Re: GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.1.3: "Twin Pines"

[Louis Garcia <louisg00 bellsouth net>]

I thought someone said that gnome-themes and gnome-icon-theme were going
to be merged?

--Lou

On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 10:18, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.1.3: "Twin Pines"
> =====================================================
> 
> The GNOME Development Series Snapshot 2.1.3 "Twin Pines", is ready for your
> bug-busting and testing pleasure! It is available for immediate download on
> ftp.gnome.org and mirrors.
> 
> Detailed information about this release (with screenshots this time!):
> 
>   http://www.gnome.org/start/2.1/
> 
> Download:
> 
>   http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.1/2.1.3/sources/
> 
>   tar.gz:   83M total
>   tar.bz2:  63M total
> 
> 
> WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
> --------------------------
> 
> This release is an UNSTABLE development series snapshot. It is intended for
> testing and hacking purposes ONLY. Like the Linux kernel, GNOME uses odd
> minor version numbers to indicate development status, so this 2.1.x series
> will eventually become the official 2.2 release. Please check our schedule
> for more info: http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/schedule/
> 
> 
> New Features & Modules
> ----------------------
> 
> Please see <http://www.gnome.org/start/2.1/>, the 2.1.x Development Series
> start page, for more information. Our final list of new modules:
> 
>   - acme: A daemon and configuration utility for 'special' keys on modern
>     multimedia keyboards and notebooks.
>   
>   - file-roller: Full-featured archive creation, browsing, and unpacking
>     utility. See: http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/
> 
>   - ggv: The ever-popular PDF and PostScript viewer.
> 
>   - gstreamer/gst-plugins: An advanced multimedia framework.
> 
>   - gnome-themes: New package of default themes for GNOME, which currently
>     includes GTK+ and icon themes designed for accessibility.
>   
>   - gnome-icon-theme: Default GNOME icon theme.
>   
>   - metacity: Window manager for the adult in you.
> 
>   - nautilus-media: GStreamer-based multimedia support for Nautilus,
>     including an awesome new music view and video thumbnailing.
> 
>   - startup-notification: A minimal library that supports the new startup
>     notification spec from freedesktop.org.
>   
>   - vte: Terminal widget with improved font, internationalisation and
>     accessibility support.
> 
> We have removed sawfish, librep, rep-gtk and libzvt from the GNOME Desktop
> release.
> 
> 
> Build Requirements
> ------------------
> 
>   - The tarballs included in the release. :-)
> 
>   - Some very basic packages not distributed with this release, such as
>     image libraries, popt and freetype. These should all be included with or
>     available for your distribution.
> 
>   - Xft2 and fontconfig for superior font rendering and configuration, from
>     http://fontconfig.org/ These are absolute requirements now.
> 
>   - Docbook DTD 4.1.2, Docbook XSL stylesheets and a valid system catalogue
> 	file for scrollkeeper (which in turn is required by many desktop
> 	components for documentation).
> 
> 
> Happy testing!
> 
> - The GNOME Release Team