======================================================================== gnome-libs-1.0.6 ---------------- Hello, * New in this release: * Gnome Config: James Henstridge added a new improvement for your sysadmin pleasure: Now you can configure system globals by putting the default values for a configuration file in the directory: $sysconfigdir/gnome/config/ You can force a specific value for any configuration setting in the directory: $sysconfigdir/gnome/config-override/ This will allow system administrators to set system-wide pre-defined defaults for the system * Dentry loader Owen Taylor added support for the desktop-entry loader to load KDE .kdelnk and launch KDE .kdelnk files. This will be used extensively by the next gnome-core release (scheduled for tomorrow, so you have plenty of time to compile this version :-). * Documentation Our scheduled updates to the API documentation. * ORBit changes You need to use version 0.4.3. Elliot Lee fixed our problems. * Zvt terminal emulator Michael Zucchi upgraded the terminal emulator: Should be fully xterm compliant. People have complained about problems on the emulation (these were produced because the "xterm" definition was recently upgraded by the XFree people to reflect the new features in xterm, and we were not implementing them all). Glibc 2.1.xx support. * Bug fixes A long list of bugs have been fixed by: Owen Taylor, Asbjorn Pettersen, James Henstridge, Nuno Ferreira, George Lebl, Timur Bakeyev, Michael Zucchi, Federico Mena and Matthijs Melchior ====================================================================== gnome-libs-1.0.5 ---------------- Hello, lovers of exotic primates, The GNOME team has just released version 1.0.5 of the gnome-libs module. This is mainly a bugfix release. * Availability: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/latest/gnome-libs-1.0.5.tar.gz * New features: - For developers only: now you can run configure with --disable-gtk-doc, and then gnome-libs will not try to build the HTML documentation from the SGML sources. This is of no concern to users, since the pre-packaged HTML files will be installed correctly (Martin Baulig). * Fixes: - Fixed stale references to the GNOME name server (Miguel de Icaza). - #include fixes in the .idl files (Elliot Lee). - Gnome-config and gnome-scores fixes (George Lebl). - Const-correctness fixes for gnome-fileconvert (Miguel de Icaza). - Canvas event propagation and item destruction fixes (Federico Mena). - Accelerator/menu fixes (Tim Janik). - Fixed ordering of some operations in gnome-client (Felix Bellaby). - Sanity checks for random parts of the libgnomeui code (George Lebl and Pavel Machek). - Correctness and permissions fixes in gnome-pty-helper (Erik Troan). Please note that you may want to upgrade to Gtk+-1.2.1, since it has some menu accelerator fixes as well. You will get a big loud warning if you don't upgrade :-) Enjoy, Federico ====================================================================== gnome-libs-1.0.4 ---------------- Hello, lovers of bugfix releases The GNOME team has just released version 1.0.4 of the gnome-libs package. * Availability: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/latest/gnome-libs-1.0.4.tar.gz * Major new features: - gnome-moz-remote: Now makes sure it uses a local copy of Mozilla for local URLs (i.e. "file:" ones). Now uses GNOME WM hints if available to look for client windows (James Henstridge). - Users should now be able to properly customize their menu accelerators on the fly, and they should be saved correctly upon termination of the topmost gtk_main() loop (Tim Janik). - Zvt now supports selection when scrolling (Michael Zucchi). * Minor fixes: - Making of documentation files now works for srcdir != builddir (Raja Harinath). - gnome-moz-remote no longer depends on -lXmu or -lXt (James Henstridge). - Canvas item bounding and icon list button event fixes (Richard Hult). - Dialogs in gnome-dialog-util now get the correct focus (Federico Mena). - Timeout removal fixes in gnome-icon-list and gnome-pixmap-entry (George Lebl). Have fun, Federico ====================================================================== gnome-libs-1.0.3 ---------------- Hello shared library lovers, Gnome libs 1.0.3 is now available for download. The site is the same: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-libs * Major features: * API documentation. The major thing on this release is that we now include the API documentation for libgnome and libgnomeui in HTML format (the SGML sources are provided if you want to generate printable material. you will need Docbook to generate the postscript though). * Minor fixes: * gnome.mime updated. * GtkXmHTML should not produce run-time warnings. * GNOME Object IDL file. * Autoreload of MIME keys and MIME info if files are modified. * Icon Item redraw fixes (this will make your selected icons on the desktop nicely selected, without the gray bounds). * Gnome Canvas fixes for affine-transformed items (Federico). * Gnome Message Boxes are nicer, better padding (Owen). * Gnome Docking repaint improvements (no more flicker, Federico). * Zvt widget supports wheel mice (Richard Hult) * Gnome-Pty-Helper will die at the proper times now. Enjoy, Miguel. ====================================================================== gnome-libs-1.0.2 ---------------- Hello shared library lovers, Gnome libs 1.0.2 is now available for download. The site is the same: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-libs What is new on this release: * Improved gnome-bug script * libgnome changes: - SIGPIPE reset to default value in gnome_exec, this does the proper thing for various GNOME applications that start other programs. People have been reporting problems with gzip, this fixes it. - Raja improved the gnome_dirrelavtive_file routine. * libgnomeui changes: - Documentation updates for the Canvas. It should be fully API documented now (with the exceptions of the object arguments, which needs to be done in a different framework) (Federico). - IconList passes events for double and tripple clicks to applications (George). - We now use mime-type routines for finding out image types instead of the older method (George). - IconList should behave properly for people with wheel-mouses. - ColorPicker fixed for some corner conditions (Jaka). * Zvt changes: - Shift-Insert will trigger a paste (for compatibility with Xterm). - SIGPIPE will be set to SGI_DFL on the child after fork. ====================================================================== 0.99.5 ------ Hello guys, A new universe of joy has been released for all of the free software anenthusiasts. This release has been extremely painful to me in terms of time waste. I ran out of disk space every 20 minutes in the middle of make distcheck and the whole process needs to be restarted again. If you have big hard drives you want to donate me, please contact me. * Availability: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/latest * Released modules: - gnome-libs-0.99.5 - gnome-network-0.99.5 - gnome-pim-0.99.5 - gnome-utils-0.99.5 - mc-4.5.10 - gnome-games * gnome-network * First release of GnomePPP, a ppp front end by Jay Painter. (the author of EzPPP, which is the foundation for kppp as well). * GnomeTalk got some small updates * Midnight Commander * VFS changes: * Support for Amiga FTP servers (Norbert) * Support for Novell4 FTP servers (Pavel) * Bug fixes. * Misc changes: * Full movement to glib for allocation/deallocation of memory. (Timur Bakeyev) * Lots of bug fixes from various hackers (Norbert, Alexander). * Slang setup should work again with sysmte-installed slangs (Norbert). * Various calls to _() were missing. They are now in. * GNOME front: * Much improved properties dialog box which now supports setting the metadata properties of the files and the icon as well (Jonathan/Dave Camp). * Code for accepting DnD from netscape is there. Do not know why it is failing to accept the drops (me). * Many Drag and Drop consistency and little detail fixing (Federico). * Default gmc is now the corba-gmc. This also means that by default if a gmc is running, re-running gmc will only request the running instance to open a new window. * Tree fixes. * Dialogs now popup close to the mouse instead of randomly on the screen. * Selection code now mimics the rest of Gtk in the list-view. * Use more icons from Tigert. * Delete dialog box has its own dialog (finally!) (Jonathan). * gnome-core * gsm now implements run-levels (Felix) * gmenu: updated, made better, add DnD (Nat Friedman) * Panel takes DnD from Netscape (George). * Panel memory usage reduction, smarter menu code. (George). * Initial work on adding help hooks to the applications and the applets all over the place (Nat Friedman) * Russian translation is quickly catching up. * Added documentation to gnome-terminal * Various small fixes and updates. * gnome-pim * Mostly a bug fix release. * Alarms should work properly. * Text events are fitted into the week-view instead of cropped * Drag and Drop added to GnomeCard. * Many bug fixes to GnomeCard and GnomeCal * Documentation for gnomecard by Arturo Espinosa * gnome-games * New games: gnobots2, gnometris/metatris Yes. That is 2 different versions of tetris (Chris and Marcin). * Gnothello was renamed to something else. (Ian) * Gnothello has spify property pages now! (Ian) * Fixed the menu standarization. We are back to the old standard. * Added documentation * gnome-utils * GHex Code revamp (Jaka Mocnik) * GHex includes documentation now. * Assorted bug fixes in the various components * Help hooks added (Nat) * gnome-libraries * Added support for run-levels in the session management code, this allows application to register in which order they have to be executed. * Support for SM spec 7.2 (workarounds for xsm bugs and speed up the startup). * Various canvas bug fixes that caused the Calendar to crash. * Documentation on how to handle session-management. * Updated consistency guidelines for GNOME applications. * Removed use of some deprecated GTK+ functions. * Session management fixes/updates/enhancements. * gnome_fileconvert code is in a usable shape now. * More inline-api documentation and libgnome passes all the warnings from gtk-doc so you can generate your own Docbook api reference manuals for it now. * More utility functions to help you integrate the help system into your applications * Multi-depth display fixes. * Addresses the The Big Cache discussion. You need a new gtk-themes (from CVS at the time of this writing for this change to work). * Reduced memory usage in the icon-list * Many small bug fixes and little problems reported have been fixed. GUI improvements in some default widgets. * Portability fixes. * Translations updated. Contributors on this release: Andrew Veliath, Carsten Schaar, Federico Mena, Felix Bellaby, George Lebl, Havoc Pennington, Jaka Mocnik, Jeff Garzik, John Ellis, Jonathan Bladford, Miguel de Icaza, Nat Friedman, Radek Doulik, Raja Harinath, Sebastian Wilhemi, Tomas Ogren, Ulrich Drepper. Sorry, I could not keep track of the hackers on the other modules as I did on gnome-libs. Miguel ====================================================================== 0.99.4 ------ Hello guys, The Preening Bonobo release of the GNOME libraries (0.99.4) has been released. Hackers have been busy working on this release, hope you enjoy it. This is mostly a preening release of the GNOME libraries, with significant fewer parasites. * New features The new features in this release are: * libgnome: - More speed improvements, caching values. - test suite works as expected by automake - General bug fixes and bonobo preening. - More in-line documentation * libgnomeui: - Configurable accelerator keys (so you can change them if you dont like our defaults for all your GNOME apps). - bug fixes that caused gmc to crash (and some other apps too). - New preferences routines for controlling the placement of the progress bar - Use the above on GNOME apps that used the progress bar. - Helper functions for the selction of icons in the desktop - Calculator got fixed. - GnomeIconList widget is approaching adulthood according to the ChangeLog file. I do not know if the ChangeLog was trying to imply that I am a doofus. - A number of bug fixes that affected all of gnome. - More inline API documentation. - More stock icons from Tuomas are included in the distribution * libgnorba: - GOAD-id activation works. * Zvt: - The widget now can be used to automate tasks. * Availability: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/latest ====================================================================== Feb/10/1998 ----------- Gnome libraries are now split into a separate package 26/Aug/1997 ----------- First distribution of the Gnome libraries