Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 21:58:06 -0600
From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>
To: gnome-list@gnome.org, gnome-announce-list@gnome.org
Subject: Skillful and Conspicuous Cow release of GNOME is out.



Hello Hackers, users and Kwydgibos of the world.

   The GNOME team has finished packaging the "Skillful and Conspicuous
Cow" release of Gnome (labeled 0.99.7 for the number-version-loving
people).  This is a deviation from our Ape-based naming scheme, and
now we enter a bovine period.

   You can fetch Conspicuous Cow from:

	ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/latest

   Also, remember that we provide patches to all of those modules in 
the ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/PACKAGENAME/

   As usual, there are not RPMs or Deb of Conspicuous Cow, so you need
to get the sources of the Cow and compile them.  

   One of the new cool features in Conspicuous Cow is the gnome-bug
script (in the gnome-libs package), which will enable people to
quickly report bugs to our bug tracking system (at http://bugs.gnome.org). 

   Here is a list of the changes in Conspicuous Cow:

* Gnome libs changes:

	* New gnome-bug script to report bugs to the GNOME bug
	  tracking system (Jeff)

	* Use Tigert's images for the message boxes.

	* Improved documentation, we are now using the gtk-doc 
	  setup for documenting GNOME.  You do not need gtk-doc
	  if you use the tarball, you only need gtk-doc if you work
	  with the CVS stuff.

	* Updated mime information in GNOME.

	* Various portability fixed that people reported.

	* Zvt widget should have the space people requested.

	* Zvt got support for wordclass selection (we only need to
	  add support in gnome-terminal for this in the future).
	  (Michael).

	* Bug fixes (all of us).

	* Dock updates (Ettore, Jaka)

* Gnome core changes:
	
	* GMenu bug fixes (Nat).

	* gnome-edit is now a program and not a script (Chris)

	* Fixes to the multi-load applets (Federico)

	* Memory leak fixes to pager applet (most of the leaks
	  are in GTK+ though, the next GTK+ version will address
	  those leaks).
	
	* Battery monitor support for Linux got updated and
	  rewritten (Nat).

	* Mixer applet no longer flickers (Jonathan).

	* GKB got updated again.

	* Mini commander updates.

	* gnome-terminal support button-3 to popup a menu if the
	  application does not use it;  Only one preference window is
	  open at once (Taylor); 

	* Panel geometry and WM compliance updates (George, Raster)

* Gnome Games:

	* New game: Gnibbles (Sean and Ian).

	* Aisleriot supports piramid-like games (Seanster and
	  Jonathan)

	* GTuring installs the .tur demo files (Arturo).

* Gnome Network:

	* GnomePPP face lift (Jay)

	* Gnometalk should work on pretty much every OS around

* Gnome Pim:

	* Address book bug fixes and some documentation (Arturo).

Enjoy,
Miguel.


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