gnome-keyring 0.8

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

Major changes between 0.6 and 0.8:
==================================

* Add method for library to discover daemon via DBus. Adds soft DBus dependency.
* Added GNOME_KEYRING_ITEM_APPLICATION_SECRET which allows an item to be for a single application only with strict access controls.
* New function gnome_keyring_item_get_info_full(_sync) which allow retrieval of item meta data without the secret, thus not incurring an ACL prompt.
* Sync files to disk after writing to keyring.
* Don't have multiple password dialogs presented for the same keyring
* Crasher and hanger fixes

Tomboy 0.6.1 Released

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This will be released as part of GNOME 2.18.0. It includes translation updates (updates since 0.6.0).

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.

Tomboy's Website: http://www.gnome.org/projects/tomboy

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

GNOME Utilities 2.18.0 - "Don't Get Lost In Heaven"

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good news, everyone! here's the shiny new release of the GNOME Utilities, the first of the 2.18 stable cycle. thanks to the hard work of the gnome-utils maintainers, developers, documenters and translators, this release is ready to rock your world. for those not following the development releases, here's what's changed since the last stable release:

GDM2 2.18.0 (stable), the "Configuration Upgradation" Release

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

There has been a good deal of work improving GDM in the 2.17 cycle. Check the module NEWS for more details. Highlights include:

- gdmsetup has been enhanced to support many more configuration options, making it easier to configure GDM via the GUI. (Lukasz Zalewski)

- New GDM socket commands (FLEXI_XNEST_USER and FLEXI_XSERVER_USER) to make it easier for programs like xscreensaver and the Fast User applet integrate with GDM.

- Support for Console Kit (William Jon McCann)

- Improvements to PAM so it works more generically and has fewer hacks (Ludwig Nussel)

- GDM dialogs now work with accessibility.

- Support for Combo Style lists for session/language selection.

Eye of GNOME 2.18.0

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Eye of GNOME (eog) is the image viewer for the GNOME desktop.

* What's changed in 2.18.0 ?
==========================

- Avoid ellipsizing image position in statusbar for with big numbers (Lucas Rocha) [#357427]
- Fix crasher when trying to print an already removed image (Claudio Saavedra) [#414547]
- Correctly handle external file removals (Claudio Saavedra) [#399982]
- Update image list position and length when image are externaly removed or added (Lucas Rocha, Claudio Saavedra) [#414968]
- Removed 'Application' category from desktop file (Claudio Saavedra).
- Updated manual translations: Daniel Nylander (sv), Amadeu A. Barbosa (pt_BR), Christophe Bliard (fr), David Lodge (en_GB)
- Updated translations: Ankit Patel (gu), Artur Flinta (pl), Erdal Ronahi (ku), Gintautas Miliauskas (lt), Reinout van Schouwen (nl), Goran Raki=E6 (sr, sr@Latn), Nickolay V. Shmyrev (ru)

Zenity 2.18.0

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This is zenity - a rewrite of gdialog, the GNOME port of dialog which allows you to display dialog boxes from the commandline and shell scripts. If you understand, things are just as they are. If you don't understand, things are just as they are.

gedit 2.18.0 released

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gedit 2.18.0 has been released

gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop.

This is the first release of the new stable series and will be part of GNOME 2.18. Featuring many bugfixes and improvements, we consider it the most stable and polished gedit release up to date.

Ekiga 2.0.6 released

GNOME 3620 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

This is an update of Ekiga 2.0 and the release of Ekiga for the upcoming GNOME version.

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

Ekiga is a free Voice over IP softphone allowing you to do free calls over the Internet.

Ekiga is the first Open Source application to support both H.323 and SIP, as well as audio and video. Ekiga was formerly known as GnomeMeeting.

More information can be found at http://www.ekiga.org

mission-control 4.17

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Let me take the pleasure to announce our first public release of (telepathy) mission-control. The release is sufficiently stable and implements most of the features that were planned. We hope you will enjoy using it in your telepathy based communication softwares for more powerful integration. It uses glib and gconf hence is mostly suitable for GTK/GNOME based applications.

What is Mission Control?
=======================

Mission Control, or MC, is a Telepathy component providing a way for "end-user" applications to abstract some of the details of connection managers, to provide a simple way to manipulate a bunch of connection managers at once, to remove the need to have in each program the account definitions and credentials, to manage channel handling/request and to manage presence statues. See the diagram at homepage.

Giggle 0.1

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Giggle is a GTK+ based GIT repositories viewer, providing developers a way to browse and visualize graphically revision trees, change logs, diffs, and other useful information.

Where can I learn more about it?
===============================

Visit The project page for more info and screenshots!

Download
=======

http://ftp.imendio.com/pub/imendio/giggle/src/giggle-0.1.tar.gz
MD5: 26f43b6e79bd27701daeb83281cf1966

Dasher branched for Gnome 2.18

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The Dasher SVN repository has now been branched for Gnome 2.18, with the new branch tag being "gnome-2-18". Please use this branch for any changes to the translations and documentation before the release. This branch will be released as version 4.4.0 at the weekend.

If you already have Dasher checked out, you can switch your copy to the new branch using:

svn switch svn+ssh://[username]@svn.gnome.org/svn/dasher/branches/gnome-2-18

Unstable patches can now be checked into the trunk.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the project.

Tomboy 0.6.0 Released

GNOME 3620 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

This email is to announce Tomboy 0.6.0! This is the beginning of the stable 0.6.x series and will coincide with GNOME 2.18.x.

Tomboy has been branched as "gnome-2-18" for stable (0.6.x) development. SVN trunk is now open for new feature development (0.7.x).

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.

PyGTK 2.10.4

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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.

Gimmie 0.2.4 released

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This is to announce the Gimmie version 0.2.4 release. Gimmie is a unique desktop organizer designed to allow easy interaction with all the applications, contacts, documents and other resources you use every day. Gimmie can be run as a stand-alone application or as a GNOME Panel-applet.

To see some pictures of Gimmie in action, check out the Developer Resource Page located at: http://beatnik.infogami.com/Gimmie.

Version 0.2.4 sees the greatest progress so far in a single release. Including the addition of a preferences dialog to allow customization of commonly requested settings; a recent history usage graph; Mozilla downloaded file monitoring; and many bug fixes and stability improvements.

vte-0.15.6 released (unstable)

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Vte-0.15.6 is available for download at:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/vte/0.16/

Vte is GNOME 2's virtual-terminal emulation widget.

This is an unstable release in the development cycle targeted for GNOME 2.18.

- Fix various bugs introduced in last couple of releases.
- Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 410534 Slow content scrolling, takes 100% of CPU.
Bug 413068 new line added to tab when opened
Bug 413262 Incorrectly coloured tabs
Bug 413102 Incorrect highlighting in vim
Bug 413158 Cursor trails
Bug 413078 Crash during opening a new tab whilst scrolling
Bug 412717 Crash when opening a new tab with window maximized

01 March 2007
Behdad Esfahbod

GARNOME 2.17.92 -- "build awareness days"

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GARNOME 2.17.92 (aka 2.18.0 Release Candidate) has been released:

The "build awareness days" release.

We are pleased to announce the release of GARNOME 2.17.92 Desktop and Developer Platform. This release includes all of GNOME 2.17.92 (aka 2.18.0 Release Candidate), tweaked and updated with love by the GARNOME Team.

GNOME 2.18.0 Release Candidate (2.17.92) Released

GNOME 3620 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

GNOME 2.18.0 Release Candidate (2.17.92) has been released:

Here we go: this is the last unstable release before 2.18.0. We've all added cool features, important bug fixes, great translations, or shiny documentation during the past six months. And it'll be soon ready for public consumption. There's still one week before the hard codde freeze, so it's not too late to fix this last bug you're ashamed of. And then, you'll be able to think about the future. What will make GNOME 2.20.0 rock? It's up to you to write this future!

Gtk2Hs version 0.9.11 released

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Gtk2Hs - A GUI Library for Haskell based on Gtk+

Version 0.9.11 is now available from:

http://haskell.org/gtk2hs/download/

The source tarball and an installer for Windows are available. Packages are available for Gentoo and FreeBSD. Packages for various other platforms should become available soon (hopefully including Fedora, Debian and Darwin).

at-spi 1.17.2

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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.

Download at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/at-spi/1.17

CESA-2007:0077 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 seamonkey - security update

GNOME 3620 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

There has been an update to the files issued for this advisory upstream.

The original seamonkey-nss created a problem with Evolution and Gaim which caused them to fail to start.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229987

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1694

The issue has been corrected with this update.

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors:

files:
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.8-0.2.el4.centos.ia64.rpm

vte-0.15.5 released

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Vte-0.15.5 is available for download at:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/vte/0.15/

Vte is GNOME 2's virtual-terminal emulation widget.

This is an unstable release in the development cycle targeted for GNOME 2.18.

This is a quick followup release to 0.15.4 to fix a crasher recently introduced.
- Fix a newly-introduced crasher
- Do not link to libpython in the python bindings
- Bugs fixed in this release:
Bug 412562 =E2=80" Crash in vte_terminal_match_hilite_update
Bug 410986 =E2=80" Fails to build with -z defs

27 February 2007
Behdad Esfahbod

gThumb 2.9.3 development released

GNOME 3620 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

gThumb is an Image Viewer and Browser.

gThumb 2.9.3 is now available for download at:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gthumb/2.9/gthumb-2.9.3.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gthumb/2.9/gthumb-2.9.3.tar.bz2

Why?
===

gThumb 2.9.3 is mostly a bug-fix release. Several long-standing bugs have been squashed, so upgrading is recommended. Also, audio and video clips are now launched more gracefully using the default external viewer, rather than hard-coding the use of totem.

Gnome Games 2.17.92

GNOME 3620 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

This is the final release candidate before the Gnome Games 2.18 release. A little more bug fixes abound.

* Gnome Sodoku : Handle games that have been marked as played
correctly.
: Fix a crash and error highlighting bug
: Fix crash on logout
: Fix crash on click fill multiple times
: Menu HIG compliance
: Fix crash if user removed A/C charger
* Aisleriot : Make Agnes winnable

Get it at: http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-games/2.17/

Orca v2.17.92

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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.

You can also read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca. 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 3.0 SUPPORT: we know many of you are anxiously awaiting compelling access to the web via Orca and Firefox. As of v2.17.92, the support is still under development and both the Orca and Firefox teams are working feverishly to get it there for Firefox 3.0. We're getting there step by step.

control-center 2.17.92 released

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Changes since 2.17.91
---------------------
about-me:
- Change default dir for the image chooser (Jens Granseuer) (#408305)
- Dont use composite pixbuf to avoid unnecessary clipping (Diego Escalante Urrelo) (#380315)
- Prevent child watcher from accessing already released memory (Jens Granseuer) (#411697)

default applications:
- Really fix DATADIR (Jens Granseuer) (#407597)
- Dont try reading into invalid territory when the user set a custom command without spaces (Jens Granseuer) (#407601)

fontilus:
- Use GOption argument parsing (Christian Persch) (#393394)

keybindings:
- Clear GConf client cache before reloading (Jens Granseuer) (#394776)

keyboard:
- Avoid crashing on NULLs (Jens Granseuer) (#398631)

settings daemon:
- Properly round volumes so that volume-up and -down act symetrically (Jens Granseuer) (#389996)
- Dont ignore errors when X refuses to update the pointer mapping (Jens Granseuer) (#349538)
- Dont install the same filter twice for the default root window (Jens Granseuer) (#408643)
- Correctly pass the function address when setting up the event filter (Jens Granseuer)
- Fix warnings (Jens Granseuer)

shell:
- Revert to old menu for 2.18 (Denis Washington)

theme switcher:
- Update selected fg color from the correct slot (Jens Granseuer) (#410764)
- Fix warnings (Jens Granseuer)
- Format guint16 values accordingly (Jens Granseuer) (#398331)

themus:
- Populate the VFS file info fields properly so that Nautilus shows, e.g.,
read-only emblems in themes:// (Jens Granseuer) (#145175)

windows:
- Remove some long-dead code (Jens Granseuer)
- Dont leak stuff on error (Jens Granseuer)

updated translations:
- ar (Djihed Afifi)
- bg (Alexander Shopov)
- ca (Josep Puigdemont i Casamaj=F3)
- cs (Jakub Friedl)
- en_GB (David Lodge)
- et (Priit Laes)
- fi (Ilkka Tuohela)
- fr (St=E9phane Raimbault)
- hu (Gabor Kelemen)
- ja (Takeshi AIHANA)
- ko (Changwoo Ryu)
- nb (Kjartan Maraas)
- pt (Duarte Loreto)
- pt_BR (Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle)
- sv (Daniel Nylander)
- th (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
- uk (Maxim Dziumanenko)
- vi (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy)
- zh_CN (Abel Cheung)

Availability
------------
http://download.gnome.org/sources/control-center/2.17/

Contact
-------
* Bugs in http://bugzilla.gnome.org
* Mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomecc-list

Zenity 2.17.92

GNOME 3620 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

This is zenity - a rewrite of gdialog, the GNOME port of dialog which allows you to display dialog boxes from the commandline and shell scripts. If you understand, things are just as they are. If you don't understand, things are just as they are.

Pango-1.16.0 released

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Pango-1.16.0 is now available for download at:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/pango/1.16/

3ff23998479e98c5dd9a7eaf08f6249d pango-1.16.0.tar.bz2
0b6ee553631e3988d8e7ce87c3072e39 pango-1.16.0.tar.gz

This is a stable release providing new functionality as compared to Pango-1.14, while maintaining source and binary compatibility. Notable improvements in Pango since version 1.14 include:

* Support for vertical writing system

* Improved performance when rendering layouts multiple times

* New Thai, Indic, and Arabic language engines, improving line breaking and cursor positioning in their respective languages. These were backported released in later 1.14.x releases too.

at-spi 1.17.1

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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.

Download at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/at-spi/1.17

GDM2 2.17.8 (unstable), the "Lhasa" Release

GNOME 3620 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

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

The 2.17.8 release is an unstable release of GDM with the following new features.

gcalctool v5.9.13 (stable)

GNOME 3620 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Gcalctool is the default GNOME desktop calculator.

It has Basic, Advanced, Financial and Scientific modes. Internally it uses multiple precision arithmetic to produce results to a high degree of accuracy.

This release is for GNOME 2.18.0 (Release Candidate).

gnome-speech 0.4.10

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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 0.4.10 release is designated for GNOME 2.17/2.18, but has also been tested on GNOME 2.16.

Many thanks to community member Gilles Casse for his work: his contributions are the only reason a new release is being made. The community model works!

Accerciser 0.1.0 (stretch)

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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.

MonoDevelop 0.13 released

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The MonoDevelop team is proud to announce the release of MonoDevelop 0.13.

MonoDevelop is a GNOME IDE primarily designed for C# and other .NET languages. This release contains lots of improvements, new features and bug fixes.

S-Lang Gtk 0.5.18 released

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Version 0.5.18 of SLgtk is now available at

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

In addition to bugfixes, the release:

- Updates imdisplay to: support scaling/flipping/flopping of composite image at launch, more intelligently manage screen real estate via window chaining, and include online help.

- Includes gPrompt, a lightweight terminal-like widget with an embedded S-Lang prompt, scrolling output, and a simple history mechanism. gPrompt facilitates the complementary use of a GUI & interactive command line within a single application process, without resorting to the complexity of multithreading.

- Provides Gtk 2.10.9 support, including binaries for i686 Linux and Mac OS/X (both PowerPC and Intel).

- Bundles TESS [The (Te)st (S)ystem for (S)Lang] version 0.3.0, to reduce by one the dependencies for end-user regression testing.

Additional background info on S-Lang and SLgtk is given below.

USBSink 0.3.1

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USBSink 0.3.1 is available from:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=141363

What it is
=========

USBSink is a GNOME program for automatic file synchronization over USB. It is designed for users of removable drives, such as flash drives or external hard disks. In USBSink you define a task associated to a particular USB drive, and then have a complete automation of data transfers. With file monitoring and hardware detection features, the program is able to respond and act according to relevant events on the desktop.

GARNOME 2.17.91 -- "go go gadget garnome"

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GARNOME 2.17.91 (aka 2.18.0 Beta 2)
==============

The "go go gadget garnome" release.

We are pleased to announce the release of GARNOME 2.17.91 Desktop and Developer Platform. This release includes all of GNOME 2.17.91 (aka 2.18.0 Beta 2), tweaked and updated with love by the GARNOME Team.

* If you want to help spotting or squashing bugs,
* translate or document GNOME,
* this release is for you!

Linux Desktop Testing Project (LDTP) 0.8.0 released

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We are proud to announce the release of LDTP 0.8.0. This release features number of important breakthroughs in LDTP as well as in the field of Test Automation. This release note covers a brief introduction on LDTP followed by the list of new features and major bug fixes which makes this new version of LDTP the best of the breed. Useful references have been included at the end of this article for those who wish to hack / use LDTP.

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