To: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org, gnome-list@gnome.org Subject: GNOME Summary Dec 15, 1999 - Jan 3, 2000: Miguel wins "Innovator of the Year," Linux Journal article on GNOME, interview with GNOME developers, call for packaging volunteers, GNOME Logo environment, CTWM support, Software: Balsa, BEAST/BSE, Dia, libxml, Sugar From: Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> Date: 03 Jan 2000 17:57:30 -0500 This is the GNOME Summary for December 15, 1999 - January 3, 2000, covering a long period of summary-maintainer-vacation. This summary lists over 50 new and updated applications. ============================================================= Table of Contents ------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Miguel wins "Innovator of the Year" 2) Linux Journal article 3) Developer interview 4) Packaging volunteers needed 5) GNOME frontend for Logo programming language 6) Balsa release 7) BEAST/BSE release 8) New Dia 9) CTWM support 10) New libxml 11) Experimental C++ wrapper, Sugar 12) Hacking Activity 13) New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1) Miguel wins "Innovator of the Year" -------------------------------------------------------------- Miguel was previously named one of the Technology Review Top 100 Young Innovators of the Year, but now he's been named _the_ Number One Young Innovator of the Year. See the article here: http://www.techreview.com/tr100/pr2.html news.gnome.org article is here, if you want to post comments, etc.: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/946478632/index_html ============================================================== 2) Linux Journal article -------------------------------------------------------------- Some GNOME hackers (George, Elliot, Miguel) wrote up an article about GNOME and future plans for Linux Journal; it's now made its way online: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue70/3754.html ============================================================== 3) Developer interview -------------------------------------------------------------- Ali Abdin did an email interview with many GNOME developers, posted here: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/945331082/index_html About a week later he posted more responses from some late-replying developers: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/946276088/index_html ============================================================== 4) Packaging volunteers needed -------------------------------------------------------------- We need volunteers for keeping GNOME packages up-to-date. Debian and Red Hat packages have official maintainers (though both could maybe use volunteer help, if you mail them); most of the other distributions, as well as non-Linux distributions (*BSD, Solaris) need volunteers. To work on GNOME packaging, sign up for the gnome-packaging-list mailing list; you might have a look at the list archives as well. http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/ ============================================================== 5) GNOME frontend for Logo programming language -------------------------------------------------------------- Use GNOME to write Logo code! Fun and educational! Seriously, this is a nice program for schools and such. Have a look: http://laguna.fmedic.unam.mx/~daniel/glogo/ ============================================================== 6) Balsa release -------------------------------------------------------------- The long-quiet Balsa project made a release: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/945835198/index_html Looking nice! ============================================================== 7) BEAST/BSE release -------------------------------------------------------------- A sound synthesis engine and GUI from GTK+ co-maintainer Tim Janik. If nothing else, an authoritative source of Correct GTK+ Programming examples. :-) Personally I can't make heads or tails of all these dials and buttons, but lots of people who know about sound have been giving rave reviews. Read about it here: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/946616649/index_html Quick screenshot link: http://beast.gtk.org/beast-shot1.png ============================================================== 8) New Dia -------------------------------------------------------------- James announced a new Dia release: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/946131539/index_html ============================================================== 9) CTWM support -------------------------------------------------------------- We have GNOME patches for the CTWM window manager: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/945747290/index_html Increasingly hard to think of a WM _without_ GNOME hints support. ============================================================== 10) New libxml -------------------------------------------------------------- New version of libxml, with better C++ compatibility and an improved HTML parsing module. http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/945534306/index_html ============================================================== 11) Experimental C++ wrapper, Sugar -------------------------------------------------------------- I made a lightweight C++ wrapper prototype called Sugar (well, this is sort of a second prototype; the first one was done by hand, this one is script-generated). See announce here: http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gtk-list/2000-January/0012.shtml Feedback requested (please read the mailing list thread and the Sugar README first though). ============================================================== 12) Hacking Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Module Score-O-Matic: (number of CVS commits per module, since the last summary) 132 gimp 98 gnumeric 80 gnome-db 78 nautilus 68 libgtop 60 balsa 55 gtk-- 51 gnome-core 49 gtkhtml 46 galway 46 beast 40 gnomeicu 37 gnome-libs 33 dr-genius 24 gnome-pim 24 eider 24 dia 23 gnome-vfs 21 eears 20 achtung 19 mc 18 gob 17 gxsnmp 16 evolution User Score-O-Matic: (number of CVS commits per user, since the last summary) 79 martin 76 rodrigo 58 arios 54 hp 53 timj 48 jirka 45 unammx 43 mmeeks 42 sopwith 41 kenelson 36 neo 32 kmaraas 31 rasta 31 ettore 30 jwise 30 cactus 27 jody 26 kabalak 22 nilsb 22 jrb 21 jamesh 19 mathieu 19 darin 18 mitch 18 jesusb 17 peterw 17 mback 16 sullivan 15 yasuhiro 15 pcg 15 jpr 15 jborg 15 cwryu ============================================================== 13) New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- Over 50 new software releases since the last summary! screem - website editor gnome-tcl - Tcl binding for GTK/GNOME CORBA::ORBit - Perl bindings for CORBA (via ORBit, the GNOME ORB) gvoc - vocabulary trainer GNOME Particle Simulator - simulates particles GnomePM - portfolio manager Gnofract 4D - fractal generator gBackground - changes window background gob - GtkObject generation language Oregano - circuit simulator BEAST/BSE - sound engine and synthesizer GUI vsa - displays cool graphs based on your sound output SodiPodi - vector graphics program Gnome ReadNews - yet another news client graphtool - generate graphs and plots gbox_applet - mailbox watcher MonitorSensors - displays sensor data from lm_sensors GPPP-dialer - PPP dialer app Everybuddy - universal instant messaging client gecco - GNOME extensible configuration console PuzzleSquare - numbers game gLife - game of Life URL Collector - stores URLs efx - xmms effect plugin loader for esound RadioActive - video4Linux interface Panel-- - C++ wrapper for panel applet lib groach - return of xroach GuiSlp - Stampede package manager gMiniCppEnvironment - mini-IDE Finder - Mac-style finder bar GIP - GNOME install project dia - tool for drawing diagrams gnuTaxes - tax preparation application GMatH - math environment CCView - C++ project browser GTransferManager - retrieve multiple files from the web Gnome Darxite Client - Darxite client GTetrinet - clone of Windows game Tetrinet TimeClock - time clock program GNOME Transcript - database client Eucalyptus - Email client VDKBuilder - GTK/GNOME RAD tool, in tradition of Delphi GtkExText - enhanced text widget gtkdiff - diff frontend gnome-db - GNOME database library and widgets Balsa - mail client irssi - IRC client ORBit-CPP - C++ bindings for ORBit sawmill - nice window manager m3gtk - Modula 3 bindings for GTK GnomeICU - ICQ client Sarah - simple file manager GnomeHack - GUI for nethack (works great!) gnome-8ball - magic 8 ball applet CD changer applet - for your CD jukebox gFTP - ftp client galway - web page editor gIPSC - subnet calculator Gnumeric was released but not updated on the software map. ;-) See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more information about any of these packages. =========================================================================== Until next week - Havoc