Guikachu 1.2.0: "The Inevitable Return" released Guikachu is the premiere solution for creating PalmOS resource files on UNIX operating systems, and it is also available as Free Software, as defined by the GNU GPL. "Resources" are data statically linked into PalmOS applications, and contain information about user-visible things like strings, windows, and menu structures. Guikachu, based on the GNOME 1.4 libraries, makes it possible to edit these files in an easy-to-use way, under the popular GNOME desktop environment. Guikachu is available for immediate download at After half a year of development, we are proud to offer version 1.2, our new production-quality release, with several new features, including the following: * Support for string list resources * Usability improvements in the form editor, including resizing of widgets via drag-and-drop, and selecting widgets by drawing a bounding box with the mouse * Support for projects targeting non-Palm handhelds (currently, this is limited to eBookMan palmtops) * Improved font support, including escape sequences * And, of course, lots of bug fixes and miscellaneous small usability improvements Now that Guikachu 1.2 is out, we'll discuss our future road-map on the Guikachu mailing list, open to participation to anyone at Guikachu is created by Gergõ Érdi, with contributions from Jay Bloodworth and Christopher Keith Fairbairn. The Guikachu artwork was done by Basilico Briceno. Source code includes code snippets by Martin Schulze. Widget icons are taken from the excellent UI editor Glade, by Damon Chaplin. Special thanks to Murray Cumming and Daniel Elstner for their C++ hints every now and then, to Marco Antonio Cabazal, Erich Douglass and Roger So for providing binary packages of Guikachu for various Linux distributions, and to all our translators who made our application easier to use for non-English speakers.