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+ subscribe to graphl-interest at
+ http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/graphl-interest
+ for notification about new releases!
+ 
+ This is another pre-alpha release, to make new features available
+ before my vacation. Originally, i planned to do a 0.1 and some broader
+ dissemination to the rdf community in august, but there are some
+ important features still missing and no testing was done at all - so i
+ decided to do another pre-release to just get the features out to those
+ who are interested and are willing to work with really unfinished, buggy
+ and undocumented stuff. probably this release is not very well-suited
+ for pure end-users and rdf-focussed people, those should wait for the
+ 0.1 release to get a consistent package that will hopefully also be
+ documented.
+ 
+ the most notable new feature is the possibility to configure the
+ rendering of graphs (by configuring and assigning "facets") in an
+ rdf configuration file. this should evolve into an "rdf-stylesheet"
+ mechanism in the future. at the moment, there is no documentation
+ for all this, but you can look at the file config/config.rdf and see
+ if you figure out how to change the facet settings there.
+ 
+ for other improvements, see the changelog.
+ 
+ i will post a notification to this list when 0.1 is out - i hope this
+ will happen late october. the most notable improvements i am planning
+ for the 0.1 release are:
+ 
+ - finish and debug "load facet config from file" feature
+ - fully implement existing layouters and painters + make them fully
+   rdf-config compatible
+ - extend ImageNodePainter to be able to render arbitrary properties
+   as node icons (+ a fallback node painter if image is not found)
+ - SortedNodeLayouter sorts on arbitrary proprties by string, number
+   or date, ordered or proportional (timeline!)
+ - testing with real-life rdf-files (foaf, ...?) and set default config
+   accordingly (to get nice results on real-world data)
+ 
+ some things that might also happen for 0.1, but without guarantee:
+ 
+ - vocabulary registration per rdf-config (read in rdfs schemas and
+   use them for contextmenus etc.)
+ - render edges as containership
+ - node layouter for geographic positioning (with map image as background)
+ 
+ 
+ btw: i you are interested in contributing to any of these features,
+ or have requests for other features, help is greatly appreciated.
+ mail me for coordination, or just start hacking and send me your patches... 
+ 
  questions & comments to fl...@su...