing gnome-speech v0.4.21

=======================
* What is gnome-speech?
=======================

Gnome-speech provides a simple general API for producing text-to-speech
(TTS) output.  It also provides drivers for several TTS engines, both
commercial and open source.

The gnome-speech 0.4.21 release is designated for all releases of GNOME 
since v2.12, though it has only been tested on GNOME 2.20, GNOME 2.22, 
and trunk.

=========================================
* What's changed for gnome-speech 0.4.21?
=========================================

* drivers/espeak/espeaksynthesisdriver.c: fix for bug #545896 - eSpeak
  driver segmentation fault.

=====================
* Where can I get it?
=====================

Source code:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-speech/0.4/gnome-speech-0.4.21.tar.bz2
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-speech/0.4/gnome-speech-0.4.21.tar.gz

Enjoy.

Will
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John Stowers | 3 Aug 2008 13:13
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ANNOUNCE: Conduit 0.3.13

Hey Everyone!

I am proud to announce that Conduit 0.3.13 is now available for download from:
 * http://download.gnome.org/sources/conduit/0.3/

What is it?
===========
Conduit is a synchronization application for GNOME. It allows you to synchronize your files, photos, emails, contacts, notes, calendar data and any other type of personal information and synchronize that data with another computer, an online service, or even another electronic device.

Conduit manages the synchronization and conversion of data into other formats.
For example, Conduit allows you to;
 * Synchronize your Tomboy notes with another computer
 * Synchronize your your PIM data to your mobile phone, iPod,
   Nokia Internet tablet, or between computers
 * Upload photos to Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug, ShutterFly and your iPod,
 * ... and many more

Any combination you can imagine, Conduit will take care of the conversion
and synchronization.

Where can I find out more?
==========================
 * Website: http://www.conduit-project.org/
 * Screenshots/Screencast: http://www.conduit-project.org/wiki/Screenshots
 * Mailing List: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/conduit-list
 * Bugs: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=conduit

What's New?
===========
* Much improved RSS feed enclosure support, thanks to the use of
  the python-feedparser module.
* Merge platform abstraction branch for improved startup time and a great many
  architectural improvements.
* Conflict improvements. Duplicate conflicts should no longer be shown
  in the UI.
* The UI should will now reuse your theme colors
* Finer borders and smaller rectangles to match closer with GNOME style
* Usage hints are now displayed at the bottom of the window, indicating steps
  that should be taken after one adds items to the Canvas
* A number of example Conduits can be created from the File->Examples menu

Bugs Fixed:
===========
* Fixed #516646, Welcome message remains on canvas after dataprovider added (John Stowers)
* Fixed #517877, Scrolling in Canvas Pane not working correctly (John Stowers)
* Fixed #525259, the canvas pane become a mess for remote startup (John Stowers)
* Fixed #528221, Evo to iPod synchronisation fails (John Carr)
* Fixed #530768, update conflicts after a new sync (John Stowers)
* Fixed #543366, Replacement of modified items could be more efficient (Manuel J. Garrido)
* Fixed #543534, The "Conduit Manual" window crashes. (John Stowers)
* Fixed #543685, Feedmodule should use feedparser (John Stowers)
* Fixed #543738, Patch: Add data-type for bookmarks. (Andrew Stormont)
* Fixed #544712, "Add directory" button throws error when adding "Files" source (John Stowers)
* Fixed #545129, GoogleContact : Crash to push a contact with not email (Roumano)
* Fixed #545728, Picasa doesn't delete photos in one way syncs (Manuel J. Garrido)
* Fixed #509702, conduit segfaults when quitting (John Stowers)

Translations:
=============
* Updated gl: Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
* Updated es: Jorge Gonzalez  <jorgegonz <at> svn.gnome.org>
* Updated ar: Djihed Afifi <djihed <at> gmail.com>
* Updated pt_BR: Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
* Updated pt: Duarte Loreto

Manual Translations:
====================
* Updated es: Jorge Gonzalez, Jorge Gonzalez  <jorgegonz <at> svn.gnome.org>

What Can Conduit Do:
====================
For a list of all the services that conduit supports see
 * http://www.conduit-project.org/wiki/SyncStatus

Conduit can perform one-way and two-synchronization (and conversion/transcoding)
of data between locations. In one-way sync/export conduit will only replace
exising data if the new copy has been modified. It can also optionally delete
data if the original has been deleted.

Conduit has a complete DBus interface to allow other application authors to
use Conduit to perform the synchronization and export tasks of their
applications.

03 August 2008
Conduit team

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Sebastian Pölsterl | 3 Aug 2008 15:43

Deskbar-Applet 2.22.3.1 released


This release fixes a bug that appeared
because of the new version of delicious.com.

Download
========
http://download.gnome.org/sources/deskbar-applet/2.22/

Changes since 2.22.3
====================
~    * Adjusted url to RSS feeds. Check if content is formatted properly
before parsing it. Fixes bug #544645

Contributors to this release: Sebastian Pölsterl

--
Greetings,
Sebastian Pölsterl

Stef | 4 Aug 2008 00:19

ANNOUNCEMENT: gnome-keyring 2.23.6

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

This is an development release.

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

    * gnome-keyring now includes a new library:
      - gp11 (GLib bindings for PKCS#11)

    * Some helpful notes for distributors:
      http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/Distributors

Changes between 2.22.5 and 2.23.6:
==================================

    * If the user denies a prompt, then don't prompt the same
      prompt again for that connection to the daemon.
    * Bug fixes for loading of SSH keys.
    * Add gconf schema for noting the user's configured PKCS#11
      modules.
    * Update and bug fixes for the new GP11 library.
    * Better reference counting of internal objects.
    * When a certificate is in the roots storage, assume it is
      a CA if no basic constraints are present.
    * Add ability of PKCS#11 module to accept a string on its
      reserved initialization argument, similar to NSS's
      libsoftkn3 module.
    * Translation fixes.
    * Build fixes.

Contributors:
=============

Many thanks to everyone who contributed fixes, functionality and advice.
In particular:

    * Claude Paroz

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

   * Djihed Afifi (ar)
   * Jorge Gonzalez (es)
   * Kjartan Maraas (nb)
   * Duarte Loreto (pt)
   * Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle (pt_BR)

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

Source code:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-keyring/2.23/gnome-keyring-2.23.6.tar.gz
[MD5 sum: 0c9e6190f7a604cc402ea6b4cc67206b]

Cheers,
Stef Walter
Stef | 4 Aug 2008 11:09

ANNOUNCEMENT: Seahorse 2.23.6

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

This is an development release.

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

    * This release includes code written in the vala programming
      language. However vala should not be required to build
      this tarball. Please file bugs if you run into trouble.

Changes between 2.23.5 and 2.23.6:
==================================

    * Initial PKCS#11 certificate listing implementation.
    * Internal code refactoring.
    * Fix problems with reference counting on operations.
    * Use base64 functions in glib, rather than rolling our own.
    * Don't use deprecated LDAP functions. [Adam Schreiber]
    * String operation fixes. [Adam Schreiber]
    * Build fixes [Jeff Cai]

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

    * Djihed Afifi (ar)
    * Jorge Gonzalez (es)
    * Ivar Smolin (et)
    * Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl)
    * Kjartan Maraas (nb)
    * Duarte Loreto (pt)
    * Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle (pt_BR)

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

Source code:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/seahorse/2.23/seahorse-2.23.6.tar.gz
[MD5 sum: 6b1d20b54f706ef2ee9983d018bcb3f2]

Notes:
=======

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

Cheers,
Stef Walter
Li Yuan | 4 Aug 2008 11:36
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ANNOUNCE: at-spi 1.23.6

=======================
* What is at-spi?
=======================

at-spi (assistive technology service provider interface) is the primary
assistive technology infrastructure for the Solaris and Linux
operating environments.  Applications and toolkits supporting the
AT-SPI include the GNOME GTK+ toolkit, the Java platform's Swing
toolkit, OpenOffice, and Mozilla.

========================================
* What's changed for at-spi 1.23.6?
========================================

Bug fix:
* http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545849 - Only poll for mouse 
movement if someone is listening for mouse:rel, mouse:abs events.
* http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436579 - Front page of IDL 
missing major interfaces.
=====================
* Where can I get it?
=====================

Source code:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/at-spi/1.23/at-spi-1.23.6.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/at-spi/1.23/at-spi-1.23.6.tar.bz2

Enjoy,
Li
Thomas Thurman | 4 Aug 2008 20:04
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Metacity 2.23.89

2.23.89
=======

Thanks to Thomas Thurman for improvements in this version.

- Added DOAP file. (Thomas)

Translations
Khaled Hosny (ar), Luca Ferretti (it), Takeshi AIHANA (ja), Wouter
Bolsterlee (nl), Vladimir Melo (pt_BR), Daniel Nylander (sv)

--

-- 
Thomas Thurman, tthurman at gnome, http://blogs.gnome.org/tthurman
The stream flows out through a pair of 1 foot diameter sewer pipes. It would be advisable to use the exit.
Willie Walker | 4 Aug 2008 18:20
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ANNOUNCE: gnome-mag v0.15.2

* What is gnome-mag?
====================

gnome-mag provides a command-line interface for standalone use, although 
its primary goal is to provide a set of magnification services for use 
by other client applications and assistive technologies.

Download at the usual place:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-mag/0.15/

* What's changed for gnome-mag 0.15.2?
======================================

Committed new patch for bug #520796. This one add the showCursor method.

* Translations
==============

   * Djihed Afifi (ar)

* Where can I get it?
=====================

Source code:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-mag/0.15/gnome-mag-0.15.2.tar.gz
MD5 sum: 04e161edb6f0dfcc68c7e0aec3f91285

Enjoy.

Best regards,
Carlos.

PS - NOTE FROM WILLIE: Many thanks to Carlos for yet another release!!!

Gmane