From: Steve George <gnome-summary@gnome.org> To: gnome-list@gnome.org Subject: GNOME Summary - 2002-04-23 - 2002-04-28 Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 01:15:13 +0100 Cc: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org This is the GNOME Summary for 2002-04-23 - 2002-04-28 ============================================================== Table of Contents -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. When will GNOME 2 be out? 2. Preferences/Control Panel reorganisation 3. GNOME 2.0 Screenshots 4. Easy Bugs to Fix 5. Ximian Setup Tools 6. Glade, the frontier extends 7. Abiword works in Evolution 8. Second Linux Accessibility Conference correction 9. Translated GNOME summaries 10. Hacker Activity 11. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity 12. New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1. When will GNOME 2 be out? -------------------------------------------------------------- So GNOME 2.0 has been stabilising for 6 months, when is it going to be released? While a seemingly innocent question it managed to start a long email thread. The central issue is between those who want to release 'when it is ready' and those who want to release 'early and often'. In the back of everyones minds is the reputation GNOME got from the 1.0 release which was very unstable. The consensus seems to be that it will be delayed again, but not too much. What's for sure is that the initial release will have lots of benefits, but some drawbacks as well and there will be aspects that are regressions from the 1.4.X series. http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/schedule/ http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-April/msg00251.html http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-April/msg00291.html ============================================================== 2. Preferences/Control Panel reorganisation -------------------------------------------------------------- The variety of options and buttons to twiddle in GNOME has always been amazing. There's a conflict between what hackers want to use, and the users they are coding for who just want it to work. Much of the GNOME 2.0 HIG work focuses on removing extraneous options and trying to make GNOME feel more like an integrated environment. Anne Marie Dirks kicked off an interesting thread on where the future may lie. One of the charges against Free Software recently is that it cannot produce good UI, I'm not sure if that is true but as this thread shows a lot of effort is put into doing the best job possible. http://lists.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-April/msg00524.html ============================================================== 3. GNOME 2.0 Screenshots -------------------------------------------------------------- We have gotten to a point in the GNOME 2 beta cycles where most of the developer community is using it as their day to day desktop. It has become very stable and many apps are starting to become availale in GNOME 2.0 versions. So to let you get a closer look on the status of GNOME 2.0 here are some screenshots. http://fredda.2good.nu/images/Clean-Ice-latest.png http://www.gnome.org/~gman/GNOME2-apps.png http://gnome.or.kr/gallery/view_photo.php?full=1&set_albumName=screenshots&id=aa a http://joshuaeichorn.com/screenshots/gnome2/gnome2_my_desktop.jpg http://hlp.sourceforge.net/GNOME2/GNOME2-MS-fonts-Nautilus-Customisation.png ============================================================== 4. Easy Bugs to Fix -------------------------------------------------------------- GNOME 2.0 will definitely be out faster if everyone helps fix bugs. Bug killing can make you famous as Luis Villas list of issues cleared from Beta 3 to Beta 4 shows. So if you'd like to win friends and influence people bug fixing is the place to be. Luis regularly emails through lists of bugs that are showstoppers for the release, most are hard to fix. However, he's also put together a list of far easier bugs to fix where everyone can join in and cut their teeth on bug-hunting. If you're looking for a place to get help then the gnome-love list of gnome-bugsquad are a good start, and there's also a list of useful resources. http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-April/msg00298.html http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-April/msg00302.html http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers-readonly/2002-April/msg00304.html http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-April/msg00212.html ============================================================== 5. Ximian Setup Tools -------------------------------------------------------------- Ximian Setup Tools are a great way to do some basic administration tasks on a Unix machine. As a bonus to the user they enable one set of tools to be used across a variety of distributions. While the long term aim of the team has been to get them into core GNOME it has always created some conflict. For distributiors their unique admin panels are a differentiator so having a single system is less attractive. Chema Celoria emailed where he things XST is going. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-December/msg00020.html http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/setup-tool-hackers/2002-April/000695.htm l ============================================================== 6. Glade, the frontier extends -------------------------------------------------------------- A new patch was released to the glade-devel list porting it to Microsoft Windows. It still needs approval but this patch could do a lot to help this poor, under developed legacy platform get some of the modern software that's part of GNOME. I certainly hope more people using Windows could be lucky enough to use GNOME full time. http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/glade-devel/2002-April/000807.html ============================================================== 7. Abiword works in Evolution -------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Sevior reported to the Abiword-dev lists that he's got Abiword working in Evolution. He also sent along a nice screenshot to prove the point. This is a neat example of the component model and the Bonobo system. So shortly we should all be able to read word processing documents straight in email - what will they come up with next, HTML email! http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/May/0044.html http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~msevior/abiword/evolution-abi2.png ============================================================== 8. Second Linux Accessibility Conference correction -------------------------------------------------------------- JP Schnapper-Casteras kindly pointed out to us that our item on the Second Unix Accessibility Conference was slightly wrong. The conference was actually called the Second Linux Accessibility Conference. Apologies if we caused any confusion. ============================================================== 9. Translated GNOME summaries -------------------------------------------------------------- Woo-Kyoung Noh tells us that the GTP Korean team has started translating the GNOME Summary. The number of translations just gets better every week! We now have French, Spanish, Hungarian and Korean - all the links below. http://www.gynov.org/news/index.php4 http://es.gnome.org/actualidad/ http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/gnome/summary/ http://developer.gnome.or.kr/news/ ============================================================== 10. Hacker Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists. Most active modules: 92 gnome-2.0-test-specs 76 gnome-pim 56 gnumeric 54 gtk+ 53 gtkmm-root 52 evolution 47 gnome-control-center 46 nautilus 43 gnome-applets 41 gnomemm 33 gnucash 32 monkey-sound 29 gtkhtml 28 gnome-utils 28 vte 27 balsa 27 galeon 24 gal 24 gnome-games 22 gdm2 [134 active modules omitted] Most active hackers: 93 hegde 83 minmax 81 murrayc 78 srittau 61 kmaraas 60 jody 45 fejj 39 baddog 34 cwryu 31 daniel 28 andersca 27 jbaayen 26 clahey 25 nalin 24 gman 24 chyla 24 hampton (gnucash) 23 dnloreto 23 hallski 22 alexl [129 active hackers omitted] ============================================================== 11. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- This information is from http://bugzilla.gnome.org, which hosts bug and feature reports for most of the Gnome modules. If you would like to join the bug hunt, subscribe to the gnome-bugsquad mailing list. Currently open: 7003 (In the last week: New: 786, Resolved: 1026, Difference: -240) Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests): nautilus: 1031 (In the last week: New: 50, Resolved: 93, Difference: -43) gtk+: 494 (In the last week: New: 45, Resolved: 38, Difference: +7) gnome-core: 292 (In the last week: New: 94, Resolved: 64, Difference: +30) gnome-vfs: 256 (In the last week: New: 6, Resolved: 6, Difference: 0) gnome-applets: 242 (In the last week: New: 23, Resolved: 30, Difference: -7) galeon: 212 (In the last week: New: 129, Resolved: 100, Difference: +29) control-center: 206 (In the last week: New: 32, Resolved: 25, Difference: +7) GIMP: 193 (In the last week: New: 8, Resolved: 6, Difference: +2) sawfish: 152 (In the last week: New: 10, Resolved: 59, Difference: -49) medusa: 126 (In the last week: New: 1, Resolved: 0, Difference: +1) gnome-panel: 118 (In the last week: New: 66, Resolved: 25, Difference: +41) balsa: 114 (In the last week: New: 18, Resolved: 148, Difference: -130) gnome-utils: 109 (In the last week: New: 11, Resolved: 22, Difference: -11) gnome-pilot: 103 (In the last week: New: 12, Resolved: 39, Difference: -27) dia: 86 (In the last week: New: 7, Resolved: 6, Difference: +1) Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs: pawsa@theochem.kth.se: 148 bugs closed. Uraeus@linuxrising.org: 121 bugs closed. yaneti@declera.com: 95 bugs closed. jsh@pixelslut.com: 56 bugs closed. heath@pointedstick.net: 54 bugs closed. kmaraas@gnome.org: 39 bugs closed. louie@ximian.com: 38 bugs closed. michael@technologyreview.org: 33 bugs closed. charles@rebelbase.com: 29 bugs closed. bordoley@msu.edu: 28 bugs closed. jody@gnome.org: 23 bugs closed. maclas@gmx.de: 22 bugs closed. jpr@ximian.com: 22 bugs closed. andersca@gnu.org: 22 bugs closed. glynn.foster@sun.com: 19 bugs closed. ============================================================== 12. New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- BananaPos - Point Of Sale GCronTime2 - planner lahelper - LaTeX Command Helper Elysium Download - Download Manager for GNOME gtkmm2 - GTK+ C++ binding gnome-chord - guitar chord/scale database/renderer GCronTime2 - planner GtkMathView - MathML Rendering Engine GNOME Terminal - terminal console app gIcon, the Nikon F90x Camera Manager - Management Software for the Nikon F90X Balsa - Gnome Mail Client Balsa - Gnome Mail Client Greenwich - Whois client for GNOME orbit-tools - orbit tools package Enlightened Sound Daemon - sound server Gewels - Gnome version of Jewels with multiplayer deadmatch mode. polyXmass - Polymer mass spectrometry framework Gabedit - GUI for Molpro2000 and Gaussian98 CD-Rom Control - Tcl/Tk panel for controlling cd/dvd gmmusic - A Gnomified music collection database, based on PostgreSQL.It maintains your +entire music collection, consisting oftapes, CDs, LPs, Singles and even Minidiscs. freedb+supportis also included as well as the ability to print nice CD-ROMtrays and inv gcompris - education games canvas kids children Elysium Download - Download Manager for GNOME For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map: http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/latest.php Not so much news this week but a general background noise of heavy activity. The community continues to grow, Tim Ney tells us that GUADEC actually had 400 hackers not 300. Many of our readers will not be interested in the long thread on bug 76293 that took place this week. But with all this hacking from so many people taking place it won't be long until we'll all be using the results! Steve George gnome-summary@gnome.org