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News from netlabs.org

Newsletter #15

07. - 13. August

31. July - 06. August

  • XWP
    • The German NLS package for version 1.0.5 is available.
    • The NLS package can now be installed from the main XWorkplace package as well, if they reside in the same directory.
    • Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/xworkplace/nls
  • GBM Plugin Version 1.10 for Lucide
    • Save bitmaps in any format supported by GBM (works only for one page bitmaps and requires the latest Lucide beta)
    • Now supports dynamic lookup of GBM.DLL. Either via LIBPATH or look into the directory where lugbm.dll is located.
    • GBM Homepage: http://heikon.home.tlink.de/

Newsletter #14

24. July - 30. July

  • Voyager news
  • FAT32 Driver now with Subversion Repository
  • XWorkPlace 1.0.5
    • The new 1.0.5 version has been released. This fixes a load of bugs and adds a few small enhancements. You can find it in the usual places on Netlabs and Hobbes:
    • ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/xworkplace/xwp-1-0-5.exe
    • http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/xwp-1-0-5.zip moving to http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/wps/xworkplace/xwp-1-0-5.zip
    • Please report *reproducible* bugs on the bugtracker at:
    • Bugfixes:
      • Tidied up the Recovery Choices options on the Desktop Properties Archives tab. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Double clicking the XCenter Date/Time widgets brought up the System Clock first rather than the eCS Clock in eCS. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • The tooltip for the XCenter Date widget now has the time rather than the date as the tooltip text. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Split view folder status bars now update correctly when selecting/deselecting objects. Bug 326. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Cured cosmetic problems when resizing the panes of a split view folder. Bug 228. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Corrected missing objects during installation. Bug 695. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Fixed Association problem when Turbo Folders/Extended Associations were enabled. Bug 14. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Fixed missing WPS file filters during first import with Turbo Folders/Extended Associations. Bug 399. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Fixed XPager virtual desktop switching on top/bottom borders. Bug 406. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Fixed exporting of Extended Associations. Bug 702. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Fixed WarpCenter stuck in XCenter's Window List widget. Bug 11. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Fixed partially broken Undo in XWP Setup notebook, Features tab. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • NLS Settings are now correctly fetched from the Country object on W4 FP13+ systems. Bug 614 again. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Fixed Default and Undo on Folder Views tab of Workplace Shell object. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Fixed traps when XFldDisk class was not registered. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
      • Fixed broken Bitmap display in Light Table folders. Bug 371. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.
    • New Features:
      • NLS packages are now detected during install. Bug 686. Implemented by Christian Hennecke.
      • XWP has some updated icons courtesy of David Graser.
      • ACPI power-off option is now available with XShutdown. Implemented by Paul Ratcliffe.
  • Cairo Graphics Library Version 1.2.0
  • PSI Port - Jabber Client for eCS and OS/2

19. July - 23. July

  • Lucide Beta 2
    • The Lucide document viewer is updated to Beta 2
    • It is available through the eComStation Beta Zone, after login at http://www.ecomstation.com/
  • GBM Plug-In for Lucide Version 1.00 Beta 2
  • GenMac Trap solution
    • If it traps as before, please add this to the GenMac Wrapper section in protocol.ini:
      • DebugLevel = "NONE"
      • Options = "STACK32"
    • That is most likely the fix
    • This seems to happen with Intel 2200 chipsets, for instance.
    • It will be solved in the upcoming 1.7 release (no release date set yet)

Newsletter #13

10. July - 18. July

03. July - 09. July

Newsletter #12

26. June - 02. July

  • Lucide Plug-In based on GBM
    • Heiko Nitzsche has created a Plug-In for Lucide that can handle a large number of bitmap formats
    • The Plug-In is, just as Lucide, still a beta version
    • URL: http://heikon.home.tlink.de/

19. June - 25. June

Newsletter #11

12. June - 18. June

5. June - 11. June

  • Lucide Beta 1 released
    • One goal of Lucide is to have a fast document viewer which is well integrated into the eComStation WPS and supports features like drag and drop, printing and which makes it as easy as possible to work with PDF and other filetypes on eComStation.

Newsletter #10

29. May - 4. June

22. - 28. May

Newsletter #9

15. - 21. May

08. - 14. May

Newsletter #8

01. - 07. May

24. - 30. April

Newsletter #7

17. - 23. April

10. - 16. April

Newsletter #6

03. - 09. April

27. - 31. March / 01. - 02. April

Newsletter #5

Participation

As netlabs.org is mainly about open source projects, it is depending on participation of many people. This can be in different areas as everybody has different skills and interests.

  • How can you participate
    • Contribute to the NikiWiki
      • Visit our netlabs.org Wiki at http://wiki.netlabs.org and add your ideas and thoughts.
      • Revise existing articles and enhance them.
    • Contribute to EDM/2
      • As a developer you can add or extend articles at http://www.edm2.com.
      • Translate articles in other languages or correct them.
      • Support developers in jobs they do not like :-)
    • Organize new projects
      • If you have an idea for a new project try to find support for the idea in usergroups or with friends.
      • Talk to us about how we can support you as well.
    • netlabs.org community
      • Subscribe to the community@netlabs.org mailinglist (see NikiWiki for more details).
      • Discuss your thoughts and ideas with the whole netlabs.org community.

20. - 26. March

13. - 19. March

Newsletter #4

06. - 12. March

  • QT3 Library News
  • Updates to LibC
  • netlabs.org Wintercamp 2006
    • See: http://about.netlabs.org/?detailcontentregions_id=2
    • The yearly Wintercamp took place. As usual it was a week of great snowboarding and skiing, coding and talking about upcoming software projects
    • Voyager was one of the main topics of this Wintercamp. Details of the discussion will be presented at Developers Workshop 2006
    • There was plenty of snow in the Swiss alps :)

27. - 28. February and 01. - 05. March

Newsletter #3

20. - 26. February

13. - 19. February

Newsletter #2

06. - 12. February

30. - 31. January and 01. - 05. February

Newsletter #1

Although many OS/2 and eCS users worldwide know the existence of and the concept behind netlabs.org already for years. It still is surprising that a large group of people don't know what is going on or where to find things.

That is why some people, close to netlabs.org, decided to gather netlabs.org news and start to distribute that in a bi-weekly electronic newsletter. To share the news and make it easier for everybody to stay updated and always get the latest greatest open source OS/2 and eCS software!

This is the first newsletter, so please feel free to react and comment about it (see below). We are still in the phase of setting it up and are open for suggestions. Like we are not sure yet if people can subscribe to it themselves as well.

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The page states that VAT has to be paid as well, this is *not* the case for the sponsoring units, netlabs.org gets the full amount you donate!

Thanks for your support!


Here is the news for January 16th - 29th 2006

23. - 29. January

16. - 22. January

  • Updates for GenMac are being prepared
    • when this update will be released is not yet clear!
    • HotPlug will be supported as this is important for proper PCCard (note, NOT PCMCIA!!) and USB support
    • WPA support for the WLAN cards is in the works
    • See http://wlan.netlabs.org
  • New version of Doodle's Screen Saver (version 1.51)
  • Fat32 driver version 0.9.11 now available as WPI package
    • Fixed non-recognition problem of USB removable drive change.
    • Fixed "free space" problem.
    • Fixed some minor warnings such as "non used variable" on compilation.
    • Fixed the problem that CACHEF32 cannot call "chkdsk.com" if a different drive is not a boot drive.
    • See http://fat32.netlabs.org/?show=download
  • QT3 Library News
    • the current version of the QT library for OS/2 is 3.3.1 RC-06
    • it is available from the netlabs.org FTP server (ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qt3/)
    • the current version has some limitations, like missing implementation of QProcess or QSound classes
    • this will be fixed in the next release
    • the next step will be 3.3.1 RC-07
    • you can track the development via the Trac timeline of Qt3 (http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3/timeline)
    • if you have ported applications to OS/2 or eCS with this library, please let us know!
    • See: http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3
  • OS/2 and eComStation Developers Workshop 2006
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