[Gchemutils-main] The Gnome Chemistry Utils 0.10.0 have been released.

[Jean Bréfort]

Hi,

I'm happy to announce the release of the 0.10.0 version.

Compared to 0.9.98rc1, the differences are minor:
GChemTable:
* Implement save as image for curves (thanks to Jordan Matha who noticed
that this feature was missing.
Other:
* Fixed a few API documentation issues.
* Fixed miscellaneous typo and style issues in help files (Jordan).

For those using 0.8.x, enhancements are much more significative, main
differences are:
* Two new programs: GChemPaint (not really new, but new in this
context), and GSpectrum, a simple (at the moment) spectrum viewer.
* GChemPaint comes with an enhanced ChemDraw files importer, and support
for group symbols, such as Ph, Et, and so on. The goffice plugin
provided with this version is not compatible with Abiword which still
uses goffice-0.4.x.
* Gnome Crystal now imports CIF files, and has an enhanced rendering
engine, thanks to Benoit Jacob.
* GChem3D uses the same enhanced rendering engine.
* GChemCalc supports group symbols.
* GChemTable supports charts customization, and a few more color
schemes.
* All programs now use GtkPrint instead of GnomePrint.

Sources are available at:
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/gchemutils/0.10/gnome-chemistry-utils-0.10.0.tar.bz2
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/gchemutils/0.10/gnome-chemistry-utils-0.10.0.tar.gz

Now, what next?
For 0.12, the main project is to replace GnomeCanvas by a custom widget.
There are several cairo based canvas projects, but no one is really well
suited for GChemPaint needs. I started to do some work on that and
initial results look promising, although most things are currently
broken and need to be reimplemented.
GSpectrum should be able to transform NMR FIDs to spectra, but I need
usable samples to check. goffice already has an FFT engine.

As usual, ideas and help are welcome in any domain, not only
programming.

Best regards,
Jean