Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:53:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> To: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org, gnome-list@gnome.org Subject: GNOME Summary, Oct 12-20 This is the GNOME Summary for October 12-20. Over 40 new and updated applications this week, have a look at the end of this summary or check out the software map on http://www.gnome.org ============================================================= Table of Contents ------------------------------------------------------------- 1) The Famous Elliot Lee Interviewed on Linux.com 2) CORBA and The GNOME 3) Red Hat 6.1 Installer uses GNOME Python Technology 4) Dia 0.80 released 5) GTK+/Gnome Application Development now in SGML 6) October GNOME for FreeBSD 7) Hacking Activity 8) New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1) The Famous Elliot Lee Interviewed on Linux.com -------------------------------------------------------------- Nat and Miguel also have cameos in this interview: http://linux.com/interviews/19991014/23/ ============================================================== 2) CORBA and The GNOME -------------------------------------------------------------- There's a CORBA and Bonobo tutorial available now, thanks to the efforts of Mathieu Lacage and Dirk-Jan C. Binnema. It has diagrams and everything; a nice document. http://developer.gnome.org/doc/guides/corba/ Of course the diagrams were created with Dia, the GNOME diagram editor and a component of the GNOME Workshop office suite. ============================================================== 3) Red Hat 6.1 Installer uses GNOME Python Technology -------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat 6.1 appeared on store shelves Monday, with a shiny new graphical installer written with James Henstridge's Python bindings for GNOME. This is a nice example of GNOME in production use, showing off the utility of language bindings. ============================================================== 4) Dia 0.80 released -------------------------------------------------------------- Speaking of Dia ;-) Alexander Larsson announced a new release this week. It includes James Henstridge's work to allow new shapes to be defined in XML (a subset of the SVG standard). This means you can extend Dia to have new diagram elements without writing any code. Find the announce here: http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-October/0605.shtml ============================================================== 5) GTK+/Gnome Application Development now in SGML -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Dave Mason, my book is now in DocBook format; this means we have nice HTML and PostScript versions. The new HTML is on the book page, here: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/ I'll get PostScript and tarball HTML up there shortly, you can also generate those from CVS using the db2* scripts as for other GNOME modules. ============================================================== 6) October GNOME for FreeBSD -------------------------------------------------------------- Announce here: http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-October/0564.shtml ============================================================== 7) Hacking Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Module Score-O-Matic: (number of CVS commits per module, during this week) 76 gtk-- 53 entity 42 libgtop 36 gnome-core 36 dia 34 gimp 29 gnumeric 27 mooonsooon 26 glade-- 23 gnome-libs 22 gnome-games 21 libsigc++ 21 gnomeweb 15 gnome-pim 14 gnome-vfs 14 dr-genius 12 gtkhtml 11 oaf 11 gxsnmp 11 gnome-chess 10 goose 10 bonobo-doc 10 beast 10 GGAD User Score-O-Matic: (number of CVS commits per user, during this week) 84 kenelson 46 martin 43 martijn 33 imain 29 christof 25 mback 23 unammx 20 mwimer 19 jirka 18 hp 17 sopwith 16 mmeeks 16 kmaraas 15 jpr 15 ettore 14 timj 14 rasta 13 jrb 13 itp 12 hallon 11 glaurent 11 alexl 10 trow 10 jamesh 10 eskil 10 davidsa "OAF" (Object Activation Framework) hit CVS; this is Elliot's replacement for the current libgnorba activation system. There was a new release of the Goose statistical library, with quite a few enhancements. Anders Carlsson checked in GtkHTML, a port of KHTMLView. It isn't quite complete but the basic framework is in place; it's translated to C and the GTK+ object system. The API is pretty much the same as the original widget. This gives us a lightweight HTML widget for simple tasks, to be complemented by an embeddable Mozilla component and perhaps the new GtkXmHTML if anyone completes the work for that. Between the three alternatives, HTML should pretty much be covered. :-) ============================================================== 8) New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- LED Counter - applet that counts things gimon - ISDN monitor applet Xwhois - Whois frontend gnome-chess - Chess interface gbox_applet - biff-style mailbox watcher applet Gnome Toaster - CD writer Emma - Money manager (income, expenses, etc.) GPacman - Pacman clone guile-gtk - Guile bindings for GTK+ irssi - IRC client oregano - Electrical Engineering Tool sawmill - Nice clean window manager gproc - process list gvidchanger - Applet to switch video resolutions gnupaghe - version -0.0.1 elknews - news reader galway - web site editor Atomix - mind game gnofin - track checking/savings accounts Eucalyptus - Email application Electric Ears - Audio player/editor Gaby - Personal database manager (addresses, etc.) libgtop - library for getting system information gtop - system monitor application gnome-utils - GNOME utilities package gnome-python - Python bindings for GNOME gnome-pim - Calendar/address book gnome-games - GNOME games package esound - Sound library/daemon ORBit - fast, light ORB gdm - xdm replacement gnome-libs - GNOME libraries gnome-media - GNOME media apps gnome-core - GNOME core (panel, session manager, etc.) Gnome QuickRes - applet to change resolutions gaddr - address book Pan - news reader gReporter - database reporting gnome-ttt - tic tac toe game GSnes9x - Nintendo emulator Quest - role-playing game gerk - applet for using one-button mice teatime - time your tea-making See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more information about any of these packages. =========================================================================== Until next week - Havoc