Re: [gnome-flashback] ANNOUNCE: gnome-panel and gnome-flashback-session 3.8.0 release

["Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)" <jonathan ubuntu com>]

Great job, Philipp!

On 25/09/2013 18:53, Philipp Kaluza wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> we are pleased to announce the release of Gnome Panel 3.8.0. This is what the "Gnome Flashback" team has been 
> working on in the last months. We are glad to achieve compatibility with the Gnome 3.8 stack just hours before the 
> final Gnome 3.10 release. ;-)
>
> This is the first release that ships a session descriptor and wrapper script for the "Gnome Flashback" 
> session. This is similar to the standalone fallback session previously shipped in Debian / Ubuntu. As integration with 
> the rest of the Gnome stack has suffered somewhat, this is mainly aimed at distributions that still want to support a 
> metacity / gnome-panel based desktop (e.g. for LTSP installations). Some integration work may be necessary - for 
> example, nautilus 3.8 no longer draws the X root window background.
>
> The Gnome Flashback team was born in December 2012 out of a shared desire to continue work on the discontinued 
> "Gnome Fallback" mode based on metacity and gnome-panel. We have invited people from downstream and derived 
> desktops that have shared interests, e.g. the MATE team, to collaborate or join the Gnome Flashback team, and would 
> like to explicitly renew this invitation. Gnome-Panel 3.8 is a mature port of the classical Gnome-Panel to Gnome 3 
> technologies, like GTK+ 3 and DConf/GSettings. (A metacity port to GTK+ 3 would also well be within the scope of Gnome 
> Flashback.) We usually meet on the gnome-flashback-list gnome org .
>
> With kind regards,
>    Philipp Kaluza (for the Gnome Flashback Team)
>
>
>
> About Panel
> ===========
>
> Launch other applications and provide various utilities to manage
> windows, show the time, etc.
>
> News
> ====
>
>    Flashback Session
>
>         * Ship a session descriptor and wrapper script for the "Gnome Flashback"
>           session (Jeremy Bicha, Philipp Kaluza)
>         * This is similar to the standalone fallback session previously shipped
>           in Debian / Ubuntu. As integration with the rest of the Gnome stack
>            has suffered somewhat, this is mainly aimed at distributions that
>            still want to support a metacity / gnome-panel based desktop (e.g.
>            for LTSP installations). Some integration work may be necessary - for
>           example, nautilus 3.8 no longer draws the X root window background.
>
>    Panel
>
>         * New Maintainer team (Jonathan Carter, Josselin Mouette, Philipp
>           Kaluza)
>         * A big thank you to Vincent Untz for your years of service !
>
>         * Fix launcher icon animation ending with black artifact
>           (Yannick Gicquel)
>         * Drop support for commandline-based calendar/tasks applications
>            (Philipp Kaluza)
>         * Ship our own version of gnome_desktop_prepend_terminal_to_vector
>           (Philipp Kaluza)
>         * Move clock back between notification area and user menu (Jeremy Bicha)
>         * Fix autoconf (Balló György)
>         * Fix some background and multi-screen issues (Alberts Muktupāvels)
>
>    Clock Applet
>
>         * No longer depend on deprecated GWeatherXML (Philipp Kaluza)
>         * Display sunrise/sunset times in local time not UTC (Jeremy Bicha)
>
>    Force-Quit applet
>
>         * Enable XInput2 support (Sébastien Villemot)
>
>    Notification Area applet
>
>         * Apply style after realize - fix all-black notification icons
>           (Daniel Drake)
>         * Use the generic marshaller (Jasper St. Pierre)
>
>    Translators
>
>         * Andika Triwidada
>         * Ani Peter
>         * Aurimas Černius
>         * Balázs Úr
>         * Breno Santana
>         * Christian Kirbach
>         * Daniel Mustieles
>         * Enrico Nicoletto
>         * Fran Diéguez
>         * Joe Hansen
>         * Kjartan Maraas
>         * Krishnababu Krothapalli
>         * ManojKumar Giri
>         * Marek Černocký
>         * Martin Srebotnjak
>         * Matej Urbančič
>         * Nilamdyuti Goswami
>         * Piotr Drąg
>         * Rafael Ferreira
>         * Rajesh Ranjan
>         * Sandeep Sheshrao Shedmake
>         * Shankar Prasad
>         * Shantha kumar
>         * Sweta Kothari
>         * Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
>         * Yuri Myasoedov
>         * Мирослав Николић
>
>
> ChangeLog
> =========
> https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-panel/3.8/gnome-panel-3.8.0.changes  (21.0K)
>
> Download
> ========
> https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-panel/3.8/gnome-panel-3.8.0.tar.xz (2.28M)
>    sha256sum: d1cda458a38cb4f7d2a50c61b1a72f4bf4c39cab65ae0e6cfdc4e0c122252e7a
>
>
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