Hot on the heels of version 4.0.4, Java-Gnome 4.0.5 has been released!
The biggest item of note in 4.0.5 is coverage of GTK’s TreeModel and TreeView APIs. Other items of note include improvements to image handling and additional signals and methods on Widget and Window.
Interestingly, there has been a new class org.gnome.screenshot.ScreenShot added which allow a [...]
The last beta release of Fedora 8, Test 3 or version 7.92 was released on Thursday the 4th. This release includes a few new features to the Fedora 8 release including “Online Desktop” preview via BigBoard, inclusion of Codec Buddy which is intended to help people find audio and video codecs which cannot be [...]
Although the 2.x steam from java-gnome has been abandoned and deprecated for a year now and yet Fedora which is supposed to be on on cutting edge with respect to distribution of new packages has yet to upgrade to the latest java-gnome stream; namely 4.0.4. There has been a bug filled (Bug 242335: RFE: [...]
A new release of java-gnome was released on September 26th. As you can see in the release NEWS file the major improvements with this latest version is improved documentation, an increased API coverage and internal refactoring. In particular there has been an increase in the coverage of the Menus, Toolbars and Actions. [...]
It appears that we are on the verge of seeing a new Internet Tablet device from Nokia according to recent FCC filling.
Thoughtfix who broke the story has a little bit more info as well. With an FCC confidentialily of 45 days, we should soon find out more information on this interesting development. Currently [...]
Gnome 2.20 the latest version of the popular Linux desktop environment was released today.
GNOME 2.20 Release Notes
Although there is nothing in particular in this release that cries out to me to upgrade immediately, there are definitely some nice improvements such as improvement to gnome-keyring, evince offering interactive PDF forms, performance improvements and improved power management [...]
Last Thursday Fedora 8 Test 2Â (aka F8T2 aka 7.91) was released.
Included in the test is the defaulting of PulseAudio as the sound system as well as disabling X Font Service (xfs) by default.
Fedora 8 which is scheduled to be released in early November is slated to include Gnome 2.20, Eclipse 3.3, rsyslog as a [...]
After writing my last java-gnome post, I decided to look a bit deeper and quickly noticed that the java-gnome bindings in the Fedora 7 repository are in fact version 2.12 and not the latest version 4.0.3. Version 2.12 is no longer being supported and maintained and it fact only covers GTK up to version [...]
1) Install java-gnome
On a Fedora 7 system : run “yum install libgnome-java” which will bring in glib-java, libgtk-java and perhaps cairo-java packages.
2) In Eclipse create a new Java project.
3) Add the java-gnome jar files to the project (on Fedora 7 these are gtk2.8.jar, glib0.2.jar and gnome2.12.jar in the /usr/share/java directory). Note that in this [...]
