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Thursday, January 19 2006 @ 04:31 PM EST
Contributed by: florian
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It took a little bit longer than expected, but now all important bits are in
place: GPE 2.7 is finished.
This is the first release of a new - more strictly defined -
type. Currently we maintain roadmap and release information in the
wiki page at http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/GPERoadmap.
It's not intended to have a competely fixed roadmap there, but it
should orient itself on the current and future requirements. We spent
many hours in this release and the result is a large number of
application and library improvements and bugfixes, as well as improved
documentation.
Read more about details...
So what do we have now:
* The new star among our applications: gpe-mini-browser.
* New GUI screenshot tool: gpe-screenshot
* Online help browser application: gpe-helpviewer
* OpenSync based synchronisation plugin (included in OpenSync).
* New applications ported to work with GPE: Gaim, GkDial
* A new library to handle contacts data, completing the PIM data abstraction layer.
* Improved import and export of PIM data using latest libmimedir.
* Many scalability improvements to make applications look better on various display sizes: gpe-contacts, gpe-sketchbook, gpe-timesheet, gpe-what, gpe-bluetooth, gpe-conf, gpe-mininet and others
* Some core applications now support the Maemo platform: gpe-todo, gpe-contacts, gpe-calendar and gpe-mini-browser
* Extended application functionality: gpe-calendar, gpe-conf, gpe-sketchbook, gpe-filemanager
* A basic roadmap document.
* Useful, though still incomplete, documentation: Library reference, development manual and user documentation.
* Broken applications start to become useful again. (gpe-timesheet, gpe-today)
* Many parts of GPE make use of autoconf/automake now.
* 974 CVS checkins since March 2005.
* A large number of fixed bugs... no i do not want to list all affected parts here :-)
What's next?
In a complex project like GPE there is always a lot of work to do. The most important things for 2.8 (from roadmap and mind) might be:
* Include a stable working audio player.
* Device status and configuration management framework.
* Online help support for all basic applications.
* A backup tool.
* Finish developer and user documentation.
* Improve support for various different devices and simplify adaption to these.
* Make synchronizing easier.
* Update the GPE website.
The GPE 2.8 release is planned for june 2006.
Have a good time and enjoy GPE!
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