Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 17:45:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> To: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org, gnome-list@gnome.org Subject: GNOME Summary, August 30 - Sept 7 This is the GNOME Summary for August 30-September 7. ============================================================= Table of Contents ------------------------------------------------------------- 1) news.gnome.org for this week 2) Check out the latest Sawmill 3) Dr Geo and Genius merge 4) Gnomine Bonobo Component 5) New RPMs from Dax 6) Hack Fest 7) New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1) news.gnome.org for this week -------------------------------------------------------------- This week on our news site we have articles about: - libglade 0.5 - Gnumeric 0.34 - gnome-print 0.7 - icons status report - Gnome configuration files whitepaper - custom shapes in the Dia diagram editor (written in an SVG subset) - Genius 0.4.5 - multimedia squeaky rubber gnome tour - new gmc file manager release - some other stuff that scrolled off the bottom. :-) I'm feeling a bit superfluous now that we have the news site, so the summary will mostly be about a few bits and pieces and statistics that the news site didn't pick up. Check out http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news for the above items. ============================================================== 2) Check out the latest Sawmill -------------------------------------------------------------- The Sawmill window manager is pretty sweet; the latest version has excellent GNOME integration. Sawmill's GTK theme even changes to match the current GTK theme; put Sawmill in GTK mode, then change your Gnome theme from the control center, and Sawmill adjusts its theme to match. Sawmill also works with gmc, root menu clicks, gnome pager and task list, and has a graphical configuration tool written in GTK. Definitely worth checking out. http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-September/0110.shtml or check out the sawmill URL: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~john/sw/sawmill/index.html I'm using Sawmill now and it's perfectly usable. Given the young age of this software I think it's very promising. ============================================================== 3) Dr Geo and Genius merge -------------------------------------------------------------- The Genius scientific calculator is merging with the Dr Geo geometry exploration application to create "Dr Genius," a complete math package. Looks pretty cool. Check the 'dr-genius' module out of CVS. ============================================================== 4) Gnomine Bonobo Component -------------------------------------------------------------- People have been making embeddable components left and right with the new Bonobo framework, for data such as PNG images, plain text, and PDF files. But the coolest embeddable component is a wrapper for Gnomine (minesweeper clone)! ftp://ftp.gnome.org/~michael/gnomine.tar.gz You presumably need bonobo from CVS to get this to work, I imagine it's complicated, but I'm sure it will be worth it. :-) ============================================================== 5) New RPMs from Dax -------------------------------------------------------------- Dax put up more RPMs; check out the announce here: http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-September/0110.shtml Or go straight to the software: ftp://ftp.gurulabs.com/pub/gnome/updates/i386 ============================================================== 6) Hack Fest -------------------------------------------------------------- CVS had over 1000 commits this week; someone was writing a lot of code. Quite a few new and updated software packages as well. Module Score-O-Matic: 126 gimp 52 gnome-libs 48 gnome-core 48 dryad 45 web-devel-2 39 gtk-- 39 gtk+ 34 gnome-pim 32 gnumeric 27 gnerudite 24 mc 24 gnome-vfs 24 gnome-debug 23 gnome-applets 21 gconf 21 evolution 20 bonobo 18 ggv 17 gnome-print 16 gnome-utils 15 ggdb 15 gdb-guile User Score-O-Matic: 101 martin 69 unammx 68 chyla 56 kmaraas 43 pablo 34 jirka 34 hp 29 dcm 27 tgil 27 sopwith 26 olofk 24 yosh 24 neo 24 kenelson 21 bertrand ============================================================== 7) New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- Of course the big release of the week was a much-improved version of the gmc file manager. GPG Shell: start on a GPG frontend Loci: distributed data processing libglade: Load Glade interfaces at runtime Gnerudite: Scrabble clone Screem: web site editor glms: monitor CPU temperature, voltage, etc. gproc: process list Pan: newsreader Sixty Four Bits: fun applet that counts in binary gnome-print: GNOME printing library Gnumeric: industrial strength spreadsheet gxsnmp: SNMP tool PovFront: POV frontend gVN: network management tool genius: scientific calculator gnome-chess: Chess glvm: Logical Volume Manager interface Gone: newsreader GNews: newsreader libptb: library for customizable toolbars URL Collector: stores a list of URLs gMessaging System: handles message streams Gip: GNOME install project (installation tool) Gnome Toaster: Write CDs gx10: X10 home automation galway: web editor gFTP: ftp client GMail: mail client GCDE: text editor DPS-FTP: ftp client gPhoto: digital camera tool Pybliographer: bibliography database tool gdm: xdm replacement for Gnome Sodipodi: Vector graphics application FreeSpeech: speech recognition XChat: IRC client V/GTK: port of the V toolkit to GTK alarm applet: reminder applet Gnomba: Samba shares browser See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more information about any of these packages. =========================================================================== Until next week - Havoc