From: Christian Schaller <uraeus@linuxrising.org> To: gnome-list@gnome.org, gnome-announce-list@gnome.org Subject: GNOME Summary for 2001-11-17 - 2001-11-23 Date: 28 Nov 2001 18:03:52 +0100 Cc: editor@lwn.net, editors@linuxtoday.com This is the GNOME Summary for 2001-11-17 - 2001-11-23 ============================================================== Table of Contents -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Mozilla team more lethal for bugs than DDT 2. Gnomoku first app ported to the GNOME2 C++ bindings 3. Elysium hacker Rodney Dawes interviewed 4. Overflow 0.6.0 released 5. GNOME 2 porting document available 6. Java-GNOME 0.7.1 released 7. Abiword 0.9.5 8. Translated GNOME summaries 9. Hacker Activity 10. New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1. Mozilla team more lethal for bugs than DDT -------------------------------------------------------------- Christopher Blizzard wrote in to tell us that Mozilla 0.9.6 was released this week. There were over 1500 bugs fixed between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6. There were also several performance enhancements, tabbed browsing should be more stable and functional and this is the first release that includes favicons. Please see the release notes link below for more information. Also of interest is that Christopher can inform us that he is now working fulltime on porting Mozilla to GTK+ 2.0. http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla0.9.6/ http://www.mozilla.org/releases/ ============================================================== 2. Gnomoku first app ported to the GNOME2 C++ bindings -------------------------------------------------------------- Gergo Erdi announced the first application outside the gtkmm package to be ported to the new gtkmm bindings for GNOME 2. He has ported the Gnomoku game and a screenshot is available. The app on the left-hand side is the old GNOME 1 app, the one on the right is the GNOME 2 port in progress. This is a good time for the GNOME language bindings with both the C++, C sharp, Java and Python language bindings getting a lot of attention and seeing wider use. http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/gnomoku/ ============================================================== 3. Elysium hacker Rodney Dawes interviewed -------------------------------------------------------------- The hyper-productive Rodney Dawes also known as Dobey was interviewed at Linuxpower.org about his latest efforts including Elysium Download, Elysium EtherTerm and last but not least Elysium the distribution. http://www.linuxpower.org/display.php?id=214 ============================================================== 4. Overflow 0.6.0 released -------------------------------------------------------------- Jean-Marc Valin annouced yet another release of his great Overflow package, the data flow orieneted development environment. If you haven't checked out Overflow before then now is the time to do so. http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/1006317028/index_html http://freespeech.sourceforge.net/overflow.html ============================================================== 5. GNOME 2 porting document available -------------------------------------------------------------- Due to popular demand Malcolm Tredinnick has put togheter a document which aims at help developers port their applications from GNOME 1.0 to GNOME 2.0. So if you have been holding back on starting to port due to lack of documentation you have no excuses anymore. Also there are still works that needs to be done in many of the core areas of GNOME so choose your favourite part of GNOME and volunteer your help porting that module on the GNOME 2 mailing list. http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/porting/ http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-2-0-list ============================================================== 6. Java-GNOME 0.7.1 released -------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey Morgan and the Java-GNOME team is working hard at aiming at making sure that Java is the language of choice for GNOME hackers. The 0.7.1 release adds even more classes and methods to these most excellent bindings. The next release of Java-GNOME 0.8.0 will mark the move to GNOME 2. http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/ ============================================================== 7. Abiword 0.9.5 -------------------------------------------------------------- The Abiword hackers are at it again with another great release of everyones favourite wordprocessor Abiword.Improved headers and footers and dynamic toolbars are just some of the many fixes in this release. Check out the release notes for the full story. Thanks goes to Martin Sevior, Hubert Figuiere, Dom Lachowicz and all the other hackers of Abiword for another wonderful release. http://www.abisource.com/release-notes/0.9.5.html http://www.abisource.com ============================================================== 8. Translated GNOME summaries -------------------------------------------------------------- As always we have translations of the GNOME summaries available. So linked below are French translation, Spanish translation and Hungarian translation. If there are other translations available please let us know. http://www.gynov.org/news/index.php4 http://es.gnome.org/actualidad/ http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/gnome/summary/ ============================================================== 9. Hacker Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists. Most active modules: 187 gnucash 84 gimp 63 galeon 57 gtk+ 57 web-devel-2 52 gnome-db 42 gnome-core 42 evolution 40 gnomeicu 29 gnome-utils 25 glib 24 pan 23 at-spi 23 gnumeric 22 guikachu 21 libgda 18 gtkhtml 18 pango 17 atk 17 gtkvts [132 active modules omitted] Most active hackers: 80 peticolas (gnucash) 68 rodrigo 58 owen 56 rlb (gnucash) 45 carlos 42 rmo 39 michael 34 frob 32 linas (gnucash) 31 cactus 31 seth 27 baddog 26 minmax 25 mmclouglin 23 jdub 22 billh 22 kevinv 22 trow 22 fejj 20 mitch [138 active hackers omitted] ============================================================== 10. New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- galeon - GNOME web browser based on Gecko gdm - GNOME Display Manager. rubrica - Addressbook application java-gnome - A Java binding for GTK and GNOME. XFce - A lightweight desktop environment for various UNIX systems Overflow - Data flow oriented development environment gxsm - An powerfull graphical interface for any kind of 2D data aquisitation method Gnome News Applet - Applet displaying headlines Pan - Newsreader, loosely based on Agent and Gravity Gnumeric - World class GNOME Spreadsheet gnocl - Tcl extension which implements gtk and gnome widgets. gramps - GNOME/Python based genealogy program. genigma - Emulation of the famous Enigma. gnome-ttt-3d - Tic Tac Toe, also called XXO gmt - Graphical frontend to lsmod,rmmod and ksyms gLabels - Lightweight program for creating labels and business cards gtktalog - GTKtalog is made to easily browse a CDROM database. Elysium Download - Download manager for GNOME using gnome-vfs. libelysium - Expanding set of utility functions gThumb - Image viewer and browser. Guikachu - Graphical editing of resource files for PalmOS pocket computers Ruby-GNOME - Ruby language bindings for GNOME Bakery - C++ Framework for creating GNOME applications For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map: http://www.gnome.org/applist/listrecent.php3 And they said the age of wonders where over, well we proved them wrong by delivering this weekly summary one week after the last one. If you have news that you think should be in the next GNOME Summary please send it across. Christian and I are always happy to receive news, comments or suggestions just email us at gnome-summary@gnome.org. Until next time, Christian