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Gnome Specimen 0.2 is out!
Monday, June 4, 2007 ★ 14:06 ★ Category Gnome
Note: Gnome Specimen 0.3 is available as well.
I proudly present Gnome Specimen 0.2, your favourite tool for previewing and comparing fonts. It has been a while since the initial Gnome Specimen release happened. Since then, development has slowed down a bit… however, Gnome Specimen is still alive!
User-visible changes in this release:
- New artwork: application icon and image in about dialog
- Show previews for all font styles when a font family is double-clicked/activated
- Don’t ellipsize the preview texts, scroll instead
- Use a more common pangram as the default preview text
- Allow zooming using ctrl-mousewheel
- Consistently use the correct application name
- Respect theme colors
Other changes:
- Store settings and defaults in GConf
- Allow running from the source directory
- Changed license to GPL only (copy-pasted boilerplate referred to LGPL as well)
- Better Python module checking
Translation updates (the Gnome community rocks):
- Brazilian Portuguese (Vinicius Depizzol)
- British English (Alex Jones)
- Catalan (Josep Puigdemont)
- Chinese (Lew Harper)
- Czech (Vítězslav Kotrla)
- Dutch (Wouter Bolsterlee)
- Finnish (Kalle Vahlman)
- French (Yan Brodeur)
- German (Christian Kintner)
- Greek (Dimitris Glezos)
- Italian (Daniele Medri)
- Norwegian Bokmål (Runar Ingebrigtsen)
- Portuguese (Flavio Martins)
- Russian (Alexandre Prokoudine)
- Spanish (Albert Abril)
- Swedish (Mårten Woxberg, Daniel Nylander)
- Vietnamese (Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy)
Get it while it’s hot! Download Gnome Specimen 0.2 now!
- Gnome Specimen 0.2 tarball
- Development branch (Bazaar-NG,
bzr branchthat url)
- Gnome Specimen 0.2 Debian package
There’s a provisionary Debian package as well, thanks to Daniel Holbach of Ubuntu fame. He has also uploaded Gnome Specimen 0.2 to Ubuntu Gutsy, so it is apt-gettable already! In the mean time, Debian and Ubuntu users may just download the file and run
dpkg -i gnome-specimen_0.2-0_all.deb(as root) to install it.Other distros will soon follow I hope… Og Maciel already packaged Gnome Specimen for Foresight Linux.
Random photo from Gouda (December, 2008)
Who wrote all this?
Wouter Bolsterlee, also known as uws, a postmodern geek living in the Netherlands. Read more about me…
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