Gnome.org heeft een feature freeze voor Gnome 1.2 afgekondigd. Tevens werd er een nieuwe developer release van de gnome-core en gnome-applets los gelaten. Hier de meat van news.gnome.org:
Hello,A new and improved ***DEVELOPMENT*** release of gnome-core and gnome-applets are now available. These are meant for advanced users and developers, as there may be problems with building and using these packages. But hopefully not
This release marks the beginning of the freeze for 1.2, so there shouldn't be any new features after this release.
About gnome-core:
gnome-core contains the GNOME session manager, terminal
About gnome-applets:
emulator, help browser, panel, and some applets.gnome-applets contains many applets for the GNOME panel.
Availability:
Changes:
- ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/gnome-core/
- ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/gnome-applets/
- More icons (tigert, Matthias Warkus, and the GNOME icon team)
- More translations (Translations team)
- applets use the PanelApplet dentry type (George Lebl)
- gen_util is now an shlib applet (Ettore Perazzoli)
- gen_util can use GMT time (Robert Mibus)
- gen_util saves username/password in private config file (Jaka Mocnik)
- desk guide uses panel sizings, and lots of other fixes (Time Janik)
- tasklist will show a shaded icon for minimized apps, and many other fixes and cleanups (Anders Carlsson, George Lebl)
- wanda now resizes (George)
- gnome-session now can have a splash screen. You can disable this by appending 'SplashScree=false' to ~/.gnome/session-options (Jacob Berkman, image by tigert)
- session-properties will now run if you had non-SM apps in your manual startup list (Jacob)
- gnome-wm should work better with SM and different WM's. (George)
- Man pages for different commands/files related to GNOME SM (Miguel de Icaza)
- gnome-session strings should be translated now (Miguel)
- login check added for ownership of /tmp/orbit-username (Elliot Lee)
- https is a recognized protocol for the dingus in gnome-terminal (tigert)
- some gnome-terminal paste and help fixes (Miguel)
- running 'gnome-terminal --use-factory' will create a new terminal window in an existing terminal process (if a process was launched with --start-factory-server) You might want to update your panel launchers to use these flags. (John Harper, Jacob)
- some gnome-terminal crashes were fixed (Michael Zucchi)
- gnome-help-browser had some compile warnings cleaned up (George) and some possible crashes fixed (Jacob)
- other gnome-help-browser fixes/improvements (Pavel Machek)
- about 550 lines of ChangeLog from the panel. I'll list some cool things here, you can go read panel/ChangeLog for details:
- buttons can now be highlighted on mouse over (George)
- floating menus are saved across sessions (George)
- Properties dialogs were redone (James Cape, Jacob)
- .desktop submenus can have larger icons (Jacob)
- right click menu is now customizable (Jacob)
- you can press the Menu key on your windows keyboard and get a panel menu to pop up (Elliot, Jacob)
- try pressing menu+r
- backwards compatability fixes (George)
- Other cleanups (George, Jacob)
- the status dock works with KDE apps (George)- gnome-about has some links to GNOME web pages (Jacob)
- 'small fixes' to gnome-about (Anders)
- netload applet now actually works (Eduardo Perez, Jacob)
- sizing fixes to the applets (George)
- sound-monitor and clockmail have some nice themes from tigert
- John Ellis updated his applets to use the newer sizing stuff
- probably some other stuff. This is too long already.
Anyway, enjoy, and report all problems to the usual places.
Jacob
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