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Labyrinth v0.2 "Get the Picture?" has been released



This is the second in the "Out of Nothing" series of releases, which will result (at some point) in a V1.0 release.

What is it?
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Labyrinth is a mind-mapping tool for GNOME. It is written in python and uses cairo for its drawing.

Screenshots (and a little more info) is available at its homepage:
http://www.gnome.org/~dscorgie/labyrinth.html

What's new?
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New Features:
* Base thought class for future thought types to derive from
* Add new document to docs describing (current) file format
* Add i18n framework. No translations yet thought
* Add Image Thought for adding images from external files
* Add image mode for adding an image
* Add Drawing Thought for simple drawings
* Add drawing mode for drawing in drawing thoughts
* Both Image and Drawing Thoughts are resizable by dragging corners / edges
* New (crappy) Labyrinth icon
* Add menu entry (shows up in Applications->Office)
* Set window icon to new Labyrinth icon in Browser and map windows
* All thought types now have slightly rounded corners
* When resizing thoughts, change the cursor to reflect this
* Links now originate at the centre of thoughts, making them look prettier

Fixes:
* Fix uninstalled mode
* Only allow 'Open' and 'Delete' to be used when a map is selected in Browser window
* Make removal of links work properly
* Various code cleanups (Thanks to Rogi Lemar)
* Make defs get generated properly (From Alacarte)
* Only redraw every 1/40th second when required to stop hammering X server
* Draw links behind thoughts for added solidity

Other changes
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Since the previous (0.1) release, Labyrinth has had some infrastructure changes. The latest development code can now be obtained through Google Code. To get this anonymously, issue the command:
svn checkout http://labyrinth.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ labyrinth

Issues can now be reported to the project issue tracker at:
http://code.google.com/p/labyrinth/issues/list

Labyrinth has also gained its very own mailing list / Google group (*sniff* feels like a real project) available at:
http://groups.google.com/group/labyrinth-devel
or by sending email towards
labyrinth-devel@googlegroups.com

The homepage has moved to a (slightly more) permanent address at http://www.gnome.org/~dscorgie/labyrinth.html

One more URL for you, the actual Google Code homepage: http://code.google.com/p/labyrinth/

Getting this version
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This version can be found on the homepage, or by clicking one of these links:
http://www.gnome.org/~dscorgie/labyrinth-0.2.tar.bz2
http://www.gnome.org/~dscorgie/labyrinth-0.2.tar.gz

md5 sums:
061f4250b6cd38047f5eaf3d0b063b49 labyrinth-0.2.tar.bz2
54810b54ca4977e155d6a587b9f5a5d9 labyrinth-0.2.tar.gz

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