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TeleGNOME is a program for the GNOME Networked Object Model Environment, to display teletext pages over the internet. As of this moment, the teletext feeds from various countries. It was originally developed to support the teletext from the Netherlands only, but it has grown in a program which supports multiple teletext feeds, called channels. To view which feeds are known to work, visit the channels page. The program is kept quite simple, but it is very usefull, hopefully. Never load up that large slow web browser again to view teletext!

TeleGNOME is released under the GNU General Public License, as described in the file COPYING. The project was started by Dirk-Jan C. Binnema. Arjan Scherpenisse maintained it from March 2000. Colin Watson took over maintainership from 2008. You can see the ChangeLog of this project here.

To clone the git repository or to file a bug report, see the GNOME GitLab project.

News

Aug 30, 2021

TeleGNOME 0.3.6 is released, updating links to this website and removing some autoconf deprecation warnings.

Sep 5, 2019

TeleGNOME 0.3.5 is released, removing its dependency on dconf.

Jan 11, 2019

TeleGNOME 0.3.4 is released, removing use of a deprecated GTK+ interface and thus now requiring GTK+ 3.22 or newer, and using a modern AppStream installation directory.

Jun 18, 2017

TeleGNOME 0.3.3 is released, fixing a build failure with Vala 0.36.

Jul 7, 2016

TeleGNOME 0.3.2 is released, fixing an incorrect description of the paging-enabled setting, migrating away from some more deprecated GNOME tools, and migrating from intltool to gettext.

Feb 20, 2016

TeleGNOME 0.3.1 is released, fixing installation of icons and adding AppStream metadata.

Feb 15, 2016

TeleGNOME 0.3.0 is released, rewriting the entire project in Vala and adding an Italian teletext channel.

Feb 6, 2016

TeleGNOME 0.2.1 is released, porting to GTK+ 3 and generally updating its library dependencies. It also fixes a bug where the current-channel setting was reset to the first configured channel on startup.

Jan 30, 2016

TeleGNOME 0.2.0 is released, porting from GnomeVFS to GIO and from gnome-config to GSettings. It also adds some more default channels, and fixes a bug with loading some images.

Jan 2, 2010

TeleGNOME 0.1.1 is released, with a few build fixes and an improvement to its positioning in desktop menus.

May 4, 2008

TeleGNOME 0.1.0 is released, with a new maintainer and ported to GNOME 2, GnomeVFS, and gnome-doc-utils.

April 29, 2000

Debian packages for TeleGNOME 0.0.10 have been made by Joop Stakenborg. He's an official Debian developper, and he announced that the program will be in the next debian release. Happy happy joy joy ;-)

The RPM is available too. Go quickly to the downloads section

April 24, 2000

TeleGNOME 0.0.10 is released. The only changes are this time: some UI improvements, move up/down buttons for channels in the prefs, and GdkPixbuf 0.0.7 support.

A new channel, called TextTV Danmark is added to the channels page. Just go there and insert it in your TeleGNOME.

April 10, 2000

TeleGNOME 0.0.9 is released. The widget bug from previous version has been fixed, finally :) There's channel support now, too. A list of available channels is online, and the .debs and the RPM versions of will be made soon.

April 5, 2000

TeleGNOME 0.0.8 is released. However, it is not stable so end users will probably prefer to stick to 0.0.7 for a while. The GdkPixbuf widget still has one nasty bug. Download the tarball here.

April 3, 2000

The 0.0.8 release of TeleGNOME will use GdkPixbuf. GdkPixbuf is not yet in a stable release, but it will go stable when it ships with April Gnome, which is due to any {day,week} now.

I have built RPM's for TeleGNOME. They are built from the .deb's using the program alien, and they are not yet tested on a RedHat system. The .deb's are reported to work fine, however, so there should be no remarkable problems. Get the RPM from the downloads section.

The news archive

The news archive is accessible here.

Download

Download recent versions of TeleGNOME from its GNOME download site. Some very old versions are archived here, for historical interest only.

Screenshots

What would a self-respecting program be without a screenshot or two these days... Well, here they are. Featured are the main screen, the main screen in zoomed mode and a screenie of preferences window.

Requirements

To compile TeleGNOME, you need all of the following:

  • A running *nix machine.
  • An ANSI C Compiler.
  • GLib 2.44 or newer.
  • GTK+ 3.22 or newer.
  • gdk-pixbuf 2.26 or newer.
  • cairo 1.10 or newer.
  • uuid.

If you want to rebuild the generated C files from their Vala source files, you will also need valac.

Colin Watson