gElemental version history

1.2.0 (2007 September 30)

source code (450 KB)

Python binding (optional; 34 KB)

This is a major feature release of gElemental. The program is now licensed under the GNU GPL version 3 or later. The table view now supports colouring by more properties, and displays property values. An issue with button colours under some GTK+ themes has been resolved. Several minor interface improvements have been made.

libgelemental has been renamed to libelemental, and an API break has been made to address several issues. Colour handling has been improved, and scale calculation support has been added for floating-point properties. EntriesStream, an EntriesView adapter for output streams and files, has been added. Lattice volumes are now expressed in nanometres. Documentation has been improved.

The pygElemental Python binding has been renamed to pyElemental. It has been updated for the new API, and is not API-compatible with previous versions. Documentation has been added.

1.0.0 (2007 May 6)

source code (434 KB)

Python binding (optional; 18 KB)

This is the first stable release of gElemental. It includes minor interface and internal improvements. pygElemental is unchanged.

0.10 series (prerelease)

0.10.1 (2007 March 6)

source code (433 KB)

Python binding (optional; 18 KB)

This is a minor feature release of the gElemental prerelease series. Ambrogio Oliva has completed the Italian translation and suggested several corrections. Marion Petersen has contributed a complete German translation. Responsiveness has been improved in the table view. A bug has been fixed in the Python binding which was preventing strings from being translated in some circumstances.

0.10.0 (2007 February 14)

source code (421 KB)

Python binding (optional; 17 KB)

This is a major feature release of the gElemental prerelease series. Many of the data from the Blue Obelisk Data Repository have been integrated, updating and expanding the existing set. New properties include periodic table blocks, van der Waals radii, electron affinities, and identifying colours. The crystallography properties have been replaced with an expanded set.

The table view can now also be coloured by block, lattice type, and element. It displays more identifying information when hovering over an element. The list view can now display and be sorted by any of the properties. The element dialog has been reorganised into three tabs. A new help dialog describes the properties and their sources.

A new internal system of properties has been introduced which streamlines the code and libgelemental's API. libgelemental's dependencies have been reduced to glibmm (>= 2.6) and cairo. pygElemental is now distributed separately.

A new SVG-based Tango-style icon is now used, and Tango-style colours are now used for table colouring. Many minor changes have been made.

0.9 series (unstable)

0.9.3 (2006 December 22)

source code (405 KB)

This is a minor feature release of the gElemental unstable series. It introduces the (experimental, but complete) pygElemental Python binding; configure with --enable-python to get it. Ambrogio Oliva has expanded the Italian translation and suggested improvements to naming of chemical series.

0.9.2 (2006 December 10)

source code (392 KB)

This is a maintenance release of the gElemental unstable series. It reintroduces additional translations from the GPeriodic 1.x series. These translations (de, es, it, nl, pt, ru) are currently skeletal. Also, window size is now preserved between uses of the list view.

0.9.1 (2006 December 2)

source code (386 KB)

This is a maintenance release of the gElemental unstable series. It fixes issues with recent versions of GLib, GTK+ and autoconf, and an issue involving encoding of translated strings.

0.9.0 (2006 November 23)

source code (385 KB)

This is the first release version of gElemental, and is an unstable release for testing and translation. gElemental is derived from GPeriodic version 2.0.8. The following major changes have been made:

• Element data updated, expanded, and reconfirmed against sources, including recently named or discovered elements Ds, Rg, Uut, Uup, Uuh, and Uuo.
• Translation methodology improved and translations expanded.
• New list view displays key information in a sortable list.
• Redesigned element properties dialog categorises information.
• Colouring by phase at a specified temperature now available in interface.
• Element colouring now preserves GTK+ theme appearance. Colour legend added.
• Code base ported to C++ and gtkmm.
• Element and table data split out into libgelemental.
• Element data stored with appropriate typing.

GPeriodic versions

gElemental was originally derived from GPeriodic 2.0.8. For information on GPeriodic versions, see the GPeriodic version history.