From: Christian Schaller <Uraeus@linuxrising.org> To: gnome-list@gnome.org, gnome-announce-list@gnome.org Subject: GNOME Summary 17 June to 23 June Date: 26 Jun 2001 19:03:13 +0200 Cc: davef@dmconnections.com, grex@scouts-es.org This is the GNOME Summary for 2001-06-17 - 2001-06-23 ============================================================== Table of Contents -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Ximian Setup tools 0.6 released. 2. Freeos.com reviews Galeon 3. GStreamer ported to GObject 4. Kevin Vadersloot releases Procman 5. Glade2 development underway 6. Eskil back hacking on gnome-pilot 7. GNOME Summaries improve 8. Friends of the tree 9. Hacker Activity 10. New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1. Ximian Setup tools 0.6 released. -------------------------------------------------------------- Ximian released version 0.6 of their setup tools this week. For the first time are they now available in Red Carpet in the Ximian preview channel. The tools currently includes tools for configuring disk shares, network, booting (lilo) and more. Chema Celorio also posted statement to Gnotices saying that they are now working on adding tools for printing, display (X) and fonts. The tools will also integrate with the new control-center when it becomes available. http://news.gnome.org/993189203/index_html ============================================================== 2. Freeos.com reviews Galeon -------------------------------------------------------------- Freeos.com has a nice review of Galeon. If you aren't already aware, Galeon is the best browser available in terms of giving you the greatest speed, highest standards compliance and unsurpased configurability, then you have yet another chance to find out now. http://www.freeos.com/articles/4163/ http://galeon.sourceforge.net ============================================================== 3. GStreamer ported to GObject -------------------------------------------------------------- The GStreamer project has now as one of the first large projects out ported to the new glib 2.0 architecture. This means that the core of GStreamer is now capable of being completely X/GUI independent which is something the companies wanting to use GStreamer in embedded devices have been asking for. Since many of you probably want to keep using GStreamer with the stable glib/gtk+ 1.2 release, Erik Walthinsen has created preprocessor shims and stubs which enable you to compile the new version on those older libraries. Other projects wanting to provide a similar option of compiling on both the new and the old platform might find this code useful. http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/1504/0/6034808/ ============================================================== 4. Kevin Vadersloot releases Procman -------------------------------------------------------------- Remember the announcement of the gnome-love mailinglist a few weeks back? Well this mailinglist which enables people who want to start coding on Gnome to get help and advice from veteran GNOME hackers has lead to the creation of Procman. Procman is a GNOME process viewer and system monitor. The plan is to become a gtop replacement with a nicer and simpler interface. Great work Kevin! http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/k/f/kfv101/procman/ http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love ============================================================== 5. Glade2 development underway -------------------------------------------------------------- The premier GUI builder, Glade, is currently being ported to the GNOME 2 platform by Chema Celorio and an assorted gathering of knights. As part of this a convertor is being made for you to easily covert your current Glade files to use become glade2 files. So moving your GUI's to GNOME2 should be fairly easy. Glade2 is currently only available in GNOME CVS. http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/rview.cgi?cvsroot=/cvs/gnome&dir=glade2 ============================================================== 6. Eskil back hacking on gnome-pilot -------------------------------------------------------------- Eskil Heyn Olsen is back hacking on gnome-pilot after having been locked in the Eazel cellar for quite some time. He even made a new pre-release and moved the homepage to his own domain this week. So if you have a PalmPilot you want to synch with your GNOME desktop, get the latest version from the new GnomePilot homepage. http://www.eskil.org/gnome-pilot/ ============================================================== 7. GNOME Summaries improve -------------------------------------------------------------- Those of you reading these summaries on developer.gnome.org will notice that there are more links now, for instance in the app section. This is because Erdi Gergo has created a XML document format for the summaries, and a XSL script to convert the document into text and html. As we continue tweaking on this we hope to enable even more functionality and also make life easier for those translating these summaries into other languages. http://developer.gnome.org/news/ ============================================================== 8. Friends of the tree -------------------------------------------------------------- After the 1.0 release of Nautilus many users asked for speed improvements. The 1.0.3 release delivered a lot of those, but there are of course still things that can be improved. This week I want to give a special mention to a hacker who has dedicated himself to optimizing Nautilus even further, namely Yoann Vandoorselaere. The 1.0.4 release of Nautilus, which will be released shortly after Nautilus maintainer Darin Adler returns from Machack, will contain optimizations from Yoann. And there are still more waiting to get the final approval and get commited. Thanks Yoann, the community is very greatful for your work. ============================================================== 9. Hacker Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists. Most active modules: 155 evolution 67 galeon 53 SashMo 43 gnumeric 39 ximian-setup-tools 34 gtranslator 34 libxslt 31 SashWDE 30 gimp 27 metatheme 26 mc 25 gnome-xml 24 gail 23 gnome-applets 22 gnome-utils 20 gtk+ 19 web-devel-2 19 gnome-core 18 ggv 18 balsa [102 active modules omitted] Most active hackers: 57 kmaraas 55 veilard 35 tyeler 28 jpr 27 kabalak 26 battery841 25 rodrigo 24 proskin 23 chema 22 martin 21 fejj 21 hovinen 20 ke 20 bcameron 19 neo 19 chatham 18 hestgray 18 rodo 18 atevstef 18 hectorg [121 active hackers omitted] ============================================================== 10. New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- Procman - Simple GNOME process viewer and system monitor Gmonsters - A little monster breeding game similar to Monster Rancher(tm). gxmlviewer - A stand alone xml viewer with a netscape plugin Gramps - GNOME/Python based genealogy program gnome-utils - Contains GNOME time tracker, searching tool and other useful GNOME utilities Gnomermind - A configurable and attractive looking MasterMind-type puzzle game EtherApe - A network monitor modeled after etherman ximian-setup-tools - Unfied system configuration for UNIX. Tenes Empanadas Graciela - A game like which reminds of Risk MrProject - MrProject is a project management program. gnome-pilot - A daemon for pilot synchronization gtktalog - GTKtalog is made to easily browse a CDROM database. XPenguins applet - GNOME panel applet that animates a friendly family of penguins in your root window. Balsa - An email client for GNOME. solfege - GNU Solfege is an eartraining program for GNOME. bloksi - A sliding-pieces puzzle. gsms - gsms is a graphical frontend to itaSMS Xmms - Multimedia player with much the same features as Winamp. shogiopening - Shogiopening is an opening database for Shogi gnome-db - Database access for Gnome applications Spruce - Small and fast mail client gThumb - Image viewer and browser. IntraChat Client / Server - Multi-platform GUI Chat facility for both Linux and Microsoft Windows For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map: http://www.gnome.org/applist/listrecent.php3