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Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.20, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment.

Released on schedule, to the day, it is the culmination of six months effort by GNOME contributors around the world: hackers, documentors, usability and accessibility specialists, translators, maintainers, sysadmins, companies, artists, users and testers. Due to their hard work, we have another great release to be proud of – thanks very much to every contributor!

You’ll find information about GNOME 2.20 in our release notes, linked from the 2.20 start page. About GNOME 2.20: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.20/

Meanwhile, GNOME developers around the world are looking forward to working on fresh new features for the next version of GNOME, due in March, 2008

Bring on GNOME 2.22!

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Ten years ago, Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena Quintero announced to the world that they have started the GNOME (“GNU Network Object Model Environment”) project, an attempt to fix a dependency on a non-free library for free desktops. Today, GNOME is a large, healthy and fun project with a very steady mission and personality. Congratulations to everyone who made it possible!

Happy birthday GNOME!

We’re celebrating ten years of freedom:

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We are pleased to announce the release of GNOME 2.16.0 RC1 (2.15.92). This is one of the last releases in the 2.15 development series and represents a release that is now API/ABI, feature, string and UI frozen. Hard code freeze is quickly approaching : this means that we’re pretty close to the final 2.16.0 release. The GNOME contributors are now busy fixing the most important bugs that are still out there, localizing the whole desktop or updating our documentation.

The release notes that describe the changes between 2.15.91 and 2.15.92 are available. Go read them to learn all the changes in this release:

platform – http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/platform/2.15/2.15.92/NEWS
desktop – http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/desktop/2.15/2.15.92/NEWS
admin – http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/admin/2.15/2.15.92/NEWS
bindings – http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/bindings/2.15/2.15.92/NEWS

The GNOME 2.15.92 release is available here:

platform sources – http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/platform/2.15/2.15.92/
desktop sources – http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.15/2.15.92/
admin sources – http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/admin/2.15/2.15.92/
bindings sources – http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/bindings/2.15/2.15.92/

To compile it, you can use GARNOME (already released), or the jhbuild modulesets available at:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/teams/releng/2.15.92/

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The Glade (GUI designer tool) that has been building your GTK+ applications for years is back with a completely new generation of homegrown free software. Supporting all the widgets in the gtk+ 2.8 familly, gnomeui widgets, the gnome canvas widget, and a whole new feature set; this new tool is sure to raise a few eyebrows.

The new and rewritten version of Glade has taken the streets!

Get it at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glade3/3.0/.

NOTE – Glade 3.0 Requires GTK+ 2.8 and libxml2, Glade 3.0 will expose properties, signals and widgets from GTK+ 2.8, remember that you need an up to date version of GTK+ to support those widgets.

Here is an overview of the changes made since the last development snapshot:

* DevHelp integration for a contextual help system
* GnomeUI and GnomeCanvas plugin (Juan Pablo Ugarte)
* New “Editor skeleton” provided by the core to ease the plugin’s creation
* of custom editors for toolbars and menus and such. (Juan Pablo Ugarte)
* Toolbar and popup menu support (Juan Pablo Ugarte)
* Added accelerators property dialog
* Drag/Resize support extended to GtkTable and GtkBox subclasses
* (and GnomeCanvas) from only GtkFixed and GtkLayout.
* Reverted “View” menu to match the Glade 2 style (Yevgen Muntyan)
* Now glade has 2 icon sets (16×16 & 22×22), all icons available (Vincent Geddes)
* New awesome palette (Vincent Geddes)
* Cute cursor when adding widgets (Vincent Geddes)
* General UI enhancements and desktop integration work (Vincent Geddes)
* Duplicated widgets id’s are unique (Yevgen Muntyan)
* Spelling mistake fixes from Thierry Moisan and Clytie Siddall
* Many Many Many misc fixes by Juan Pablo Ugarte, Vincent Geddes,
* Yevgen Muntyan and myself.
* Much core/gtk+ backend refactoring done by Juan Pablo and myself.

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This article, the first in a three-part series, introduces you to the world of GTK+. It explains what GTK+ is, why you should consider using it, and the benefits it provides. Together with the rest of the series, this installment provides enough introductory information that, if you decide to use GTK+ in your own projects, you’ll know where to look for further materials.

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