To: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org, gnome-list@gnome.org Subject: GNOME Summary April 25-May 8 (KDevelop support, GTK Emacs, GNOME in Germany, Users Guide, IRIX packages, new gnome-libs, Evolution status report) From: Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> Date: 08 May 2000 14:47:47 -0400 This is the GNOME Summary for April 25 - May 8, 2000. ============================================================= Table of Contents ------------------------------------------------------------- 1) KDevelop 1.2 has GNOME application templates 2) GTK (X)Emacs efforts 3) GNOME in Germany 4) Users Guide Prerelease 5) Insane quantity of mail clients 6) IRIX Packages Updated 7) New gnome-libs 8) Evolution Update 9) Hacking Activity 10) New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1) KDevelop 1.2 has GNOME application templates -------------------------------------------------------------- The KDevelop guys are supporting GNOME application targets now, so you can use KDevelop to write your GNOME apps. Check it out. http://www.kdevelop.org ============================================================== 2) GTK (X)Emacs efforts -------------------------------------------------------------- William Perry has a SourceExchange project to port XEmacs to GTK+: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/elisp/gui-xemacs/ Martin Baulig, a GNOME hacker now working at SuSE, also has some pretty extensive work on GTK+ Emacs/XEmacs in CVS, under the 'gnomacs' module. ============================================================== 3) GNOME in Germany -------------------------------------------------------------- With Martin working at SuSE, GNOME is moving forward in Germany. Martin has set up a web page with information of interest to GNOME users and developers in Germany: http://www.home-of-linux.org/gnome/germany/ ============================================================== 4) Users Guide Prerelease -------------------------------------------------------------- The docs team has been hard at work on an update of the GNOME users guide for the upcoming GNOME 1.2 release. Check out this announcement: http://mail.gnome.org/pipermail/gnome-doc-list/2000-May/000111.html ============================================================== 5) Insane quantity of mail clients -------------------------------------------------------------- Two new ones, first TradeClient: http://www.tradeclient.org and CSCMail: http://www.cyberdeck.org/cscmail/ ============================================================== 6) IRIX Packages Updated -------------------------------------------------------------- See this post: http://mail.gnome.org/pipermail/gnome-announce-list/2000-May/000025.html ============================================================== 7) New gnome-libs -------------------------------------------------------------- gnome-libs 1.0.60 is out. The most interesting change in this release is that now the antialiased mode for GnomeCanvas is "officially supported." http://mail.gnome.org/pipermail/gnome-announce-list/2000-May/000030.html ============================================================== 8) Evolution Update -------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Loper sent me Evolution status updates last Monday and also this Monday. So, here are two status reports - looks like Helix is finally starting to write the user-visible shell itself, while previously they were focused on the components that would go into it. Status Update #1: Evolution, GNOME's groupware solution, is well underway. Here's our progress for the week: * OAF support and compilation cleanup (ettore) * allowing the wombat to terminate cleanly (federico) * many mail-display enhancements (danw) - much better multipart support - better "embedded message in message" support - dingus clicking - unrecognized attachment support - camel auto-loadable providers * libcamel (mail library) enhancements (zucchi) - camelstream restructuring - much faster mail reading in new mbox provider - bugfixing * iCalendar work (seth) * LDAP server dialog and improved support (toshok) * importing of pine addressbooks (clahey) * integration of a name parsing engine, and contact dialog enhancements (clahey) * faster e-table resorting (clahey) * client/server and ui enhancement in the calendar (damon) * respawning of dead bonobo controls (matt) * undo/redo additions, bugfixing, and image editing in the html editor (ettore, larry, and radek) Status Update #2: Evolution's growing by leaps and bounds! The most impressive accomplishment this week was Ettore's massive overhaul of the shell, which makes Evolution much more flexible. Other developments include.... The mailer: * Dynamic provider work (danw) * Mail config druid (danw) * KPOP support (danw) * expunging for mbox provider (zucchi) * really nice search functionality (zucchi) * 2 orders of magnitude speed increase (!) in ETable startup and column sort times (zucchi and clahey) The calendar: * tons of bugfixing (damon) The addressbook: * LDAP server dialog work (toshok) * ETable view of addresses (toshok & clahey) * Hooking it up to the shell properly (clahey) GtkHTML/composer work: * Some utf-8 insertion work (lewing) * fixing an embedded widget problem (lewing) * pasting fixes (lewing) Other items: * purify compilation support (toshok) * wombat fixups (federico) ============================================================== 9) Hacking Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Module Score-O-Matic: (number of CVS commits per module, since the last summary) 311 evolution 231 nautilus 123 gnumeric 121 gnome-core 111 gnomacs 99 gimp 64 gnome-applets 64 gimp-freetype 61 gnome-libs 60 gnome-db 57 balsa 53 gnome-utils 52 gtkhtml 50 gnome-games 48 gnome-i18n 48 bonobo 45 gnome-vfs 42 gtranslator 37 control-center 36 gnomeicu 35 pan 34 gedit 31 dr-genius 30 gnome-media 25 bug-buddy 24 gxsnmp 22 gnome-print 21 gtk+ 21 desktop-docs 21 achtung 20 sodipodi 19 guppi3 19 gnomeweb-wml 18 eog 16 mc 16 gegl User Score-O-Matic: (number of CVS commits per user, since the last summary) 141 pablo 136 darin 126 kenneth 115 kmaraas 96 martin 78 ettore 69 ahyden 58 ke 53 zucchi 53 frob 51 jody 49 neo 48 danw 47 jberkman 47 clahey 42 kabalak 42 jesusb 40 mmeeks 38 mitch 37 jirka 35 rodo 30 toshok 30 rasta 28 sullivan 28 rodrigo 25 nakai 24 mstachow 24 dmueth 23 jleach 23 chyla 22 miguel 21 ramiro 21 pawels 21 hilaire 20 mathieu 19 owen 18 jochen 18 chema 18 charles 18 cgabriel 17 tml 17 lauris 17 dcm 17 bansz ============================================================== 10) New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- Software since the last summary. Bluefish - HTML editor GTransferManager - retrieve files from the web Gabber - Jabber client gVid - change your X resolution Seahorse - GPG frontend Nova - astronomy app The Gernel - Linux kernel configurator MySQL Navigator - navigate a MySQL database MixMagic - mixer CORBA::ORBit - Perl bindings for ORBit gts - GNOME task scheduler Gmail - experimental vfolder-based mail system gnome_dialup - control a dialup connection KRunning - track running events (running as in exercise) Solfege - ear training program gxsm - 2D data acquisition LnxZip - frontend to archive utilities MemoPanel - put a memo on the GNOME panel EtherApe - network monitor, like EtherMan, but less evolved NumExp - numeric methods, 2D plots gno3dtet - tetris game GNOME WebAds - maintain ad banners on your web site GNOME WebNews - news database admin utility for web sites GNOME PM - portfolio manager DDUP applet - update a hostname in the dyndns.org nic database Industrializer - creates percussion samples PyBiff - extensible, scriptable biff applet Everybuddy - universal instant messaging client BINARS - music sequencer CodeCommander - programming editor Tenes Empanadas Graciela - Argentinian board game, similar to Risk ScrudgeWare - GNOME-based Linux distribution Pan - Usenet newsreader for GNOME gnomerar - frontend for the rar archiver GNOME character map - select and use high asciii characters genSQL - generic SQL database UI Math Literature - educational math app Skill Literature - educational app Ggradebook - gradebook app gmessage+ - clone of xmessage for GNOME Arianne RPG - massively multiplayer online RPG gob - GTK+ object builder (macro language to write GtkObjects) Grave - interface for Sensory Science RaveMP MP2000 Digital Media Player xNetTools - clone of MacOS network tools gvplay - lightweight video player grio_applet - manage files on the Rio PMP300 portable MP3 player 1159 - electronic secretary gnetview - GUI for network tasks gbrctl - configure Linux ethernet bridging GNOME ReadNews - nntp client gcardinfo_applet - PCMCIA applet gnome-utils - collection of small GNOME utilities See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more information about any of these packages. =========================================================================== Until next week - Havoc