ANNOUNCE: Java-GNOME 2.5.3

[Jeffrey Morgan <kuzman zoominternet net>]

The java-gnome team is pleased to announce the latest development
release of the java-gnome bindings.  This release reqires libgnomeui
2.5.3 or higher and/or gtk 2.3.1 or higher.


The following lists the changes for this release:
2.5.3 (19 January 2004)
- Known Issues
        ActionGroup.addRadioActions causes application to crash.
- New Classes:  
        FontButton  [Jeffrey Morgan]
        FontButtonEvent  [Jeffrey Morgan]
        ToolItem [Jeffrey Morgan, Luca De Rugeriis]
        ToolBarEvent  [Jeffrey Morgan]
        ActionEntry  [Jeffrey Morgan]
        ToggleAction  [Jeffrey Morgan]
        ToggleActionEntry  [Jeffrey Morgan]
        RadioAction [Jeffrey Morgan]
        RadioActionEntry [Jeffrey Morgan]
        DataBlockStockItem [Mark Howard]
        DataBlockIconSize [Mark Howard]
- New Interfaces:
        FontButtonListener  [Jeffrey Morgan]
        ToolBarListener  [Jeffrey Morgan]
        ActionEntryListener  [Jeffrey Morgan]
        ToggleActionEntryListener  [Jeffrey Morgan]
        RadioActionEntryListener  [Jeffrey Morgan]
- Updated Classes
        Action - Added public interface & docs [Luca De Rugeriis]
        ActionGroup - Added public interface   [Jeffrey Morgan]
        Alignment - Added setPadding method. [Mark Howard]
        BindingSet - Amended activateBinding methods to use gdk
KeySymbol [Luca De Rugeriis] 
        Expander - Added public interface & docs [Luca De Rugeriis]
        GtkTextView get/set acceptsTab/overwrite (public API & docs)
[Mark Howard]
        TextBuffer selectRange (public API & docs) [Mark Howard]
        ToolBar - Deprecated 8 methods and added 9 new methods and
proper event handling.  [Jeffrey Morgan]
        ConfClient - Cleaned up JNI code [Joe Marcus Clarke]
        UIManager - Added public interface  [Jeffrey Morgan]
        ListStore, TreeStore - Added setValue methods for new DataBlock
types
- Deprecated Classes/Interfaces:
        FontPicker  [Jeffrey Morgan]
        FontPickerEvent  [Jeffrey Morgan]
        FontPickerListener  [Jeffrey Morgan]
        ToolBarChildType  [Jeffrey Morgan]
        ToolBarSpaceStyle  [Jeffrey Morgan]
        OptionMenu  [Mark Howard]
        ItemFactory  [Mark Howard]
        ItemFactoryEntry  [Mark Howard]
- Fixed creation of symlinks in build scripts [Mark Howard]
- Fixed gconf tarball configure script [Mark Howard]
- Only include class files in Jar archive. [Mark Howard]


The following modules are available:

libgtk-java:
Bindings for: GTK+, glib, atk, pango, gdk
Tarball:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgtk-java/2.3/libgtk-java-2.3.3.tar.gz

libgnome-java:
Bindings for: libgnome, libgnomeui, libgnomecanvas
Tarball:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgnome-java/2.5/libgnome-java-2.5.3.tar.gz

libgconf-java
Bindings for: gconf
Tarball:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgconf-java/2.5/libgconf-java-2.5.3.tar.gz

libglade-java
Bindings for: libglade
Tarball:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libglade-java/2.3/libglade-java-2.3.3.tar.gz


An all-in-one package is also available on the java-gnome site at:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/java-gnome/java-gnome-2.5.3.tar.bz2?download

-Jeff