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This batch of news updates includes, a new release of gmodconfig and sound-juicer, new accessability document, roadmap for Dia, a faster Eclipse, a call for gtk2-perl testers and building OpenOffice.org. gmodconfig 0.4 releasedgmodconfig
aims to provide a simple way for end-users to download, install,
configure and update Linux kernel modules, in the language of their
choosing, through an easy-to-use graphic interface. This new version
provides bug fixes, a search box to quickly access modules by name, GUI
improvements in the Parameters tab, and it supports downloading and
installing kernel modules packaged for DKMS.
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gtk2-perl call for testersgtk2-perl, the perl bindings for GTK+ 2.0, needs your help to shake out bugs before reaching version 1.0! you can log bugs on the sourceforge project page, or join the gtk-perl-list mailing list and talk to us directly.
GCJ team produces completely free (and fast!) EclipseAlmost 10 months ago Havoc Pennington wrote a
review of
the Eclipse IDE (and he posted some
GTK+ 2 interface screenshots
of the C/C++ development tools).
After much hacking activity by the
GNU Classpath and
gcj hackers there is now finally a
nice free build of Eclipse. What is special about it is that gcj uses a
radically traditional approach to to the java language to produce
fast, native binaries.
And Red Hat even provides some
RPMs
for your installation pleasure.
Happy Hacking!
Want to build OpenOffice.org?
Michael Meeks has added a new module in GNOME cvs to aid in building the beast know as OpenOffice.org. He wrote:
Howto build openoffice:
checkout 'openoffice' from Gnome CVS then:
./download
./configure
make
make install # you need to be a sudoer
don't delay, build OO.o today (if you have 4+Gb of spare space and a few long nights to leave it running). I'm most interested in bug reports.
New Accessibility Document
The folks at Wipro have written a new document titled Testing GNOME Applications for Accessibility.
Sound Juicer "Ευχαριστω" 0.5 is out download the tarball here. Debian
packages Coming Real Soon as usual.
What's New:
- A user guide! (Mike Hearn)
- Editable album artist and title! (MH)
- HIGified .desktop file (MH)
- Updated libbacon for better drive detection (Bastien Nocera)
- sound-juicer.spec fixes (Christian Schaller)
- When Musicbrainz doesn't know the track size, calculate it (BN)
- Display a sample of the directory to save files into (me, BN)
- A decent eject function which doesn't depend on /usr/bin/eject
- Do runtime checks for encoders instead of compile time (BN)
- Fix disabled HTTP proxies (BN)
- Free old pipelines when creating new ones (me)
- Removed use of GtkFrame in the prefs dialog as some (broken IMHO) themes display always display borders (BN)
Roadmap for Dia
Lars Clausen has posted a roadmap for the future development after the soon to be released Dia 0.92 is out.