Netlabs News

This page will be used to gather news about netlabs.org and it's projects.

If you are looking for the bi-weekly newsletter, please go here: Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter

24. July - 30. July

• FAT32 Driver now with Subversion Repository
  • The FAT32 driver source code can now be checked out via subversion
  • The subversion repository will be used in the future to coordinate the development
  • URL: http://svn.netlabs.org/fat32/browser/tags/release-0.9.11/src
• New XWP
  • XWorkplace 1.0.5 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:
    • http://xtracker.netlabs.org
  • From the xWorkplace User Guide and Reference:
  • 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
  • The OS/2 port of the Cairo Graphics Libraray was updated to Version 1.2.0
  • Download binary and test apps: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/Cairo/cairo-1.2.0-os2-dev.zip
  • Download source code: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/Cairo/cairo-1.2.0-os2-src-with-dependencies.zip
• PSI Port - Jabber Client for eCS and OS/2
  • See TRAC at http://svn.netlabs.org/qt3/ticket/25
  • Sample: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/misc/jabberos2.png
  • Alpha download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qt3/psi-0.10-os2-a1.zip

19. July - 23. July

• Lucide Beta 2
  • The Lucide document viewer was 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
  • Beta 2 of the GBM Plug-In for Lucide was released
  • Download: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=gbmos2plugins_lu100_moz100_bin
  • Homepage: http://heikon.home.tlink.de
• 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)

Guidelines for mail gathering and bi-weekly processing

This is intended to be a procedure on how to create the bi-weekly newsletter, so that multiple people are able to do it, in case others are away.

The news is gathered on a weekly basis. Sources for news are various. We know the following:

• #netlabs channel, just connect and see what comes by
• http://news.netlabs.org/
• various SVN timelines for the projects that are already in SVN (needs to be listed explicitly?)

There is a mail id on netlabs for mailing out the newsletter to various contacts. The mail id is: news at netlabs dot org It uses the following IMAP mailserver: mail dot netlabs dot org

For the start of a new newsletter a copy from the previous one can be made and then copy the new news into it, to make life easy :-) The easiest way to get the text is grabbing it from the webpage in normal view mode. Check the text a second time, and align it a bit. Address it with BCC to the following addresses:

• martin at os2world dot com
• stevew at hartnell dot cc dot ca dot us
• submit at os2voice dot org
• webmaster at ecomstation dot com
• webredactie at os2-gg dot nl
• ktk at netlabs dot org
• j dot van dot der dot heide at hccnet dot nl
• os2info at gmx dot net

Don't forget the subject line with the next number and of it goes.

After the newsletter is sent the 'Netlabs bi-weekly newsletter' webpage has to be updated. (http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter). Just copy the news on top of the others and add a heading.

Then the draft version of the bi-weekly page can be emptied and the heading for the next week can be added.

That is basicly the process of the bi-weekly newsletter.