ANNOUNCE: GNOME War Pad 0.3.6

[Lucas Di Pentima <lucas lunix com ar>]

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Application
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GNOME War Pad 0.3.6

Description
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A 'VGA Planets' client for the GNOME platform. VGA Planets is a
turn-based space strategy game that can be played by 11 players at once.
This game is being played since Fidonet times, and have lots of fans
that still play on those old DOS clients, it's time for a GNU/Linux one :-)


Enhancements
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* Feature: Added variables to store host configuration info on the game
state manager.
* Feature: Added sensors sweep area to "scanner area" feature in a
lughter blue color.
* Feature: New plugin! the Quark plugin is being written to help the
player on maximizing the money and resources extraction on every planet.
Thanks to Cristian!
* Feature: Starchart now can be controlled from plugins (in a veeery
basic way).
* Feature: Several enhancements on GwpGameState, including being
exported to Python scripts.
* Feature: Now plugins can use GWP's UI slots to integrate their own
piece of UI in the main window.
* Feature: New plugin 'NotificationArea', to allow other plugins to
publish their own alerts to the user. Added some utility methods to
PluginManager to get reference of active plugins, check plugin states, etc.
* Feature: Enhancements on the signal notification system between plugins.
* Feature: Finder plugin enhancements! many ways to search through
planets and ships. Thanks Nicolas!


Fixes
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* Bugfix: Updated credits on "About..." dialog.
* Bugfix: Fixed typo on PCRE flags.
* Bugfix: tax rates taken from host config data, they were hardcoded
* Bugfix: Several problems on the mini starchart were solved, it's still
buggy but now it works nicer.
* Bugfix: Unowned planets with ships of our own orbiting it didn't
showed the data on the planet. Thanks Cristian!
* Bugfix: Several tax collection miscalculations solved.
* Bugfix: ship selection signal emission wasn't in the correct place.
* Bugfix: missing help figure, added.


Downloads
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http://gwp.lunix.com.ar/releases/gwp-0.3.6.tar.gz
http://gwp.lunix.com.ar/releases/packages/gwp_0.3.6-1_i386.deb


GNOME Software Map entry
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http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/gwp


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