ANNOUNCE: gperfmeter (gnome-perfmeter) v2.0.24 [stable]

[Rich Burridge <Rich Burridge Sun COM>]

Gperfmeter (gnome-perfmeter) monitors the performance of a system and
displays a dynamic, graphical overview of how the system is performing. 
The application displays strip charts and bar charts to represent system 
performance for the main performance parameters.


This release is so that there is an official distribution tarball for the 
possible inclusion of gnome-perfmeter in the JDS release for Solaris 10.


Note that gperfmeter needs the rpc.rstatd daemon to be running on the
system it's monitoring for it to work correctly. This is automatically
available on Solaris systems. I've had alternative experiences on other
various UNIX/Linux systems. There are also several alternate applications 
that provide the same functionality for the Linux platform.


Changes since the last gperfmeter version (2.0.0) - latest changes listed
first:

* Fixed bug #94767. There were problems with the way that gperfmeter tried 
  to inform the user when a remotely monitored host could no longer be 
  displayed.

* Fixed bug #124561. GtkItemFactory has been deprecated. Removed the 
  GTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED flag.

* Fixed bug #122784. The -v, --version and --help output messages are 
  now properly localized.

* Fixed bug #111034. The gperfmeter property sheet now uses a GtkCombo widget 
  to contain the list of remote hostnames. Also the remote hostnames are 
  stored as gconf resources with keys of "HostName0" to "HostName9" rather 
  than a comma separated list keyed on "HostName".

* Fixed bug #118319. If you make changes to a running gperfmeter, then this 
  should reconfigure any other instances of gperfmeter that are running.
  Only the current one should be affected, and the gconf preferences should 
  be saved away, so that any new instances of gperfmeter that are started 
  will automatically pick them up.

* Added a test in DrawGraph to prevent Gdk-CRITICAL assertions occuring
  because a GC was NULL when a new meter was displayed for the first time.

* Code cleanup. Removed some more unwanted code after the recent UI rewrite.

* Fixed bug #117125. Gperfmeter now has a sane minimum size. This is 
  dependant upon whether the menubar is being shown, and the width of 
  the largest chart label.

* Removed unwanted variables and fixed up numerous warning messages reported 
  by lint.

* All the meters are now created the same size.

* Fixed up a SEGV in PmSaveResources when DEBUG was turned on.

* Remove a spurious couple of lines of debug left in gnome-perfmeter.c

* Major UI gperfmeter rewrite:
  - Removed the single canvas DrawingArea.
  - Created a gnome-perfmeter custom Gtk widget that consists of two Labels
    (meter_type and maxval), the DrawingArea for the chart and horizontal 
    and vertical separators that are shown if this isn't the first meter.
  - Removed and/or simplified a lot of the code related to the drawing of 
    these meters.

* Fixed bug #110563. gperfmeter no longer crashes for bar chart format in
  Xinerama mode.

* More work on bug #112667. Fixups to provide working alternate for
  platforms that don't have system calls such as setnetconfig.

* Fixed bug #112667. Changed from transport specific to transport 
  independent and now it accepts IPv6 addresses also.

* Forced gperfmeter build to be Gtk2 compliant

* Removed the gperfmeter.glade in the top-level directory to avoid any
  further confusion. 

* Removed the HostsEntryCB and LogFileEntryCB signal callbacks in
  .../src/gperfmeter.glade as they did nothing.

* Fixed bug #110793 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110793):
  Gperfmeter now remembers it's last position and size and uses those      
  values when restarting.

* More code cleanup:
  - Removed the #ifdef FIX"'s from .../src/data.c. They aren't been
    used and there is no history to say why they are here (note they
    were also in the original sdtperfmeter code too in the same way).
  - Removed empty functions (and there setting if they are callbacks),
    such as: LogFileEntryCB and HostsEntryCB.
  - Removed all calls to PmStringCreateLocalized, making sure the string
    is surronded by _().
  - Fixed up numerous lint warnings.
  - Removed X11 specific calls where possible.

* Cleaned up .../src/resources.c and src/access/*.[c,h]:
  - Removed all tabs and some of the code that is commented out and/or not 
    needed.
  - Provided consistent indentation.

* Cleaned up more of the code:
  - Removed all tabs and some of the code that is commented out and/or not 
    needed.
  - Provided consistent indentation.

* Fixed Bugzilla bug #94770. The host name being monitored is now displayed 
  in the titlebar (or "localhost" when monitoring the local host).

* Fixed Bugzilla bug #110863. Adjusted various long and short descriptions 
  in gperfmeter.schemas.in to make their capitalisation consistent. 
  Plus "autoLoadByHost" becomes "AutoLoadByHost". 

* Fixed Bugzilla bug #93956. No longer need to press Return for new 
  threshold values to take place in the preferences window.

* Fixed Bugzilla bug #100015. Added double quotes (and semi-colon) to make 
  two schemas long messages easier to understand.

* Removed "#ifdef FIXUP" entries and unwanted commented out code.

* Removed "#ifdef APPLET" entries and unwanted commented out code.

* Removed calls to PmResetDecor().

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You can download this new version from:

  http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-perfmeter/2.0/