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Conduit 0.3.2 has been released:

This is a development release, the third in the unstable 0.3.0 series leading up to 0.4.0. This release includes a heap of bug fixes for common issues, and a few new features including support of Box.net (sync your files via the web) and better evolution support. For a full list of changes see http://www.conduit-project.org/wiki/0.3.2

* Download: http://www.conduit-project.org/wiki/0.3.2
* Screenshot/Screencast: http://www.conduit-project.org/wiki/Screenshots

What is Conduit
=========
Conduit is a synchronization application for GNOME. It allows you to synchronize your data between online web services (Gmail, backpackit.com, Flickr, PicasaWeb, Box.net) and your computer.

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cairomm is a C++ API for the cairo graphics library. For more information, see http://cairographics.org/cairomm

A new cairomm release 1.4.0 is now available from:

http://cairographics.org/releases/cairomm-1.4.0.tar.gz

which can be verified with:

http://cairographics.org/releases/cairomm-1.4.0.tar.gz.sha1
289e8397621c44db81bea67c0b4f40dcbd00769f cairomm-1.4.0.tar.gz

http://cairographics.org/releases/cairomm-1.4.0.tar.gz.sha1.asc
(signed by Jonathon Jongsma)

WHAT'S NEW
=========
* Wrapped new API added in cairo 1.4
* Added support for Quartz surfaces
* ability to use dynamic casting for surfaces and patterns returned from Context::get_target(), Context::get_source(), etc.
* Various build and bug fixes

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Tomboy 0.7.2 is the third development release of the 0.7.x series leading up to 0.8.0. Like usual, please be aware that running the development series code is considered living on the edge (please make regular backup copies of your notes).

A new Tasks addin has been added, allowing you to create a task in a note by simply starting a line with "todo:". It also provides a more sophisticated stand-alone task management UI, available from the notes menu. Every part of this addin is subject to change, as it is undergoing heavy development. Any feedback is appreciated, of course.

Speaking of addins, Tomboy's entire plugin infrastructure has been revamped to use the new Mono.Addins library. This makes it much easier to create "extension points" within Tomboy where addin developers can hook in their features. All built-in plugins have been converted to addins, but third-party developers will need to update their code. Old-style note plugins will no longer be recognized by Tomboy.

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Quite a few fixes in those new versions. They're ABI compatible with 0.8.x, so if you package those for a distro, please make sure to upgrade.

* What is it?
- libbtctl is a (deprecated) library for discovering Bluetooth devices, and contains the backend for the Obex server and client
- gnome-bluetooth is a (deprecated) collection of widgets for use with GNOME applications, and an Obex server and client applications

Those 2 libraries will soon be rendered useless by the advent of the OpenObex D-Bus server (a Google Summer of Code project), and the move of the applications and widgets into the bluez-gnome package.

* Changelog, short version:
- Discovering new devices works again
- Sending files to some device works for the first time (those devices were waiting for a disconnect before handling the file, and we weren't disconnecting cleanly)

Full version in the ChangeLog and NEWS files in each package.

* Download:
Tarballs are available at:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-bluetooth/0.9/
and
http://download.gnome.org/sources/libbtctl/0.9/

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GARNOME 2.19.5 has been released:

The "pleasantly punctual patch" release.

We are pleased to announce the release of GARNOME 2.19.5 Desktop and Developer Platform. This release includes all of GNOME 2.19.5 plus a bunch of updates that were released after the GNOME freeze date.

This is the fifth release in the unstable cycle, with more features, more fixes and yet more madness added. Also icons. Indeed, icons. ;-) It is for anyone who wants to get his hands dirty on the development branch, or who'd like to get a peek at future features.

As usual, you can get the tarball directly from the gnome.org site:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/garnome/2.19/

Note: GNOME 2.19.x is an unstable branch and is assumed to be a moving target. Therefore, things in this release may not work as advertised.

If you find 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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Version 2.10.6 of the Python bindings for GTK is available. It fixes a regression introduced in 2.10.5 affecting a number of popular applications.

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/

This is an unstable release and should be used with caution. It requires either GTK+ 2.8.x or GTK+ >= 2.10.

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With the amazing work of Julien and Carlos we now have initial PDF forms support in Evince. SoC 2006 project finally landed in svn. Currently it requires poppler HEAD, but let's hope we'll see a new release of poppler.

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

Evince is a document viewer. It primarily displays pdf, though djvu, tiff, dvi, impress slides, postscript and even comics archives are also supported.

More information can be found at http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/

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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/1.19

=======================================
* What's changed for at-spi 1.19.5?
=======================================

* We add pyatspi into at-spi. pyatspi is an unified python binding used by ATs.
* Bugfixes: #446277, #450897, #433802.

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

Source code:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/at-spi/1.19/at-spi-1.19.5.tar.bz2
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/at-spi/1.19/at-spi-1.19.5.tar.gz

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

The 2.19.4 release is an unstable release of the GNOME Display Manager (GDM) program with the following bug fixes and improvements:

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This release is the first release that contains the work from the Summer of Code branch. It features massive code refactoring including a new modules API[1] that replaces the old one. Therefore, old modules won't work. In addition, a new default GUI has been added, the other GUIs have been removed and the preferences dialog has slightly changed. This release does not contain any new big features, but it should provide almost all the features that Deskbar had before refactoring.

Download
========
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/deskbar-applet/2.19/

[1]: http://www.k-d-w.org/deskbar/new-style_modules.html

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gtk-engines provides a central location for commonly used GTK+ engines. It currently supplies several engines and default themes for those which have one.

THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT RELEASE
=============================

This is an unstable development release, so there are certainly plenty of bugs remaining to be found. This release should not be used in production environments.

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GOK enables users to control their free desktops without having to rely on a standard keyboard or mouse. It includes a suite of on-screen keyboards as well as dynamic keyboard generation. Please see http://www.gok.ca/ for details.

===============================
* What's changed for GOK v1.3.1?
===============================

* 1.3.x Releases are targeted for GNOME 2.19.x

* Improved user experience with latest Firefox accessibility.

* Note: GOK's gnome-2-18 branch will continue to support Firefox 2.x based linux accessibility for hyperlinks.

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

You can obtain GOK v1.3.1 in source code form here:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gok/1.3/gok-1.3.1.tar.gz

best regards,
The GOK Team

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Dasher 4.5.2 is now available for download from:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/dasher/4.5/

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 is primarily a bugfix release, including updated translations.

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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 v0.4.15 release is designated for GNOME 2.16.x, GNOME 2.18.x, and GNOME 2.19.4.

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This is to announce the release of Accerciser 0.1.5. 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 plug-in framework which you can use to create custom views of accessibility information.

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GARNOME 2.18.3 has been released:

The "Yes, we did" release.

Ooops. So I missed to send out the announcement immediately, and it somehow slipped my mind the next days. Sorry 'bout that. Yes, we did release it on Wed as scheduled. As always. So go grab it now, because...

We are pleased to announce the release of GARNOME 2.18.3. This release incorporates the GNOME 2.18.3 Desktop and Developer Platform, fine-tuned and updated with love by the GARNOME Team.

This is the forth (and last) release of the current stable GNOME branch, ironing out yet-more bugs, hopefully adding yet-more stability, and ships with the latest and greatest stable releases. As usual it includes updates and fixes after the official GNOME freeze, together with a host of third-party GNOME packages, Bindings and the Mono(tm) Platform.

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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.

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Previous release has problems with poppler-0.5.4, so here is a new one.

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

Evince is a document viewer. It primarily displays pdf, though djvu, tiff, dvi, impress slides, postscript and even comics archives are also supported.

More information can be found at http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/

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

Evince is available at:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/evince/0.8/evince-0.8.3.tar.gz
md5sum: bbf77e34286d54b8f6bd39472ad8e16f
size: 2.1M

http://download.gnome.org/sources/evince/0.8/evince-0.8.3.tar.bz2
md5sum: 0603d3f3f5648c88f10f75c89807c3d1
size: 1.4M

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

The 2.18.3 release is a stable release of the GNOME Display Manager (GDM) program with the following bug fixes and improvements:

- Fix crashing issue with XDMCP logic. Fixes bug #436725. (Brian Cameron)

- Translation updates (Priit Laes)

Note: GDM2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen <mkp 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/2.19/

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*** gtkmm 2.12:

gtkmm 2.11 wraps new API in GTK+ 2.11, and will become stable gtkmm 2.12 when GTK+ becomes GTK+ 2.12. It will be API/ABI-compatibile with gtkmm 2.10. 2.8, 2.6 and 2.4. It is a version of the gtkmm-2.4 API.

gtkmm stays in-sync with GTK+ by following the official GNOME release schedule: http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable/

Bindings for the rest of the GNOME Platform are also available, and are also API-stable.

http://www.gtkmm.org


*** Changes

glibmm 2.13.7:

* Regex: Added a create() method and added default parameter values. Added a simple example.
* Added SignalTimeout::connect_seconds(), in addition to the existing SignalTimeout::connect(), as a wrapper of g_timeout_add_seconds(). Improved the documentation.
* Added get_user_special_dir(). (Murray Cumming)

gtkmm 2.11.4:

Gtk:
* Added Builder, which will eventually replace use of libglade. (Murray Cumming)
* Added Tooltip, which replaces the deprecated Tooltips class. (Marko Anastasov)
* RecentAction: Added constructor and create() method and an example. (Murray Cumming)
* Documentation: Added lots of class overview documentation. (Johannes Schmid)


*** Download

http://www.gtkmm.org/download.shtml

You will need libsigc++ 2.0, available here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1970


*** Development

There is active discussion on the mailing list:
http://www.gtkmm.org/mailinglist.shtml
and in the #c++ channel on irc.gnome.org

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gnome-voice-control 0.2 has been released:

Description:
======

* Gnome-Voice-Control is a speech recognizer to control the GNOME Desktop.

* The Gnome-Voice-Control was created to control the GNOME Desktop by voice, interacting with windows, menus, open softwares, among others.

Where can I find more information?
===================

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeVoiceControl

Screencast:
======

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeVoiceControl/Releases

New Features:
========

*Added window menu control by voice
*Added action open gedit by voice

Bugs Fixed:
======

*Stop on Calibrating

Translations:
=======

Nickolay V. Shmyrev (ru)
Daniel Nylander (sv)

Download:
=====

http://live.gnome.org/Downloads

29 June 2007
Gnome-Voice-Control Team

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A new cairo release 1.4.10 is now available from:

http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz

which can be verified with:

http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz.sha1
8371097e30650ec817b24694367110139627403e cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz

http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz.sha1.asc
(signed by Carl Worth)

Additionally, a git clone of the source tree:

git clone git://git.cairographics.org/git/cairo

will include a signed 1.4.10 tag which points to a commit named:
107a74885a25e585b467c7841c6929a12aa62565

which can be verified with:
git verify-tag 1.4.10

and can be checked out with a command such as:
git checkout -b build 1.4.10

This is the fifth update in cairo's stable 1.4 series. It comes roughly three weeks after the 1.4.8 release. The most significant change in this release is a fix to avoid an X error in certain cases, (that were causing OpenOffice.org to crash in Fedora). There is also a semantic change to include child window contents when using an xlib surface as a source, an optimization when drawing many rectangles, and several minor fixes.

-Carl

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gThumb is an Image Viewer and Browser.

gThumb 2.10.5 is now available for download at:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gthumb/2.10/gthumb-2.10.5.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gthumb/2.10/gthumb-2.10.5.tar.bz2

Why?
===

This is a bug-fix-only release for the stable branch. A serious bug that prevented saving after image touch-ups (changing brightness, contrast,
etc) was corrected.


All bug fixes in 2.10.5
======================

Fixed bug #448644 - Image brightness-contrast doesn't trigger save-ability.

Fixed bug #450110 - Remove extra space that causes build error.


Branches
=======

2.10.x is the current stable branch of gThumb.

Earlier versions are obsolete. Active distros that still use 2.7.x (ahem, FC6) should upgrade immediately to 2.8.1, which is the stable termination of the unstable 2.7.x series. There are no UI changes between 2.7.9 and 2.8.1. No further bug fixes are going into 2.8.x.

Development is happening in trunk and the metadata-ideas branch. No releases have been made yet from the development code.

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gedit 2.19.1 has been released

gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop.

This is the first release of the new development series leading to GNOME 2.20.

gedit now depends on gtksourceview 1.90.1 and pygtksourceview 1.90.1, which are the beta versions of the gtksourceview 2.0 and of its python bindings.

homepage: http://www.gedit.org

downloads: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gedit/2.19/

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gdl 0.7.6 has been released. This release fixes build issues.

What is gdl?
===========
GNOME Development Library. A library to contain source code development widgets and tools. Currently it has complex-docking widgets, data view widgets, theme based mime icons widget and some other titbits.

What is new in this release?
===========================
* Sun cc build fixes
* Cygwin build fixes

Where to get it?
===============
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gdl/0.7/

Screenshots?
===========
http://anjuta.org/screen-shots

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Empathy 0.8 is now available for download from:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/empathy/0.8/

43688633798403fda6612da8ccd200b1 empathy-0.8.tar.gz
752074c88667fc796ee0cebe58a1f726 empathy-0.8.tar.bz2


What is it?
==========
Empathy consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and Nokia's Mission Control, and reuses Gossip's UI. The main goal is to permit desktop integration by providing libempathy and libempathy-gtk libraries. libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets that can be embeded into any GNOME application.

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GARNOME 2.19.4 has been released:

We are pleased to announce the release of GARNOME 2.19.4 Desktop and Developer Platform. This release includes all of GNOME 2.19.4 plus a bunch of updates that were released after the GNOME freeze date.

This is the fourth release in the unstable cycle, with more features, more fixes and yet more madness added. It is for anyone who wants to get his hands dirty on the development branch, or who'd like to get a peek at future features. If you want to help spot issues in GARNOME, (or, better yet, fix 'em ;-) this release is for you as well.

As usual, you can get the tarball directly from the gnome.org site: http://download.gnome.org/sources/garnome/2.19/

Note: GNOME 2.19.x is an unstable branch and is assumed to be a moving target. Therefore, things in this release may not work as advertised.

If you find 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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goobox 1.9.1 is now available for download at:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/goobox/1.9/

5a4909c817418e42a551f10ac904ecc2 goobox-1.9.1.tar.bz2
b33d5fd7fd9c367baa3b974d78bf2b2f goobox-1.9.1.tar.gz

This is a development release in a series leading to goobox 2.0. Note that goobox 1.0 has never been released because the 0.9.x development series is based on libraries that are now obsolete.

About Goobox
===========

Goobox is a CD player and ripper for the GNOME desktop environment.

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This release brings important improvements in rendering. Cairo-based rendering of pages and selections should make things faster. A lots of bug fixes were made too. We require latest poppler 0.5.9 now and looking forward to annotations support and images selection.

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gtk-engines provides a central location for commonly used GTK+ engines. It currently supplies several engines and default themes for those which have one.

THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT RELEASE
=============================

This is an unstable development release, so there are certainly plenty of bugs remaining to be found. This release should not be used in production environments.

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Version 0.5.0 of Rarian is available:

Download links:
http://code.google.com/p/rarian/downloads/list

(Direct:
bzipped tarball:
http://rarian.googlecode.com/files/rarian-0.5.0.tar.bz2
gzipped tarball:
http://rarian.googlecode.com/files/rarian-0.5.0.tar.gz
)

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

Rarian is the new name for Spoon. Spoon is a documentation meta-data library designed as a spork [1] of scrollkeeper. As of this release, it is backwards compatible with scrollkeeper, allowing it to be used in it's place in a standard (and quite strange) installs of GNOME. Yelp works fine with it, through scrollkeeper emulation mode.

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Pango-1.17.1 is now available for download at:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/pango/1.17/
or
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/pango/1.17

e27c59d04bcb7bd92bacc9c700389266 pango-1.17.3.tar.bz2
6fd8ff063a8c31c0df27ac2e55c19ee2 pango-1.17.3.tar.gz

This is the a development release in a series leading to Pango-1.18.0, which will be released just in time for GNOME-2.20.

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-1.16.x

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

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gtkmm 2.11 wraps new API in GTK+ 2.11, and will become stable gtkmm 2.12 when GTK+ becomes GTK+ 2.12. It will be API/ABI-compatibile with gtkmm 2.10. 2.8, 2.6 and 2.4. It is a version of the gtkmm-2.4 API.

gtkmm stays in-sync with GTK+ by following the official GNOME release schedule:
http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable/

Bindings for the rest of the GNOME Platform are also available, and are also API-stable.

http://www.gtkmm.org

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Metacity is a simple window manager that integrates nicely with GNOME 2.

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

Thanks to Damien Carbery and Thomas Thurman for improvements in this release.

- Fixed build on Solaris (Damien) [#397296, #446535]
- Only activate windows which change their startup ID if the new ID differs from the old. (This fixes the bug where KDE apps gained the attention hint when switching workspaces.) (Thomas) [#400167]
- Open new windows on the current xinerama. (Thomas) [#145503].

Translations
Tshewang Norbu (dz), Jorge Gonz=E1lez (es), Funda Wang (zh_CN)

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


Source code

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/metacity/2.19/


MD5 Sums

e6951c5ce6399c00eed650bc96b521a0 metacity-2.19.13.tar.bz2
6b2919e5c8d1c05f7d9cb2fdd3698d38 metacity-2.19.13.tar.gz

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


Important Notes for Packagers:
=============================

* gnome-keyring now depends on libgcrypt version 1.2.2 or higher.

* gnome-keyring now has facilities (depending on OS support) that keep passwords and secrets in 'secure' non-pageable memory. Make sure it works on your OS or distro of choice: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/Memory

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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 plug-in framework which you can use to create custom views of accessibility information.

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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 sponsored by the Sun Microsystems, Inc., Accessibility Program Office and progresses via continued engagement with end users and contributions from wonderful community members.

Come join us -- help the community grow. You can read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca. See also the Orca road map at http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/Orca.

NOTE ON FIREFOX 3.0 SUPPORT: we know many of you are anxiously awaiting compelling access to the web via Orca and Firefox. We're making steady progress on this front, both in Orca and with the Firefox team. We're getting there step by step, and we're receiving positive comments from people who are having good success with where we are today. We'll keep going -- join us on the Orca list and share your comments, suggestions, and questions.

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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 v0.4.14 release is designated for GNOME 2.16.x, GNOME 2.18.x, and GNOME 2.19.4.

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

The 2.19.3 release is an unstable release of the GNOME Display Manager (GDM) program with the following bug fixes and improvements:

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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 crazy new code since 2.19.2 was released. WARNING, this code may impregnate your cat called Dave and steal all of the magazines from the bathroom.