Print this articleI haven’t done any development of LAT in a while. The tool does all the stuff I need it for and I’m happy with it as is. These days I’m mostly writing applications for the iPhone.
It was looking like the project would just die and fade away but, Jeroen Asselman has stepped up and taken over development. He’s moved the source code over to SourceForge.
I’m sure Jeroen will do a good job of taking LAT forward.
Window decorations on Windows 3.1 had no close button, so they used to let you double-click the menu button to close a window. When Windows 95 came along, they added a close button, but they kept the double-clicking behaviour. The ability to close a window by double-clicking the menu button has lasted right up until Vista; apparently Microsoft tried to take it out in the beta, but so many users complained that they left it in in the end.
Many *nix window managers support double-click to close for the benefit of people moving from Windows who learned how to close a window before 1995 and haven’t broken the habit yet. Metacity doesn’t, and in GNOME bug 83892 people have been saying it should. Often, they add that there’d be no harm in adding the behaviour because people who wouldn’t know about it wouldn’t trigger it. However, other people say that the effect of accidentally double-clicking the close button, and losing anything which happens to be in the window, is too disastrous to add a feature for such a marginal audience.
The HIG also (apparently) says that the top entry in a context menu should be the one triggered by a double click. “Close” is not currently the top entry in Metacity’s window menu.
A good while ago, Thomas Thurman provided a patch to add this behaviour, which has rotted, and today provided a current one. The current consensus among the maintainers is that this will not be added. However, you might be able to change our minds if at least one distro includes the patch. For example , Debian bug 381509 discusses the matter; if you know corresponding bugs in other distros, please let me know and I’ll add them here.
Photo © saba♫dija, cc-by.
The GStreamer team is happy to provide new releases of GStreamer Core, GStreamer Base Plugins and GStreamer Python Bindings in the 0.10 GStreamer stable release series.
Check out release notes for gstreamer, gst-plugins-base and gst-python or download tarballs for gstreamer, gst-plugins-base and gst-python
A brief notice:
OSNews linked to a Free Software Magazine article extolling Epiphany as the ultimate Gnome browser. (But you knew that already, didn’t you? ;-))
“If you’re a Gnome user who needs a Gnome browser, a Xubuntu user who can’t survive the heaviness of Firefox, or just a person who likes speed and power, give Epiphany a try. It’s worth it.”
Clutter 0.8.2 is now available for download at:
http://www.clutter-project.org/sources/clutter/0.8
MD5 Checksums:
2e86641254260b355d235ee202918b1c clutter-0.8.2.tar.gz 6fd2c0e63d904523a773736cbb45d176 clutter-0.8.2.tar.bz2
What’s new in Clutter 0.8.2
- Add constructor-only properties for the :container and :actor properties of ClutterChildMeta
- Resync the Clutter keysyms with X.org ones
- Documentation fixes and improvements
- Allow defining ClutterColor as an object or an array inside ClutterScript UI definitions
- Added the missing :perspective property to ClutterStage
- Fixed the upper and lower boundaries for ClutterUnit and ClutterFixed properties
- Fix a bug that prevented disabling sorting on ClutterModel
- Fix a bug in clutter_timeline_list_markers()
- Queue a redraw when the clip is changed
- Optimize calls to push and pop the matrix when painting
- Add a variable to the pkgconfig file for extracting the COGL backend, for configure-time checks
- Fix a typo in cogl_path_rel_curve_to()
- Fix showing the cursor after it being hidden once
- Add a function for obtaining Clutter’s option group without initializing Clutter
List of bugs fixed since 0.8.0
- #856 - Teardown sequence is borked
- #945 - Clipping+fbo cloning bugs
- #1010 - ClutterLabel does not update the layout (again)
- #1020 - TFP resyncing on MapNotify/ConfigureNotify [Andy Wingo]
- #1033 - Manually parsing command line options prevents initializing clutter
- #1034 - Picking doesn’t work on Eee PC
- #1038 - Clutter 0.8 won’t build due to redefined functions
- #1044 - cogl_get_viewport error
- #1047 - API documentation from release tarball is not installed by “make install” [Mirco Müller]
- #1048 - SIGFPE in cogl_texture_set_region() with nvidia [Gwenole Beauchesne]
- #1062 - clutter_actor_query_coords() replacement in 0.8 [Gwenole Beauchesne]
- #1069 - Warnings with ClutterScore
- #1071 - clutter_timeline_get_duration doesn’t always work
- #1075 - Difficult to bind clutter_stage_new
- #1080 - clutter_stage_read_pixels has upside-down y coordinate
- #1082 - Texture bitmap is destroyed in wrong way
- #1085 - Cursor is in wrong position on ClutterEntry if set x-align property
- #1090 - Label somtimes returns natural_width < min_width [Johan Bilien]
- #1091 - WM_MOUSEWHEEL (scroll-event) not handled correctly [Roman Yazmin]
- #1099 - No ClutterScript API to get a list of IDs in a given file [Noah Gibbs]
- #1100 - WM_SIZE not handled correctly, user_resize and window_style correction
- #1103 - Two typos in clutter documentation
- #1121 - Setting anchor point doesn’t work if set too early
- #1124 - Clutter causes an additional size request in each allocation [Johan Bilien]
- #1125 - Save an extra pango_layout_get_size in many cases [Johan Bilien]
- #1130 - CLUTTER_MOTION is not emitted when time goes backwards. [Pierce Liu]
- #1137 - Setting the anchor point does not trigger a re-paint
- #1145 - Flicker on resize the window
- #1154 - clutter_timeout_pool_new() documentation doesn’t say how to free [Murray Cumming]
Special thanks to all the contributors:
Gwenole Beauchesne Johan Bilien Murray Cumming Pierce Liu Noah Gibbs Roman Yazmin Andy Wingo Mirco Müller
Have fun with Clutter!
Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.24, the
latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop
environment and of its developer platform. Released on schedule, to the
day, GNOME 2.24 builds on top of a long series of successful six months
releases to offer the best experience to users and developers.
For more than 10 years now, the project has been seeing a tremendous
amount of work. And as usual, it's hard to come back to a previous
version of GNOME once you've tried GNOME 2.24, which is probably the
best compliment the project can receive.
This six months effort wouldn't have been possible without the whole
GNOME community, made of contributors from all around the world:
hackers, documentors, usability and accessibility specialists,
translators, maintainers, sysadmins, companies, artists, users and
testers. GNOME would not exist without all those people. Thanks very
much to every one of them!
You'll find detailed information about GNOME 2.24 in our release notes:
The Epiphany team proudly presents a brand new release of every Gnome lovers’ pet web browser!
Version 2.24 doesn’t differ much from 2.22 feature-wise. The Webkit
switch is still in progress, so although it can be built with a Webkit
back end, Gecko is still the recommended rendering engine.
In this release, the address entry has improved logic which should
result in faster autocompletion lookups.
Bug fixes:
- Crash when showing download notification bubble (bug #536768)
- Window title copied the status bar (bug #524587)
- Fix RDF import (bug #523414)
- Proxy password prompt missing with gecko 1.9 (bug #539417)
- Password manager doesn’t remove passwords with gecko 1.9 (bug #539418)
- Printing scales incorrectly (bug #541168)
- do not activate the smart bookmark entry after middle-clicking paste
text into it. (bug #378165) - Address entry fixes:
- substring suggestions (bug #151932)
- unicode support (bug #343906)
- diacritics in topic keywords (bug #328162)
- completion on history items titles (bug #534218)
Enhancements:
- Update lock icon to a tango style one (bug #547936)
- Documentation updates (bug #552436, #552555, #534744)
- Enable complete-download sound with libcanberra
- revert special handling of double click in the address entry (bug #426349)
Download information can be found here.
Enjoy!
Contributors to this release:
Diego Escalante Urrelo, Sebastian Keller, Josselin Mouette, Mike Hommey,
Paul Drain, Cosimo Cecchi, Bruce Cowan, Lucas Lommer, Colin Walters,
Loïc Minier, Vincent Untz, Christian Persch, Reinout van Schouwen
Translators:
Jorge Gonzalez (es), Kjartan Maraas (nb), Khaled Hosny (ar), Ivar Smolin
(et), Sweta Kothari, Reinout van Schouwen (nl), Daniel Nylander (sv),
Yair Hershkovitz (he), icq, Lucas Lommer (cz), Duarte Loreto (pt), Gil
Forcada (ca), Takeshi AIHANA (ja), sprasad, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
(th), ituohela (fi), Robert-André Mauchin (fr), grakic (sr@latin), Inaki
Larranaga Murgoitio (eu), pgeyleg (dz), Hendrik Richter (de), Nguyễn
Thái Ngọc Duy (vi), Funda Wang (zh_CN), Philip Withnall (en_GB), Claude
Peroz (fr), mateju, rranjan (hi), apravi, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay,
Gintautas Miliauskas (lt), Baris Ciçek (tr), Gabor Kelemen (hu), ifelix,
sandeeps, kelemeng, cwryu (kr), Alexander Shopov (bg), tvainika (fi),
Nickolay V. Shmyrev (ru), Mugurel Tudor (ro), Ask H. Larsen (dk)
This is a bug fix release in the 2.14 series.
- Revert problematic GtkAdjustment changes
4 bugs fixed in this release!
Read the original announcement for more info and downloads.
Nothing particularly exciting, except that this is the culmination of the 2.23 branch and the version which will be released in tonight’s 2.24 GNOME stable release. I’m in a hurry at the moment or I’d add a nice picture.
Here’s the release notes:
Metacity is a lightweight compositing window manager for the GNOME desktop.
What’s new for 2.24.0:
Thanks to Thomas Thurman for improvements in this version.
- Small memory leak fixed (Thomas) (#549952)
Translations
Ankitkumar Patel (gu), Kenneth Nielsen (da), Mişu Moldovan (ro),
Anas Afif Emad (ar), Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th),
Gintautas Miliauskas (lt), Gil Forcada (ca), Gabor Kelemen (hu),
Duarte Loreto (pt), Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle (pt_BR),
Baris Cicek (tr), Changwoo Ryu (ko), Hendrik Richter (de),
Goran Rakić (sr), Goran Rakić (sr@latin), Sandeep Shedmake (mr)
Sources at:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/metacity/2.24/
MD5 sums:
d4aa782d5f71b6c42514b239684a4aa3 metacity-2.24.0.tar.bz2
cadfcd438e9116692bf7b8a6411256f8 metacity-2.24.0.tar.gz
Keep up to date with Metacity at http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/ (but you’re already here)
Thomas
Sound Juicer "Why Should You Know Better By Now" 2.24.0 has been released. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers.
Good morning, freedom lovers!
blogs.gnome.org is now running WordPress MU 2.6.2, which is the latest and greatest (strictly speaking, a micro-release into the future) of WordPress MU. It is equivalent to WordPress 2.6, which has all kinds of cool new stuff, including:
- Wiki-style revision control of posts and pages, integrated with auto-save… including diffs!
- The Press This! bookmarklet, for drive-by blogging of cool stuff you find on the web — it will helpfully find images, video and quotes, ready to include in your post.
- Turbo-charge the admin interface with Gears enhanced in-browser caching support.
- Thinking of trying on something new? The theme preview window lets you see how your blog would look before you switch.
- In addition to the enhanced upload interface and image captions, you can now post galleries in your blog.
- New plugins for blogs.gnome.org: The incredibly capable Twitter Tools plugin replaces the old Twitter widget — and soon we’ll make sure it has laconi.ca/identi.ca support. A simpler Google Analytics plugin — everyone using the old plugin has been migrated across. Viper’s Video Quicktags makes it really easy to insert videos.
- Sadly, OpenID is off for the time being. Our old hacks were really too hacky to bring across.
We’ll be testing the author’s work on MU compatibility soon. - Although the admin interface has never been a speed daemon, the whole site is generally faster due to a whole stack of performance fixes we’ve done since the upgrade.
Please file bugs if you notice any problems with the upgrade. Thanks as always to the WordPress and WordPress MU hackers!
Sound Juicer is a clean, mean, and lean CD ripper for GNOME 2.
It sports a clean interface and simple preferences, aiming to do The Right Thing and What You Mean all of the time. It requires GNOME and GStreamer.
Screenshots
Download
Latest download: sound-juicer-2.24.0.tar.bz2.
Bugs can be reported at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/. View the list of currently open bugs.
Love Sound Juicer? Want to help the developer save for the deposit on a house? You can help!
Hi,
This year, i’m no longer student. I sucessfuly pass exams and i’m now working as web developer at Nerim. I actually want to take to get GNOME Scan usable this year. Lukily, my employer is quite permissive about how I spend hours at Nerim.I plan to free each wednesday morning to have time for free software, possibily at home. Currently, i work on scout website (yet another project i have to release one time).
Vala has done nice steps forward, but i need .gir support to handle properly subnamespace (Gnome.Scan and not GnomeScan). But that’s a matter only when mixing pure C/GObject and vala code. I wonder if that make sense to rewrite all in Vala. Pretty useless. It even can be a pain to maintain GEGL vapi. I’ll check that as soon as i wake up GNOME Scan.
May GNOME Scan resurect this year. Patches welcome.
Regards,
Étienne.
This is a bug fix release in the 2.14 series.
Overview of Changes from GTK+ 2.14.1
- Don’t use XRRGetScreenResources, since it doesn’t work well
25 bugs fixed in this release!
See the original announcement for more info and downloads.
The GStreamer team is pleased to present a new releases of the FFmpeg Plugins modules in the 0.10 GStreamer stable release series.
Check out release notes for gst-ffmpeg or download tarballs for gst-ffmpeg
Here's the first release after GUADEC. Istanbul. It was a great place.
And some people actually had time to visit the beautiful city. Or to
take a turkish bath. Sounds like a cool program, doesn't it? Of course,
it was not only about this -- there were tons of interesting
discussions, lots of sessions around various topics, etc. But you know
what? The GNOME contributors actually managed to continue hacking on
their modules. Amazing. Those people never stop. I guess it shows how
passionate they are! So they made changes that are now visible in this
latest version of GNOME. And if you look closely, you can feel some
turkish love in the air around this release! Cool stuff.
Clutter 0.8 suite of integration libraries is now available for download
at:
sources/clutter-cairo/0.8/
sources/clutter-gst/0.8/
sources/clutter-gtk/0.8/
MD5 Checksums:
56b69645629293d5dcd93817fabe669a clutter-cairo-0.8.1.tar.gz 91262dd6ead7261a584dacf5dd1933f5 clutter-cairo-0.8.1.tar.bz2 9ebf9bbe406757472952743ca01870f3 clutter-gst-0.8.0.tar.gz 13d2a34ea76e4f010e66d20eba12e864 clutter-gst-0.8.0.tar.bz2 1fea21affb3a74014fc0b4270b67ed2d clutter-gtk-0.8.1.tar.gz 0a93adeb69281dcd1d8455a53f746d9b clutter-gtk-0.8.1.tar.bz2
The Clutter integration libraries suite is a series of open source libraries for integrating Clutter with other libraries:
- clutter-cairo, for integration with Cairo
- clutter-gst, for integration with GStreamer
- clutter-gtk, for integration with GTK+
This suite of libraries allows to use the Cairo drawing API into Clutter; or to use the GStreamer pipelines to render to a texture inside the Clutter scenegraph; or to embed a Clutter scenegraph into a GTK+ application.
Clutter-Cairo 0.8.1
List of changes since 0.6:
- Added clutter_cairo_surface_resize() and clutter_cairo_create_region()
Clutter-GStreamer 0.8.0
List of changes since 0.6:
- Add clutter_gst_audio_get_playbin() function
- Add support for 24-bit textures
- Add pixel-shader AYUV/YV12 support via ‘use-shaders’ property on ClutterGstVideoSink
Clutter-GTK+ 0.8.1
List of changes since 0.6:
- Support the Clutter win32 backend
- Support multiple GtkClutterEmbed widgets
- Add utility functions for integrating with GTK+ themes, GTK+ stock icons, icon themes and GdkPixbuf
- Do not open a second Display connection on X11
As usual, have fun with Clutter!
Gtk2Hs version 0.9.13 is now available.
New features:
- bindings for Gnome VFS and GStreamer
- a new Gtk+ tutorial has been adapted by Hans van Thiel
- cairo image stride support
- many new demos
- compiles with GHC 6.8.3
- lots of bug fixes
This release has been tested on a variety of platforms with different versions of Gtk+ and GHC, so you should have no trouble compiling it if you’re using an older version of Gtk+.
Note that the binaries for Win32 for this release are only provided for GHC 6.8.3 and Gtk+ 2.12. As with older releases, all the C libraries needed are included in the installer, so you don’t need to download anything else to get up an running. I’ve also created zip files containing only the C libraries that can be used for redistribution. The sources for these binaries are available here.
Hi,
I’m pretty busy with scouting and other stuff. Also vala seems not yet able to handle subnamespace and that break mixing C/GObject and vala (can’t call C/GObject code from Vala). This is pain.
All these issues leads me to idle GNOME Scan for this summer. I’m quite disappointed because i don’t have time but i’m actually willing to get GNOME Scan included. I’m leaving the university and thus i’m searching a job. Next year, i don’t want to move out of Paris, but i actually want to work on GNOME and especially GNOME Scan. I may do a call for a job later.
Regards,
Étienne.
I’m trying to give MonoDevelop another chance so I’m in the process of re-doing the GUI in LAT. It’s going to be a slow process of re-creating the various widgets/dialogs, copying the old code in and then testing it.
You can follow the work in my git repository: git clone git://www.lbtechservices.com/lat.git
Jeff was so kind to add the newsfeed of this website to Planet GNOME News (which is for project-related blogs and news).
So, I'm using this post to finally annouce the official new website for Monkey Bubble. There are still some things to do with this page (reviewing the content copied from the old website - dropping some stuff), but most importantly, we need a hacker (people, that's your chance to enter the Free Software community) with these skills:
- average webdesigner (familiar with XHTML, CSS, etc.) -- no artistic skills necessary
- PHP developer -- you should be able to understand how to build a theme for Drupal
Your job? Provide a theme for Drupal 5.x to look like the old monkey bubble website. You can apply at the corresponding bug report.
Today we've opened the gates of the new website for monkey bubble. I proposed to set up our dedicated domain and quickly set up drupal (was really painless) on my vServer.
So, now that this has happened it's more likely that we'll post something about the happenings in monkey bubble in the future.
Long live the monkey.
Ralph Glass has written a new game using Gtk2hs. Screenshots and downloads at http://xiangqiboard.blogspot.com/. Thanks Ralph!
Ian McIntosh interviews Amy de Groff, Head of IT for the Howard County Library, about their switch to GNU/Linux and implementation of Groovix, an Ubuntu-based distribution. Davyd Madely reviews the book Foundations of GTK+ Development by Andrew Krause, and published by Apress. Here’s a quick tour of some of the rocking sweet plugins available on blogo! To see the whole list, log in to your blog and navigate to the Plugin section. You can turn on any of the plugins by clicking Activate at the right of the list.
- Footnotes: The footnotes plugin was included to satisfy the alarming number of GNOME contributors who have a footnote fetish. Perhaps it’s some kind of bizarre tribute to our logo… whatever it is, blogo is ready!
- Content License: Blog for freedom with the official Creative Commons WpLicense plugin! You can choose from a range of Free and non-Free content licenses, and display a footer badge to show off your choice.
- Subscribe to Comments: Make it easy for your readers to join the conversation with the Subscribe to Comments plugin. All they need to do is check a box when commenting, and they’ll receive email updates when new comments arrive — just like you do! There’s even a management interface for both you and your readers to manage subscriptions.
- OpenID Delegation: If you have an OpenID provider, but you’d like to use your blog URL as your OpenID identifier (which is particularly useful when commenting on other blogs), just switch on the OpenID Delegation plugin and point it in the right direction. Now your blog really is you!
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Flickr Widget: Many GNOME contributors combine technical prowess with a keen eye for beauty — which is why Flickr has such a huge GNOME following! Show off your mad photography skillz with the Flickr Widget plugin.
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Twitter Widget: The ultimate interruption-oriented technology… and we all thought email was bad! Keep the world seriously up-to-date on your thoughts and movements with the Twitter widget plugin.
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Easy Gravatars: Your gravatar is a “globally unique avatar” based on an MD5 hash of your email address. They provide an easy way for any website to display your favourite avatar icon, without the need to configure it for every individual site. To show gravatar icons in your comments, switch on the Easy Gravatars plugin.
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Hidden Treasures: Finally, there are a bunch of cool plugins on blogo that you can enjoy without even switching them on:
- Tango Smilies makes your emoticons rock!
- Bug Links makes it easy to refer to bugs in GNOME related trackers without breaking a sweat. Just mention the bug number as you normally would: GNOME bug #number will appear as GNOME bug #496024 while Fedora bug #number will appear as Fedora bug #170856 — nice!
- Bad Behavior protects your blog against many kinds of comment spam.
- Custom CSS lets you define your own CSS styles for any theme (Presentation » Custom CSS).
- Tango Smilies makes your emoticons rock!
Of course, if you’re using blogo and would like another cool plugin installed, let us know by filing a feature request!