To: gnome-list@gnome.org, gnome-announce-list@gnome.org Subject: GNOME Summary January 3-12: GUADEC, Gtk-- freeze, PixPacks, Evolution status report, GnomeICU, Mnemonic From: Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> Date: 12 Jan 2000 16:44:39 -0500 This is the GNOME Summary for January 3-12, 2000. ============================================================= Table of Contents ------------------------------------------------------------- 1) GUADEC 2) Gtk-- Enters Freeze 3) GNOME PixPacks 4) Evolution Updates from Helix Code 5) GnomeICU Release 6) Mnemonic Release 7) Barnes and Noble talk reminder 8) Hacking Activity 9) New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1) GUADEC -------------------------------------------------------------- The big news of the week was the announcement of GUADEC, the GNOME Users and Developers European Conference in Paris, France this March. GUADEC will be the first international conference dedicated entirely to GNOME, and almost all the GNOME core developers will be there. Part of the time the GNOME developers will discuss the future of GNOME among themselves; there are also sessions for commercial software developers to learn about the GNOME libraries, and for users to learn about the GNOME user environment. GUADEC is kindly sponsored by Telecom Paris, Helix Code, Red Hat, SuSE, LinuxCare, AFUL, ACT Europe, and MandrakeSoft. Students at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST) are organizing the conference. Thanks to all of these organizations for supporting GNOME. Read more about it here: http://www.guadec.enst.fr/ ============================================================== 2) Gtk-- Enters Freeze -------------------------------------------------------------- The Gtk-- C++ wrapper has entered a freeze in preparation for a new stable release. The latest version has much, much lower overhead than the 1.0 release, and is a very thorough wrapper; C data types are converted to STL-style types, for example. An advantage of Gtk-- is that it uses standard C++ features such as the STL and the string class, so there's no need to have toolkit-dependent code in non-GUI portions of the application. Gtk-- also offers typesafe signals via Karl Nelson's libsigc++, and allows you to write new widgets via C++ inheritance. Finally Gtk-- is a complete compiler torture suite that has resulted in several bug reports to the egcs maintainers. :-) Read the full announcement here: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/947026914/index_html ============================================================== 3) GNOME PixPacks -------------------------------------------------------------- A new site showed up this week that archives some collections of images to enhance your GNOME desktop. The first collection contains nice panel backgrounds collected by GNOME documenter and user-support guru Telsa Gwynne. http://dev.nullmodem.de/mawa/gnome-pp/ ============================================================== 4) Evolution Updates from Helix Code -------------------------------------------------------------- Some of the Helix Code hackers sent in progress reports on Evolution (the mail client and calendar application, similar to Outlook). Bertrand is working on the mail backend (called Camel); they already have an MH backend and are currently working on mbox. Bertrand promises the mbox backend will support Netscape and pine variants of the format, "and be fast as hell too :)". Chris Lahey has been writing the minicard view for the contact list (I guess if you have Outlook you can visualize this better): http://primates.helixcode.com/~clahey/minicard-test.png I know Ettore has been doing work on GtkHTML for the message displayer and composer. Michael Zucchi has some cool screenshots and sample printouts on his diary page: http://zedzone.mmc.com.au/diary.html This is printing suport for gnomecal, to be merged into Evolution. There are also several impressive widgets you can get working from CVS if you try hard enough: the shortcut panel, a complicated scheduling display, and the ETable table widget. These are all pretty snazzy. As I understand it the eventual plan is to glue all the components together with Python. ============================================================== 5) GnomeICU Release -------------------------------------------------------------- Jeremy Wise announced a new GnomeICU release: http://gnomeicu.gdev.net/ This release is "nearly uncrashable" and works great! ============================================================== 6) Mnemonic Release -------------------------------------------------------------- The long-silent Mnemonic project has made a release, read about it here: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/947601386/index_html ============================================================== 7) Barnes and Noble talk reminder -------------------------------------------------------------- Tonight! 7:30. Cary, North Carolina. http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/947622131/index_html ============================================================== 8) Hacking Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Module Score-O-Matic: (number of CVS commits per module, since the last summary) 92 gimp 89 nautilus 88 gnomeicu 61 guppi3 57 gnumeric 51 gtk-- 49 gnome-libs 40 gnome-core 29 libgtop 27 evolution 26 gip 23 gnome-pilot 22 gphoto 20 galway 19 gdk-pixbuf 19 gconf 16 mooonsooon 15 gob 14 gnome-pim 14 gb 14 dr-genius User Score-O-Matic: (number of CVS commits per user, since the last summary) 71 jwise 61 trow 55 kmaraas 50 rasta 44 jirka 42 sopwith 40 kenelson 36 hp 35 unammx 33 ahyden 32 martin 29 darin 29 arios 27 neo 21 sullivan 20 mstachow 20 mmeeks 20 jody 19 pablo 19 eskil 18 sipan 17 martijn 16 campd ============================================================== 9) New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more information about any of these packages. =========================================================================== Until next week - Havoc