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From: Christian Schaller <Uraeus@linuxrising.org> To: editor@lwn.net, editors@linuxtoday.com, davef@dmconnections.com, grex@scouts-es.org Subject: Gnome Summary May 6th -May 12th, second try Date: 14 May 2001 23:34:16 +0200 This is the GNOME Summary for May06 - May 12, 2001. ============================================================= Table of Contents ------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Natilus 1.0.3 released 2) Miguel offers free Soup. 3) Galeon breaks all speed limits 4) Mozilla 0.9 status update. 5) Eazel closing their doors 6) TerraForm goes GNOME 7) MathML for all GNOME applications. 8) Gnotices is now upgraded 9) GNOME Accessibility Project reports 10) New unified address for GNOME Summary submission. 11) Gabber, one chat to rule them all 12) Project(s) of the Week 13) Hacking Activity 14) New and Updated Software ============================================================================== 1) Natilus 1.0.3 released -------------------------------------------------------------- The big thing this week was of course the much anticipated 1.0.3 release of Nautilus. The release added a lot of highly requested features and speed improvements. And of course the much discussed cut'n paste support was added. The release also brought the very cool News sidebar created by Andy Hertzfeld himself. The Nautilus 1.0.3 release notes: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-May/msg00019.html ============================================================== 2) Miguel offers free Soup. -------------------------------------------------------------- Our fearless leader Miguel de Icaza announced that Soup has been put into GNOME cvs. Soup is a SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) implementation in C. The runtime is licensed under the LGPL, the compiler is under the GPL. This is the work of Alex "Bad Trance" Graveley and Dick Porter. The full announcement available at: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2001-May/msg00173.html ============================================================== 3) Galeon breaks all speed limits -------------------------------------------------------------- The Galeon browser has just had its 0.10.6 release. Don't let the small version number fool you cause this is a big release. It is the first release to utilize the new Mozilla 0.9 release, and if you think that release made Mozilla you haven't tried Galeon. With the speed improvements this combo gives there is no doubt, Galeon is now the undisputed Linux browser speed king. Only thing to note is that you need a patch for Mozilla for Galeon to work properly. If you use the RPMS provided from mozilla.org you don't need the patch cause Christopher Blizzard have already put the fix into them. The patch is found here: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79022 Galeon is available from the Galeon homepage http://galeon.sourceforge.net ============================================================== 4) Mozilla 0.9 status update. -------------------------------------------------------------- Mozillazine has posted a great article outlining all the major issues the Mozilla developers have been and are working on, like imglib2 and the cache improvements. The new fast imglib2 library is signed by Stuart Parmenter who is not only known for his great work on Mozilla, but also for his work on the Balsa mail client for GNOME. Also worth mentioning is that we now have yet another GNOME agent infiltrating Mozilla. Arik Devens who many of you will know worked at Ximian last summer is currently working for Netscape hacking Mozilla (we are all waiting for the Bonobo port announcement Arik :) The Mozillazine status report can be found here: http://mozillazine.org/articles/article1922.html ============================================================== 5) Eazel closing their doors -------------------------------------------------------------- While an official statement hasn't yet been issued by Eazel yet. I am sad to report that everything points towards Eazel shutting down. An official statement will be available later this week. Eazel or no Eazel, most of the Nautilus hackers is here for the long run so Nautilus development continues ahead at full steam. More information on this in the next Summary. http://www.eazel.com ============================================================== 6) TerraForm goes GNOME -------------------------------------------------------------- The 0.8.0 release of the premier LInux terrain generation application, Terraform, is available.New in this relase is Terraform now being a GNOME application, a faster 3D rendering engine, new *.terraform file format, tree undo, online documentation available from the help menu, improved contour line code, and many bugs getting fixed. http://terraform.sourceforge.net/ ============================================================== 7) MathML for all GNOME applications. -------------------------------------------------------------- Luca Padovani uploaded the sourcecode to his GtkMathView library into GNOME CVS this week. It is a MathML rendering engine for use in Gtk+ and GNOME apps. And if that isn't enough Miguel de Icaza even said that he think it has really nice source code, which isn't something he says often about C++ code :), so be sure to check it out at: http://www.cs.unibo.it/helm/mml-widget/ ============================================================== 8) Gnotices is now upgraded -------------------------------------------------------------- Elliot Lee has announced that Gnotices now has been upgraded to new versions of Zope and Squishdot. Hopefully Gnotices will run smoother from here on. And for the gamblers out there, Elliot is taking uptime bets :). Gnotices is as always found at: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/ ============================================================== 9) GNOME Accessibility Project reports -------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Haneman that the GNOME Accessibility Project moves forward with the new gail library now in GNOME CVS. GAIL is the Gnome Accessibility Implementation Library and is as the name suggests an implementation of the accesesibility interfaces defined by ATK. Also, an initial draft of IDL for a Gnome Accessibility Service Provider Interface was posted to gnome-accessibility-list for public comment and review here: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-list/2001-May/msg00029.html General information on the accessibility project can be found here: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap ============================================================== 10) New unified address for GNOME Summary submission. -------------------------------------------------------------- Wanted to submit a story to the GNOME Summary, but don't know how? Well whenever you have some nice news for the GNOME summaries you can reach both me and Steve George with this simple mail adress: gnome-summary@gnome.org. ============================================================== 11) Gabber, one chat to rule them all -------------------------------------------------------------- Julian Missig and the Gabber crew released a new version of Gabber: the GNOME Jabber Client this week. If you haven't tried Jabber, it is an open instant messaging system which allows you to chat with people different systems, such as ICQ, AIM, Yahoo!, and MSN. This was a bugfix & usability release, so Gabber should now run smoother than ever. You can find Gabber at: http://gabber.sourceforge.net ============================================================== 12) Project(s) of the Week -------------------------------------------------------------- Darin Adler is requesting help writing documentation for GNOME-vfs. This should be great project for someone wishing to get to know the GNOME infrastructure better and at the same time to something of really great value to the GNOME community. Here is Darin's email: http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gnome-vfs/2001-May/000316.html We also have a POW for a webmaster this week. Frédéric Toussaint one of the premier graphics artists in the GNOME community is requesting help in creating a website dedicated to graphics in GNOME. The site is meant to be a place of contact for graphics artists wanting to help out with GNOME. To goal is to help with creating everything from logos, splash-screens and clip-art for GNOME. For instance Frédéric has already made some clip-art which he has available here: http://www.linuxgraphic.org/section2d/sketch/cliparts/index.html and he also have made a gallery of some the graphics he already has made for GNOME here: http://www.linuxgraphic.org/cgi-bin/exposer/View.pl?foldername=/fred&indexname=public.db If you are interested contact Frédéric at fred(at)linuxgraphic.org ============================================================== 13) Hacking Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Paul Warren for making this. Most active modules 93 evolution 67 ximian-setup-tools 58 gnumeric 50 galeon 32 gimp 26 gnome-i18n 23 nautilus 23 gtkmm-root 22 libgnomeui 22 gtkhtml 20 gtk+ 18 gnome-db 15 glib 15 guppi3 15 dia 15 CVSROOT 14 libgda 14 gal 13 gnome-core 13 gdm2 [87 active modules omitted] Most active developers 54 martin 34 rodrigo 25 rasta 25 chema 23 kabalak 22 darin 22 michael 22 trow 22 fejj 22 jody 21 veillard 20 murrayc 20 jirka 19 mitch 19 menesis 16 menthos 16 hansp 15 jpr 14 toshok 14 danw [111 active developers omitted] NB These statistics are largely meaningless - they count CVS commits, which are only a very rough indicator of actual progress of a project. ============================================================== 14) New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- Software altered this week: Terraform fractal terrain generator and transformator. B-Chat Yahoo! Chat client. Statistica program of bet games Pan Usenet newsreader for GTK and GNOME GtkMathView is a GTK widget for rendering MathML documents. ximian-setup-tools for unfied system configuration for UNIX. Cronos II Filters is a plugin for Cronos II for filerting support. gphoton Simple 3d modeller with integrated ray tracer. gtktalog is made to easily browse a CDROM database. Gmonsters A little monster breeding game for Gnome. Pygmy is a GNOME mail client written in Python vlc (VideoLAN Client) is a DVD and MPEG player for Gnome or Gtk+. gnochive is a gnome front-end for all common archivers under linux. gThumb Image viewer and browser. MrProject is a project management program. Gnome CD Master All you need to copy, create or edit Audio CDs. Flink Mailchecking applet A simple mailchecker for the GNOME panel. Jewels Gnome version of Jewels with multiplayer deadmatch mode. Nautilus The GNOME file manager, desktop, and graphical shell. gbonds a savings bond inventory program SPlotter-3D Plotting all 2D and 3D functions had never been so easy. Graftor is for designing automated systems. GNOME Basic to provide VB compatible functionality for the GNOME project. gnommind Master mind game. IceWM is a X11 window manager coded from scratch in C++ for performance and size. quickedit is simple and fast sound editor for Gnome, it can edit WAV and MP3 files. gmmusic a Gnomified database frontend for PostgreSQL to handle your complete music collection. See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more information about any of these packages. ============================================================================== Best Wishes, Christian