From: Christian Schaller <Uraeus@linuxrising.org> To: gnome-list@gnome.org, gnome-announce-list@gnome.org Subject: GNOME Summary for 2001-08-05 - 2001-08-15 Date: 21 Aug 2001 00:03:16 +0200 Cc: editor@lwn.net, editors@linuxtoday.com, grex@scouts-es.org, cactus@cactus.rulez.org, grager@gynov.org This is the GNOME Summary for 2001-08-05 - 2001-08-15 ============================================================== Table of Contents -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. GNOME Print gets TrueType support 2. Galeon Status Update 3. Why GNOME Hackers Should Care about Usability 4. Mozstreamer hits the street 5. Two more releases of Abiword available 6. Gaim and Galeon gets good reviews 7. JAVA-GNOME project makes a new relase 8. When the going gets tough Alan gets going 9. GNOME Summary information 10. Hacker Activity 12. New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1. GNOME Print gets TrueType support -------------------------------------------------------------- Akira TAGOH of Red Hat Japan submitted a nice big patch to GNOME-print this weekend which adds support for TrueType fonts under GNOME print. Available is also a patch for Gnumeric. Hopefully this patch will make it into the next gnome-print release. http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gnome-print/2001-August/000766.html http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-print ============================================================== 2. Galeon Status Update -------------------------------------------------------------- Not so long ago the GNOME Foundation board took the initiative to get the developers of different projects to do status reports on their projects from time to time in order to help improve project co-ordination and get greater synergy-effects. The SashXB project was first out. Now Marco Pesenti Gritti of the Galeon project follows up with a status report on the Galeon project. Below you find the link to the Galeon report and the GNOME feature archive. Also since I know you are going to ask about Ximian packages of Galeon, well they are underway, in the meantime Peter Teichman has made some Ximian preview packages for Red Hat 7.1 available. http://developer.gnome.org/feature/current/ http://primates.ximian.com/~peter/gconf/ ============================================================== 3. Why GNOME Hackers Should Care about Usability -------------------------------------------------------------- Seth Nickel, lead developer on the Useability task team, have writen an article on why developers should care about useability. Interesting article which well illustrates useability why useability issues are important. http://developer.gnome.org/feature/archive/usability/ ============================================================== 4. Mozstreamer hits the street -------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Crouse made his code for Mozstreamer available this week. Mozstreamer is a Mozilla plugin which is built on top of GStreamer. This means that Linux and Mozilla finally gets a multimedia plugin that supports most of the available video and audio formats in use on the web today (A list which got a little longer today as Jérémy SIMON submited his new mikmod plugin for gstreamer.) Thanks goes to OEone Corporation for letting Steve work on Mozstreamer and GStreamer as part of his work for them. http://mozstreamer.mozdev.net http://www.gstreamer.net ============================================================== 5. Two more releases of Abiword available -------------------------------------------------------------- Since our last summary the Abiword team have done two more releases, 0.9.1 and 0.9.2. The bug killing hunt in preparation for 1.0 continues. The goal is to have a 1.0 release with no known segfault bugs, so please submit good bug reports and test cases to help Abiword reach 1.0. Also in the cool Abiword news department is the work done by OEone on embeding Abiword into Mozilla. Below you find a link to the mail from Mike Potter of OEone which includes a link to a screenshot showing this beauty. Links below to the mail from OEone and to the Abiword homepage. http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/01/August/0323.html http://www.abisource.com ============================================================== 6. Gaim and Galeon gets good reviews -------------------------------------------------------------- Freeos.com had a review of the GAIM instant messaging application which allows users to connect to the AOL Instant messenger service. The review concludes that GAIM is even better than the original AOL client. Canada Computes gives top score to Galeon in their Linux browser comparison, fun this is that the major critisim of Galeon is how the GUI looks, guess the reviewer must have missed that this is completly themeable in Galeon and with lots of themes included, even one for CmdrTaco :). http://www.freeos.com/articles/4362/ http://www.canadacomputes.com/v3/story/1,1017,7178,00.html?tag=81&sb=79 ============================================================== 7. JAVA-GNOME project makes a new relase -------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey Morgan announced the 0.6.1 release of Java-GNOME. Java-GNOME is a nice set of Java Bindings for GTK+ and GNOME. Jeffrey also promised that a 0.7.0 release would be available soon which can be compiled using the new Gcj compiler into native code. http://news.gnome.org/997878977/index_html http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net ============================================================== 8. When the going gets tough Alan gets going -------------------------------------------------------------- What do you do when all the easy problems are uncovered and you need to get at the hard ones? Well, if you are lucky you get Alan Cox to debug your application. The application that got his attention this time was Nautilus. Alan posted a long mail with his findings something which lead to others quickly producing patches to fix the problems Alan uncovered. Thanks goes to Alan and the Nautilus hackers. Other cool news on the Nautilus front is all the great work on Nautilus done by the Red Hat hackers. If you thought that Red Hat was only for the server and not for the desktop I promise you that you will change your mind when you see Red Hat 7.2, with the cool Nautilus system integration being the icing on the cake. Below you find a link to Alans initial mail to the Nautilus list. http://lists.eazel.com/pipermail/nautilus-list/2001-August/004978.html ============================================================== 9. GNOME Summary information -------------------------------------------------------------- The GNOME summary is being translated into Spanish, Hungarian and now also French. Translations are usually available shortly after the release of the summary in english. Since this summary covers the last two weeks the first of the CVS stats cover the period from 4th to 11th august and the second cover the period from the 11th to the 18th. http://es.gnome.org/actualidad/ http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/gnome/summary/ http://www.gynov.org/gnome-summary/ ============================================================== 10. Hacker Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists. Most active modules: 224 evolution 221 SashWDE 102 SashMo 92 gnome-core 49 galeon 40 gnumeric 38 gtranslator 34 libbonobo 32 gimp 32 gail 29 gtkhtml 29 mc 28 gtk+ 25 gal 25 gtkvts 21 ORBit2 19 gnome-control-center 17 setup-tools-backends 17 libgnomeui 17 anjuta [104 active modules omitted] Most active hackers: 115 martin 83 dkc 70 tyeler 60 chatham 56 kmaraas 47 michael 44 kabalak 41 ettore 41 fejj 33 ajshankar 30 baddog 30 darin 29 atevstef 25 proskin 24 chyla 22 jcorwin 21 peterw 21 mpeseng 20 rodrigo 20 rodo [126 active hackers omitted] ============================================================== 10. Hacker Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists. Most active modules: 285 evolution 99 galeon 47 gnumeric 46 gnome-utils 45 gtkhtml 42 mc 39 gnome-core 37 gtranslator 26 dia 24 nautilus 23 ximian-setup-tools 23 gtk+ 23 SashMo 21 at-spi 20 gconf 20 gnome-xml 19 gnome-docu 18 gail 18 libbonobo 18 gtkvts [109 active modules omitted] Most active hackers: 69 kmaraas 59 minmax 53 martin 52 michael 45 kabalak 38 proskin 34 baddog 34 ettore 34 rodo 33 darin 32 mpeseng 32 veillard 31 fejj 26 peterw 25 jody 24 linas 22 jirka 22 clahey 22 cyrille 21 federico [121 active hackers omitted] ============================================================== 12. New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Genius - Dr Genius is a geometry tool Pan - A newsreader, loosely based on Agent Goats - A post-it note applet for Gnome G-CTB - A basic accounting system gtktalog - Easily browse a CDROM database. java-gnome - Java-GNOME is a Java binding gdm - GNOME Display Manager. rubrica - Addressbook application gramps - A GNOME/Python based genealogy program. pavuk - Pavuk is recursive WWW grabber Guikachu - Graphical editing PalmOS resource files gnome-db - Database access for GNOME applications Garden - IRC client for GNU/Linux Gnucash - GNU personal finance manager. PrintDuplex - A Gnome utility for manual duplex printing EtherApe - A network monitor modeled after etherman Anjuta - A very versatile IDE for C and C++ in Linux. Solfege - GNU Solfege is an eartraining program for GNOME. vlc - (VideoLAN Client) is a DVD and MPEG player for Gnome or Gtk+. Gnome-- - A powerful C++ binding for the GNOME libraries. gtk-- - A C++ wrapper for GTK+. Balsa - An email client for GNOME. chbg - Simple manager of desktop background. gsmbscanner - Small GTK+ based NetBIOS scanner program Gnome CD Master - All you need to copy, create and edit Audio CDs. devhelp - A developers help program. glame - Targeted to be the GIMP for audio processing. XFce - A lightweight desktop environment for various UNIX systems protagonist - aims to provide an efficient 3-tier application server For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map: http://www.gnome.org/applist/listrecent.php3