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To: gnome-list@gnome.org, gnome-announce-list@gnome.org Subject: GNOME Summary December 1-8 (AbiWord GNOMEized, GMap, Conglomerate structured document editor, Galway needs hackers, free copies of GGAD, Guppi, gmc, sawmill, gnome-pim/gnome-pilot) From: Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> Date: 09 Dec 1999 16:19:46 -0500 This is the belated GNOME Summary for December 1-8, 1999. ============================================================= Table of Contents ------------------------------------------------------------- 1) AbiWord gets GNOME Support 2) GMap 3) Conglomerate 4) Galway needs hackers 5) Free books from Helix Code 6) Guppi returns from the dead 7) New gmc 8) New Sawmill 9) New GNOME Calendar/VCard with Pilot support 10) Hacking Activity 11) New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1) AbiWord gets GNOME Support -------------------------------------------------------------- There's now a "GNOMEized" version of AbiWord; read all about it: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/944263234/index_html Thanks to Joaquin Cuenca Abela for doing this work, it looks really nice. ============================================================== 2) GMap -------------------------------------------------------------- A new map-browsing application, which looks pretty neat. It can browse the map data Bruce Perens made available under the GPL some time ago. Have a look at the screenshots: http://academy.cas.cz/~gis/ ============================================================== 3) Conglomerate -------------------------------------------------------------- Simplemente, a company in Mexico City, announced a new GUI for editing XML/SGML structured documents. The screenshots look really sweet: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/944281582/index_html ============================================================== 4) Galway needs hackers -------------------------------------------------------------- Ariel Rios wrote in with a request for assistance with the Galway web editor. It's a pretty nice-looking application for creating web sites, written in Scheme. Here's his mail: What i need is: -Schemers willing to help with coding. -People to write the HTML, Scheme, VRML and JScript parsers -People to write documentation -And most of all translators I want to start integrating gtkhtml into it but need other people to deal with parts of the development. Galway is located under GNOME CVS module galway. Its current homepage is: http://erin.netpedia.net/galway.html Anyone interested can contact me at: jarios@usa.net ============================================================== 5) Free books from Helix Code -------------------------------------------------------------- Helix Code (Miguel and Nat's company) is offering to purchase copies of GTK+/GNOME Application Development for any hackers that need one. Helix Code: http://www.helixcode.com/ The book: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/ If you'd like a copy of the book, mail Nat (nat@helixcode.com) or track down Nat or Miguel on IRC or in person. ============================================================== 6) Guppi returns from the dead -------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Trowbridge has started hacking Guppi again; see this post: http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/guppi-list/1999-December/0000.shtml For its third rewrite, Guppi is now in the 'guppi3' CVS module. It's great to see it moving along again! ============================================================== 7) New gmc -------------------------------------------------------------- New version of the file manager: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/944588761/index_html ============================================================== 8) New Sawmill -------------------------------------------------------------- John Harper is back on his every-Monday schedule: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/944530567/index_html ============================================================== 9) New GNOME Calendar/VCard with Pilot support -------------------------------------------------------------- An alpha release: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/944488555/index_html ============================================================== 10) Hacking Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Module Score-O-Matic: (number of CVS commits per module, during this week) 47 guppi3 46 entity 38 gimp 31 gnome-libs 26 gnumeric 25 gnome-db 21 gtk-- 21 gdk-pixbuf 20 libgtop 20 gw-web 19 gnome-pim 18 balsa 17 gtkhtml 17 gnomeicu 15 gnome-core 13 gill 13 bonobo 12 gphotoweb 12 dia 11 nautilus 11 libgtop-bindings 11 galway User Score-O-Matic: (number of CVS commits per user, during this week) 47 trow 40 unammx 39 martin 32 imain 29 sopwith 25 rodrigo 24 kmaraas 20 jberkman 20 arios 19 ole 18 kenelson 18 hp 15 kabalak 15 jwise 14 mwimer 14 mmeeks 14 jrb 13 jamesh 13 ettore 13 eskil 12 mathieu ============================================================== 11) New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- gvoc - vocabulary trainer MicroC Install Browser - software installer gsteak - English-German translator vsa - visual sound analyzer gnome-pilot - Palm Pilot connectivity Emma - money management program GTransferManager - grabs files from the web gIDE - IDE for GNOME Hitchhiker 2000 - 3D astronomy visualization/simulation app Morpheus - 3D model viewer Pygmy - mail client written in Python gnome-napster - Napster client sawmill - nice GNOME-compliant window manager gPhoto - digital camera application gProjectGenerator - generates source trees CD Changer Applet - applet to change CDs yank - notekeeper/todolist graham - manage important documents db_designer - Merise diagrams ggv - GNOME GhostView gfinger - graphical finger RP3 - PPP dialup GUI groach - Return of XRoach Xwhois - whois client Atomix - mind game gsetit - SETI@Home app GUL - geometric objects gMessagingSystem - sends messages around guileGL - Guile bindings for OpenGL and GtkGLArea Electric Ears - audio player/editor Pan - News client Eucalyptus - Mail client gPopUp - Samba client See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more information about any of these packages. =========================================================================== Until next week - Havoc