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GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.3.1

Submitted by stro on Fri, 2003-05-09 23:41. Gnome 2.x

The GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.3.1 "Daddy Walrus", is ready for
your bug-busting and testing pleasure! It is available for immediate
download on ftp.gnome.org and mirrors
tar.gz: 117M total
tar.bz2: 88M total

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
--------------------------

This release is an UNSTABLE development series snapshot. It is intended for
testing and hacking purposes ONLY. Like the Linux kernel, GNOME uses odd
minor version numbers to indicate development status, so this 2.3.x series
will eventually become the official 2.4 release. Please check the 2.3 start
page for more information: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.3/

Proposed Modules
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The following modules have been PROPOSED for inclusion in the next major
GNOME release. Keep in mind that not all of them may be accepted.

battfink - Energy saving and battery status utility.

epiphany - A GNOME web browser based on Gecko.

fontilus - Font management and information tools.

galeon - A GNOME web browser based on Gecko.

gcalctool - A full-featured calculator.

gedit-plugins & gtksourceview - Split off plugins and a syntax
highlighting textview for gedit.

gnome-mag, gnome-speech, gnopernicus & gok - Screen magnification, text to
speech, on screen keyboard and accessibilty features control tool.

gnomemeeting - Standards-based audio and video conferencing.

gnome-system-tools - Cross-platform user-friendly system configuration
tools.

gpdf - An xpdf-based PDF viewer.

gswitchit & libxklavier - Keyboard layout switching and configuration
tools.

gucharmap - A full-featured unicode character map tool.

nautilus-cd-burner - Integrated CD burning tool for Nautilus (requires
as-yet-unreleased changes to Nautilus for full integration and is
currently Linux-specific).

seahorse - GPG/PGP key management utility, with Nautilus integration.

themus - Theme management and information tools (will most likely be
added to the control-center module).

totem - A sound and video player (currently based on Xine, with GStreamer
support being worked on).

zenity - Provides graphical prompts and dialogues for shell scripts.

Build Requirements
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- The tarballs included in the release. :-)

- Some very basic packages not distributed with this release, such as
image libraries, popt and freetype. These should all be included with or
available for your distribution.

- Xft2 and fontconfig for superior font rendering and configuration, from
http://fontconfig.org/ OR XFree86 4.3.x.

- Docbook DTD 4.1.2, Docbook XSL stylesheets and a valid system catalogue
file for scrollkeeper (which in turn is required by many desktop
components for documentation).

Happy testing!

- The GNOME Release Team

Someone write a GNOME wrapper for KDE dialog

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2003-05-16 08:12.

Could this be done? I am 100% serious :-)

This comment may upset people but it's really not intended to.

And it actually segues to another important issue... code reuse.. as GNOME and KDE move closer to freedesktop.org standards for behavior, it might also make sense to have a "common file dialog API".

People have strong feelings about file dialog boxes... why not get the two API's as close together as possible, thus allowing USERS to decide their preference.

I don't think it's reasonable to expect GNOME and KDE api's to merge everywhere -- there's obviously a lot more innovation using the current model -- but SOME things could be shared... if it's not code, then it could be a dialog API that supports choice. If I want to use GNOME but bloat my memory use with a KDE file dialog, I'll happily buy more memory.

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