[ANNOUNCE] Scw 0.2.0 - the chat-oriented widget set

[Kalle Vahlman <kalle vahlman gmail com>]

I'm happy to announce a new release of Scw, the chat-oriented widget set!

What's new?
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The release 0.2.0 includes the following changes:

 * Build fixes (remove profiling from build options, add missing
example files to python release)
 * Added scw_view_set_column_visible() for controlling visibility per
model column.


What is it?
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Scw is a library that includes widgets designed for chat programs.

Currently this means (but will be extended with time):

  * ScwView, a view that has:
     - Activatable text (urls, user names, etc)
     - Pango markup
     - Wrapping
     - GtkTreeModel implementations as data storage

  * ScwEntry, an derivate of GtkEntry which adds:
     - Simple input history

Python and Ruby bindings are available, Java-Gtk bindings are planned.

As a bonus feature, the widgets are guaranteed to compile and work on
the Maemo[1] platform (used in the Nokia 770[2] that everybody is so
exited about).

More detailed description is found on the home page of Scw.

Applications that use Scw
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  * Rirc (an irssi2 client, has been discontinued for the time being)
  * Silky (is being ported to it, http://silky.sourceforge.net/
  * Telepathy people are doing a proto client using Scw
     (http://telepathy.freedesktop.org)
  * Your app here possibly? Let me know!

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

Homepage:
 http://iki.fi/zuh/scw/

Version 0.2.0:
 http://iki.fi/zuh/scw/scw-0.2.0.tar.gz

Python bindings
 http://iki.fi/zuh/scw/python-scw-0.2.0.tar.gz

Ruby bindings
 http://iki.fi/zuh/scw/ruby-scw-0.1.0.tar.gz
 (I'll upgrade them to 0.2.0 a little later, but they should be compatible)

Communication options
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As I haven't yet set up mailing lists or bugzilla or anything really,
bug reports and other stuff should be sent straight to me at
zuh iki fi 

Or come visit the IRC channel #scw on freenode network to have a chat
(it's lonely there ;).


[1] http://maemo.org
[2] http://nokia.com/770/

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