Gnome Libs 1.0.18: Test release.

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

Hello guys,

   Another pre-test release of the GNOME libraries is out.  This time
I changed the version number, I think it will help avoid confussion in
the future.  So, instead of calling this 1.0.17.beta-2, it is called
1.0.18.

   Please test as much as possible.

* Availability:

	ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/testing

New stuff (from 1.0.17):

* libgnome

	* gnome_exec now returns -1 on failure (Owen)

	* gnome_exec has a better behaved close fd behaviour (Owen).

* Canvas
	  
	* GnomeCanvas fixed for context reuse (from Damon, Federico)

	* Off-by-one fix in scrolling code (Federico).

	* Exposures are processed inmediately to soften display (Federico).

* Zvt terminal emulator

	* Fix to the state saving.  This causes mouse-applications to
	  blow away the settings for page save/restore (Michael Zucchi)

	* Uses the TTYDEF_xFLAGS for setting up the termios (Michael Zucchi)

* Libgnomeui

	* PropertyBoxes now start up with OK in ungrayed state (Ettore).

	* GnomeDock redraw fixes from Federico and Owen.

	* GnomeAnimator bug fixes (Havoc, Damon)

	* GnomeDateEdit fixes for Glade (Havoc, Damon)

	* GnomeFontPicker fixes for Glade (Havoc)

* Translations

	* Added Ukrainian translations (Yuri)

	* Brazilian updates (Alexandre)

	* Danish updates (Kenneth)

	* Korean updates (Changwoo)

	* Norwegian updates (Kjartan)

	* German updates (Karl)

	* Swedish updates (Andreas)

	* Polish updates (Zbigniew)

* Documentation

	* Small updates.

	* Extended the gnome-i18n documentation, and list the new
	  behaviour for shared libraries and CORBA shared-object
	  servers (me).

	* GNOME libs tutorial from George included

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* Changes from 1.0.16:

* Libgnorba

      * Now catches recursive definitions of object servers (Michael
	Meeks)

      * Enhanced error checking and error reporting (Havoc
        Pennington). 

* LibZvt

      * Supports regexp matching and action binding (Michael Zucchi). 

        This plus the new gnome-terminal enable people to
        shift-click-right on a url and netscape will be launched on
        the url.   Or just press right-button on a highlited url to
        get a pop-up menu which contains "Open URL"

      * Termios is properly initialized (Alan Cox, Michael Zucchi).

      * Upgraded emulation to handle more changes in the recent xterm
        terminfo definition (should fix alternate screen on recent
        Linux systems), Michael.

      * Fixed mouse support support the 2 mouse modes.  Fixes 1888
        (Michael again).

      * Should compile fine with Solaris's broken linker.

* Canvas

      * Fixes to speed up the canvas-item-text.  This should improve a
        lot the text-intensive applications in Gnome (GnomeCal comes
        to mind) by Federico Mena. 

* Druid

      * More improvements for the Gnome Druid (Jonathan)

* Fixes

      * gnome-exec now makes stdin, stdout, stderr for child process
        be /dev/null, fixes bug #1548 (Elliot Lee). 

      * GnomeDock has been updated to handle the upcoming Gtk drawing
        setup (Ettore Perazzoli).

      * Fixed gnome-config to handle the GNOME_LIBCONFIG_PATH and
        GNOME_PATH support (Elliot Lee).

      * Fixed Gnome-Dns and enhance it by Roberto Zunino.

      * Pressing escape on the color selector will close the dialog.

* Translations

      * Added more languages, updated various.  They are still not
        finished, check please http://www.gnome.org/i18n/status.html
        for details on the various translation efforts.

* Interop

      * Added --with-kde-datadir to find out the kde icons (Jacob
        Berkman).

* Libart

      * Various small and important fixes from Raph Levien and Larry
        Ewing. 

* Startup

      * We now set the LC_TYPE to en_US if it is not set already, this
        is done to avoid using the fallback "C" locale which does not
        support 8-bit chars (Anders Calrlsson).

      * Gnome Segv does not connect to the session manager (Havoc
        Pennington)

      * Gnome Segv will now generate a core dump to allow people to
        debug things (me).

* Internationalization work

      * Aliases are now read, so we can handle properly various
        aliases on desktop files (George Lebl).

* Documentation
 
      * GtkDial, GnomeStock, GtkClock, GnomeDialog, GnomeSpell,
        GnomeColorPicker, GNomeNumberEntry, GnomeHRef fixes and
        updates from Tim Gerla.

      * More work on libart documentation (Raph).

Enjoy,
Miguel.