gmane.comp.lib.gnustep.announce

ANN: DataBasin 0.5

Riccardo Mottola — 2012-05-20T19:34:55

D A T A  B A S I N
------------------

I am pleased to announce the release of DataBasin 0.5

ANN: Zipper 1.4

Riccardo Mottola — 2012-05-11T08:46:13

|Z I P P E R   1.4
-----------------

I'm happy to announce that yesterday the GNUstep Application Project 
released version 1.4 of Zipper. It was adopted by GAP in accordance with 
the original author and the license changed to GPL v2.

Zipper is an archive tool which allow viewing of various formats and 
creation of tarball (with GWorkspace Service).


What's new in this 1.4 release?

|||* First version released by GAP
* Interface redone in Gorm
* Extensive fixes to BSD tar support
* Bug fixes in the handling of archiver outputs, options and dates
* Portability fixes and crash fixes
* Updated infrastructure to current GNUstep make and runtime
* Macintosh port (to prove portability)

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


Many thanks to Sebastian Reitenbach who contacted the original Author, 
Dirk Olmes, to make the move and who with Philippe Roussel helped during 
tested and debugging sessions.

Riccardo Mottola,
GNUstep Application Project maintainer and co-leader

ANN: Graphos 0.3

Riccardo Mottola — 2012-05-01T18:03:48

G R A P H O S   0.3
-------------------



I am pleased to announce the third major public release of Graphos.


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


The most important news is the further improved inspector. It is now 
modeless and real-time.

A new file format is needed to fix a problem with object layer save and 
restore. Graphos is able to read old files. The new format contains also 
a version attribute, so that in the future further enhancements will be 
possible.

Bug fixes, potability enhancements.


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: PRICE 1.1.0

Riccardo Mottola — 2012-04-23T21:42:02

P. R. I. C. E.  1.1.0
---------------------


I released a new version of PRICE, 1.1.0, 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?

/* Curves/: this was a lot of work (and will need more). Smooth way to 
correct highlights and shadows with an S-curve. Source and resulting 
histograms are displayed.

/* Bilinear filtering/: scaling will now look better!

* Minor tweaks to the interface, like the filters that on cancel while 
previewing or on GNUstep the convolve matrix reacting on end editing.

* A plethora 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

ANN: LaternaMagica 0.4

Riccardo Mottola — 2012-04-19T17:46:20

L A T E R N A M A G I C A
--------------------------


WHAT IS IT:

LaternaMagica is an image viewer and slide show tool. The application 
operates single-windowed allowing to fit images, which are selected from 
a list, to the available size as well as switching to full-screen mode. 
Batch resizing and exporting of the selected images.The application runs 
on both GNUstep and MacOS with Cocoa, the full-screen code works on both.


WHAT'S NEW?


* bug fixes
* new "clear" "scramble" functions for the image list
* key bindings for navigation, also in full-screen mode.
* better portability


WHERE:



LaternaMagica is an application of the GNUstep Application Project, it 
is available at:

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

Available are sources and binaries for Mac.



Riccardo Mottola, the GAP team

ANN: FTP 0.3 release

Riccardo Mottola — 2012-04-06T10:08:56

F T P  0.3
==========

I am pleased to announce that FTP 0.3 is now available from the GNUstep 
Application Project (http://gap.nongnu.org).

FTP is a graphical FTP application for downloading and uploading files 
using a convenient single-window 2-pane design.

This is a maintenance release. A short summary of the changes:
- some core bug fixes
- platform portability fixes
- updates for current GNUstep library and make system


its home page is:
http://gap.nongnu.org/ftp/index.html

Where you find a download link for the source and, this time, also a 
binary release for the Macintosh.

Enjoy!
Riccardo,
GAP  developer and co-leader

Silver theme 2.5

Germán Arias — 2012-02-15T01:51:34

Silver theme 2.5
==========

Silver theme is a simple theme with menu in-window.


Changes
=====

* Removed a menu color that not work with current
   stable release (I will send a bug report later).
* Code for not display the AppIcon at menu.


Where can you get it?
=============

You can found it at:

http://wiki.gnustep.org/images/6/6d/Silver.theme.tar.bz2


More info about themes here:

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

[ANN] HighlighterKit 0.1.2 and Gemas 0.3

Germán Arias — 2012-02-15T01:45:34

HighlighterKit
========

HighlighterKit is a framework to allow easy incorporation of
syntax highlighting features into your application.


Changes in version "0.1.2"
================

* Bug fixes.
* Variable HKTheme to switch the theme of the syntax higlighter.


Where can you get it?
=============

You can get the package at:

http://download.gna.org/gnustep-nonfsf/HighlighterKit-0.1.2.tar.gz



Gemas
====

Gemas is a simple code editor for GNUstep. It have autoindentation and 
highlight syntax for C, C++, Objective-C, Objective-C++, GSmarkup. And 
to edit Strings, Plist, GNUmakefile, ChangeLog files and plain text files 
(INSTALL, README, ...).


Changes in version 0.3
==============

* "App" and "Tool" menu items for create the basic files for an app or tool.
* User preferences allow change the font, size of the editor window, the
  theme of the syntax highlighter and the colors of the editor.
* Improvements in autoindentation.
* For .plist and .strings files, Gemas write the corresponding code 
  instead the character (this for some special characters á, ä, ç, ¿, ñ, ...).


Where can you get it?
=============

http://download.gna.org/gnustep-nonfsf/Gemas-0.3.tar.gz

There are also a couple of themes for the syntax highlighter here:

http://download.gna.org/gnustep-nonfsf/HKThemes-1.0.tar.gz


Please send me a report if you found a bug.

ANN: Make 2.6.2

Adam Fedor — 2012-02-03T15:21:40

The GNUstep Makefile Package version 2.6.2 is now available.

1.1 What is the GNUstep makefile package?
=========================================

The makefile package is a simple, powerful and extensible way to write
makefiles for a GNUstep-based project.  It allows the user to write a
project without having to deal with the complex issues associated with
configuration, building, installation, and packaging.  It also allows
the user to easily create cross-compiled binaries.

1.2 Changes in version `2.6.2'
==============================

Added standalone filesystem layout for putting everything in one
directory for easy deployment of relocatable. Other bug fixes.

1.3 Obtaining gnustep-make
==========================

You can get the gstep-make-2.6.2.tar.gz distribution file at
`ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core'

   Please log bug reports on the GNUstep project page
`http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gnustep' or send bug reports to
<bug-gnustep< at >gnu.org>.

ANN: Base 1.24.0

Adam Fedor — 2012-02-03T15:23:04

The GNUstep Base Library, version 1.24.0, is now available.

1.1 What is the GNUstep Base Library?
=====================================

The GNUstep Base Library is a library of general-purpose, non-graphical
Objective C objects.  For example, it includes classes for strings,
object collections, byte streams, typed coders, invocations,
notifications, notification dispatchers, moments in time, network ports,
remote object messaging support (distributed objects), and event loops.

   It provides functionality that aims to implement the non-graphical
portion of the OpenStep standard (the Foundation library).

   There is more information available at the GNUstep homepage at
`http://www.gnustep.org'.

1.2 Noteworthy changes in version `1.24.0'
==========================================

   * There is binary incompatibility on 64bit systems in that the value
     of the NSNotFound constant there is now 64bits rather than 32bits.

   * gcc-4.0 is the minimum official supported compiler for GNUstep

   * Support for the GNU LANGUAGES environment variable and other locale
     improvements

   * IPV6 support for NSHost and networking operations

   * Support for UTF-8 string literals in source (compiler permitting)

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

The gnustep-base-1.24.0.tar.gz distribution file has been placed at
`ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core'.

Please log bug reports on the GNUstep project page
`http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gnustep' or send bug reports to
<bug-gnustep< at >gnu.org>.

ANN: Gui/Back 0.22.0

Adam Fedor — 2012-02-03T21:04:29

This is version 0.22.0 of the GNUstep GUI library (`gnustep-gui').

1.1 What is the GNUstep GUI Library?
====================================

It is a library of graphical user interface classes written completely
in the Objective-C language; the classes are based upon Apple's Cocoa
framework (which came from the OpenStep specification as release by
NeXT Software, Inc).  The library has been enhanced in a number of ways
to take advantage of the GNU system.  These classes include graphical
objects such as buttons, text fields, popup lists, browser lists, and
windows; there are also many associated classes for handling events,
colors, fonts, pasteboards and images.

   The GNUstep GUI Library is designed in two parts.  The first part is
the front-end component which is independent of platform and display
system.  This front-end is combined with a back-end component which
handles all of the display system dependent such as specific calls to
X/Windows.  This design allows the GNUstep applications to have the
"look and feel" of the underlying display system without any changes to
the application, and the library can be easily ported to other display
systems.

   The GNUstep GUI Library requires the GNU Objective-C compiler, the
GNUstep Base Library, the TIFF Graphics library, and a back-end
component like the GNUstep 'Back' Backend.

1.2 Noteworthy changes in version `0.22.0'
==========================================

New features include:
   * This version is binary incompatible with previous versions due to
     the change of NSNotFound in GNUstep base.

   * Support for drawing the GUI with a scale factor, for high-DPI
     monitors.

   * Character panel

   * Color picker "Magnifier" tool, for grabbing the color of arbitrary
     parts of the screen

   Many NSImage improvements (Mac OS X 10.6 drawing methods, better
selection of image reps, better support for icons). Many bugfixes,
including in Xib loading, printing, and NSView geometry.

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

The gstep-gui-0.22.0.tar.gz distribution file has been placed at
`ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core'.



This is version 0.22.0 of the GNUstep GUI Backend (`gnustep-back').

1.1 What is the GNUstep GUI Backend?
====================================

It is a back-end component for the GNUstep GUI Library.  The
implementation of the GNUstep GUI Library is designed in two parts.  The
first part is the front-end component which is independent of platform
and display system.  This front-end is combined with a back-end
component which handles all of the display system dependent such as
specific calls to the X Window System.  This design allows the GNUstep
applications to have the "look and feel" of the underlying display
system without any changes to the application, and the library can be
easily ported to other display systems.

   The GNUstep GUI Backend is for platforms using the X-Window System or
Window's Systems. It works via a DPS emulation engine to emulate the
DPS functions required by the front-end system.

1.2 Noteworthy changes in version `0.22.0'
==========================================

Added new user defaults to make app icons and mini windows sticky
(omnipresent)

   Many improvements to Cairo rendering, including buffering, glyphs
and DPI scaling.

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

The gstep-back-0.22.0.tar.gz distribution file has been placed at
`ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core'.

Windows installer update

Adam Fedor — 2011-11-23T05:37:22

I've updated the Windows installer. See

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

This includes an updated MingW toolchain, with gcc 4.6 and libobjc2, which should support Objective-C 2.0.

GNUMail and Pantomime maintenance release

Germán Arias — 2011-11-08T05:54:49

This is a maintenance release to solve some problems I had with this 
great app.
There are some minor changes in GNUMail (like a dot at AppIcon when 
GNUMail is hidden),
but there are two important major changes.
These are:

* With some SMTP servers, Pantomime don't work as expected. The SMTP
connection died before get the supported transports mechanism. This 
crash
GNUMail. In other cases the SMTP don't get the supported transports 
mechanism
at first chance (or even at second chance). So you need click several 
times at
corresponding button to get these. This is confusing for the user. 
Since I don't
understand Pantomime and I don't know anything about mail protocols, I 
added
a hack to prevent this (Maybe an ugly hack).

* In "Compose" window I removed the option to select the SMTP host to 
send
the email. For me this can cause errors. For example my "xelalug.org" 
mail account
uses GMAIL technology, so it's uses smtp.gmail.com. My Gmail account 
uses,
of course, smtp.gmail.com also. This is sincronized automatically for 
GNUMail.
But GNUMail don't handle consistently the information of an account. 
So If I don't
put attention I can send an email from "xelalug.org" using the SMTP 
information of
my Gmail account. At the end I receive an email in my Gmail account 
that is sent
from my Gmail account, not from "xelalug.org". On the other hand I 
don't see the
utility of this option.


You can found it at Wiki page:

http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/GNUMail.app

And Pantomime (This only have a change in one header to compile):

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

If you face problems, let me know. I will try to solve them.

--Sent using GNUMail :)

ANN: DataBasin 0.4

Riccardo Mottola — 2011-11-02T08:04:01

D A T A  B A S I N
------------------

I am pleased to announce the release of DataBasin 0.4

ANN: AClock 0.4.0

Riccardo Mottola — 2011-10-17T21:49:51

ACLOCK
======

I am pleased to announce the 0.4.0 release of AClock.
This is the first release from GAP, where the application has been 
maintained and updated.

This version of AClock is now more portable and also it uses NSSound 
instead of relying on an external program to play sounds.

AClock is an analog clock with display of smooth seconds. It stays in 
your dock.

Check the web page for further information.

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


Riccardo

ANN: GWorkspace 0.9.0

Riccardo Mottola — 2011-09-30T08:55:13

I'm pleased to announce that GWorkspace version 0.9.0  is now available.

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

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

GWorkspace is a workspace manager for GNUstep.


Changes in version 0.9.0
=========================

Enhancements / new features
* Customized icons for special folders (Desktop, Images, Music, Documents, System, Library)
* default font size instead of fixed 12 points
* re-enabled sound playing in content inspector
* webloc file handling

Fixes
* Extensive drag-operation fixes
* volume mounting ported to NetBSD, FreeBSD and generally a more robust FSNodeRep
* portability issues fixed (SPARC crashes, HURD constants)
* security fixes
* crash fixes
* updated to work with changes in recent base and gui packages and obj-c runtimes
* draw fixes for recent gui rounding
* build system fixed (GWMetadata)


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

  

You can download sources from 
ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/usr-apps/gworkspace-0.9.0.tar.gz 
<ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/usr-apps/gworkspace-0.8.8.tar.gz>

The official homepage of the project is: 
http://www.gnustep.org/experience/GWorkspace.html

Riccardo Mottola

New base library release

Richard Frith-Macdonald — 2011-09-22T18:01:01

The GNUstep Base Library, version 1.23.0, is now available.

1.1 What is the GNUstep Base Library?
=====================================

The GNUstep Base Library is a library of general-purpose, non-graphical
Objective C objects.  For example, it includes classes for strings,
object collections, byte streams, typed coders, invocations,
notifications, notification dispatchers, moments in time, network ports,
remote object messaging support (distributed objects), and event loops.

   It provides functionality that aims to implement the non-graphical
portion of the OpenStep standard (the Foundation library).

   There is more information available at the GNUstep homepage at
`http://www.gnustep.org'.

1.2 Noteworthy changes in version `1.23.0'
==========================================

   * Support for automatic reference counting (ARC) when using clasng
     and the GNUstep Objective-C 2.0 runtime 1.5 or later.

   * Full support for weak references in NSHashTable, NSMapTable and
     NSPointerArray when using clang and the GNUstep Objective-C 2.0
     runtime 1.5 or later.

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

The gnustep-base-1.23.0.tar.gz distribution file has been placed at
`ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core'.

Please log bug reports on the GNUstep project page
`http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gnustep' or send bug reports to
<bug-gnustep< at >gnu.org>.

ANN: DataBasin 0.3

Riccardo Mottola — 2011-08-19T13:12:57

D A T A  B A S I N
------------------

I am pleased to announce the release of DataBasin 0.3.

ANN: PDFKit 0.9.1

Riccardo Mottola — 2011-07-27T10:19:49

Hi Steppers,

I'm pleased to announce the 0.9.1 release of PDFKit of the GNUstep 
Application project.

Check its wiki entry:
http://wiki.*gnustep*.org/index.php/*PDFKit* 
<http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/PDFKit>

This is a maintenance release: it improves portability and solves some 
packaging issues.

PDFKit is used by GWorkspace to enable the PDF content inspector.

Please note that since it wraps xpdf, it is only GPL v2 without the "or 
later" clause.


Cheers,
    Riccardo

ANN: BatMon 0.6

Riccardo Mottola — 2011-07-19T07:32:28

B A T T E R Y    M O N I T O R  0.6
-----------------------------------


WHAT IS IT:


Battery monitor is a small utility that displays the status of your 
laptop battery (charge/discharge and status).
This version now supports Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD!


What is new in 0.6 ?
- NetBSD ACPI support
- OpenBSD APM support
- bug fixes

WHERE:


Battery Monitor is part of GAP, the GNUSTEP Application Project 
(http://www.nongnu.org/gap/).


http://www.nongnu.org/gap/batmon/index.html



Best luck with your Laptop running GNUstep!

Riccardo

ANN: Jigsaw 0.8 release

Riccardo Mottola — 2011-07-18T14:14:26

J I G S A W  0.8
================

The GAP Team announces the 0.8 release of Jigsaw (formerly known as 
GPuzzle and GPuzzle2).

This is the last game developed by Marko Riedel and which was adopted 
lately by GAP to maintain it fixed and working.

This is a maintenance release which mostly fixes updating problem with 
current GNUstep and allows window porting.


The new Jigsaw homepage:
http://gap.nongnu.org/jigsaw/index.html

Have fun,
     Riccardo