GNOME Development Series Desktop 2.3.2: "Little Hero"

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

GNOME Development Series Desktop 2.3.2: "Little Hero"
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The GNOME Development Series Desktop 2.3.2 "Little Hero", is ready for your
bug-busting and testing pleasure! It is available for immediate download on
ftp.gnome.org and mirrors:

  http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.3/2.3.2/sources/

  tar.gz:   120M total
  tar.bz2:  90M total


WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
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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 2.3.x series
will eventually become the official 2.4 release. Please check the 2.3 start
page for more information: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.3/


ChangeLogs
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The following modules have been updated for this release:

                acme
                 atk
              at-spi
           bug-buddy   http://makeashorterlink.com/?W22C129A4 <- the good ones ;)
      control-center
                 eel
            epiphany   http://makeashorterlink.com/?L24C129A4
         file-roller
                gail
               gedit   http://makeashorterlink.com/?M15C219A4
       gedit-plugins   http://makeashorterlink.com/?J66C329A4
       gnome-desktop
         gnome-games   http://makeashorterlink.com/?H37C459A4
    gnome-icon-theme
         gnome-panel
       gnome-session
        gnome-speech
  gnome-system-tools   http://makeashorterlink.com/?G28C139A4
      gnome-terminal
        gnome-themes   http://makeashorterlink.com/?G19C629A4
         gnome-utils
           gnome-vfs
         gnopernicus
       gtksourceview   http://makeashorterlink.com/?E2AC259A4
           gucharmap   http://makeashorterlink.com/?D1BC259A4
            intltool   http://makeashorterlink.com/?D2CC619A4
         libbonoboui
          libgtkhtml
             libgtop
             libwnck
            metacity
            nautilus
  nautilus-cd-burner
               totem   http://makeashorterlink.com/?W3DC629A4
                 vte
              zenity


Proposed Modules
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The following modules have been PROPOSED for inclusion in the next major
GNOME release. Keep in mind that not all of them may be accepted.

  battfink - Energy saving and battery status utility.
  
  epiphany - A GNOME web browser based on Gecko.
  
  fontilus - Font management and information tools.
  
  galeon - A GNOME web browser based on Gecko.
  
  gcalctool - A full-featured calculator.
  
  gedit-plugins & gtksourceview - Split off plugins and a syntax
    highlighting textview for gedit.
  
  gnome-mag, gnome-speech, gnopernicus & gok - Screen magnification, text to
    speech, on screen keyboard and accessibilty features control tool.

  gnomemeeting - Standards-based audio and video conferencing.

  gnome-system-tools - Cross-platform user-friendly system configuration
    tools.
  
  gpdf - An xpdf-based PDF viewer.
  
  gswitchit & libxklavier - Keyboard layout switching and configuration
    tools.
  
  gucharmap - A full-featured unicode character map tool.
  
  nautilus-cd-burner - Integrated CD burning tool for Nautilus (requires
    as-yet-unreleased changes to Nautilus for full integration and is
    currently Linux-specific).
  
  seahorse - GPG/PGP key management utility, with Nautilus integration.
  
  themus - Theme management and information tools (will most likely be
    added to the control-center module).
  
  totem - A sound and video player (currently based on Xine, with GStreamer
    support being worked on).
  
  zenity - Provides graphical prompts and dialogues for shell scripts.


Build Requirements
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  - 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/ OR XFree86 4.3.x.

  - 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

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