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To: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org, gnome-list@gnome.org Subject: GNOME Summary December 8-15 (Miguel wins FSF award, Dia, GFax, AbiWord releases, canvas cleanup, HAL applet, gnome-core prerelease, GOB release, Barnes and Noble event) From: Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> Date: 15 Dec 1999 19:49:30 -0500 This is the GNOME Summary for December 8-15, 1999. ============================================================= Table of Contents ------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Miguel wins free software award 2) Dia, GFax, AbiWord releases 3) Canvas cleanup in progress 4) HAL applet needs ideas 5) Test new gnome-core release 6) GOB release 7) Cary, NC Barnes and Noble event 8) Hacking Activity 9) New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1) Miguel wins free software award -------------------------------------------------------------- Miguel was awarded the Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software, an impressive honor. Congratulations to Miguel! The award itself is an interesting multicolored quilt: http://kurt.andover.net/bazar/fsf/P1010016.JPG Slashdot coverage: http://slashdot.org/articles/99/12/14/1743220.shtml Gnotices comments: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/945223410/index_html The GNU press release: http://www.gnu.org/awards/1999.html ============================================================== 2) Dia, GFax, AbiWord releases -------------------------------------------------------------- These three large application releases were announced on Gnotices: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/ This release of AbiWord now has GNOME support! ============================================================== 3) Canvas cleanup in progress -------------------------------------------------------------- Federico is making giant strides with GnomeCanvas, in the CANVAS_CLEANUP branch of the gnome-libs module. This will make GnomeCanvas still more efficient and elegantly designed. ============================================================== 4) HAL applet needs ideas -------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Hestilow insists that he needs feature ideas for his HAL applet. If you believe him (I don't :-) then send them to hestgray@ionet.net. ============================================================== 5) Test new gnome-core release -------------------------------------------------------------- There's a prerelease of another stable series gnome-core package. If you want to try it out, read here: http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-December/0352.shtml ============================================================== 6) GOB release -------------------------------------------------------------- GtkObject creation system, saves you some typing: http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-announce-list/1999-December/0030.shtml ============================================================== 7) Cary, NC Barnes and Noble event -------------------------------------------------------------- There is a book signing/talk thing for my book at the Cary, NC Barnes and Noble store on January 12 at 7:30. Mark your calendars! Seriously, someone please come because I will feel like a loser if no one does. :-) Cary Barnes and Noble has a large computer section and is doing this event to promote the launch of a still larger section. The store is at 760 SE Maynard. Now we just have to get B and N to take my book out of the "Programming Languages" section... ============================================================== 8) Hacking Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Module Score-O-Matic: (number of CVS commits per module, during this week) 119 eider 50 nautilus 40 gtkhtml 39 galway 31 gnumeric 29 gnome-libs 28 gtk-- 27 gnome-core 24 balsa 22 gimp 21 dr-genius 20 bonobo 13 gnomeicu 13 evolution 12 gnome-vfs 10 eears User Score-O-Matic: (number of CVS commits per user, during this week) 60 sopwith 55 jrb 44 unammx 44 arios 36 hp 32 darin 24 owen 22 jirka 19 ettore 17 glaurent 16 martin 16 jberkman 12 nat 12 mmeeks 12 kenelson 10 giac "eider" is the result of a little hacking party at RHAD Labs, because Federico is leaving us to return to Mexico. It's an IDE written in Python we started on Saturday. The idea is to glue existing components (Emacs, Glade, Insight, automake) together with Python; it isn't useful yet but it's kind of impressively far along given the amount of time invested. Python + Glade = Rapid Development! Anyway we most likely won't finish the prototype, at least not quickly, so if someone wants to start hacking it please do. In other news, we have the "nautilus" browser shell application, which will embed the file manager, help browser, and maybe the control center panels. Hacking is firing up in earnest on this component of GNOME 2.0. ============================================================== 9) New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- galway - web site editor gIPSC - IP subnet calculator ORBit-C++ - C++ support for ORBit yank - notekeeper, TODO list Pan - newsreader gbox_applet - file watcher sawmill - nice window manager for GNOME Everybuddy - universal instant messaging client CD Changer Applet - for CD jukeboxes NetLeds applet - displays network load Gfax - fax application gProjectGenerator - creates source trees Emma - money management program gnometris - Tetris clone gFTP - ftp client AlGnomegebraic - algebraic calculator gmap - map viewer bug-buddy - graphical bug report utility gnome_dialup - PPP utility gvoc - vocabulary trainer MicroC Install Browser - application installer gsteak - English/German translator vsa - visual sound analyzer New versions of Dia and AbiWord are also out, but not on the software map. This AbiWord release includes GNOME support (it's not compiled in to the binaries, but if you get the source and pass a flag to make it will build with GNOME support). See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more information about any of these packages. =========================================================================== Until next week - Havoc