Also brings new features and translation updates

Apr 16, 2009 08:33 GMT  ·  By

Almost one month after the big 2.26 release, the popular GNOME desktop environment reached version 2.26.1 yesterday, April 15th. Though changes were made in all areas, including development tools, mobile or platform, the desktop received the highest amount of attention, with a plethora of bugfixes, improvements and translation updates.

"This is the first update to GNOME 2.26. It contains the usual mixture of bug fixes, translations updates and documentation improvements that are the hallmark of stable GNOME releases, thanks to our wonderful team of GNOME contributors!" was stated in the official release announcement.

Brasero, GNOME's default CD/DVD burning tool since 2.26, was updated to version 2.26.1 with 11 bugfixes (a crash that occurred when trying to paste an empty clipboard, a crash in the checksum dialog error, etc.), a new Ukrainian translation and updates for many existing ones.

The Deskbar applet got a really useful and anticipated update as its window will now close when losing focus, removing the need to click its button again to close it. Among other bugfixes, the application launchers now have their corresponding icons next to them.

Empathy 2.26.1, GNOME's instant messaging client, was patched with 8 bugfixes - the ghelp link now works, the avatar button was enlarged, etc. Evolution email client, Evolution data server, Evolution exchange and Evolution MAPI packages received a large number of bugfixes and translation updates.

The File-roller archive manager no longer supports corrupted rar archives, the size for zero-byte files is shown correctly and the hangs/memory leaks that occurred when dragging and dropping a file from inside the archive were fixed.

GDM (GNOME Display Manager) 2.26.1, among other updates, will use O_APPEND when opening logs, the saved settings will load when a user types the username in the "Other" box and the auth temporary directories will be cleaned up. Several bugs were fixed in the Gedit text editor as well, but it also received Fortran 95 snippets and was changed to ensure that plugins are resident modules.

Some of the GNOME Applets were fixed too: Drivemount won't crash anymore if icons are missing or gconf is down; Keyboard Accessibility Indicator will now load icons correctly; the crash that occurred in Weather Applet when the locations could not be accessed was fixed.

Several bugs were resolved in Libgnome-desktop and gnome-about packages as well. GNOME doc-utils reached version 0.16.1 and now uses the new hashlib module instead of md5. A lot of translations were added to the new version of GNOME Games, which also received some bug/crash fixes.

Among others, a large number of memory allocator issues were fixed in GNOME Keyring 2.26.1, DBus properly auto-starts the gnome-keyring service, and a crash that occurred when prompting to unlock the keyring was resolved. GNOME-Panel 2.26.1 will now display the correct icons for locations in the menu.

GNOME's file manager, Nautilus, which was updated to version 2.26.2, got a few bugfixes and has a new "Location" column. "Unmount" and "Eject" entries are now shown in the context menu if the mount supports them both and custom save and load accelerator maps were added.

Some of the changes in Totem movie player 2.26.1 include: the screenshot capture keyboard shortcut was changed from Shift+S to Ctrl+S; the seekbar is now reset after closing a file; renamed files are not removed from the playlist anymore; the icon is now correctly reset when disabling the thumbnail plugin.

A lot of other GNOME packages were fixed, updated or received new translations so be sure to update your GNOME desktop environment to this latest version.

Download GNOME 2.26.1 right now from Softpedia.