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hi everyone; Clutter 0.8 suite of integration libraries is now available for download at: http://www.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter-cairo/0.8/ http://www.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter-gst/0.8/ http://www.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter-gtk/0.8/ MD5 Checksums: 56b69645629293d5dcd93817fabe669a clutter-cairo-0.8.1.tar.gz 91262dd6ead7261a584dacf5dd1933f5 clutter-cairo-0.8.1.tar.bz2 9ebf9bbe406757472952743ca01870f3 clutter-gst-0.8.0.tar.gz 13d2a34ea76e4f010e66d20eba12e864 clutter-gst-0.8.0.tar.bz2 1fea21affb3a74014fc0b4270b67ed2d clutter-gtk-0.8.1.tar.gz 0a93adeb69281dcd1d8455a53f746d9b clutter-gtk-0.8.1.tar.bz2 The Clutter integration libraries suite is a series of open source libraries for integrating Clutter with other libraries: clutter-cairo, for integration with Cairo clutter-gst, for integration with GStreamer clutter-gtk, for integration with GTK+ This suite of libraries allows to use the Cairo drawing API into Clutter; or to use the GStreamer pipelines

Hey Everyone! I am proud to announce that Conduit 0.3.12 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/

*** About glibmm glibmm is a C++ API for glib, used by gtkmm. glibmm 2.17 wraps new API in glib 2.17, including the gio library, and is API/ABI-compatibile with glibmm 2.16,2.14, 2.12, 2.10, 2.8, 2.6 and 2.4. It is a version of the glibmm-2.4 API. gtkmm and glibmm stay 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 *** Development There is active discussion on the mailing list: http://www.gtkmm.org/mailinglist.shtml and in the #c++ channel on irc.gnome.org *** Changes: * New API: (Murray Cumming) * Gio::File: make_directory_with_parents(), query_file_type(), monitor(). * Gio::FileEnumerator: get_container(). * Gio::Mount: guess_content_type() and guess_content_type_finish(). * Gio:ThemedIcon: prepend_name(). * Gio::Volume: get_activation_root(). * Bug Fixes:

*** gtkmm 2.14: gtkmm 2.13 wraps new API in GTK+ 2.13. It will become the API/ABI-stable gtkmm 2.14 when GTK+ 2.14.0 is released. gtkmm 2.13 is API/ABI-compatibile with gtkmm 2.12, 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 gtkmm 2.13.4 (unstable); Gtk: * Added the ToolShell interface, though it is not used yet, to avoid breaking ABI. * AccelGroup: Added get_is_locked() and get_modifier_mask(). * CellRendererPixbuf: Added gicon property. * Clipboard: Added request_uris(), wait_for_uris(), wait_is_uris_available(). * Entry: Added get/set_overwrite_mode(). Added overwrite_mode and text_length properties. * Dialog: Reimplemented get_action_area() and get_content_area() with the new accessor functions. * Entry: Reimplemented get_text_le

I am pleased to announce version 2.15.1 of the Python bindings for GObject. The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org as and its mirrors as soon as its synced correctly: http://download.gnome.org/sources/pygobject/2.15/ There are two new significant features in this release series, initial bindings for GIO. Note that these are not complete, please report missing API in Bugzilla so we know what people are missing. Codegen has been moved from PyGTK and can now be used without depending on GTK+, which should be useful for GObject based libraries. What's new since PyGObject 2.15.1? - Rename pygtk-codegen-2.0 to pygobject-codegen-2.0 to avoid conflicting with PyGTK (Paul Pogonyshev) Blurb: GObject is a object system library used by GTK+ and GStreamer. PyGObject provides a convenient wrapper for the GObject+ 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 PyGTK, PyORBit and gnome-pytho

What is GOK? ============== 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 v1.3.7? ================================ * GOK now uses the core pointer (regular system mouse) by default * Loads of improvements thanks to growing GOK community. (More on this coming in a later email) * Updated translations, and numerous bug fixes. Where can I get it? ===================== You can obtain GOK v1.4.0 in source code form here: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gok/1.4/gok-1.4.0.tar.gz Thank you to everyone who made this an awesome release! As always, please report bugs. best regards, The GOK Team

Empathy 0.23.4 is now available for download from: http://download.gnome.org/sources/empathy/0.23/ 85a53e036026d1f59fd640188d382008 empathy-0.23.4.tar.gz 5a41033e3e41e9769628e0118f32d5c3 empathy-0.23.4.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. You can visit the project web site: http://live.gnome.org/Empathy What's New? =========== - Save avatar to file when right click on the avatar image (Guillaume Desmottes). - Made the Close button the default widget in the contact edit dialog. (Jonny Lamb) - Made account removal confirmation dialog modal. (Jonny Lamb) - Set an smiley icon for the "Insert smiley" menu item. (Xavier Claessens). - Set an i

Hello, I am pleased to announce the release of Beagle 0.3.8, the next feature release of the 0.3 series. There are lots of new features, GUI changes and bug fixes; see below for the rather large list. Due to time constraints, we could not get the translations up-to-date for the GUI. Expect a release shortly with up to date translations. THE SHORT OF IT --------------- Beagle is a Linux desktop-independent service which transparently and unobtrusively indexes your data in real-time. To download the 0.3.8 release or learn more about Beagle, visit the Beagle web page: http://beagle-project.org Beagle supports many different data sources and file formats. For a complete listing, visit: http://beagle-project.org/Supported_Filetypes Beagle includes an optional GNOME-based graphical tool and a browser interface for searching its indexes. To learn more about Beagle, visit: http://beagle-project.org/About IMPORTANT CHANGES between 0.3.7 and 0.3.8 --------------------------------------------------------

I am pleased to announce version 2.15.0 of the Python bindings for GObject. The new release is available from ftp.gnome.org as and its mirrors as soon as its synced correctly: http://download.gnome.org/sources/pygobject/2.15/ There are two new significant features in this release, initial bindings for GIO. Note that these are not complete, please report missing API in Bugzilla so we know what people are missing. Codegen has been moved from PyGTK and can now be used without depending on GTK+, which should be useful for GObject based libraries. What's new since PyGObject 2.14.x? - Add GIO bindings (Johan, Mario Tagliaretti, Thomas Leonard) - Move codegen from PyGTK (Johan, Paul Pogonyshev, #542821) - Add more variables to the .pc files (Damien Carbery, Paul, Dan Winship, #486876) - Add pyg_option_group_new to the public API (Johan) - Add g_get_application_anme and g_get_progname (Sebastian Rittau) - Avoid making wakeups when using Python 2.6 (Johan, Gustavo, Adam Olsen, Josse

2.23.55 ======= Thanks to Elijah Newren and Thomas Thurman for improvements in this version. Contrary to rumour, this release does not add tabbing to everything. - Display theme name in title bar of theme viewer (Thomas) (#430198) - Allow toggling of non-compositor effects (Thomas) (#92867) - Add some extra null checks (Thomas) (#422242) - Check for double-freeing at the time of workspace freeing (Elijah) (#361804) - Don't generate log messages unless we're logging (Thomas) - Two windows which don't belong to any application can't be considered to belong to the same application (Thomas) - Various tidyings (Thomas) Translations Yavor Doganov (bg), Gabor Kelemen (hu), Kjartan Maraas (nb), Matej Urbančič (sl), Daniel Nylander (sv), Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th)

Hi The Brasero Team is proud to announce after 7 months of development the new stable series - 0.8. The first release 0.8.0 "no tabs for burning" codename contains new features and lots of bugfixes from 0.7.x series. Highlights for 0.8.0 stable release: - normalization plugin - cover editor - support for DL DVDs - automatic GStreamer plugin installation for distros that support it - new help documentation (by Phil Bull, Milo Casagrande and Andrew Stabeno) - no more medium ejection before disc integrity checks - new notification system - updated most backends to their full capabilities - updated libburn/libisofs plugins to use latest releases - mass file renaming/multiple audio track information edition - fixes to comply with HIG - some GUI improvements - rewriting of Data project tree (now displays proportion of space used in final image for a file or a directory) - support for FreeBSD - support for OpenSolaris + lots of bugfixes since 0.7.1 Bugs fixed since 0.7.91 beta series: - #542545 - Make brasero

GParted is the Gnome front-end to the GNU Parted disk partition editor. GParted enables you to create, destroy, resize, move, check, label, and copy partitions, and the file systems contained within. The GParted 0.3.8 release consists of bug fixes, and language translation updates. Key changes include: - Corrected errors in "Round to cylinders" boundary math - Added "Round to cylinders" check box for copy and move/resize - Enhanced to parse devices from /proc/partitions if file exists - Fixed problem with command line devices being ignored - Removed absolute requirement for hal-lock Visit http://gparted.sourceforge.net for more details.

Hello all! Clutter 0.8.0 - 'Smogun' - is now available for download at: http://www.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/0.8 MD5 Checksums: ec7be7de08d7d52660231566a14df5c0 clutter-0.8.0.tar.gz e24e8c2efdbf3970788407808b4218dd clutter-0.8.0.tar.bz2 What is Clutter =============== Clutter is an open source software library which aids the creation of modern, fast, visually rich and animated graphical user interfaces with minimal effort. It is a mid-level toolkit built around OpenGL and OpenGL ES technologies for both desktop and mobile support. Clutter takes full advantage of the power of OpenGL, but substitutes a simple and intuitive API for the complexity of writing OpenGL code -- it makes common and typical UI tasks (such as animations and text rendering) easy and effortless, yet, remains extensible to accommodate even the most radical next-generation UI designs. Clutter is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1. Clutter currently requires:

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Hi, I'm happy to announce the release of Rhythmbox 0.11.6. This release includes much improved last.fm streaming, amazon cover art search that actually works, and a variety of minor features, improvements, and bug fixes. 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. Summary of changes ================== * Relicensed with GPL exception for GStreamer plugins * Improvements to the cross-fading playback backend * Use Amazon ECS 4.0 web service for cover art searches * Remember browser state for (some) removable devices * Automatically remove podcast episodes that are no longer available * Only display error dialogs for manually triggered podcast updates * Allow playlists from DAAP shares to be sorted * Fix transcoding when transferring to MTP devices * Start moving cached data to XDG_CACHE_HOME * More

GNOME docker 0.1 ================ GNOME application for notifying laptop users about the state of their dock station and the possibility to undock the system via software, either from the tray icon, or via a hotkey. In future, it will also care about hotpluggable devices placed on the dock station, such as hard drives and DVD/CD drives. It is meant to be well designed and to fit into the GNOME desktop. So an important aim for gnome-docker is to be shipped with GNOME upstream. Currently, it has the following features: - tray icon showing the current status and with functionality to undock a laptop - handling of hotkeys to undock a laptop (e.g. FN-F9 on ThinkPads) - xrandr support to enable/disable external outputs attached to the dock station (experimental, evaluating how it fits there) - User notifications about the state of the dock station. E.g.: "Now it's save to remove the laptop" As gnome-docker forges ahead, the linux kernel has to improve and has to provide sensible date for userspac

I'm pleased to announce the version 3.99.3 of Libgda and Libgnomedb. Changes for Libgda are: - lots of bug fixed, memory leaks fixes and general performance improvements (Murray Cumming, Daniel Espinosa, Cygwin Ports maintainer, Phil Longstaff, Carlos Savoretti, Johannes Schmid, Yuriy Penkin, Vivien Malerba) - MySQL support starting to work again (Carlos Savoretti) - documentation improvements - added function to compute INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements from a SELECT statement, to be able to have writable data models after a SELECT execution - API changes for easier understanding and usage (gda_init() for example) - added the possibility to check the validity of a statement using the database's associated meta data - improvements to the convenience functions when creating or dropping a table (Daniel Espinosa) - new data model comparator object - make the SQL parser(s) correctly handle SQL identifiers enclosed in double quotes - more checks - new function to the xslt extension libg

================================================================== GNOME 2.22.3 Stable Release ================================================================== This is the third update to GNOME 2.22. This includes all the bug fixes, all the new translations, updated documentation and other improvements made by the various GNOME teams since the last stable release. This is the last stable version of GNOME 2.22. Meanwhile, the GNOME community is actively working on the unstable branch of GNOME that will become GNOME 2.24 in September 2008. The GNOME 2.22 release notes are available at: http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.22/ The notes that describe the changes between 2.22.2 and 2.22.3 are here: admin - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.22/2.22.3/NEWS bindings - http://download.gnome.org//bindings/2.22/2.22.3/NEWS desktop - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.22/2.22.3/NEWS devtools - http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.22/2.22.3/NEWS platform - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.22/

From Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes (thanks!): * 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 0.15.1? ================================== Fix for bug #520796: Magnifier should turn off the system sprite/cursor/mouse when using full screen magnification. * Translations ============ * Djihed Afifi (ar) * Petr Kovar (cs) * Giannis Katsampiris (el) * David Lodge (en_GB) * Jorge González (es) * Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio (eu) * Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl) * Yair Hershkovitz (he) * Rajesh Ranjan (hi) * Gabor Kelemen (hu) * Luca Ferretti (it) * Ani Peter (ml) * sandeep shedmake (mr) * Nabin Gautam (ne) * Yannig Marchegay (Kokoyaya) (oc) * Baris Cicek (tr) * Woodman

GARNOME 2.22.3 -- "Even old New York was once New Amsterdam" ============== Why they changed it I can't say, people just liked it better that way. [1] Slightly delayed, waiting for the official GNOME 2.22.3 release, and almost right before heading to Istanbul (not Constanti- nople) [1] for GUADEC, meeting our fellow hackers, discussing, planning and of course partying... We are pleased to announce the release of GARNOME 2.22.3. This is the 4th stable release in the 2.22 cycle, incorporating the (still officially to be released) GNOME 2.22.3 Desktop and Developer Platform, fine-tuned with love by the GARNOME Team. It includes a wealth of new application releases, updated translations and bug fixes as part of this GNOME release -- as well as updates and fixes after the GNOME freeze and a host of third-party GNOME packages. As usual, you can get the tarball directly from the gnome.org site: http://download.gnome.org/sources/garnome/2.22/ If you got any issues with this release, feel free to conta