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1,261 GNOME open-source and Linux related news articles on Phoronix since 2006.

GNOME Power Manager 2.14.1

A bugfix release is now out for GNOME Power Manager v2.14. This version, which was just released hours ago, adds the missing --daemon option to the man page, doesn't do the critical action when the battery value is at 0%, deal sanely with HAL and DBUS restarting, the experimental code has been removed and moved to HEAD, use the button "battery" rather than the "www" to show battery status, don't inhibit just throttle when lid is shut, add X-GNOME-Bugzilla keys for use with bug buddy. This bugfix update is available from GNOME.

9 April 2006 - Add A Comment
Beagle v0.2.4

I'm pleased to announce the release of Beagle 0.2.4. This release is primarily a bug fix release. It fixes a number of irritating bugs, including some exceptions while indexing, memory usage explosion while using deskbar-applet, plain text files being recognized as application/octet-stream, and various UI crashes. This release also features a number of optimizations:. Indices have been added to the sqlite databases, so beagle-build-index is now substantially faster as are files in which we can't set extended attributes. We now also limit the amount of data we pull from some filters, so extremely large files now index more quickly. More information on Beagle 0.2.4 is available at the Beagle Project.

7 April 2006 - Add A Comment
GNOME Colorscheme v0.3.91

GNOME Colorscheme, the application for creating color schemes based upon a single starting color, has come out today with version 0.3.91. Changed in this release are an improved monochromatic color scheme algorithm, the palette is not shown by default, displays a tool tip when hovering over colors, when dragging a color the drag icon is a block of color, gconfm and libgnome* dependencies are now optional, added some Windows installation support, new translations (German and Dutch), and minor bug fixes. GNOME Colorscheme is available here.

3 April 2006 - Add A Comment
Gossip v0.10.2

Gossip, a Linux instant messaging (IM) client designed for GNOME that is based upon the Jabber protocol, has reached the version 0.10.2 milestone. In Gossip 0.10.2, there is a great deal of new features, bug fixes, and translations. Some of the new features include runtime controlled debugging facilities, updated the integrated spell checker, cleaned up the Glade windows, addressed several Jabber-related items, and improved the X screen-saver detection. Some of the bugs that were addressed included make the accounts information file unreadable by others than the owner, using iso-codes for the language names for spell checking, and changed some keyboard mnemonics for chat windows. Seven new translations were also updated in this Gossip v0.10.2 release. More information on this project is available from their Gossip page.

19 March 2006 - Add A Comment
Beagle v0.2.3

Beagle, the popular Novell-sponsored mono-based application, has reached version 0.2.3. Of course, Beagle is the popular search tool and offers its fair share of benefits. This release does fix a Mono bug that caused the Beagle daemon memory usage to spike heavily over time. Also in this release are a handful of other fixes and new search filters. More information can be obtained from this Wiki.

18 March 2006 - Add A Comment
GNOME Nettool v2.14.0

Accompanying the release of all of the GNOME v2.14.0 goodies is the Nettool availability. GNOME Nettool provides a user interface for some command line networking tools such as a ping or whois. Only two changes are in this Nettool 2.14.0 release compared against the 2.13.91 build, it fixes a error when dealing with gtk_init_with_args and there are three updated language translations. More information pertaining to this project can be found here.

16 March 2006 - Add A Comment
GNOME v2.14.0 + More GNOME

Today's the day of the GNOME v2.14 release, and was the previous Fedora Core 5 release date until it was postponed to March 20. On top of the availability of GNOME 2.14 is the launch of GARNOME v2.14.0, Cairo v1.0.4, and GTK+ v2.8.16. Information on all of these products is available from GNOME. ======================================

15 March 2006 - Add A Comment
GNOME v2.14.0 - Epiphany

Lionel Dricot, a developer blogging on Planet Ubuntu, has written a fairly lengthy article in regards to the GNOME Web Browser -- Epiphany. GNOME v2.14.0's Epiphany is powered by the Mozilla gecko-1.8 backend and includes everything from extensions support to RSS subscriptions and are simple yet ergonomic. Whatever your Linux web browser of choice may be, Epiphany v2.14.0 is certainly turning into a viable Internet surfing choice.

14 March 2006 - Add A Comment
GNOME / Fedora Code Freeze

Today, March 06, 2006, marks the development freeze for Fedora Core 5 and GNOME v2.14/2.13. The Fedora Project is experiencing an absolute development freeze for this upcoming release while no changes will be made to the upcoming GNOME release unless approval from the release-team -- translations and documentation teams can still continue. The tarballs for GNOME v2.14 are due on March 13, while March 15 is the anticipated release date for GNOME v2.14.0. The Fedora Project is also announcing Fedora Core 5 on March 15. As mentioned previously, Fedora 5 is expected to ship with a stable GNOME v2.13 release candidate due to the simultaneous release dates, and a full GNOME v2.14 will be available from Red Hat repositories at a later time. It appears neither of these open-source projects will experience any additional delays. The GNOME calendar is here and the Fedora schedule is here.

6 March 2006 - Add A Comment
GNOME v2.13.92 & GCC v4.1

The last unstable release for GNOME v2.14 has been released today! GNOME v2.13.92, or also known as GNOME v2.14 Release Candidate, is anticipation of GNOME v2.14.0. GNOME v2.14 is still scheduled for a release on March 15 of this year. Vincent states on the GNOME mailing list that there are likely more changes and new appended features in this release than the previous testing candidates. A list of changes are available for platform, desktop, admin, and bindings. As always, the tarballs are available for download while jhbuild is recommended as GARNOME is still missing in action. Certainly we at Phoronix will keep up on the GNOME happenings as GNOME v2.14 quickly approaches. Another prominent software release today was the availability of GCC -- the GNU Compiler Collection. Information on GCC v4.1 is available here. Changes in the GNU Compiler Collection v4.1 include such things as a from a form of partial dead code elimination, enhancements to auto-vectorization, and GCJ Java improvements. If you will recall, Fedora Core 5 (scheduled for release on March 15 -- will feature a stable GNOME v2.13 testing build) primarily uses this new version of GCC.

1 March 2006 - Add A Comment
GNOME v2.14 Preview

Davyd Madeley has posted an interesting preview of the upcoming GNOME v2.14. This upcoming version of the GNOME desktop environment is scheduled to be unleashed on March 15, 2006, although several testing candidates are already available in the v2.13 branch. In this article the speed performance is mentioned as well as all of the other improvements, and a lot pertaining to the user interface. Inducted into the GNOME Admin Suite is now the Lockdown Editor and Sabayon. Also is a new search system in Nautilus and Yelp. GNOME Meeting has also be renamed to Ekiga and shipping with GNOME v2.14 will be Ekiga v2.0. Metacity has also experienced several new additions in this latest release. There are also dozens of new items such as the Deskbar applet, Evolution improvements, gedit advancements, and a new notification framework. This GNOME article is a definite must reader for any GNOME enthusiast. On the side note, the server problems when viewing pyroCPU and Phoronix earlier today should now be resolved.

17 February 2006 - Add A Comment

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