Announce: Gnome Clipboard Manager beta 2

[Philip Van Hoof <freax pandora be>]

GCM (GNOME Clipboard Manager) beta-2 is now available for
download

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gcm/gcm-beta-2.tar.gz

This is the second "beta release" ...

What is GCM
===========

GCM (GNOME Clipboard Manager) is an application to help you
manage your clipboard selections. It will autocollect selections
(items) on a shelf and allow you to choose which selection(s)
you want to use for pasting.

You can open a collected selection to edit it, manually create
new selections, and delete-copy-paste them. You can select with
which selection-type you want to work : CLIPBOARD, PRIMARY,
SECONDARY or a custom Atom.

In future we are planning to make some tcp/ip networking support
for GCM which will allow you to send selections over a network
to another host running GCM. (Like the netclip application).
This transfering of items will use XML (libxml).

Please note that this project is far from finished. There is
no good documentation yet (somebody is working on it) and a
lot features are unfinished at this moment. We are looking for
people who want to help us with development of this tool/app.
Suggestions are also welcome.

At this moment you can already do all the basic stuff like
collecting selections, selecting a collected selection (to
start using it), deleting, simple editing of collected
selections, Search/Replace, saving some preferences (gconf).
Also saving and loading to/from XML files. Loading GCM as
applet.... and many more features


GCM is free software (GPL).

Changes in beta-2:
==================

* Using Gnome Clipboard Manager as Applet
* Pasting/selecting multiple items at once
* Loading items from XML files
* Saving items to XML files
* Fixed most memoryleaks and some bugs
* Russian and Dutch translation
* The edit-item window is finished now
	* Search/Replace using sed
* Some GConf bugs fixed
* CopyPasting items inside gcm fixed
* Usability issues : Added some accelerators
* Three people joined the development team
	* Philip Van Hoof (development)
	+ Jonas Heylen (development)
	+ Dmitry Koval (development)
	+ Jamaal V. Sanford (doc writer)
* Documentation added (better is being made)
* And many, many more changes


Note
====
I kindly invite everybody who is intrested in helping the
development of this application to our mailinglist at
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gcm-devel
ps. We can use all help. We have many more idea's but not
much resources and time. 

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/gcm/gcm/TODO

Note to the mailinglist purists: This is why I crossposted
to the gnome-hackers list.

For developpers: Most development of gcm is done using the
Anjuta IDE. GCM's source is also completly Anjuta-ready.
-'Thank you' anjuta team for such a good IDE :)-


Where to get more information about GCM:
========================================

Information about GCM including links to documentation can be
found at:

Homepage of the project :
http://gcm.sourceforge.net

Screenshot of last week :) :
http://gcm.sourceforge.net/img/gcm_shot02.jpg

CVS (Since we are working on this project, the CVS version
will probably be "better" then the beta-2 release at all
times. However it might or might not compile. Normally it
compiles ;-).

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous cvs gcm sourceforge net:/cvsroot/gcm login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous cvs gcm sourceforge net:/cvsroot/gcm co gcm


How it (basicly) works
======================

When GCM looses the selection ownership, it will collect
the new selection; set his selected selection to the new
one and reclaim ownership of the clipboard selection. Using
the CLIPBOARD selection type/atom this works very good.
Using the PRIMARY selection it only works good in GNOME/GTK+
applications (Don't ask me why.. I have no idea. If you
know: tell me). There is an option to "beep" on collect.
So if GCM stops "beeping" then you can always manually get
the current selection and autocollecting will restart if
the auto-collect option is set.

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gcm/gcm-beta-2.tar.gz

-- 
Philip van Hoof aka freax (http://www.freax.eu.org)
irc: irc.openprojects.net mailto:freax @ linux.be




-- 
Philip van Hoof aka freax (http://www.freax.eu.org)
irc: irc.openprojects.net mailto:freax @ linux.be