News

07.03.2003

Launch.app 1.0pre1.

Changes:
- fixed various Launch's files permissions

Connect 0.1

New application arrived! Connect is a GNUstep frontend to pppd.

Dictionary.app status:

Slowly moving to GNUstep. Renaming Dictionary.app to Dictionary. Since text system in GNUstep is under rewrite and now is broken (problems with non-latin characters), development of Dictionary is frozen.

27.11.2002

Launch.app 0.9.0.

Changes:
- rewritten Preferences panel;
- added "Beep On Error" option (see Preferences->Interface);
- added ability to define environment variables (see Preferences->Environment). Note that while "Preserve current environment" checkbox is selected, "Custom variables" settings has no effect. There is no visual feedback for this because of WINGs limits.
- changed window level of all windows/panels. Now menus are above Launch windows/panels;
- added preliminary GNUstep support (Resources/Info-gnustep.plist).

08.11.2002

Launch.app 0.8.4.

Changes:
- fixed bug with setting DISPLAY variable for executing application;
- added ability to preserve current user environment when executing application as different user (see Preferences panel).

15.10.2002

Launch.app 0.8.3.

Changes:
- finished fix for Irix segfault (thanks to Axel Riese);

25.09.2002

Launch.app 0.8.2.

Changes:
- fix for Irix segfault (thanks to Axel Riese);
- cleaup in environment setup code.

18.09.2002

Launch.app 0.8.1.

Changes:
- bugfix in user/group id change;
- switching to use putenv() instead of setenv();
- Info and Legal panels cleanups;
- GNUmakefile: added INSTALL macro, chmod now to root instead of root.shadow.

04.09.2002

Launch.app 0.8.0.

Changes:
- history autocompletion while typing added (thanks to Sergey Pinaev);
- added examples for mozilla and galeon into openurl script;
- tested with WindowMaker 0.80.1.

Dictionary.app

It seems that no sense of further development of Dictionary.app using WINgs since GNUstep is in very good shape. So maybe next incarnation of Dictionary.app will be under GNUstep.

21.01.2002 - Launch.app 0.7.1.

Changes:
- bugfix in user/group id change

26.10.2001 - Launch.app 0.7.0. Requires WindowMaker 0.70.0 or greater.

Changes:
- changes to compile and run under WM 0.70.0 are made;
- window level changed.

19.08.2001 - Launch.app 0.6.5. Requires WindowMaker 0.65.0 or greater.

Changes:
- improved tab completion;
- improved recognition of URLs. See Changelog

28.04.2001 - Launch.app 0.6.1

Changes:
- removed hardcoded paths;
- added RedHat specific patches and spec file;
- some code cleanup.

12.04.2001 - Launch.app 0.6

Changes:
- added recognition of URLs;
- added configuration;
- now you may execute console applications;
- various bugfixes.