Date:  Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:48:20 -0500
From:  madodel <madodel at ptdprolog.net>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] Neet: netlabs.org newsletter #26 [Netlabs.org, developer Workshop 2007, EDM/2, QT3, XworkPlace, NewView, WarpVision, Uniaudio, otehrs]

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From: Netlabs News <newsDESPAM at DESPAMnetlabs.org>

This is the latest edition of the bi-weekly netlabs.org newsletter. The 
newsletter can be read on the web at the following URL:
http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter

News from netlabs.org:

8. January - 14 January

* netlabs.org server news
   o Server configuration is going well
   o Initial TRAC & Subversion tests performed successfully (among other 
things)
   o Anonymous FTP is working as well
   o All data is copied
   o Setup of new CMS is done, right now we are configuring it
   o We hope to be ready with an initial release mid-week so we can switch 
the servers!
* Developer Workshop 2007
   o Is going to be held in the Netherlands on June 23 & 24.
   o Location: Cultural Center Griffioen in Amsterdam
   o See: 
http://www.vu.nl/Organisatie/index.cfm/home_subsection.cfm/subsectionid/9DB86C70-F9C7-4704-8C9D9ED46EEDB063
   o Watch the wiki page for upcoming news: 
http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Developers_Workshop_2007
* EDM2 Updates
   o Lots of small updates by Martin Iturbide on the EDM2 wiki
   o See: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Special:Recentchanges
* New QT3 Applications
   o KDIFF3 0.9.91
     + KDiff3 is a program that:
     + Compares or merges two or three text input files or directories,
     + Shows the differences line by line and character by character (!),
     + Provides an automatic merge-facility,
     + An integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts,
     + Supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other codecs, autodetection via 
byte-order-mark "BOM"
     + Supports KIO on KDE (allows accessing ftp, sftp, fish, smb etc.),
     + Printing of differences,
     + Manual alignment of lines,
     + Automatic merging of version control history ($Log$),
     + And has an intuitive graphical user interface.
     + See: http://smedley.info/os2ports
   o QDVDAuthor 0.1.4
     + Get details from: http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/
     + Get download from: http://smedley.info/os2ports
* XWorkPlace Version 1.0.7
   o Fixed: Window List size/position (Bug 903)
   o Fixed: Bug 902 and 910
   o Added: ADDWIDGETS and DELETEWIDGETS setup strings to the XCenter (Bug 906)
   o Bug Tracker: http://xtracker.netlabs.org/
   o Download: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=XWP-1-0-7
* PathRewrite
   o Is an addition to LibC to give the opportunity to redirect UNIX paths 
to paths you define yourself.
   o Temp Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/ecsprw.wpi
* Canabis
   o EXPAT/77 added to build instructions
   o XML support added
   o Several improvements
   o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/canabis/timeline
* FM/2
   o Ticket 60 and 61 fixed
   o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline
* kBuild
   o Some fixes
   o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline
* kLIBC
   o Some fixes (I/O bugs, signals)
   o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
* NewView
   o Various updates
   o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview/timeline
* UniAud
   o updates from ALSA tree
* WarpVision
   o Recording fixed. Press R while a TV program is opened with TVIN
     + TODO:
       # 1. Add setup for output format to WVGUI config
       # 2. Add timer based recording start (start-stop time-date, source 
selection etc)
       # 3. Record from other sources than TV
       # 4. Fix sound glitches
   o DVD Menu investigations: start to porting private2 streams (menu 
subpictures) from other projects than MPlayer (Mplayer helpless with that)

1. January - 7 January

* UniAudio
   o latest ALSA tree updates
* WarpVision
   o Fixed OGG/MKV/MOV embedded subtitles
   o DVD Menu experiments & investigations
* kBuild
   o Various small updates
   o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline
* kLIBC
   o Fixed build breaks
   o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
* Lucide Updates
   o Unicode clipboard fixes
   o Work on loading password protected PDFs
   o http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline
* NewView Updates
   o Various small updates
   o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview/timeline
* Voyager
   o Quite a few code checkins in the NOM and desktop trees. New screenshot.
   o Updates to the Object Design document (PDF)


Netlabs.org relies on your support as well, we hire developers to have 
better progress on projects. For sure this costs money so any sponsoring is 
very welcome! You can support netlabs.org via netlabs.org sponsoring units:
http://www.mensys.net/NETLABS/

Thanks for your support!

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netlabs.org team







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