GNOME Digest, April 24, 2002

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GNOME: GNOME Digest for April 24 is out. Packages discussed include orbit-tools 0.1, pygtk-1.99.9, Gabedit 1.1.0, and more.


Application
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orbit-tools 0.1

Description
===========

package of command line applications for ORBit2 

Enhancements
============

- initial release, 
- documentation existing as AbiWord documents. 
- iordump: dumps stringified object references onto terminal, original 
  code from /ORBit2/work/ORBit2-2.3.106/test/ior-decode.c
- iorping: given a stringified object reference, continues locate 
  requests are sent to associated object. Supports subset of "ping"
parameters 
  as preload, interval and counting.   

Todo
====

- Convert documentation (currently AbiWord format) to troff.
  Add dependencies and installation instructions to Makefiles.

Download
========

http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~frehberg/orbit-tools/

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pygtk-1.99.9


I have just uploaded pygtk-1.99.9.  It should be available from:
  ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/python/v2.0/pygtk-1.99.9.tar.gzftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/earthquake/sources/pygtk/pygtk-1.99.9.tar.gz

A new gnome-python release to work accompany this pygtk release should 
be ready shortly.

PyGTK is a set of bindings for the GTK+ 2.0 widget set, and related 
libraries.  New stuff in this release includes:

    * code generator updates.  I refactored the code generator a fair
      bit to make code generation for GObjects, interfaces, boxed and
      pointer types all go through the same code paths.  This shortened
      the codegen.py script significantly, and makes it easier to extend
      it later on.
    * h2def.py script doesn't get a stack overrun exception trying to
      process the comments in atkobject.h any more (I got rid of the
      regexp comment removal code).
    * many updates to the defs files to bring them into line with the
      gtk 2.0 release (me, Johan Dahlin, Matt Wilson)
    * fix up an invalid DECREF in gtk.glade.XML.signal_autoconnect(),
      which was causing all kinds of weird errors for people using the
      libglade wrapper.
    * add gtk.glade.bindtextdomain() function for setting the C level
      gettext translation domain.  This allows people to use translated
      glade interfaces from python.  Note that this function is roughly
      equivalent to the locale.bindtextdomain() function that will be in
      the Python 2.3 release. (Matt Wilson)
    * Initial port of GtkGLArea module (OpenGL widget).  (Xavier Ordoquy)
    * add wrappers for many functions not handled by the code generator
      (me, Johan Dahlin, Matt Wilson)
    * makefiles for building pygtk with MSVC on win32 (Hans Breuer)


James.

-- 
Email: james@daa.com.au
WWW:   http://www.daa.com.au/~james/
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Gabedit 1.1.0


Application
===========

Gabedit 1.1.0

Description
===========

Gabedit is a Graphical User Interface for Molpro2000 and Gaussian 98,
written in C, and based on GTK+.

Download
========

http://lasim.univ-lyon1.fr/allouche/gabedit/download.html
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Enlightened Sound Daemon 0.2.25


Enlightened Sound Daemon "Arggg, I've been pushed as maintainer" 0.2.25 is
out

Description
===========

EsounD (the Enlightened Sound Daemon) is a server process that allows
multiple applications to share a single sound card.

Enhancements
============

- add support for ALSA 0.9 (patch from Santiago Otero
<siryurian@terra.es>)(bug #76613)

Fixes
=====

- remove socket/socket directory before exiting when sound device can't be
open (bug #78736)

- various build fixes (James Henstridge, Laszlo Peter, jacob berkman, Chris
Chabot, Mark McLoughlin)

Download
========

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/esound/esound-0.2.25.tar.gzftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/esound/esound-0.2.25.tar.bz2

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Balsa balsa-1.3.5

Application
===========

Balsa balsa-1.3.5

Description
===========

Balsa is an email client for GNOME. It supports POP3, IMAP,
local folders, and goodies like multithreading.

handling,numerous UI improvements, some new command line
options and several bugs

Enhancements
============

- new mailboxes scanned in a thread.
- improved message include function.
- preserve References: headers over message postpone.

Fixes
=====

- protect ESMTP passwords and pass-phrases.
- number of crashes and other bugs fixed.

Download
========
http://balsa.gnome.org/download.html

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