Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 12:29:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> To: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org, gnome-list@gnome.org Subject: GNOME Summary September 21-28 This is the GNOME Summary for September 21-28. ============================================================= Table of Contents ------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Documentation moves to PNG 2) Eye of GNOME release 3) gdk-pixbuf release 4) 1.0.40 beta release 5) First Bonobo release 6) Hacking Activity 7) New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1) Documentation moves to PNG -------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Mason has asked for (and received) PNG support in the next version of DocBook. In the meantime however, we have a GNOME-specific DocBook DTD enhancement that you should use if you want to use PNG images in your documentation. Dave explains more here: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/938459177/index_html This allows us to move from GIF to PNG, avoiding unpleasant patent issues and getting a better image format to boot. ============================================================== 2) Eye of GNOME release -------------------------------------------------------------- Federico announced the first version of his image viewer: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/938480153/index_html It doesn't do much except zoom in a really impressive way. Load a large image and press the + and - keys a lot, I enjoy that. :-) Try it! ============================================================== 3) gdk-pixbuf release -------------------------------------------------------------- Eye of GNOME requires gdk-pixbuf so we got a release of that as well. See the announce: http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-September/0779.shtml ============================================================== 4) 1.0.40 beta release -------------------------------------------------------------- A beta in preparation for 1.0.50 is out; Grand Master of Releases Elliot Lee announces it here: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/938200295/index_html Dax, as always, is ready with well-tested and timely RPM packages: ftp://ftp.gurulabs.com/pub/gnome/updates/1.0.40 Please bang the remaining bugs out of this (though I don't see many, it seems very stable...) It would be especially nice to try to break the new Tasklist and Desk Guide. These replace the old Pager applet, though we are going to ship the Pager as well since it's better tested and some people like it better. Actually I'm not sure we'll ship the new applets with 1.0.50 but it's being considered. ============================================================== 5) First Bonobo release -------------------------------------------------------------- We finally have a tarball of the Bonobo component architecture library! http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-September/0770.shtml ============================================================== 6) Hacking Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Module Score-O-Matic: 94 gnumeric 73 gnome-core 59 gimp 46 gnome-libs 36 dr-genius 32 rp3 30 gtk-- 25 gnome-pim 24 mc 22 bonobo-doc 19 gfloppy 17 gnomeweb 17 gaby 16 gtop 16 gnome-media 15 gtrouble 15 gtk+ 15 bonobo 14 libgtop 14 gnome-print 14 gnome-games 14 eog 14 control-center User Score-O-Matic: 95 unammx 81 kmaraas 36 chyla 30 mmeeks 30 martin 29 jrb 29 jirka 26 sopwith 23 jody 21 mathieu 19 johnsonm 18 docsbr 18 asbjoer 17 tgil 16 rhult 16 neo 16 jberkman 15 campd 14 mortenw 13 vinc 13 martijn 12 owen 12 dietmar Jonathan wrote the "gfloppy" floppy formatting utility. He refuses to call it "Floppy Buddy" despite our repeated persuasion attempts. ============================================================== 7) New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- URL Collector: stores URLS Pybliographer: bibliography database LED Counter: applet that counts stuff GnoFract: Fractal generator GTelnet: telnet client sawmill: nice GNOME-compliant window manager GProc: process list Gaspell: aspell frontend GnomeToaster: CD writer Eucalyptus: email client galway: web editor gnome-core: Core GNOME desktop components gnome-libs: GNOME libraries gtk--: GTK/GNOME C++ bindings Glade: GUI builder Gnumeric: GNOME spreadsheet gnome-utils: small utility programs gnome-pim: Calendar and address book gnome-media: CD player and misc. media stuff gdm: XDM replacement, PAM compliant gtop: top replacement libgtop: portable abstraction layer for platform-specific information ORBit: small light ORB esound: sound daemon screem: web site manager gwsearch: web search engine frontend elknews: newsreader gFTP: ftp client DPS-FTP: ftp client gVN: visual network manager gnome-pilot: GNOME palm pilot tools Pan: newsreader Gip: GNOME install project Gaby: personal database manager libglade: load Glade UI files at runtime Screen-shooter: screenshot applet Gmail: email system based on SQL See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more information about any of these packages. =========================================================================== Until next week - Havoc