Good morning (again) campers!

After a long gestation, the next release of GNOME Do and its plugins
is now ready to enter alpha testing. While the new features and code
are now nearly complete, there are still some edges to knock off.
Help us do this by testing, and filing bugs!

Some of the new features include:
 * For the users:
 - shiny new Do themes, with animations.
 * Items with children now have arrows indicating the fact.  No more
right-arrowing just to see if it works!
 * New interface style: Docky. A panel interface for Do, dynamically
showing the top-relevance items in Do's universe. Docky displays
running processes, and supports drag-and-drop of items to and from the
panel.  Also has sweet, smooth zoom!
 * A new all-in-one plugins tarball!  Now contains both official and
community plugins, for a total of 57 plugins currently available. In
return, online repositories have been dropped; there are too many bugs
they cause that we can't fix.

 * For the hackers:
  - Pluggable interfaces, making new UIs easier to write and ship
  - Core is now mostly a set of (hopefully) cross-platform interfaces
with pluggable implementations. This should make porting Do to Windows
and OS X easier.
  - The plugin API has changed.  Arrays have been replaced with
IEnumerables across the board.

So, time for testers to step up!

- Tarballs can be found on Launchpad - Core at
https://launchpad.net/do/+download and plugins at
https://launchpad.net/do-plugins/+download
- Intrepid packages can be found in the do-testers PPA at
http://launchpad.net/~do-testers/+archive
- SuSE users can use the Mono:Community repositories
 * http://software.opensuse.org/ymp/Mono:Community/openSUSE_11.0/gnome-do.ymp
for SuSE 11.0
 * http://software.opensuse.org/ymp/Mono:Community/openSUSE_11.1/gnome-do.ymp
for SuSE 11.1

Get cracking!

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