gnome-core and gnome-applets 1.1.1 "Beantown" released

[Jacob Berkman <jacob helixcode com>]

Hello,

A new and improved * * * DEVELOPMENT * * * release of gnome-core and
gnome-applets are now available.  These are meant for advanced users
and developers, as there may be problems with building and using these
packages.  But hopefully not :)

This release marks the beginning of the freeze for 1.2, so there shouldn't
be any new features after this release.

About gnome-core:
        gnome-core contains the GNOME session manager, terminal
        emulator, help browser, panel, and some applets.

About gnome-applets:
        gnome-applets contains many applets for the GNOME panel.

Availability:
        ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/gnome-core/
        ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/gnome-applets/

Changes:

        * More icons (tigert, Matthias Warkus, and the GNOME icon team)

        * More translations (Translations team)

        * applets use the PanelApplet dentry type (George Lebl)

        * gen_util is now an shlib applet (Ettore Perazzoli)

        * gen_util can use GMT time (Robert Mibus)

        * gen_util saves username/password in private config file
                (Jaka Mocnik)

        * desk guide uses panel sizings, and lots of other fixes
                (Time Janik)

        * tasklist will show a shaded icon for minimized apps, and many
                other fixes and cleanups (Anders Carlsson, George Lebl)

        * wanda now resizes (George)

        * gnome-session now can have a splash screen.  You can disable this
                by appending 'SplashScree=false' to 
                ~/.gnome/session-options  (Jacob Berkman, image by tigert)

        * session-properties will now run if you had non-SM apps in your
                manual startup list  (Jacob)

        * gnome-wm should work better with SM and different WM's.  (George)

        * Man pages for different commands/files related to GNOME SM (Miguel
                de Icaza)

        * gnome-session strings should be translated now (Miguel)

        * login check added for ownership of /tmp/orbit-username (Elliot Lee)

        * https is a recognized protocol for the dingus in gnome-terminal 
                (tigert)

        * some gnome-terminal paste and help fixes (Miguel)

        * running 'gnome-terminal --use-factory' will create a new
                terminal window in an existing terminal process (if
                a process was launched with --start-factory-server)
                You might want to update your panel launchers to
                use these flags.  (John Harper, Jacob)

        * some gnome-terminal crashes were fixed (Michael Zucchi)

        * gnome-help-browser had some compile warnings cleaned up
                (George) and some possible crashes fixed (Jacob)

        * other gnome-help-browser fixes/improvements (Pavel Machek)

        * about 550 lines of ChangeLog from the panel.  I'll list some
                cool things here, you can go read panel/ChangeLog for
                details:

                - buttons can now be highlighted on mouse over (George)
                - floating menus are saved across sessions (George)
                - Properties dialogs were redone (James Cape, Jacob)
                - .desktop submenus can have larger icons (Jacob)
                - right click menu is now customizable (Jacob)
                - you can press the Menu key on your windows keyboard
                        and get a panel menu to pop up (Elliot, Jacob)
                - try pressing menu+r
                - backwards compatability fixes (George)
                - Other cleanups (George, Jacob)
                - the status dock works with KDE apps (George)

        * gnome-about has some links to GNOME web pages (Jacob)

        * 'small fixes' to gnome-about (Anders)

        * netload applet now actually works (Eduardo Perez, Jacob)

        * sizing fixes to the applets (George)

        * sound-monitor and clockmail have some nice themes from tigert

        * John Ellis updated his applets to use the newer sizing stuff

        * probably some other stuff.  This is too long already.


Anyway, enjoy, and report all problems to the usual places.

Jacob
-- 
"Beware of bugs in the above code;  I have only 
 proved it correct, not tried it." -- D. Knuth