GNOME Summary November 23, 2003 - November 29, 2003

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

This is the GNOME Summary for 2003-11-23 - 2003-11-29
    
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Table of Contents
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1. GNOME Development release 2.5.0
2. New Marketing Lists Announced
3. New GAIM launches
4. Dropline GNOME review
5. GStreamer 0.7.2 released
6. Evolution Updates
7. Expose Metacity with Expocity
8. Bluefish 0.12 Released
9. Quick Lounge 2.0.3 released
10. Ruby-GNOME2-0.8.1 released
11. libgda/libgnomedb 1.1.0 released
12. GIMP 1.3.23 released
13. GNOME News Submissions

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1. GNOME Development release 2.5.0
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The first development release of the GNOME 2.5.0 "Obviously you're
not a golfer" is out

Garnome 0.28.2 has also been released. 

GARNOME is a distribution of GNOME, based on the GAR ports system by
Nick Moffitt. It builds the latest GNOME Desktop tarball releases,
and includes extra GNOME 2.x software to provide testers with a
comfortable desktop environment.

        http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.5/2.5.0/sources
        http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/garnome/download

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2. New Marketing Lists Announced
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The GNOME Marketing time has added the following mailing lists
in order to further GNOME in those countries Gnome Australia
(gnome-au-list gnome org), Gnome Malaysia (gnome-my-list gnome org),
Gnome France (gnome-fr-list gnome org), Gnome India
(gnome-in-list gnome org)

if you're a member of those countries and would like to help out
or organize GNOME activities in those regions please subscribe!

        http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo

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3. New GAIM launches
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The GAIM hackers have released version 0.73 featuring a new logging
format, spell checker fixes, translation updates and more. That
released was shortly followed by a version 0.74 release.

Gaim is a multi protocol Instant Messenger client, supporting AIM,
MSN, Yahoo!, IRC, GaduGadu, Jabber and a host of other services.

        http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog
        http://gaim.sf.net/

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4. Dropline GNOME review
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Linux Universe has posted a review of Dropline GNOME 2.4 - a
version of the GNOME Desktop that has been tweaked for Slackware
Linux systems.

        http://linux-universe.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1555

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5. GStreamer 0.7.2 released
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The latest release of unstable branch of Gstreamer adds full support
for wma and aac. And it adds some support for wmv and quicktime.

GStreamer allows the construction of graphs of media-handling
components, ranging from simple mp3 playback to complex audio
(mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.

        http://www.gstreamer.net/releases/0.7.2/notice.php
        http://www.gstreamer.net

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6. Evolution Updates
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The Evolution hackers are still tweaking the UI of the upcoming
Evolution release. There has been a new proposal for the UI of
signed and encrypted messages

It has been proposed that Evolution be included in the core GNOME
system. A lengthy discussion has ensued in the d-d-l.

The Evolution website now has an iCalendar file that contains the
Evolution 2.0 schedule. To test it, just create a new calendar,
pointing it to http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/roadmap.ics,
and it should show up in the source selector.

        
http://codeblogs.ximian.com/blogs/evolution/archives/images/mail-signatures-2.pn
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http://lists.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-November/msg00406.html
        http://codeblogs.ximian.com/blogs/evolution/archives/000091.html

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7. Expose Metacity with Expocity
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If you have been drooling over that latest feature in Mac OS X,
called Expos, well don't despair, for Expocity is here. When you use
a Expocity powered Metaciy, after pressing a keystroke, your window
manager will present you a complete overview of all open windows
and you can select the window, you want to switch to, visually.

Metacity is the official window manager of the GNOME 2.0 desktop

        http://www.pycage.de/expocity.png
        http://www.pycage.de/expocity.html

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8. Bluefish 0.12 Released
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Bluefish 0.12 features project management, a better user interface
(for example a reworked menu, and improved keyboard navigation),
support for remote files using gnome-vfs, a nicer user interface
(many new icons and buttons, and general user interface cleanups),
many bug fixes and much more.

Bluefish is a powerful editor for experienced web designers
and programmers.  Bluefish supports many programming and markup
languages, but it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive
websites.

        http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/

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9. Quick Lounge 2.0.3 released
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Quick Lounge 2.0.3 is released. This release is a translation and
bug fix release

Quick Lounge 2.0.3, is an applet to organise your preferred
applications on the GNOME Panel.

        http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/quick-lounge-applet/2.0
        http://quick-lounge.sourceforge.net

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10. Ruby-GNOME2-0.8.1 released
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Ruby-GNOME2-0.8.1 is a set of Ruby language bindings for the GNOME
2.x development environment.

        http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53614
        http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp

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11. libgda/libgnomedb 1.1.0 released
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Working on new features like updatable data models - allows
applications to modify data on the underlying data source without
using any SQL at all, schema modifications and user-defined
forms for data displaying/modification.  libgda/libgnomedb are a
complete framework for developing database-oriented applications,
and actually allow access to PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase,
SQLite, FireBird/Interbase, IBM DB2, mSQL and MS SQL server, as
well as MS Access and xBase files and ODBC data sources.

        ftp://ftp.gnome-db.org/pub/gnome-db/sources/v1.1.0/
        http://www.gnome-db.org

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12. GIMP 1.3.23 released
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This release fixes numerous bugs. It also gives the libgimp APIs as
well as the user interface some final polishing. The GIMP now handles
multi-screen and Xinerama setups reasonably well. The preferences
dialog features a new theme selector so everyone can use the Small
theme even w/o reading the docs. GIMP plug-ins finally use the
same color selector as the core and some work has been done on
improving the framework for color display filters. The addition of
a simple color proof display filter is a first step on integrating
color management.

The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely
distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo
retouching, image composition and image authoring.

        ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v1.3/v1.3.23
        http://www.gimp.org

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13. GNOME News Submissions
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