gmane.comp.lib.gnustep.announce

ANN: Zipper 1.5

Sebastian Reitenbach — 2013-04-21T14:29:36

Zipper 1.5
-------------

I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Zipper 1.5.

Zipper is an archive tool which allows viewing and creating 
of various archiving formats. Creation of archives is supported
via GWorkspace services.


What's new in this 1.5 release?
 * support for more decompression formats: ace, arj, zoo
 * support for more tar formats: bzip2, xz
 * support for more compression formats: tar.bz2, tar.xz, tar, lha, 7z, zip, zoo
 * minor bug and 64Bit compatibility fixes

Where to find it?
In the GAP project: http://gap.nongnu.org/zipper/index.html

Where to report bugs:
in the GAP savannah bugtracker: 
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=gap

cheers,
Sebastian

[ANNOUNCE] DBusKit 0.1.1 released

Niels Grewe — 2013-04-16T09:12:37

Hi guys,

the 0.1 branch of DBusKit has suffered a bit of bit-rot since the last
release and Sebastian has rightfully been poking me to fix that. To that 
end, I'm today releasing 0.1.1 which contains compatibility improvements
and bug-fixes. Still, unless you're building packages, please stick to
trunk, which is both usable and the place where all the new features
appear.

Cheers,

Niels
 
1 GNUstep DBusKit Framework 0.1.1
*********************************

This is the first maintenance release of the 0.1 release series of
DBusKit, the GNUstep D-Bus bindings framework. The framework allows
Objective-C applications to access the D-Bus inter-process
communication system.

1.1 What is new in this release?
================================

This release is merely a bug-fix release that restores compatibility
with gnustep-base >= 1.24.0.

1.2 Where to get it
===================

You may obtain the code for this release from the GNUstep subversion
repository at:

   `svn://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/dbuskit/tags/0.1.1'

   Alternatively, a compressed archive for this release is available at
the following address:

   `http://download.gna.org/gnustep/dbuskit-0.1.1.tar.gz'

   The integrity of the archive can be verified using the following
OpenPGP signature:

   `http://download.gna.org/gnustep/dbuskit-0.1.1.tar.gz.sig'

1.3 How to build it
===================

For instructions on how to build DBusKit, please refer to the `INSTALL'
file in the framework source.

1.4 What is it good for?
========================

The DBusKit framework offers tight integration of D-Bus services into
Objective-C applications. It handles all low-level details of
communication with D-Bus daemons and the services connected to them and
exposes an interface similar to Distributed Objects to make it easy for
Objective-C programmers to access D-Bus services. Highlights of the 0.1
series include:

   * Distributed Objects-like API for exchanging messages with D-Bus
     services.

   * A notification center class for watching signals emitted by D-Bus
     services.

   * `dk_make_interface' tool to generate Objective-C protocol
     declarations from D-Bus interface files.

1.5 Where do I send bug reports?
================================

DBusKit is a relatively new framework and will certaintly contain bugs.
Reporting them is always appreciated. You can log bug reports on the
GNUstep project page (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gnustep) or
send them to <bug-gnustep< at >gnu.org>.

   Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation

   Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
notice and this notice are preserved.

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ANNOUNCE: Gorm 1.2.20

Gregory Casamento — 2013-04-14T17:39:25

1 ANNOUNCE
**********

This is version 1.2.20 of Gorm.

1.1 What is Gorm?
=================

Gorm is an acronym for Graphic Object Relationship modeler (or perhaps
GNUstep Object Relationship Modeler).

   Gorm is a clone of the Cocoa (OpenStep/NeXTSTEP) `Interface Builder'
application for GNUstep.

1.2 Noteworthy changes in version `1.2.20'
==========================================

   * Bug fixes #28643, #32827

   * Corrected issues with updating document when there is a change.

   * Add cells as objects to the document so they can be properly
     edited.

   * Changes to prevent recursive frame change notifications.

1.3 How can I get support for this software?
============================================

You may wish to use the GNUstep discussion mailing list for general
questions and discussion.  Look at the GNUstep Web Pages for more
information regarding GNUstep resources `http://www.gnustep.org/'

1.4 Where can you get it?  How can you compile it?
==================================================

You can download sources and rpms (for some machines) from
`ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/dev-apps'.

1.5 Where do I send bug reports?
================================

Bug reports can be sent to <bug-gnustep< at >gnu.org>.

1.6 Obtaining GNU Software
==========================

Check out the GNUstep web site. (`http://www.gnustep.org/'), and the
GNU web site. (`http://www.gnu.org/')

ANN: FTP 0.4

Riccardo Mottola — 2013-04-08T21:29:50

F T P  0.4
----------

I'm happy to announce the 0.4 Release of GNUstep's Application Project 
FTP client application [1]

What's new? Many bug fixes.

* Reopening connections without restarting FTP is fixed, there were 
corner cases where this didn't work
* Better progress report, also for file listings. Indeterminate progress 
if size is unknown.
* 64bit and portability fixes. Smaller fixes about corner cases with 
empty selections and empty files and interface locking.
* When disconnecting, the remote connection gets cleared.
* More minor but annoying bugs, like problems with large selections on 
Cocoa.

This is thus mostly a maintenance and fix release and is recommended.

Riccardo


[1] http://gap.nongnu.org/ftp/index.html

ANN: Graphos 0.4

Riccardo Mottola — 2013-04-03T22:03:01

G R A P H O S   0.4
-------------------


I am pleased to announce the 0.4 release of Graphos.


What's new?
-----------

* The Text editor now uses the standard font panel
* selection improved
* mouse constraints for boxes and circles
* undo for pasteboard operations
* many bug fixes
* 64bit fixes


What is it?
-----------

Graphos is a vector drawing application centered around bezier paths. It is
available as free software both for GNUstep and for Mac.


Graphos roots are directly set in GDraw, written by Enrico Sersale and 
released in 2000. Version 0.1 of Graphos is a direct descendant of 
GDraw: the interface is almost unchanged, but the application has been 
refactored, reorganized, debugged, rewritten and updated. The file 
format was improved a little, Graphos is able to read GDraw files but 
not the other way around. Graphos 0.1 focused mainly on getting things 
working again, cleaning and reorganizing the code structure.

Where to get it:
----------------


Graphos is a user application of GAP, the GNUstep Application Project. 
Its page is here:

http://gap.nongnu.org/graphos/index.html


What's next:
------------

Printing needs to be improved, some tools are still missing, but the 
application surely improved!

Riccardo Mottola

ANN: GWorkspace 0.9.2

Riccardo Mottola — 2013-03-25T21:48:08

GWORKSPACE 0.9.2
----------------

I'm pleased to announce the new release of the GNUstep Workspace 
application.

This is mainly a bug fix, stability and improvement release.

* updated to current APIs and changes to NSUInteger, NSInteger and CGFloat
* thanks to the above, improved 64bit support
* improved BSD support
* improved localizations and capability to localize better in the future
* Fix logout timer
* improved handling of Recycler and other daemons on logout
* MDKit and MDFinder improvements, although problems on some setups remain
* TabbedShelf crash fixes
* memory leaks fixed as detected by the clang static analyzer

Thanks to the many who tested and contributed fixes, first fo all 
Sebastian Reitenbach.


Riccardo

http://www.gnustep.org/experience/GWorkspace.html

ANN: DataBasin 0.6

Riccardo Mottola — 2013-03-24T22:57:57

DataBasin 0.6
-------------

Many interesting news and features for DataBasin, if you happen to use it.

- Support "." as Semi-Join
- Select Identify works now with multiple columns (all in AND as condition)
- Support LIMIT clause in Select Identify
- Improved Exception catching and display for Select Identify
- Object Inspector supports selection of items
- Log window with selectable log level
- Progress and estimated completion time displayed in Log
- Remember logins
- internal API improvement
- vast 64bit and portability improvements
- Support count and aggregate queries

http://gap.nongnu.org/databasin/index.html

Shall it help your daily duties!

Riccardo

ANN: BatMon 0.7

Riccardo Mottola — 2013-03-22T22:31:18

BATMON 0.7

I'm pleased to announce a new release of the GNUstep Battery Monitor for 
laptops.

It features fixes and improved portability.
OpenBSD support has been improved, as well as other BSDs.

The status has been standardized, providing more uniform messages 
between different operating systems and BIOSes.

Support for power mac linux (e.g. iBooks)

Battery Monitor is available from here:
http://gap.nongnu.org/batmon/index.html

It developed within the GNUstep Application Project, http://gap.nongnu.org/


Have fun with GNUstep on your laptops.

Riccardo

ANN: Cynthiune 1.0.0

Riccardo Mottola — 2013-03-11T23:31:29

Hi all,

the GAP team is pleased to announce Cynthiune 1.0.
This is the first version issued by the GNUstep Application project, the 
original Author, Wolfgang, who was no longer updating it and gave it a 
new home in GAP.

What's new?
* extensive endianness support, for enhanced platform compatibility 
(little and big endian)
* massive updates to the code base to support latest GNUstep
* Port to Windows finalized
* Port to Macintosh (> 10.3) finalized
* Improved portability
* Bug fixes, memory leaks fixes

What is it?
Cynthiune is an Audio file player, supporting formats like MP3, FLAC, 
OGG and others, depending on the libraries installed.

Where to get it?
 From the GNUstep Application Project
http://gap.nongnu.org/cynthiune/index.html


Many thanks to Wolfgang who let the codebase not bitrot further, to 
Sebastian and Philippe for the extensive debugging sessions.

Riccardo

Announce: MPDCon 1.4

Sebastian Reitenbach — 2012-12-30T16:26:15

MPDCon 1.4

The GAP Team is pleased to announce that MPDCon 1.4 is now available from
the GNUstep Application Project (http://gap.nongnu.org).

MPDCon is a graphical MPD client application for querying and playing
music on an MPD Server (http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon_Wiki).

MPDCon Features:

* Player, allows you to change repeat and shuffle modes as well as
crossfade on the server
* watch and manipulate the current playlist
* manage playlists
* browse the whole music collection
* Lyrics Inspector, connecting to lyrics.wikia.com to retrieve lyrics of
current song
* Song Inspector

Prerequisites to use MPDCon:

* You need an MPD server running somewhere
* to build MPDCon, you need: 
  * a recent libmpdclient library
  * GNUstep SQLClient library, at least with a SQLite3 backend

Changes in version 1.4:
* Its now possible to rate songs in the playlist (give 0-5 stars, Idea stolen from Grr)
* New Playlist inspector
  * allows to configure a random feed of songs to the Playlist
  * the random feed may be based on the song ratings
  * idea inspired on the perl scripts mp-dynamic and mpd-rate
* retrieved lyrics from the Web is now cached in SQLite3 database
* new dependency: GNUstep SQLClient library
* other bugfixes and little enhancements

Where to get it:

From the GNUstep Application Project (http://gap.nongnu.org) on the
MPDCon page:

http://gap.nongnu.org/mpdcon/index.html

Enjoy!
The GAP Team

ANN: PRICE 1.2.0

Riccardo Mottola — 2012-12-25T23:13:56

P. R. I. C. E.  1.2.0
---------------------


I released a new version of PRICE, 1.2.0, today.


What is PRICE?

It stands for Precision Raster Image Convolution Engine and is an 
application that is capable of filtering and processing images. It is 
available on both GNUstep (thus linux, netbsd, freebsd, openbsd, 
solaris) and MacOSX (tested from 10.2 Puma and up). It is multi-document 
based and can open all standard images supported by GNUstep (tiff, png, 
jpg to cite some). It is capable of doing standard operation like 
crop&scale or brightness&contrast as well as more advanced operations 
with frequency-based filters or median filters or customizable edge 
tracing.


Where to find it?
http://price.sf.net

where you will find also some online documentation which you will 
probably need to understand better how to use the program.

PRICE is GPL'd and each filter is a separate class with well-defined 
interfaces so I encourage the reuse of them in other applications.


What are the news?

* JPEG support: jpeg is now supported as "Save as" format, thus PRICE 
registers itself as a JPEG editor

* Curves: The transformed histogram displays on top and not on the right.

* Several of bug fixes and portability enhancements


I first started working on PRICE in 2002 and it was open-sourced that 
year. CVS history starts Jan 2003. This is thus a sort of 10th 
anniversary release.

Riccardo

Announce: MPDCon 1.3

Sebastian Reitenbach — 2012-10-21T10:39:22

MPDCon 1.3

The GAP Team is pleased to announce that MPDCon 1.3 is now available from
the GNUstep Application Project (http://gap.nongnu.org).

MPDCon is a graphical MPD client application for querying and playing
music on an MPD Server (http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon_Wiki).

MPDCon Features:

    * Player, allows you to change repeat and shuffle modes as well as
      crossfade on the server
    * watch and manipulate the current playlist
    * manage playlists
    * browse the whole music collection
    * Lyrics Inspector, connecting to lyrics.wikia.com to retrieve lyrics of
      current song
    * Song Inspector

Prerequisites to use MPDCon:

    * You need an MPD server running somewhere
    * to build MPDCon, you need a recent libmpdclient library

Changes in version 1.3:
  * New Lyrics Inspector
  * New Song Inspector
  * fixes some glitches in the GUI

Where to get it:

From the GNUstep Application Project (http://gap.nongnu.org) on the
MPDCon page:

http://gap.nongnu.org/mpdcon/index.html

Note: it may take some time until the tarball is synchronized to
a mirror near you.

Enjoy!
The GAP Team

Micro-Audio input / speaker output

2012-08-23T08:24:18

Hallo,
is there on GNUstep a posibillity to get microphon for input working and 
the speaker ready for output?
What Libs are needed for audioprocessing?
Kind regards
Karl

ANN: Addresses 0.4.8

Riccardo Mottola — 2012-07-24T14:24:45

We are happy to announce the latest release of Addresses, 0.4.8.

It is a maintenance version with bug fixes, clean-ups, updates to 
current GNUstep, portability fixes and more. It is a recommended upgrade.

http://gap.nongnu.org/addresses/index.html


Riccardo

GNUstep Application Project co-leader

ANN: RSSKit 0.4 and Grr 1.0

Riccardo Mottola — 2012-06-30T21:24:58

RSSKIT and GRR RELEASE



The GNUstep Application Project team is pleased to announce the new 
release of Grr 1.0 and the respective RSSKit 0.4


    * Enhanced article display with attributes, links and tooltips
    * Improved feed support for RSS 0.92
    * Code cleanup and bugfix
    * Updates for current GNUstep libraries
    * Enhanced portability (Mac 10.3, build systems,  various BSDs, etc)


Many thanks to Sebastian and Philippe.



The project page is at:http://gap.nongnu.org/grr/index.html


Riccardo

PDFKit 0.9.2

Riccardo Mottola — 2012-06-21T14:47:05

Hi,

I just released version 0.9.2 of PDFKit.

http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/PDFKit

This version features many improvements in portability and in the build 
system. A better configure should help you detect stuff easily on many 
BSD's. Compiling with compilers different than gcc is now supported too.

Riccardo

ANN: ProjectCenter 0.6.1

Riccardo Mottola — 2012-06-18T07:28:15

PROJECT CENTER 0.6.1

We are proud to announce version 0.6.1 of ProjectCenter, GNUstep's IDE
(together with GORM). (Released June 13th).

It is a minor release which focuses mainly on better portability 
(BSD's), compilation against current core libraries and recent compilers 
(gcc 4.7 & clang)

For more information and to download it, check the GNUstep website:
http://www.gnustep.org/experience/ProjectCenter.html


Notes to packagers: this release has been tested against the last
release of GNUstep.

Happy Coding!

Riccardo Mottola
The GNUstep Team

Announce: MPDCon-1.2

Sebastian Reitenbach — 2012-06-09T17:42:39

MPDCon 1.2

The GAP Team is pleased to announce that MPDCon 1.2 is now available from
the GNUstep Application Project (http://gap.nongnu.org).

MPDCon is a graphical MPD client application for querying and playing
music on an MPD Server (http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon_Wiki).

MPDCon was initially written by Daniel Luederwald. The original homepage
is gone, but the old site on SourceForge is still available. He was so
kind to allow us giving this nice tool a new home on GAP.

MPDCon Features:

    * Player, allows you to change repeat and shuffle modes as well as
      crossfade on the server
    * watch and manipulate the current playlist
    * manage playlists
    * browse the whole music collection

Prerequisites to use MPDCon:

    * You need an MPD server running somewhere
    * to build MPDCon, you need a recent libmpdclient library

Changes in the new Version 1.2:

    * This is the first GAP release of MPDCon. Notably changes:
      * do not link MPDCon against old bundled libmpdclient,
        link against recent libmpdclient (due to API changes, a
        complete rewrite of MPDController.m was needed)
      * new preference: Server Timeout
      * have some sane defaults in the preferences
      * show Genre in the playlist, and allow filtering for it
      * automatic update of the Collection Interface in case the
        collection was updated on the server
      * lots of other minor bug fixes and syle nits

Where to get it:

From the GNUstep Application Project (http://gap.nongnu.org) on the
MPDCon page:

http://gap.nongnu.org/mpdcon/index.html
Note: it may take some time until the tarball is synchronized to
a mirror near you.

Enjoy!
The GAP Team

ANN: GWorkspace 0.9.1

Riccardo Mottola — 2012-06-04T20:12:16

I'm pleased to announce that GWorkspace version 0.9.1 was released on May, 31st. There was a slight delay with the upload.


Many thanks to all those who helped with testing or contributed with 
patches, especially Eric, Philippe and Sebastian.


What is GWorkspace?
====================================

GWorkspace is a workspace manager for GNUstep.


Changes in version 0.9.1
=========================

Enhancements / new features

* New Modern vs Classic style which control:
   - classic cs. alpha-blended selection
   - transparent dock vs classic dock style

* new "scale" attribute for the desktop, for uniform scaling
* Browser icons (Eric W.)

Fixes&  Maintenance

* PDF Content Inspector fixed and updated
* NSUInteger updates for new APIs
* crash fix on exit when Grayscale background images were selected
* updates for integer positions and resolutions to avoid blurring of elements
* NSDragOperation updates

This release is highly recommended when compiling and running GWorkspace against the current GNUstep core release.

Where can you get it? How can you compile it?
==================================================



You can download sources from 
ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/usr-apps/gworkspace-0.9.1.tar.gz 
<ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/usr-apps/gworkspace-0.9.0.tar.gz>
The official homepage of the project is: 
http://www.gnustep.org/experience/GWorkspace.html

Riccardo Mottola,

GWorkspace maintainer.

ANN: GSPdf 0.5

Riccardo Mottola — 2012-06-03T20:31:32

GSPDF 0.5
=========


What is it?
--------------


GSPdf is a PDF and PostScript file reader, implemented as ghostscript 
front-end. Ghostscript is required at runtime. GSPdf integrates as 
postscript file viewer and once installed GNUstep Print Preview feature 
will use it (obtaing thus a native replacement to gv).


Where to get it?
--------------------


GSPdf is available at the GNUstep Application Project, GAP 
(http://gap.nongnu.org).

http://gap.nongnu.org/gspdf/index.html

About this release
-----------------------

This is mainly a maintenance release, advised for everybody.

* improved keyboard navigation
* updated to work with current gnustep
* bug fixes
* clean-ups



I want to thanks Wolfgang Lux and Sebastian Reitenbach for their help in 
spotting and fixing bugs. They helped finalizing this release.

Riccardo Mottola --- The GAP Team

ANN: Terminal 0.9.8

Riccardo Mottola — 2012-06-03T22:28:20

TERMINAL 0.9.8
--------------


The GNUstep Application Project is pleased to announce the release of 
the 0.9.8 version of Terminal. Terminal of GAP originates from the 0.9.4 
version of Backbone, which stopped a regular release cycle,  and 
enhances on it.

What's new?
-----------

This is mainly a bug fix and maintenance release.

It fixes compilation and usage on the last GNUstep releases and has 
minor fixes.

This update is recommended, especially for packagers!

Where to get it?
----------------


 From the GNUstep Application Project (http://gap.nongnu.org) on the 
Terminal page:

Terminal:http://gap.nongnu.org/terminal/index.html


Happy usage, The GNUstep Application Team