From: Steve GeorgeTo: gnome-list@gnome.org, gnome-announce-list@gnome.org Subject: GNOME Summary for April 15 - April 21, 2001 Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:02:39 +0100 This is the GNOME Summary for April 15 - April 21, 2001. ============================================================= Table of Contents ------------------------------------------------------------- 1) GUADEC 2001 follow-ups 2) David Patrick becomes CEO of Ximian. 3) Easier approaches - GNOME, KDE interfaces make Linux palatable. 4) Gnome, KDE camps closer to truce 5) Telsa Gwynne interviewed by Linux.com 6) GNOME Fans of the World... Relax. 7) Gnome-aRts-0.1.1 release 8) GTK+-1.3.4 released 9) Hacking Activity 10) New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1) GUADEC 2001 follow-ups -------------------------------------------------------------- So with GUADEC 2001 finished everyone is home and back to hacking. All the reports I've heard have been that it was a very positive event with planning for GNOME 2.0 making a lot of progress. Probably one of the most outstanding features was the attendence of a number of the KDE developers which hopefully will lead to more developments in interoperability between the two environments. You can read about the general event at the GUADEC 2001 web-site. http://guadec.gnome.dk/ A number of the attendees have released notes or material from their talks. Minutes of the GNOME Advisory Board Meeting April 5 2001 by Daniel Veillard. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-April/msg00000.html Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting 8 April 2001 by Daniel Veillard. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-April/msg00001.html A non technical perspective on GNOME goals and future work by Daniel Veillard. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2001-April/msg00002.html GNOME Developer Documentation Report by Dan Mueth. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2001-April/msg00028.html GNOME Office report by Sam TH. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-office-list/2001-April/msg00001.html Making Gnome Accessibile by Bill Haneman. http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/presentations/GUADEC/ GTK+ at GUADEC 2001 Summary by Owen Taylor. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2001-April/msg00180.html Keynote speech by Rob Gingell - this is a temporary location. http://foundation.gnome.org/gingell-guadec.pdf Guadec 2001: 6-8th April 2001 by Telsa Gwynne. http://www.linux.org.uk/~telsa/Trips/guadecii.html GNOME/KDE Interoperability by Dave Mason. http://people.redhat.com/dcm/guadec.html ============================================================== 2) David Patrick becomes CEO of Ximian. -------------------------------------------------------------- Nat Friedman one of the founders of Ximian steps down from the position and moves to working on products. http://www.ximian.com/newsitems/patrick_ceo.php3 He posted to Linuxtoday that he's looking forward to working "hundred hour weeks on the desktop instead of the CEO-ly duties that previously consumed my days for the last two years" - so we can look forward to welcoming him back to full hacker mode and high caffeine consumption shortly! http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-04-17-010-20-NW-GN-0017 ============================================================== 3) Easier approaches - GNOME, KDE interfaces make Linux palatable. -------------------------------------------------------------- eWEEK Labs reporter Jason Brooks gives some short views on the KDE and GNOME experience. Overall he believes they both go a long way to making Linux a viable corporate desktop but that there are still improvements to be made in the interfaces of both. http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2709282,00.html ============================================================== 4) Gnome, KDE camps closer to truce -------------------------------------------------------------- The Register reports on what both camps are doing to work more closely together and notes that "we typically hear naught but sweetness from the respective developers" but that over-indulgent advocates can sometimes cause problems. Lets hope we can continue in this happy vein. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18323.html ============================================================== 5) Telsa Gwynne interviewed by Linux.com -------------------------------------------------------------- Famous in GNOME circles for her bug reports and ability to break any application, Linux.com uncovers her thoughts on how GNOME should develop. http://linux.com/newsitem.phtml?sid=1&aid=12112 ============================================================== 6) GNOME Fans of the World... Relax. -------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Hall provides a timely reminder that with while everyone would love binary packages for GNOME 1.4 there are more important things than having the latest and greatest - like whether, in his case, his plane was sound! http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3260/1/ ============================================================== 7) Gnome-aRts-0.1.1 release -------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Janik and Stefan Westerfeld provide an initial release of gnome-arts which provides a GTK frontend for common features of aRts the KDE sound-server. This is obviously an early implementation but lets hope it's just the start. http://www.arts-project.org/doc/gnome-arts-0.1.1.html ============================================================== 8) GTK+-1.3.4 released -------------------------------------------------------------- The GTK+ developers continue their frequent releases of the unstable branch that will eventually become GTK+ 3.0. The API is mostly frozen according to the team so the adventurous application programmers can try it out alongside their existing GTK+ setup. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2001-April/msg00254.html ============================================================== 9) Hacking Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Module Score-O-Matic: (Top 20 most active modules for this month by number of CVS commits per module) 307 evolution 200 nautilus 157 galeon 103 gtranslator 98 ximian-setup-tools 90 gal 88 gimp 82 gnumeric 80 web-devel-2 74 gnome-core 67 eel 61 trilobite 57 gtk+ 52 gnome-i18n 50 dia 47 gtkhtml 44 guile-repl 41 gtkhtml2 40 libbonobo 40 glib User Score-O-Matic: (Top 20 hackers for this month by number of CVS commits per user) 241 martin 142 ramiro 131 kabalak 98 jirka 91 clahey 80 kmaraas 75 cgabriel 73 danw 69 fejj 65 darin 60 menthos 59 arios 55 maubury 54 mitch 54 chrisime 53 michael 50 veillard 50 owen 47 rasta 46 jody Thanks to Cgabriel for helping me with the Score-O-Matic. ============================================================== 10) New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- Software altered this week. PonG - A library and a GUI tool for creating configuration dialogs. Gaim - An AIM client. Etherape - A graphical network monitor. B4Step - A Window Manager for Linux and Solaris. Batalla Naval - A networked multiplayer battleship game. Balsa - An email client for GNOME Pygmy - A GNOME mail client written in Python. Overflow - Visual programming environment. Glade - A UI builder for GTK+ and GNOME. SQmaiL - A GNOME mail client that uses SQL for mail storage. GConf-- - C++ wrappers for GConf. mpterm - New terminal application that enables multiple terminals in one window. The GNU HaliFAX Viewer- Fax viewer from the GNU HaliFAX project. Manyapad - A text editor. pyFind - Find utility. glame - A powerful, fast, stable and easily extensible sound editor. vlc - A DVD and MPEG player. Cronos II - Fast and light email client. xNetTools - Multi-threaded Network tools. B-Chat - A client for Yahoo! chat. See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more information about any of these packages. =========================================================================== Best Wishes, Steve _______________________________________________ gnome-announce-list mailing list gnome-announce-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-announce-list