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From: Federico Mena Quintero <federico@nuclecu.unam.mx>
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Subject: GNOME 0.20 is released!
Hello,
Version 0.20 of the GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNOME) has
just been released. This version is intended to be taken as a
pseudo-beta release. That is, it may not be 100% bullet-proof, but it
should be pretty usable for most people. GNOME 0.20 includes most of
the toys that were presented during Linux Expo.
Some of the major features in this release are:
- The Panel plus all its nifty applets (including the beloved Wanda
the Fish!). You can use them as an application launcher, a system
monitor, a fortune teller, and whatnot.
- The GNOME port of the Midnight Commander file manager has been
revamped. It now supports an iconic file listing and drag-and-drop
to the desktop and to applications.
- The Gnomecal program is a nifty calendar and personal scheduler. It
uses the standard vCard file format for interoperability with other
calendar programs.
- There is an included tour through the GNOME programs, available
through the help system.
- The Electric Eyes image viewer lets you view images as well as
perform many operations on them (color correction, cropping,
scaling, etc.).
- The Logview program lets you browse your system logs with
explanations on some of the messages in them.
- The Gxsnmp program is an SNMP browser for your network.
- The gnome-terminal program is an extremely fast terminal emulator.
- The gtcd CD player supports the CDDB.
- The Extace program, in conjunction with the Enlightened Sound Daemon
(esound), can be used to display 3D FFT waveforms of your sound
card's output. Major seizures may result from prolonged use.
- The Gtop program is a graphical replacement for top. You can
display graphical memory maps and send signals to processes.
- Session management is implemented in most of the GNOME programs.
You should be able to quit your session, and when you log back in
everything should pop up in the way it was before.
There are many other new features that I have missed. In general,
everything has been made more consistent and bug-free.
The GNOME web site is at
http://www.gnome.org
You can download GNOME in .tar.gz and RPM formats here:
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/v0.20
Debian packages should be available soon.
Support packages and libraries are available here:
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/support
Please report bugs to gnome-list@gnome.org or to our web-based bug
tracking system here:
http://www.gnome.org/cgi-bin/bugs
Have fun!
The GNOME team
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From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>
To: gnome-list@gnome.org, gnome-announce-list@gnome.org,
linux-announce@sws1.ctd.ornl.gov, gnu@gnu.org
Subject: GNOME 0.25 released
The GNOME coding team is proud to announce:
GNOME 0.25 -- Drooling Macaque release (also known as `Omaha').
http://www.gnome.org/
* What is new:
Most important: starting with this release (Drooling Macaque) the
various pieces of GNOME are now being maintained/released by different
people, this means we will be able to provide releases of the
individual GNOME packages more often that we have so far. Here are
some of the new features in this release:
- The new ORBit CORBA 2.2 implementation by the GNOME team is
now used instead of MICO (Dick Porter, Elliot Lee, Andrew
Veliath and Philip Dawes are the wizards behind this).
- The panel includes various new panel operation modes and
various new applets have been written. System/user menus.
- Menu editor is now included in the code.
- Powerful display engine is now included in the GNOME
libraries (It is similar in spirit to the Tk canvas):
- High level object-based engine (you can manipulate
objects at a high level, never worry about exposes).
- Hierachical organization of graphical objects.
- Flicker free (ideal for writing games).
- Extensible: new objects can be written (indeed, the
GNOME spreadsheet is implemented as a set of canvas
items).
- As a regular GNOME library, it is already supported
in the Perl and Scheme bindings.
- Gtk Cauldron: printf/scanf-like routine for quickly
building input dialog boxes :-).
- Various new games: Gyahtzee, Gnobots, Gnothello.
- Lots of bug fixes.
- New improved versions of all of the existing GNOME
applications.
- First version of the GNOME Postscript viewer is available;
gsearchtool program is available; gdiskfree and more.
- Various new languages supported, existing translations
enhanced.
- Gnome Dialog and Gnome Splash programs: a GUI version of
Dialog; and a generic splahs program for your scripts.
* Where are we aiming at now:
* DnD: We will soon switch to the Xdnd protocol and we will as
well support the Motif DND (Owen Taylor is working on
this).
* The fact that ORBit is so thin and fast is finally enabling
us to use CORBA all over the desktop as we had planned.
* Expect a first preview of the GNOME component model to be
available in about a month.
* File manager will undergo a massive user interface rewrite
in the next month as well.
* Balsa (the GNOME mailer) should be released in a few hours;
Gnumeric (the GNOME spreadsheet) should be released in a few
days.
* What do you need to compile:
Gtk+ 1.1.2 (which in turn requires Glib 1.1.2)
Latest Imlib (available in the same ftp server as GNOME).
ORBit 0.2 (available as well on the GNOME ftp site).
* Where to get it:
Tar files are available at:
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/v0.25
We expect to have glibc RPMs sometime soon. Other people are
welcomed to send us binaries/packages in other formats
(contact webmaster@gnome.org for that).
The GNOME source code is also avaiable trough Anonymous CVS,
check the GNOME web page for information on retrieving this
release (CVS tag name: DROOLING_MACAQUE).
* More information:
Web site: http://www.gnome.org
General mailing list: gnome-list-request@gnome.org
The GNOME team.