Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 11:20:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> To: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org, gnome-list@gnome.org Subject: GNOME Summary August 15-22 This is the GNOME Summary for August 15-August 22. Note that I've enhanced the web site for the summary, see http://developer.gnome.org/news/summary/ - there are also summary archives there. This is a fun way to read your GNOME Summary. ============================================================= Table of Contents ------------------------------------------------------------- 1) New Status Page 2) File Manager Status Report 3) Crazy out of control window manager influx 4) Gnotices 5) New gnome-libs and control center 6) New draft of window manager spec 7) Hacking Activity 8) New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1) New Status Page -------------------------------------------------------------- I made a status page to track our current releases and main GNOME focuses. You can find it at: http://developer.gnome.org/news/status There are some interesting links from this page to status reports from project maintainers. One of the most interesting is... ============================================================== 2) File Manager Status Report -------------------------------------------------------------- Ettore gave us an extensive file manager status update, look here: http://developer.gnome.org/news/status/fm.html ============================================================== 3) Crazy out of control window manager influx -------------------------------------------------------------- Two new GNOME window manager candidates appeared this week: Sawmill: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~john/sw/sawmill/index.html wmG: http://ductape.net/~reeve/projects.html The other possibilities still exist: Alfredo is adding to WindowMaker for us, and Jay Painter's gnome-wm in CVS. A hacked WindowMaker looks like the fastest way to get a fully-functional and stable window manager in the near future. But some of these other projects may be nice over the longer term. We'll see how it goes; you can never have too many window managers. :-) ============================================================== 4) Gnotices -------------------------------------------------------------- We made a site using the Slashdot-like Squishdot engine to display GNOME developer news; this site may eventually be a rich source of GNOME Summary items. :-) Unfortunately we are having DNS and firewall issues, so the site will be down right this minute, but if you keep trying during the week it will be up eventually: http://news.gnome.org ============================================================== 5) New gnome-libs and control center -------------------------------------------------------------- We released gnome-libs 1.0.14; 1.0.13 appeared for a short time, but had a mistakenly-changed soname for libart_lgpl so was immediately withdrawn. Please upgrade to 1.0.14 and delete the libart_lgpl.so.2 symlink from your library directory if you happened to download 1.0.13. The new control center release has bugfixes, and a reworked ui-properties capplet. ============================================================== 6) New draft of window manager spec -------------------------------------------------------------- Marko Macek (of icewm fame) posted the latest draft of the GNOME/KDE window manager spec to the window manager spec mailing list. Read it here: http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/wm-spec-list/1999-August/0014.shtml ============================================================== 7) Hacking Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Almost 700 commits this week. Module Score-O-Matic: 60 gtk-- 59 gimp 57 gnome-libs 50 gnome-scrabble 49 gnome-core 49 bonobo 41 gnumeric 27 gnome-applets 20 libunicode 20 control-center 18 dia 16 xpdf 15 gtk+ 14 web-devel-2 14 mc 11 gedit 11 dryad 10 ggv 9 achtung 8 gnome-print 6 glade-- 6 esound 6 ORBit User Score-O-Matic: 65 unammx 53 kenelson 51 tgil 47 jirka 46 sopwith 31 kmaraas 25 mmeeks 22 nat 22 jberkman 21 pablo 20 tml 19 hp 17 campd 11 jpekka 11 jimb 11 jamesh 10 jrb 10 dcm gnome-libs bugfixes were pouring in this week. A new Scrabble game appeared, from Tom Gilbert. GTK+ is gearing up for a 1.2.4 release, which should appear soon. James Henstridge seems to have added circuit objects to the Dia diagram editor. George is back from Czech (I think) and checking in lots of stuff, including gnome-libs documentation. Various tweaks and enhancements were applied to the panel, applets, and control center. Federico is fixing lots of gmc bugs. Elliot checked in a gnome-java module, with a start on Java bindings (help is probably accepted on these). ============================================================== 8) New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- gnome-libs and Gnumeric also had new releases this week, but aren't in the software map. G-Typo: typing game wmG: Gtk-based window manager gtkdiff: diff frontend XChat: swiss army IRC client gproc: process list RPM Explorer: explore your files, annotated via RPM database gMessagingSystem: desktop messaging system Sodipodi: prototype vector graphics editor galway: web editor GNetTool: network monitoring Gip: tarball installation frontend GnomePM: Portfolio manager Gzilla: web browser gnome-scrabble: Scrabble clone, schedule to be renamed to avoid trademark issues. :-) libptb: Library to develop apps with user-customizable toolbars. Note to libptb maintainer: this should be merged with gnome-libs if people are going to use it; otherwise we end up with nonstandard look-and-feel. Please chat with nat@nat.org about the new Bonobo-based system GSNes9x: Nintendo emulator ggv: Postscript viewer gVidChanger: Change video resolutions Note to gVidChanger maintainer: We'd like this feature in the control center, mail jrb@redhat.com, the applet could also go in gnome-applets XSitecopy: synchronize file hierarchies Gnome-Lines: colored lines game gIPSC: IP subnet calculator GNOME-Joystick: Joystick configuration (capplet/standalone) GNOME-Model: 3D model visualization GNOME-Video: Video playback widget Pybliographer: Bibliography database frontend Spruce: Yet Another GNOME Email Client gnome-pilot: PalmPilot tools GNOME Toaster: CD burner PopApp: Biff applet WaveForge: Sound editor XWhois: whois frontend See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more information about any of these packages. =========================================================================== Until next week - Havoc