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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 17:42:51 -0500 (EST) From: Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> To: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org, gnome-list@gnome.org Subject: GNOME Summary Nov. 9-17 (covers UI summary, sound, DeveloperWorks This is the GNOME Summary for November 9-17, 1999. ============================================================= Table of Contents ------------------------------------------------------------- 1) GNOME UI Summary 2) Sound 3) George has monthly column on IBM DeveloperWorks 4) Miguel at Comdex 5) Screenshots 6) New libglade 0.8 7) FireLoad applet 8) Mozilla M11 9) Hacking Activity 10) New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1) GNOME UI Summary -------------------------------------------------------------- Many of you may not have seen the GNOME UI Improvement Project here: http://www.jcinteractive.com/gnome-ui/ James Cape is running this; if you look at the rest of jcinteractive.com you'll see that he knows a fair bit about interfaces. Anyway, he's started up a pale imitator of the GNOME Summary, cleverly entitled the "GNOME UI Summary" ;-) Here's an installment: http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-November/0349.shtml ============================================================== 2) Sound -------------------------------------------------------------- In the development version of gnome-libs Elliot split the sound support into a dynamically loaded module; basically this means that if you turn off sound you won't get libesd or libaudiofile loaded off disk (in fact you won't need to have them installed). I suppose it also implies that an alternative sound module could be substituted for the current one. There's work left to be done on this though, requested in this post to the list: http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-devel-list/1999-November/0285.shtml There was also discussion of aRts, a different sound system, on gnome-kde-list: http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-kde-list/1999-November/0003.shtml If any non-desktop-developers who know a lot about sound want to jump in on that discussion, I'm sure it would be appreciated. We want to have a nice GNOME-KDE sound standard, but most of us are not "sound guys," so there aren't that many people who can say something smart on the topic. ============================================================== 3) George has monthly column on IBM DeveloperWorks -------------------------------------------------------------- George Lebl is now a monthly columnist on the IBM site; a first installment is here: http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/gnome2/ The article introduces a slightly more real-world application than the "Hello, World" featured in an earlier IBM article. It's a nice column, check it out. It even has a picture of George at the end. :-) ============================================================== 4) Miguel at Comdex -------------------------------------------------------------- Miguel gave a Comdex talk yesterday, but I can't find any press coverage of it right this minute. Anyway, here is a short GNOME blurb on the Comdex site: http://daily.zdevents.com/comdex/fall99/daily/tuesday/lbe2_t.html ============================================================== 5) Screenshots -------------------------------------------------------------- Lots of these: GNOME AbiWord Screenshots: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/942233708/index_html GNOME 1.1 Screenshots: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/942329007/index_html More GNOME 1.1 Screenshots: http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-November/0486.shtml And Still More GNOME 1.1 Screenshots: http://venus.bergsoe.dtu.dk/~pbk1807/files/skaermbilleder/ Note: GNOME 1.1 is the CVS development version, if you have to ask where to get it or how to install it then you don't want to install it. It is unstable and you should not expect it to work. "Developers only." etc. ============================================================== 6) New libglade 0.8 -------------------------------------------------------------- Find that announce here: http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-devel-list/1999-November/0302.shtml ============================================================== 7) FireLoad applet -------------------------------------------------------------- This week's gratuitous software plug is for a quickie hack that I am nonetheless enjoying, a port of the wmfire WindowMaker applet (port by Iain Barnes, original by Zinx Verituse). Basically it displays some flames proportional to your system load. More fun than the little graph. Find that here: http://home.freeuk.net/igbarn/alarm-applet.html#loadmonitor ============================================================== 8) Mozilla M11 -------------------------------------------------------------- Not strictly a GNOME thing, but we do hope to integrate Mozilla into GNOME; Milestone 11 binaries are available. Have a look at: http://www.mozilla.org ============================================================== 9) Hacking Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Module Score-O-Matic: (number of CVS commits per module, during this week) 91 gnumeric 53 gimp 50 entity 41 gnome-debug 31 gnome-libs 28 gnome-db 26 gdk-pixbuf 25 gtk+ 22 bug-buddy 21 gconf 20 gnome-core 18 gdf-test 17 gtk-- 16 gob 16 dr-genius 14 evolution 13 crescendo 12 gxsnmp 11 gnome-pim 11 bonobo 11 beast User Score-O-Matic: (number of CVS commits per user, during this week) 58 martin 42 jirka 34 jody 33 imain 30 unammx 30 jberkman 29 hp 28 mmeeks 26 rodrigo 22 sopwith 19 pablo 18 tml 17 mwimer 16 ettore 14 glaurent 13 neo 11 timj 11 kmaraas 11 atena 10 philipd 10 nakai 10 jrb 10 jpr 10 drmike 10 campd 10 asbjoer ============================================================== 10) New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- GMatH - Math environment Sarah - another file manager FireLoad applet - displays flames in proportion to system load gMessagingSystem - "gets information where it should be" gnoLyX - a LyX port gIPSC - IP subnet calculator GFax - popup fax app gPool - GNOME pool simulation Gnomovision - TV app (for TV cards) gtkdiff - diff frontend GProc - process list Elvis-Gnome - GNOME frontend for the Elvis vi clone Pan - newsreader yank - takes notes, keep TODO list bug-buddy - graphical bug reporting wizard Eucalyptus - mail program gerk - one-button mouse applet GIP - GNOME install project graphtool - graphing software GNOME dialup - ppp tool GNOME Update Manager - informs you of new software since last login Vget - network download tool Monitor sensors - displays motherboard information (temperature, etc.) graham - document organizer gisdnload - loadmeter for an ISDN line gnome-ppp - PPP tool gmt - kernel module GUI Gnonews - news client See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more information about any of these packages. =========================================================================== Until next week - Havoc