From: Christian Schaller <uraeus@linuxrising.org> To: gnome-list@gnome.org, gnome-announce-list@gnome.org Subject: GNOME Summary for 2001-10-06 - 2001-10-19 Date: 21 Oct 2001 15:50:59 +0200 Cc: editor@lwn.net, editors@linuxtoday.com This is the GNOME Summary for 2001-10-06 - 2001-10-19 ============================================================== Table of Contents -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. GNOME 2 most wanted features lists 2. New Nautilus release available 3. Gnomehide now available 4. GNOME Core and GNOME utils GNOME 2 porting efforts 5. New GNOME website underway 6. Insight into Ximian motivation policies 7. GNOME and XML examined 8. GNOME Foundation accepting new members and new board elections comming up 9. Abiword Weekly news 55 10. A Peacock shows its face 11. Updated version of the GNOME installation guide available 12. New GNOME devtools website 13. GNOME Project Alpabetical Index 14. First birthday of OpenOffice project 15. Translated GNOME summaries 16. CVS activity 17. Hacker Activity 19. New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1. GNOME 2 most wanted features lists -------------------------------------------------------------- We put up a request for user feedback on what they would want to see for GNOME 2.x on Gnotices not long ago. The request gave us an very large amount of comments and requests. Aaron at Ximian took the time to compile the requests into a more ordered list and try to rank them somewhat. Steve Fox did a similar operation for the GNOME Web team. So the message is that the GNOME hackers are listening and appreciate your feedback. Links below to the compilations of Aaron and Steve. http://primates.ximian.com/~aaron/requests.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-web-list/2001-October/msg00052.html ============================================================== 2. New Nautilus release available -------------------------------------------------------------- Darin Adler and the rest of the Nautilus team proudly presents Nautlus 1.0.5. This release contains a lot of fixes and improvements from the Red Hat Labs guys. This release adds lots of little tweaks and polishes, and it also makes Nautilus use .desktop files which should increase interoperability with other filemanagers using that specification. This will probably be the last GNOME 1.x release of Nautilus as the coders will start focusing on porting Nautilus to the GNOME 2 framework. You find Darin's announcement at the first link below. Jamin Philip Gray has made some RPMS for Red Hat 7.1 availble which you find and the second link below. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-October/msg00038.html http://dolinux.dyn.dhs.org/rpms/nautilus/ ============================================================== 3. Gnomehide now available -------------------------------------------------------------- Havoc Pennington announced the availability of Gnomehide this week. Gnomehide is a set of GNOME 2 RPMS for people using RedHat Rawhide or RedHat 7.2 distributions. Thanks goes to Havoc for this. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-2-0-list/2001-October/msg00270.html ============================================================== 4. GNOME Core and GNOME utils GNOME 2 porting efforts -------------------------------------------------------------- Alex Larsson, Georg Lebl, Glynn Foster and others are working hard at porting the gnome-core package to the GNOME 2 plattform. Part of the gnome-core panel is the popular gnome-panel which now compiles on the GNOME 2 plattform. Bastien Nocera is working hard at porting the gnome-utils package to GNOME 2 and have already reported success with many of the utils. Anders Carlson the gnome-libs maintainer has also declared gnome-libs2 finished API wise now and ready to be used. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-2-0-list/2001-October/msg00192.html ============================================================== 5. New GNOME website underway -------------------------------------------------------------- Our webteam is currently hard at work improving the website. Our Gnotices maintainer and resident Zope export, Michael R. Bernstein, has already made improvements to our Squishdot setup, including getting preview and moderation working. Joshua Eichorn, Steve Hall and Steve Fox is working on implementing other improvements and Joshua posted this timetable for the new GNOME website. Links below to the timetable and to the current template for the new GNOME website. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-web-list/2001-October/msg00038.html http://www.mindspring.com/~digitect/gnome/v2/2-0-4-moz.html ============================================================== 6. Insight into Ximian motivation policies -------------------------------------------------------------- The people at Ximian have been working very hard for quite some time now and people have been wondering how they manage to keep motivated and not burn out. Well thanks to a security breach at Ximian we are now able to bring you some insight. Follow the link below for the full story. http://www.nat.org/evolution.php3 ============================================================== 7. GNOME and XML examined -------------------------------------------------------------- GNOME has always taken a lead in using XML technologies in the desktop and is still today the desktop with the widest use of XML technologies. With this as the background XML.com have done an article investigating the use of XML in GNOME. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/10/10/xml-gnome.html ============================================================== 8. GNOME Foundation accepting new members and new board elections comming up -------------------------------------------------------------- Glynn Foster posted a notice to Gnotices this week telling us that if you want to join the GNOME foundation this is the time to do so. If you want to be able to vote or be a candidate in the upcomming GNOME Foundation Board election you need to register. Also being a GNOME Foundation member will make you eligble for a gnome.org email alias :) http://news.gnome.org/1003247134/index_html ============================================================== 9. Abiword Weekly news 55 -------------------------------------------------------------- Jesper Skov brings us yet another Abiword Weekly news. This issue brings us information on improvements in the header and footer suppprt in Abiword, more polish to the Bidi support and more. http://www.abisource.com/dev/news/2001/awn65.phtml ============================================================== 10. A Peacock shows its face -------------------------------------------------------------- Been looking for a HTML editor for GNOME. Well Peacock made its 0.4 release this week. Having look at it I think it works rather well even at this early stage. Thanks goes to Archit Baweja for his good work. As a personal note I would also like to thank Archit for not using G as the first letter in the name of his application :). http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-October/msg00035.html ============================================================== 11. Updated version of the GNOME installation guide available -------------------------------------------------------------- Karsten Reincke has once again updated his very nice GNOME installation guide which tells you how to compile and install GNOME 1.4.x yourself. According to some sources wanting to stay anonymous you are not a real Linux user until you have compiled your own applications so here is your chance:) http://www.karubik.de/gig/ ============================================================== 12. New GNOME devtools website -------------------------------------------------------------- I have recently put up a website for the GNOME Development tools at gnome.org. The idea is for it to function as a central place for information on the different initiatives which are underway to bring some really great integrated development tools to the GNOME platform. While the pages still need more work I think they already can be used as a starting point for people interesting in joining this effort. You find the devtools website below. http://www.gnome.org/projects/devtools ============================================================== 13. GNOME Project Alpabetical Index -------------------------------------------------------------- Many GNOME sub-projects has their own homepages under the gnome.org/projects directory structure. Due to this I decided to put the start of a GNOME Alphabetical index into that directory. Currently is lists many of the most important GNOME projects, but of course it is far from complete. So at this point I invite all people looking for particular projects homepage to visit the index and also all people with CVS access to should feel free to add their favourite projects to the index. http://www.gnome.org/projects/ ============================================================== 14. First birthday of OpenOffice project -------------------------------------------------------------- October 13, 2000 was the day when Sun made OpenOffice free software by releasing the sourcecode under the GPL, that is OpenOffice's birthday. Congratulations to the OpenOffice project and hopefully with the 6.0 release now soon out of the door, more work can be done to improve integration of OpenOffice and GNOME as planed. http://www.openoffice.org ============================================================== 15. Translated GNOME summaries -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to resourceful volunteers around the globe we got some translations of the GNOME summaries available. So linked below are French translation, Spanish translation and Hungarian translation. If there are other translations available please let us know. http://www.gynov.org/news/index.php4 http://es.gnome.org/actualidad/ http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/gnome/summary/ ============================================================== 16. CVS activity -------------------------------------------------------------- This two week summary contains CVS stats for the periods 6th October to 13th October and from 13th October to 20th October. ============================================================== 17. Hacker Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists. Most active modules: 192 gnucash 149 evolution 90 galeon 63 gnumeric 50 guppi3 47 gtkmm-root 45 gnome-i18n 43 web-devel-2 42 SashMo 37 gal 35 gimp 35 gnome-utils 33 libgda 29 nautilus 28 gtkhtml 28 gtk+ 27 gnome-core 25 gnomeweb-wml 24 gtkvts 23 gconf [142 active modules omitted] Most active hackers: 100 rlb (gnucash) 72 peticolas (gnucash) 60 carlos 52 murrayc 51 jody 50 hp 50 trow 48 frob 47 keld 45 rodrigo 42 kmaraas 37 redfox 32 menthos 28 fejj 26 jbaayen 24 menesis 23 hadess 23 lewing 21 danw 20 olau [134 active hackers omitted] ============================================================== 17. Hacker Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists. Most active modules: 157 evolution 125 gnucash 100 galeon 61 gtkmm-root 53 gnumeric 45 devhelp 45 gtk+ 39 gtkhtml 37 gnome-core 35 SashMo 32 gnome-utils 32 guppi3 27 gimp 25 gnome-i18n 21 balsa 20 gconf 18 web-devel-2 18 gnome-foundation 18 ORBit2 18 mc [124 active modules omitted] Most active hackers: 61 murrayc 58 rlb (gnucash) 54 jody 48 peticolas (gnucash) 41 michael 40 jbaayen 33 fejj 30 stano 29 carlos 29 menthos 26 zucchi 26 jirka 26 cactus 25 chyla 25 kmaraas 23 gman 22 hp 21 baddog 20 lewing 20 yaneti [136 active hackers omitted] ============================================================== 19. New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- blwm - Win32-like window manager gLabels - For creating labels and business cards bond - Rapid application development tool which works with GLADE gnome-utils - GNOME time tracker, searching tool, calculator, and other useful GNOME utilities/apps gdm - This is the things that handles people logging in. gnomeradio - FM-Radio tuner gdkxft - Anti-aliased fonts to the gnome desktop gmrun - Run-program utility, providing bash-like TAB completion and history BEAST/BSE - Framework to simulate audio synthesis and song composition Guppi - GNOME-based plot program, integrates with Gnumeric and GnuCash File Manager - Lightweight, intuitive, file manager. gvn - GNOME Visual Network, manage an intranet gnocl - gnocl is a Tcl extension which implements gtk and gnome widgets. vlc - VideoLAN Client is a DVD and MPEG player for Gnome gnect - A 'four in a row' game gASQL - Frontend to administer a database gmyclient - Access your mysql database under gnome RubyGConf - Ruby bindings for GConf Pygmy - GNOME mail client with MIME support, GnuPG support, filters and hierarchical folders. Electric Ears - Audio wave player, editor and recorder. gmmusic - Music collection database rubrica - Addressbook CD-Rom Control Panel - CD-Rom Control is a GUI for mounting, umounting ejecting the CD-Rom drive. DevHelp - Developers help program. Browse and search GNOME API and GNU Manuals. sawfish - Uncluttered Lisp-extensible window manager for X11. galeon - Web browser based on Gecko Guikachu - Graphical editing of resource files for PalmOS-based pocket computers Peacock - A HTML Editor GCronTime - Program for the management of planned operations Metacity - Window manager based on GTK+ 2.0 gCASL - COMET assembly language gMercury - Interface to Genie web-based SMS service. MrProject - Project management program Truevision - Truevision is a 3d modeler for povray Glade-- - Backend for glade to create C++ sources. GNOME Peg Solitaire - A puzzle game libelysium - Utility functions used in the Elysium GNU/Linux distribution. gnome-db - Database access for GNOME applications The Bubbling Load Monitoring Applet - Applet showing the system load as a bubbling liquid. Gdkpixbufmm - Gdkpixbufmm, the perfect companion for Gtkmm. IceWM - X11 window manager coded from scratch in C++ Gnome-chord - Gnome-chord is a guitar chord index quickedit - Quickedit is simple and fast sound editor for Gnome gnome-pilot - Daemon for pilot synchronization shogiopening - Opening database for Shogi Pan - A newsreader, loosely based on Agent and Gravity For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map: http://www.gnome.org/applist/listrecent.php3 That was all for the last two weeks, hopefully we will manage to actually keep a weekly schedule soon :) Christian