Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:30:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> To: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org, gnome-list@gnome.org Subject: GNOME Summary October 20-26 This is the GNOME Summary for October 20-26. ============================================================= Table of Contents ------------------------------------------------------------- 1) GNOME Documentation Project has a home page 2) User FAQ Updated 3) Japanese GNOME User Group 4) Speaking In Japan 5) Development release of GNOME core 6) Copyright Notices 7) MICO-to-GNOME authentication bridge 8) WindowMaker dock app applet needed 9) Hacking Activity 10) New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1) GNOME Documentation Project has a home page -------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Mason has created a web page, assembled a documentation team, and all kinds of crazy stuff. Check it out: http://www.gnome.org/gdp/ Of course we have some really nice documentation already (such as the free User's Guide and free developer books), but now we have infrastructure for future documentation. Dave also posted about the API documentation status: http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-October/0927.shtml ============================================================== 2) User FAQ Updated -------------------------------------------------------------- One of the documentation project's first steps was updating the FAQ, read here: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/940552777/index_html ============================================================== 3) Japanese GNOME User Group -------------------------------------------------------------- Continuing GNOME's international flavor and appeal, we have a new user group in Japan, announced here: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/940916835/index_html ============================================================== 4) Speaking In Japan -------------------------------------------------------------- I'm giving a GNOME talk in Japan on November 1st, then there will be a GNOME BOF on November 2. Read here: http://www.gnu.org/events.html or the page in Japanese: http://www.iijnet.or.jp/sea/Events/seminar/gnu99n01.html If you're in Japan, consider stopping by one or both events. There will also be talks by RMS, Werner Koch (GNUPG), and Kennichi Handa (Emacs/MULE). ============================================================== 5) Development release of GNOME core -------------------------------------------------------------- An ALPHA, UNSTABLE release of the gnome-core and gnome-applets modules came out this week. http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/940637133/index_html There are lots of nifty new features, described at the above URL. Note: this is an unstable release. DO NOT expect us to support it. If it breaks, you keep both pieces. That said, please do try it out if you're willing to send patches and bug reports. ============================================================== 6) Copyright Notices -------------------------------------------------------------- A reminder, inspired by a recent incident now resolved and apologized-for: - Before using someone else's code, ask that person (it's just polite) - Always retain copyright notices on code that you use (it's the law) - Always add copyright notices to code that you write This applies to code in CVS as well as "released" code; remember that our CVS repository is mirrored into anonymous repositories all over the world. ============================================================== 7) MICO-to-GNOME authentication bridge -------------------------------------------------------------- Stefan Westerfeld has written an add-on for MICO so that it will use the GNOME authentication system and can talk to ORBit and GNOME applications. Very nice. Read about it here: http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-kde-list/1999-October/0023.shtml Some clarification, if you aren't familiar with CORBA: - ORBit and other ORBs (such as MICO) have no problem communicating - However, there is no standard way to _authenticate_ CORBA connections. Thus GNOME and KDE have different solutions. - This is the problem Stefan has addressed. It is not a hard problem, but it is a problem that no one had stepped up to work on. ============================================================== 8) WindowMaker dock app applet needed -------------------------------------------------------------- See this mailing list post, and followups: http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-October/0950.shtml Basically we need a panel applet that will swallow WindowMaker dock apps, and do the panel communication for them. In particular, you can swallow the dock apps now if you aren't using Enlightenment, but the panel forgets about them since it doesn't know how to restart them; an applet wrapper would cure this. An applet wrapper could also present a property box to select what app to put inside it, etc. ============================================================== 9) Hacking Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- 734 commits this week. Module Score-O-Matic: (number of CVS commits per module, during this week) 95 gnome-core 45 entity 41 gimp 40 gxsnmp 36 GGAD 35 gnumeric 30 gnome-pilot 29 gnome-libs 26 gnome-applets 24 gtk-- 20 gtkhtml 18 gnome-pim 17 dr-genius 15 web-devel-2 15 libsigc++ 14 libgtop 13 gdk-pixbuf 11 rosegarden 11 glade-- 11 bug-buddy User Score-O-Matic: (number of CVS commits per user, during this week) 48 unammx 40 dcm 36 jberkman 34 sopwith 34 kenelson 32 jirka 30 imain 25 gregm 22 martin 19 andersca 18 jrb 18 eskil 17 kmaraas 15 mwimer 15 dres 14 davidsa 12 hp 12 christof 11 remlali 10 tml 10 neo 10 mmeeks 10 jaka ============================================================== 10) New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- graham - document organizer gimon - ISDN monitor GMatH - math program gbox_applet - mail watcher applet gnometris - Tetris clone Nightfall - Astronomy program sawmill - Nice window manager GProc - process list gmessage - like xmessage MiniCPPEnvironment - Simple IDE thing, looks neat, see screenshot in software map GMail - mail client gnome-pilot - Palm Pilot tools Quest - Role playing game gnome-core - GNOME core components gnome-applets - GNOME panel applets morpheus - 3D model viewer Picview - image viewer gxsnmp - network monitor tool gnome-ttt - Tic Tac Toe Gnome Toaster - CD burner DPS FTP - ftp client elknews - news client Pygmy - mail client See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more information about any of these packages. =========================================================================== Until next week - Havoc