News 2008-11-20T11:27:35Z tag:www.galago-project.org,2008:/news//1 Movable Type Copyright (c) 2008, chipx86 libnotify 0.4.5, notification-daemon 0.4.0 released 2008-11-20T11:27:35Z 2008-11-20T11:25:01Z tag:www.galago-project.org,2008:/news//1.48 2008-11-20T11:25:01Z It's been a long time coming, but libnotify 0.4.5 and notification-daemon 0.4.0 are finally released! These are important bug fix releases, and notification-daemon also introduces a number of new features, such as a control panel and multi-head support. Release... chipx86 http://www.chipx86.com/ chipx86@chipx86.com It's been a long time coming, but libnotify 0.4.5 and notification-daemon 0.4.0 are finally released! These are important bug fix releases, and notification-daemon also introduces a number of new features, such as a control panel and multi-head support.

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]]> libnotify 0.4.4, notification-daemon 0.3.7 released 2007-02-28T07:34:01Z 2007-02-28T07:30:03Z tag:www.galago-project.org,2007:/news//1.47 2007-02-28T07:30:03Z New versions of libnotify and notification-daemon have been released. These releases contain important bug fixes and memory leak fixes and everybody should upgrade. notification-daemon now looks better on systems running a compositing manager (such as Compiz or Beryl). The... chipx86 http://www.chipx86.com/ chipx86@chipx86.com News New versions of libnotify and notification-daemon have been released. These releases contain important bug fixes and memory leak fixes and everybody should upgrade.

notification-daemon now looks better on systems running a compositing manager (such as Compiz or Beryl). The notification is now semi-transparent, but not so transparent that it makes it hard to read the notification. It's a nice, subtle touch.

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]]> libnotify 0.4.3, notification-daemon 0.3.6 and notify-python 0.1.1 released 2006-10-08T19:14:04Z 2006-10-08T18:47:24Z tag:www.galago-project.org,2006:/news//1.46 2006-10-08T18:47:24Z New libnotify, notification-daemon and notify-python releases have been uploaded, offering many new features and bug fixes. Everybody should upgrade to these releases. Release Notes: libnotify 0.4.3 notification-daemon 0.3.6 notify-python 0.1.1... chipx86 http://www.chipx86.com/ chipx86@chipx86.com News New libnotify, notification-daemon and notify-python releases have been uploaded, offering many new features and bug fixes. Everybody should upgrade to these releases.

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]]> libgalago 0.5,2, galago-daemon 0.5.1, gaim-galago 0.5.1 released 2006-10-07T19:07:50Z 2006-10-07T18:57:09Z tag:www.galago-project.org,2006:/news//1.45 2006-10-07T18:57:09Z libgalago 0.5.2, galago-daemon 0.5.1, and gaim-galago 0.5.1 have been released. libgalago features new asynchronous query functions, as well as several important bug fixes. This version is highly recommended. galago-daemon 0.5.1 fixes some assertions and memory leaks. gaim-galago 0.5.1 fixes a... chipx86 http://www.chipx86.com/ chipx86@chipx86.com News libgalago 0.5.2, galago-daemon 0.5.1, and gaim-galago 0.5.1 have been released.

libgalago features new asynchronous query functions, as well as several important bug fixes. This version is highly recommended.

galago-daemon 0.5.1 fixes some assertions and memory leaks.

gaim-galago 0.5.1 fixes a bug in idle time reporting, and adds a new German translation.

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]]> libnotify 0.4.2 released 2006-06-18T03:22:57Z 2006-06-18T03:21:27Z tag:www.galago-project.org,2006:/news//1.44 2006-06-18T03:21:27Z Due to a bug discovered in the 0.4.1 release, I decided to put out a 0.4.2. This adds a G_BEGIN_DECLs and G_END_DECLS to notify.h, so that C++ applications can use libnotify. Release Notes: Add G_BEGIN_DECLS and G_END_DECLS to notify.h, so... chipx86 http://www.chipx86.com/ chipx86@chipx86.com News Due to a bug discovered in the 0.4.1 release, I decided to put out a 0.4.2. This adds a G_BEGIN_DECLs and G_END_DECLS to notify.h, so that C++ applications can use libnotify.

Release Notes:

  • Add G_BEGIN_DECLS and G_END_DECLS to notify.h, so that libnotify can be used in C++ applications properly.
]]> libnotify 0.4.1 released 2006-06-18T02:31:56Z 2006-06-18T02:29:52Z tag:www.galago-project.org,2006:/news//1.43 2006-06-18T02:29:52Z libnotify 0.4.1 has just been released. New in this release is support for GtkStatusIcon (when compiled against GTK+ 2.9.2 or higher), API documentation (accessible through devhelp), and several bug fixes. Release Notes: Added support for attaching to a GtkStatusIcon. Patch... chipx86 http://www.chipx86.com/ chipx86@chipx86.com News libnotify 0.4.1 has just been released. New in this release is support for GtkStatusIcon (when compiled against GTK+ 2.9.2 or higher), API documentation (accessible through devhelp), and several bug fixes.

Release Notes:

  • Added support for attaching to a GtkStatusIcon. Patch by chpe. (Bug #60)
  • Added GObject properties to NotifyNotification. Patch by chpe. (Bug #60)
  • Added API documentation, accessible through devhelp.
  • Fixed up libnotify.pc to support dependencies correctly. (Bug #58)
  • Fixed notify_uninit() to properly set _initted to FALSE after being called. (Bug #56)
]]> libgalago 0.5.1 released 2006-05-21T22:54:42Z 2006-05-21T22:48:58Z tag:www.galago-project.org,2006:/news//1.42 2006-05-21T22:48:58Z libgalago 0.5.1 has been released. This is mainly a very small maintenance release that fixes a memory leak and adds a German translation. The biggest change, though, is that we've moved from Doxygen to gtk-doc for the documentation. That means... chipx86 http://www.chipx86.com/ chipx86@chipx86.com News libgalago 0.5.1 has been released. This is mainly a very small maintenance release that fixes a memory leak and adds a German translation. The biggest change, though, is that we've moved from Doxygen to gtk-doc for the documentation. That means if you pass --with-gtk-doc to configure, you should have documentation appear in devhelp.

Release Notes:

  • Moved to gtk-doc for the documentation. It should now be compatible with devhelp.
  • Fixed a memory leak in connection registration. Patch by Ross Burton.
  • Added a German translation from Andreas Kohn (Bug #48)
]]> New desktop notification releases 2006-04-26T10:25:11Z 2006-04-26T10:20:56Z tag:www.galago-project.org,2006:/news//1.41 2006-04-26T10:20:56Z libnotify 0.4.0 and notification-daemon 0.3.5 have just been released. These contain a number of bug fixes and some feature enhancements. Most of the annoyances people have had are now taken care of. Along with this release is the first release... chipx86 http://www.chipx86.com/ chipx86@chipx86.com News libnotify 0.4.0 and notification-daemon 0.3.5 have just been released. These contain a number of bug fixes and some feature enhancements. Most of the annoyances people have had are now taken care of.

Along with this release is the first release of official python bindings. notify-python 0.1.0 is up. All those people rolling their own bindings should start migrating over to this. Please report any bugs you find.

One important thing to note is that notification-daemon 0.3.5 does not ship with a working Bubble theme. This theme has been the source of numerous bugs, and until some changes can be made, it's best that we simply leave it out. It may return in an upcoming version, though, once it gets the appropriate attention.

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]]> At long last, 0.5.0! 2006-04-21T09:27:57Z 2006-04-21T09:09:10Z tag:www.galago-project.org,2006:/news//1.40 2006-04-21T09:09:10Z It's been a long time since the last release, and a lot of work has been done during that time. Finally, after about 9 months, the new 0.5.0 releases of the Galago components are out! There have been a number... chipx86 http://www.chipx86.com/ chipx86@chipx86.com News It's been a long time since the last release, and a lot of work has been done during that time. Finally, after about 9 months, the new 0.5.0 releases of the Galago components are out! There have been a number of API changes made, stability improvements, memory leak fixes, Python bindings, a move to glib for libgalago, and on and on. There are so many changes that I can't list them all in this post. See the release note links below.

There was a casualty in this release. gnome-presence-applet has not been fully upgraded to work with the new releases. It is my intention that this applet will be either scrapped or rewritten to actually be useful to more people. Also, in time, there will be Deskbar support, so there's something to look forward to.

I want to thank Jorn Baayen and Ross Burton for all their contributions in the forms of bug reports, patches, and discussions, and Ricardo Kekki for his documentation contributions. I also want to thank the various people with whom I have bounced ideas around, those who have submitted bug reports, and everyone else for just being patient during this very long development cycle.

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]]> notification-daemon v0.3.4 released 2006-02-05T05:03:09Z 2006-02-05T04:37:16Z tag:www.galago-project.org,2006:/news//1.39 2006-02-05T04:37:16Z Notification-daemon v0.3.4 has just been released. This features some bug fixes and a number of stylistic improvements to the standard theme, as you can see: notification-daemon 0.3.4 Release Notes: Added a Close button to notifications. This closed ticket #8. Thanks... chipx86 http://www.chipx86.com/ chipx86@chipx86.com News Notification-daemon v0.3.4 has just been released. This features some bug fixes and a number of stylistic improvements to the standard theme, as you can see:

New urgency stripes Icons and actions
notification-daemon 0.3.4 Release Notes:
  • Added a Close button to notifications. This closed ticket #8. Thanks to Michael Vogt for the basis of this patch.
  • Fixed a few bugs (including crashes) involving the freeing of memory when notifications and theme enginers are destroyed.
  • Fixed the theme engines to be installed as unversioned libraries. Thanks to Rodney Dawes for this patch.
  • Fixed a bug where the notification window was not realized, causing a crash. This fixes bug #10.
  • Fixed a crash in the Bubble theme when clicking an action.
  • Fixed action ordering in the Bubble theme.
  • Made the destroy_notification, show_notification, hide_notification, and set_notification_hints theme engine functions optional.
  • Added set_notification_timeout and notification_tick theme engine functions.
  • Made several improvements to the Standard theme:
    • The left-hand color stripe has been made smaller and now reflects the urgency level set.
    • Added a pie-based countdown timer for notifications containing actions. This allows the user to see how long they have to react to a notification.
    • Converted the action links into buttons. These are now left-aligned and make a reasonable attempt to find an appropriate stock icon.
    • Allow the notification to be very short when no icons, body text or actions are specified.
]]> notification-daemon v0.3.3 released 2006-01-26T07:21:31Z 2006-01-26T07:16:14Z tag:www.galago-project.org,2006:/news//1.38 2006-01-26T07:16:14Z Another release of notification-daemon is out. This is a bug fix release, though a somewhat minor one. The one large change is that due to the placement of the notification-daemon binary on many distributions conflicting with the location of the... chipx86 http://www.chipx86.com/ chipx86@chipx86.com News Another release of notification-daemon is out. This is a bug fix release, though a somewhat minor one. The one large change is that due to the placement of the notification-daemon binary on many distributions conflicting with the location of the notification-daemon lib directory, we're renaming the lib directory. If you're packaging notification-daemon, it may be a good idea to update this :) It would make everyone's lives just a little bit easier.

notification-daemon 0.3.3 Release Notes:

  • Install and check for engines in $(libdir)/notification-daemon-1.0/engines, as opposed to $(libdir)/notification-daemon/engines.
  • Notifications no longer appear over full screen windows or screensavers.
  • When using icontheme icons, the icon with a size closest to 48x48 is used. If the icon is smaller than 48x48, the icon is left unscaled, but if it's larger, it's scaled down.
]]> Moving to Trac 2006-01-24T08:12:18Z 2006-01-24T08:07:36Z tag:www.galago-project.org,2006:/news//1.37 2006-01-24T08:07:36Z While Bugzilla has worked decently up until now, I've decided to move over to Trac for our bug tracking needs. This will require that we move existing bugs over, though I plan to keep track of both bug trackers for... chipx86 http://www.chipx86.com/ chipx86@chipx86.com News While Bugzilla has worked decently up until now, I've decided to move over to Trac for our bug tracking needs. This will require that we move existing bugs over, though I plan to keep track of both bug trackers for a while. That being said, please, please use the new one! :) The links on the sidebar have been updated to point to Trac.

]]> libnotify and notification-daemon 0.3.2 released 2006-01-23T09:59:54Z 2006-01-23T09:48:46Z tag:www.galago-project.org,2006:/news//1.36 2006-01-23T09:48:46Z Well, hello there. Yes, new versions of libnotify and notification-daemon have been released! A lot has happened in these releases, including Notification spec changes, themes, and a massive amount of bug fixes. Now, many have asked why there wasn't a... chipx86 http://www.chipx86.com/ chipx86@chipx86.com News Well, hello there. Yes, new versions of libnotify and notification-daemon have been released! A lot has happened in these releases, including Notification spec changes, themes, and a massive amount of bug fixes.

Now, many have asked why there wasn't a release announcement for the previous versions. After the release, it was clear that many people weren't happy with some of the changes made. A few changes have been reverted, and a number of improvements have been made. The previous release wasn't really ready for release, but 0.3.2 is, so go nuts!

libnotify 0.3.2 Release Notes:

  • Added back notify_get_server_info() and notify_get_server_caps().
  • Fixed to work with D-BUS 0.36 and higher. However, it's best to note that due to bugs in versions of the D-BUS GLib bindings before 0.60, raw image data cannot be sent in notifications. A warning will be outputted to the console.
  • Added assertions to all of the API functions so that invalid data passed won't crash the calling program.
  • Added automatic notification removal for non-expiring notifications and notifications with actions when the calling application closes.
  • Fixed issues where the header files couldn't always be included in some programs.
  • Fixed a lot of compiler errors and warnings.
  • Fixed C99 usage.
  • Added the ability to set user data on action callbacks on a per-action basis.
  • Fixed notify-send to work without crashing.
  • Fixed the library to send messages appropriate to the D-BUS specification.
  • Cleaned up the API a lot.
  • Renamed NOTIFY_TIMEOUT_* to NOTIFY_EXPIRES_*.
  • Removed notify_notification_show_and_forget().
  • Internal changes to remove the number of DBusGProxy connections, and make sure it's initialized before using any D-BUS GValue-related code. This fixes raw image sending.

notification-daemon 0.3.2 Release Notes:

  • Renamed the program back to notification-daemon.
  • Reverted the default look back to the notification-daemon 0.2.x look, but with improvements, such as flexible arrow positioning and cleaner action separators.
  • Updated to match the notification spec correctly.
  • Added the beginnings of theme support. The look from notification-daemon v0.3.1 can be set in a GConf key, though it is not yet fully functional.
  • Added back action support.
  • Added back support for D-BUS 0.36 and higher.
  • Added back the GetCapabilities and GetServerInformation calls.
  • Added back suppor for markup and hyperlinks in the new theme.
  • Fix several cases of C99 usage, and other compiler problems.
  • Fixed a bug where the desktop work area (the area excluding panels) wasn't being taken into consideration when positioning notifications.
  • Fixed several crash bugs.
]]> notification-daemon 0.2.4 released 2005-11-07T00:41:44Z 2005-11-07T00:40:40Z tag:www.galago-project.org,2005:/news//1.35 2005-11-07T00:40:40Z What? Another release already? Why yes! It seems we didn't actually have support for clicking hyperlinks! It's released now, so go grab it while it's still hot. Release Notes: Support clicking on hyperlinks.... chipx86 http://www.chipx86.com/ chipx86@chipx86.com News What? Another release already? Why yes! It seems we didn't actually have support for clicking hyperlinks! It's released now, so go grab it while it's still hot.

Release Notes:

  • Support clicking on hyperlinks.
]]> notification-daemon 0.2.3 released 2005-11-06T22:29:06Z 2005-11-06T22:17:42Z tag:www.galago-project.org,2005:/news//1.34 2005-11-06T22:17:42Z chipx86 http://www.chipx86.com/ chipx86@chipx86.com News Notification-daemon 0.2.3 has been released. This is a bugfix release that removes the built-in copy of the URL label and instead depends on libsexy for its URL label widget. The main fix is that < and > won't disappear in messages anymore.

Release Notes:

  • Depends on libsexy for the URL label.
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