[ANNOUNCE] Gnome-utils 2.15.0 - "Growing Family"

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Good news everyone!

With the start of a new development cycle, the gnome-utils team
unleashes a new release of the GNOME Utilities package: 2.15.0,
codenamed "Growing Family"!

The 2.15.0 release has been called "Growing Family" because sports the
addition of a fine new utility: Baobab, a disk usage analyser; using
Baobab you'll be able to see the disk usage of a folder inside a volume,
both inside a tree and inside a treemap graph.  Baobab has been written
by Fabio Marzocca, a new contributor to GNOME, and has been helped by
Benoit Dejean and Paolo Borelli.  With Baobab, GNOME features a new
utility which offers functionality that users other operating systems
can only access through third party software.

This release is also called "Growing Family" because Jonathan 'jrb'
Blandford, the maintainer of the Screenshot application, has become
father of the little Eleanor[1]: on behalf of the rest of the
gnome-utils maintainers: congrats, jrb!

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This is a development release of gnome-utils, so you should really use
it if you want to contribute to GNOME in form of patches, bugs or
cookies to the developers.  Don't install it on every machine you see,
or if you want to bash GNOME.  Really, that would make me feel really
bad; so bad, actually, that only cookies would cheer me up.  So, send us
some cookies.

You can download the gnome-utils 2.15.0 tarball at:

  http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-utils/2.15/

You can find a preliminary roadmap for the 2.15 development cycle at:

  http://live.gnome.org/GnomeUtils/RoadMap

The gnome-utils page on the wiki is:

  http://live.gnome.org/GnomeUtils

Enough rambling, here's the details:

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GNOME Utilities 2.15.0 (April 24th 2006) - "Growing Family"

    * Include "Baobab", the Disk Usage Analyser written by
      Fabio Marzocca.
    * Require intltool >= 0.34.90 (#337941)
    * Require libpanel-applet >= 2.13.4 (#336546)

Baobab

    * Disk usage analyser: shows the usage of a folder or a file
      system as a list and in graphical format.

GNOME Dictionary

    * Do not crash when moby-thes database returns a pseudo-status
      code (#330782)
    * Show the application options when using --help (#335730)
    * Don't leak the GnomeProgram object (#335745)
    * Don't crash on Solaris (#339357)

GNOME Floppy

    * Use GOption instead of libpopt for parsing the command line
      options (#336360)

GNOME Screenshot

    * Show the application options when using --help (#338330)
    * Fix transparency for shaped windows (Michael Ofmann, #332017)
    * Use 'Folder' in place of 'Directory' (#100052)
    * Fix screenshots of overlapping windows (Björn
      Lindqvist, #121492 and #165949)

GNOME Search Tool

    * Return the right results when using the "name contains" and
      "regular expression" match criteria (Dennis, #337898)

GNOME System Log Viewer

    * Nothing

Translations updates:

    Rhys Jones (cy), (dz), Ivar Smolin (et), Ilkka Tuohela (fi),
    Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl), Ankit Patel (gu),
    Vladimer Sichinava (ka), Žygimantas Beručka (lt),
    Raphael Higino (pt_BR), Duarte Loreto (pt), Daniel Nylander (sv),
    Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th), Deniz Koçak (tr),
    Clytie Siddall (vi), Funda Wang (zh_CN)

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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[1] http://jrb.webwynk.net/news-2006-04.html#22 
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