[Synaptic-devel] New release 0.44

[Michael Vogt]

Hi,


I'm happy to announce synaptic 0.44 today. It took longer than it
should, but the 40G harddisk in my machine died at sunday :( 

The biggest thing in this release is a importend bugfix in the package
tree internal handling that caused segfaults and the interactive
search. The interactive search lets you type in a
charackter/pkgname and it will immediatly jump to the first package
with that name that is found in the current filter. Sometimes (if a
tab needs to be expanded and there are lots of entries in this tab)
this is slow, but that's the fault of the GtkTreeView. With Gtk 2.4
(expected in November, see www.gtk.org/plan/2.4) we will hopefully see
a _big_ speed improvement here [1] that make the interactive search even
more fun to use :) 

Many thanks to all of you who tested, translated, improved and send
feedback! 

Here are the NEWS:
 - two alternative main layouts can be choosen now
 - "clean cache now" implemented" in preferences window
 - the search entry in the main window is interactive again
 - much improved preferences dialog (thanks to Sebastian Heinlein)
 - new italian translation (thanks  Mauro Colorio and  Luigi Maselli)
 - updated spanish translation (thanks Fco. Javier Fernandez)
 - updated russian translation (thanks  Sviatoslav Sviridov)
 - new belarussian translation (thanks Vital Khilko)
 - updated chinese translation (thanks liu jack)
 - improved main window design (thanks Sebastian Heinlein)
 - added "rpm-dir" repository support (thanks Panu)
 - prepeared a lot of strings for better i18n (thanks Jean-Michel POURE)

As usual feedback is welcome :)

You can get it at the usual place at
http://savannah.nongnu.org/files/?group=synaptic

bye,
 Michael



[1] See: http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80868
    The patch is not in the gtk cvs yet and that slightly worries
    me. Write to your congressman if you want this patch in ;)