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GNOME 2.16.0 Release Candidate 1 (2.15.92) Released!

Submitted by stro on Thu, 2006-08-24 14:17. Gnome 2.x
Gnome 2.x

We are pleased to announce the release of GNOME 2.16.0 Release Candidate
1 (2.15.92). This is one of the last releases in the 2.15 development series and
represents a release that is now API/ABI, feature, string and UI frozen.
Hard code freeze is quickly approaching : this means that we're pretty
close to the final 2.16.0 release. The GNOME contributors are now busy
fixing the most important bugs that are still out there, localizing the
whole desktop or updating our documentation.

Also Builder.AU has a nice little preview of the up and coming new version of GNOME.

You can still make a difference and contribute to the best GNOME release
ever! Do you see all the 2.15.92 tarballs? Go download them. Go compile
them. Go test them. And go hack on them, document them, translate them,
fix them.

The release notes that describe the changes between 2.15.91 and 2.15.92
are available. Go read them to learn all the changes in this release:

platform - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/platform/2.15/2.15.92/NEWS
desktop - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/desktop/2.15/2.15.92/NEWS
admin - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/admin/2.15/2.15.92/NEWS
bindings - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/bindings/2.15/2.15.92/NEWS

Basic stats:

admin 2.15.92 statistics:
tar.gz: 880K total
tar.bz2: 708K total

bindings 2.15.92 statistics:
tar.gz: 29M total
tar.bz2: 20M total

desktop 2.15.92 statistics:
tar.gz: 165M total
tar.bz2: 120M total

platform 2.15.92 statistics:
tar.gz: 53M total
tar.bz2: 37M total

The GNOME 2.15.92 release is available here:

platform sources - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/platform/2.15/2.15.92/
desktop sources - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.15/2.15.92/
admin sources - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/admin/2.15/2.15.92/
bindings sources - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/bindings/2.15/2.15.92/

To compile it, you can use GARNOME (already released), or the
jhbuild modulesets available at:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/teams/releng/2.15.92/

We hope you will enjoy this release !

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can't see anything by Anonymous George (not verified)

Are you sure?

Submitted by rutulian on Fri, 2006-08-25 10:30.

Are you sure?

The way I understand it, Metacity is now a compositing window manager (compositing is optional), which means it is just like Compiz. Of course it uses the Composite extension, but does it need OpenGL support? I've heard of reports of freezing and lockups if you are using the current nvidia drivers which don't have texture-from-pixmap.

Yes, the developing version by Anonymous George (not verified)

metacity compositor

Submitted by rutulian on Fri, 2006-08-25 08:40.

Hmmm...I've been wondering about the status of the Metacity compositor. Does anybody know if it needs AIGLX/XGl? It would be a neat thing to enable, but texture-from-pixmap isn't going to be in either ATI or NVidia cards for a while. Can it run without hardware acceleration (yes, I know it would be slow)?

I guess so by Anonymous George (not verified)
Metacity does not need AIGLX by Anonymous George (not verified)
As far as I know, AIGLX uses by Anonymous George (not verified)
Yep, you are right. And by Anonymous George (not verified)

Tomboy icon

Submitted by hauberg on Thu, 2006-08-24 15:14.

From the screenshots in the article, I see that tomboy is still using the Tintin icon. To me, the icon doesn't make sense (although it is cute), but isn't there a copyright problem with using that icon?

I really don't kwon... have by Anonymous George (not verified)
Icon by Anonymous George (not verified)
Even 0.3.5 has the new by Anonymous George (not verified)
0.3.5 for me in Gentoo has by Anonymous George (not verified)

New version don't

Submitted by zdzichu on Mon, 2006-09-04 11:06.

The latest version is 0.3.9 (available on GNOME ftp). It has tangoish yellow icons depicting stack of post-it notes.

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