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Clutter 1.3.6 - developers snapshot

30.06.2010 17:30 good news, everyone! here's to you the third 1.3 developers snapshot of Clutter. Download Clutter 1.3.4 is now available for download at: A mirror is also available here: SHA256 Checksums: 3231606fa77b4c73a1892aa6715c17eefffddb510d24df7c9e2a464b53fd438e clutter-1.3.6.tar.gz bb5547741ca66bce34771d1a1abb3d5921a5c070e303a372051d172b52835bd5 clutter-1.3.6.tar.bz2 Clutter is an open source software library for creating portable, fast, compelling and dynamic graphical user interfaces. Clutter is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1. Requirements GLib >= 2.18.0 Cairo >= 1.6 Pango >= 1.20 Atk >= 1.7 OpenGL >= 1.2 + multi-texturing, OpenGL|ES 1.1 or OpenGL|ES 2.0 GLX, WGL, Quartz or an EGL Implementation Depending on the platform and the configuration options Clutter also depends on: GDK-Pixbuf >= 2.0 JSON-GLib >= 0.10 Release Notes This is the third developers snapshot of the 1.3 cycle. Given the changes occurred in the Cogl material implementation, there can be issues and breakage with existing code; some of these issues are known, and we're working towards fixing them. This version is API and ABI compatible with the current stable release of Clutter. Installing the contents of this release will overwrite the files from the installation of the current stable release of Clutter. Bugs should be reported on . What's new in Clutter 1.3.6 List of changes since Clutter 1.3.4 Provide a fallback on GLX if the MESA_copy_sub_buffer extension is not available, by using EXT_framebuffer_blit. Both mechanisms are also throttled to avoid taking all resources when using them in a compositor like Mutter. Use fragment shaders instead of texture combiners inside Cogl materials. Cogl will automatically fall back from GLSL to ARBfp to fixed functions depending on the level of support of the underlying GL implementation. Implement a new design for materials; this allows scaling up the number of materials in a scene, and also makes copying materials less expensive. Make Cogl materials responsible for depth testing, and add new experimental API. Use the GLU tesselator to draw paths to a vertex buffer object instead of using the stencil buffer, or the scanline rasterizer on platforms without a stencil buffer. Add ClutterDeformEffect, a base class for effects that deform an actor's geometry when painting it; ClutterPageTurnEffect is an implementation of a "page curl" deformation using the DeformEffect API. Always use scissoring when clipping, to reduce the amount of buffer that has to be cleared. Allow ClutterShaderEffect sub-classes to use vertex shaders by setting a constructor property; the default remains fragment shader. Remove the button of the press event from the DragAction::drag-begin and DragAction::drag-end signals. This is an API break from 1.3.4. Do not promote clipped redraws to full redraws. Improve the consistency of the default state name in ClutterState, both in the API and in the serialization format. Fix a rounding error with the Text layout size. Add utility functions for CoglMatrix and CoglColor. Avoid a re-allocation cycle warning when resizing the surface of a CairoTexture actor from within the allocate implementation. Do not add the GL libraries for the EGL X11 backend. Add more checks for size of data passed to the shader types GValue functions. Add width and height to the BindConstraint. Parse actions, constraints and effects inside an actor definition for ClutterScript. Merge the code of native and x11 backends for EGL into a single backend; also allow creating GL context with the EGL backend. Use XSETTINGS to set up the backend configuration options, like the font name, resolution, font options and double click options, on X11; this also allows ClutterText actors created using the default font name to be updated when the font name and options change; similarly, this allows ClutterUnits to be updated when the screen resolution changes. Implement the texture_from_pixmap extension support inside Cogl itself, and unify ClutterX11TexturePixmap and ClutterGLXTexturePixmap. Documentation improvements in the API reference and in the cookbook. Use the -Bsymbolic-functions linker option on supported platforms to avoid intra-library PLT jumps. Fix painting transparent stages on X11 using the :use-alpha property of ClutterStage. Fix emission of scroll events on Windows. Many thanks to: Robert Bragg Neil Roberts Øyvind Kolås Damien Lespiau Elliot Smith Chris Lord Johan Bilien Richard Hughes Adel Gadllah Alejandro Piñeiro Colin Walters Dan Winship Kristian Høgsberg Sunil Sadasivan Have fun with Clutter!

Upcoming GNOME Foundation IRC Meeting: July 10th

30.06.2010 17:30  It’s been a few months since our last Foundation IRC meeting and we’ve scheduled our next meeting: When: Saturday, July 10th, from 14:00 to 15:00 UTC Where: irc.gnome.org #foundation Please add topics you would like to see discussed to  . These topics will automatically appear on the meeting page at  . The meeting minutes from our last meeting are available at  . See you there!

GNOME 2.31.4 unstable tarballs due

26.06.2010 12:45 Hello all, The release of GNOME 2.31.4 is planned for next Wednesday, isn't this wonderful? To make sure it happens, tarballs are due on 2010-06-28 before 23:59 UTC, so the GNOME 2.31.4 unstable release can happen on due date. Modules which were proposed for inclusion should try to follow the unstable schedule so everyone can test them. Please make sure that your tarballs will be uploaded before Monday 23:59 UTC: tarballs uploaded later than that will probably be too late to get in 2.31.4. If you are not able to make a tarball before this deadline or if you think you'll be late, please send a mail to the release team and we'll find someone to roll the tarball for you! For more information about 2.31, the full schedule, the official module lists and the proposed module lists, please see our colorful 2.31 page: http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable For a quick overview of the GNOME schedule, please see: http://live.gnome.org/Schedule Cheers, Frederic

Re: GNOME Speaker Guidelines

25.06.2010 17:15 I doubt that. However, you should assume some goodwill. The guidelines are vague because we cannot specify in exact detail everything that would offend somebody, and we don't want to become lawyers that spend their time interpreting precise rules, and because that just shouldn't be necessary. It's a simple request to consider peoples' feelings a bit. You are fully capable of doing that. I don't think they do. And leaving your country to escape actual punishment is hardly comparable to adjusting the text of your speech.

Meeting Minutes Published - June 10, 2010

24.06.2010 18:30 The meeting minutes for the June 10th GNOME Foundation board meeting is now published. Refer here: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20100610 Other past board meetings are archived here: http://live.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes

GNOME Speaker Guidelines

24.06.2010 18:30 Several months ago, people raised the issues of some inappropriate comments made during various talks. The board worked on resolving those issues, and then proposed the creation of guidelines to have better ways to limit such inappropriate comments, as well as to answer similar issues that would be raised in the future. The result is a document listing a set of guidelines to help speakers avoid offending the audience, in order to have the talks enjoyed by as many people as possible: We would like to encourage everybody who will deliver a talk at a GNOME event, or who will represent GNOME with a GNOME talk at other events, to go read those guidelines! Many thanks to for his initial work on this, and to the community for the sent after we’ve published a draft of this document.

GNOME Speaker Guidelines

24.06.2010 18:30 Hi, Several months ago, people raised the issues of some inappropriate comments made during various talks. The board worked on resolving those issues, and then proposed the creation of guidelines to have better ways to limit such inappropriate comments, as well as to answer similar issues that would be raised in the future. The result is a document listing a set of guidelines to help speakers avoid offending the audience, in order to have the talks enjoyed by as many people as possible: http://live.gnome.org/CodeOfConduct/SpeakerGuidelines We would like to encourage everybody who will deliver at a talk at a GNOME event, or who will represent GNOME with a GNOME talk at other events, to go read those guidelines! Many thanks to Matthew Garrett for his initial work on this, and to the community for the feedback sent after we've published a draft of this document. Thanks, Vincent

GNOME 2.30.2 released!

24.06.2010 02:15 ================================================================== GNOME 2.30.2 Stable Release ================================================================== This is the second and last update to GNOME 2.30. It contains many fixes for important bugs that directly affect our users, documentation updates and also a large number of updated translations. Many thanks to all the contributors who worked hard on delivering those changes in time. We hope it will help people feel better in their daily use of computers! Meanwhile, the GNOME community is actively working on the development branch of GNOME that will lead to the 3.0 release in September 2010! The GNOME 2.30 release notes are available at: http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.30/ The notes that describe the changes between 2.30.1 and 2.30.2 are here: admin - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.30/2.30.2/NEWS bindings - http://download.gnome.org//bindings/2.30/2.30.2/NEWS desktop - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.30/2.30.2/NEWS devtools - http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.30/2.30.2/NEWS mobile - http://download.gnome.org/mobile/2.30/2.30.2/NEWS platform - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.30/2.30.2/NEWS The GNOME 2.30.2 release is available here: admin sources - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.30/2.30.2/ bindings sources - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.30/2.30.2/ desktop sources - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.30/2.30.2/ devtools sources - http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.30/2.30.2/ mobile sources - http://download.gnome.org/mobile/2.30/2.30.2/ platform sources - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.30/2.30.2/ To compile GNOME 2.30.2, you can the jhbuild modulesets : http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/ http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.30.2/ We hope you'll love it, The GNOME Release Team

GIMP 2.6.9 Released

23.06.2010 23:00  It's been a while since the last release. Quite a few bug-fixes have piled up in the stable branch, so here's another release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series. Please have a look at the file for a detailed list of changes. The source can be downloaded from . Binary packages for various supported platforms should become available soon; please check the section.

GNOME 3.0 Tasks Planning session – tomorrow!

23.06.2010 23:00 The GNOME Documentation Team is . We will be discussing which topics should be added to the new desktop help for GNOME 3.0 over the next few weeks. If you’ve ever wanted to get involved in writing documentation, now is a great time to come learn and help out.  With the shift to topic based help, you can learn to write small articles on a specific topic using Mallard, the new XML schema for GNOME help which is very easy to learn. See you there!

GNOME Foundation Board Elections Spring 2010 - Final Results

23.06.2010 19:45 Dear Foundation Members, On 16.06.2010 01:57, Tobias Mueller wrote: The results were not challenged so the following people will be in the Board: Brian Cameron Emily Chen Paul Cutler Og Maciel Germán Póo-Caamaño Andreas Nilsson Bastien Nocera Cheers, Tobias Mueller For the GNOME Foundation Membership Elections Committee _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list foundation-announce< at >gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce

Clutter mailing lists migration

23.06.2010 19:45 hi everyone; the last piece of the migration puzzle finally fell into place; we now have new mailing lists for Clutter, hosted at: the new lists are: : a mailing list for announcement regarding Clutter, its integration libraries, its bindings and all projects related to Clutter; announcements can come from the Clutter Development Team but we invite the community to use it to let people know of new projects using Clutter. the list is moderated, and it should only be used for announcements. if you are subscribed to the mailing list then you'll be automatically subscribed. : a mailing list for application development with Clutter. if you are subscribed to the mailing list then you'll be automatically subscribed. : a mailing list for discussing the development of Clutter itself . the old clutter@o-hand.com mailing list will be closed; I will put a copy of the archives on the new website, for historical purposes.

Issue 89

21.06.2010 15:45 This week… 2299 commits, in 199 projects, by 257 happy hackers . This week again a few modules were ported to gsettings, this is the case for GNOME Shell, Brasero, Empathy and the GNOME Bluetooth nautilus-sendto plugin. girparser, from gobject-introspection, got support for an introspectable=no attribute, to replace the hackish pre-filter for varargs with a much more generic mechanism . Robert Ancell made dconf-editor understand and display configuration schemas. Jonh Wendell added the possibility to specifiy an alternative ssh port when doing tunnels in Vinagre . Matthias Clasen ported accounts-dialog to be a control-center panel, this is done in the control-center-panel branch. Maxim Ermilov added animated display of startup notifications to GNOME Shell . Totem has been ported to the new libpeas for plugin handling . Garrett Regier added support for gobject introspection to gedit F-Spot has been switched to use bilinear scaling for thumbnails . Stef Walter fixed a deadlock on secure memory usage in gnome-keyring. Around the Summer of Code projects, Stéphane Maniaci added a basic flickr fetcher to ease, to grab pictures from flickr, Luca Invernizzi added a new two-way synchronization engine to Getting Things GNOME, Alexander Saprykin implemented GIO async read/write support to his totem chapter plugin, and other students also did much work… Top projects Project Commits tracker 201 gtk+ 100 f-spot 93 memprof 79 glib 78 gdm 71 gnumeric 65 empathy 63 jhbuild 56 anjuta 55 Top authors Author Commits Modules Aleksander Morgado 75 tracker Holger Hans Peter Freyther 68 memprof Fran Diéguez 66 evolution, orca, gnome-control-center and others Bastien Nocera 62 totem, gnome-bluetooth, gnome-desktop and others Ruben Vermeersch 57 f-spot Matthias Clasen 56 glib, accounts-dialog, gtk+ and others Murray Cumming 52 glom, gtkmm, libgda and others Jürg Billeter 51 tracker, vala, libgee and others Jorge González 47 vinagre, eog, gbrainy and others Guillaume Desmottes 45 empathy, vino, jhbuild

New website!

19.06.2010 15:00 hi everyone! as you can see, there have been some changes in the look of clutter-project.org. first of all: new graphics, including a snappy new logo for the whole project. then, we also added a new . the Clutter and have been moved from the old o-hand.com addresses. we're still in the process of fixing all the various kinks, so bear with us while we kick the tires. have fun!

Clutter 1.3.4 - developers snapshot

19.06.2010 15:00 hi everyone; here's to you the second 1.3 developers snapshot of Clutter, in time for GNOME 2.31.3. Download Clutter 1.3.4 is now available for download at: A mirror is also available here: SHA256 Checksums: 935b4bdf6e8c0a649da6f267d67c22cec35f36d482f1c7b113ecc6bfcb905732 clutter-1.3.4.tar.gz 955d1b56f68fcfaede1f1268d5923694740322fd4eb782c57080113885dbd10e clutter-1.3.4.tar.bz2 Clutter is an open source software library for creating portable, fast, compelling and dynamic graphical user interfaces. Clutter is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1. Requirements GLib >= 2.18.0 Cairo >= 1.6 Pango >= 1.20 Atk >= 1.7 OpenGL >= 1.2 + multi-texturing, OpenGL|ES 1.1 or OpenGL|ES 2.0 GLX, WGL, Quartz or an EGL Implementation Depending on the platform and the configuration options Clutter also depends on: GDK-Pixbuf >= 2.0 JSON-GLib >= 0.8 Release Notes This is the second developers snapshot of the 1.3 cycle This version is API and ABI compatible with the current stable release of Clutter Installing the contents of this release will overwrite the files from the installation of the current stable release of Clutter Bugs should be reported What's new in Clutter 1.3.4 List of changes since Clutter 1.3.2 Add a ClutterActorMeta sub-class that affects the way an actor paints itself. Clutter provides for effects painting to an offscreen buffer, and for effects using the GL programmable pipeline . Clutter also provides some simple, shader-based effects: , and . Effects can be applied to any actor, and can also be stacked. Add , an action that provides "button-like" semantics for any ClutterActor. now moves the actor to which it has been applied by default, using a class handler for the ::drag-motion signal. Add the :pick-with-alpha property to ; this property allows using the alpha channel of a texture when picking it. Regenerate the mipmaps on COGL textures when a texture is modified. Documentation and build fixes. Many thanks to: Robert Bragg Damien Lespiau Neil Roberts Colin Walters Have fun with Clutter!