From: Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus@linuxrising.org> To: gnome-list@gnome.org, gnome-announce-list@gnome.org Subject: GNOME Summary for 2002-05-05 - 2002-05-18 Date: 21 May 2002 23:12:21 +0200 This is the GNOME Summary for 2002-05-05 - 2002-05-18 ============================================================== Table of Contents -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. GNOME 2 beta 5 released 2. First Galeon2 release getting closer 3. Telsa gives you the inside information of GUADEC 3 4. www.gnomedesktop.com 5. Freedesktop.org picking up steam 6. GNOME Office continues integration effort 7. Abiword picking up new fans 8. GNOME 2 in Hindi 9. New nautilus page 10. Translated GNOME summaries 11. Hacker Activity 12. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity 13. New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1. GNOME 2 beta 5 released -------------------------------------------------------------- The GNOME community proudly announced yet another GNOME 2 beta release this week. Critical and not so critical bugs continue getting slayed at high speed. Check below for Release Notes and download location. Also for people wanting to test out GNOME 2 remember that both Garnome easy to use buildsystem and the Ximian GNOME 2 Snapshot RPMS for Red Hat are good alternatives. http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/pre-gnome2/releases/gnome-2.0-desktop-beta5/READM E http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/pre-gnome2/releases/gnome-2.0-desktop-beta5/ http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/garnome/ ============================================================== 2. First Galeon2 release getting closer -------------------------------------------------------------- Rumours say that Marco is planning to make the first beta release of Galeon2 soon. Galeon2 is using the GNOME2 plattform and Mozilla using GTK+ 2. While there still are some bugs that needs to be worked out more and more of the users and developers are now able to compile and run the new version. A little sneak preview provided below with anti-aliasing and everything :). http://www.planetasur.com/hattrick/Screenshot.png ============================================================== 3. Telsa gives you the inside information of GUADEC 3 -------------------------------------------------------------- Telsa Gwynne has made a website with her impressions and innsights from GUADEC 3. The page includes some nice summaries of the talks Telsa attented there. So if you missed this years GUADEC this is your chance to get up to date again. http://www.linux.org.uk/~telsa/Trips/guadeciii.html ============================================================== 4. www.gnomedesktop.com -------------------------------------------------------------- We might have mentioned this in a previous issue, but some things just deserves to be brought back into the limelight from time to time. The story is that if you want more GNOME related news than we are able to bring you through the summaries or Gnotices there is a very nice site dedicated to GNOME news called gnomedesktop.com. Be sure to check it out. http://www.gnomedesktop.com ============================================================== 5. Freedesktop.org picking up steam -------------------------------------------------------------- GNOME and KDE cooperation has for a long time being something many people have talked about, but few has done anything about. Well seems like some people got fed up with that and starting doing something and there are now several issues being worked on under the freedesktop.org banner. Havoc Pennington is working to push the new .desktop and menu setup system forward as illustrated in this mail. http://lists.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-May/msg00271.htmlJens Finke has been working on a thumbnail Managing standard which is now starting to get implemented, Gimp being one of the first projects out. https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/xdg-list/2002-April/000296.html Owen Taylor posted the XEmbed draft to the list as shown in link below. https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/xdg-list/2002-April/000356.html https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/xdg-list/2002-April/000378.html Alex Larsson is pushing an Icon theme standard forward as seen in the mail below https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/xdg-list/2002-April/000389.htmlThomas Leonard is working on a standard for a Shared MIME-info Database. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~tal00r/info.html ============================================================== 6. GNOME Office continues integration effort -------------------------------------------------------------- The GNOME Office suite hackers is continuing their integration work. The latest effort now is Abiword and GtkMathView integration in order to give Abiword the ability to render MathML. This comes in addition to the earlier mentioned efforts which have given you Abiword in Evolution, Abiword in Gnumeric and Gnumeric in Nautilus as shown in the screenshots below. http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/May/0369.html http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~msevior/abiword/evolution-abi2.png http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~msevior/abiword/abi-in-gnumeric.png http://www.gnome.org/~michael/nautilus-gnumeric.png ============================================================== 7. Abiword picking up new fans -------------------------------------------------------------- Abiword got some good press this week with MSNBC doing a positive review. Who know maybe Microsoft will soon start using Abiword internally :). For those of us who like to follow Abiword development more closely another issue of the Abiword Weekly News is out, links below. http://www.msnbc.com/news/751496.asp?0si=-&cp1=1 http://www.abisource.org/information/news/2002/awn92.phtml ============================================================== 8. GNOME 2 in Hindi -------------------------------------------------------------- The improved support for non-western languages is one of the most important additions to the GNOME 2 plattform. This addtion is now becoming more tangible with translators working hard. This week we bring you some screenshots of the nice looking Hindi translation of GNOME. http://indlinux.sourceforge.net/hindi/gnome/ http://indlinux.sourceforge.net/hindi/gnome/mainmenu1.jpg ============================================================== 9. New nautilus page -------------------------------------------------------------- The Nautilus file manager has been getting a lot of attention from the hackers in preparation for GNOME 2. Everyone who has tried Nautilus for GNOME 2 is impressed with the improved speed of this incarnation. Yet Nautilus have been missing a central page where people can go for information. To help with that I have put up a page linking to the most important Nautilus resources and also writen a tutorial for creating Nautilus themes. http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus ============================================================== 10. Translated GNOME summaries -------------------------------------------------------------- This week another translation joins the GNOME Summaries family, Portuguese. Brazilian Portuguese to be exact. So we now have French, Spanish, Hungarian, Korean and Portuguese - 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/ http://debian-br.cipsga.org.br/resumo-gnome/ ============================================================== 11. Hacker Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists. Most active modules: 71 gtk+ 65 gnome-control-center 56 evolution 54 galeon 52 gimp 51 gnucash 48 ORBit2 45 gnome-applets 43 dia 38 gdm2 37 gnome-panel 36 gok 34 gnomemeeting 33 pan 32 nautilus 31 libgnomeprintui 30 gnumeric 29 libgda 26 balsa 25 glib [149 active modules omitted] Most active hackers: 77 kmaraas 63 owen 54 pablo 41 murrayc 38 hp 38 jirka 37 dtb 37 stano 36 jberkman 36 fejj 34 rodrigo 32 neo 31 michael 27 chyla 27 warlord (gnucash) 26 andersca 25 gman 25 timj 25 menthos 23 olau [157 active hackers omitted] ============================================================== 12. 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: 6805 (In the last week: New: 754, Resolved: 888, Difference: -134) Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests): nautilus: 859 (In the last week: New: 57, Resolved: 167, Difference: -110) gtk+: 516 (In the last week: New: 44, Resolved: 52, Difference: -8) gnome-core: 290 (In the last week: New: 63, Resolved: 34, Difference: +29) gnome-vfs: 260 (In the last week: New: 9, Resolved: 10, Difference: -1) galeon: 238 (In the last week: New: 101, Resolved: 86, Difference: +15) GIMP: 196 (In the last week: New: 26, Resolved: 23, Difference: +3) control-center: 187 (In the last week: New: 36, Resolved: 65, Difference: -29) gnome-applets: 170 (In the last week: New: 26, Resolved: 36, Difference: -10) sawfish: 168 (In the last week: New: 16, Resolved: 10, Difference: +6) gnome-panel: 149 (In the last week: New: 54, Resolved: 53, Difference: +1) gnome-pilot: 144 (In the last week: New: 22, Resolved: 0, Difference: +22) balsa: 128 (In the last week: New: 15, Resolved: 6, Difference: +9) medusa: 127 (In the last week: New: 1, Resolved: 0, Difference: +1) gnome-utils: 84 (In the last week: New: 10, Resolved: 10, Difference: 0) Gnumeric: 78 (In the last week: New: 12, Resolved: 14, Difference: -2) Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs: louie@ximian.com: 148 bugs closed. yaneti@declera.com: 81 bugs closed. Uraeus@linuxrising.org: 63 bugs closed. otaylor@redhat.com: 60 bugs closed. bordoley@msu.edu: 56 bugs closed. tester@videotron.ca: 47 bugs closed. hp@redhat.com: 39 bugs closed. dsandras@seconix.com: 34 bugs closed. michael@ximian.com: 29 bugs closed. kmaraas@gnome.org: 27 bugs closed. kfv101@psu.edu: 26 bugs closed. jacob@ximian.com: 20 bugs closed. charles@rebelbase.com: 20 bugs closed. jody@gnome.org: 19 bugs closed. shane.oconnor@ireland.sun.com: 19 bugs closed. ============================================================== 13. New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- oggdoctor - ogg/vorbis toolbox gtkgrepmail - Support for both local mailboxes and remote File Roller - File Roller is an archive manager. gThumb - Image viewer and browser. Atomix - A mind game about atoms and molecules. rubrica - address book, pim gnochive - front-end for all common archivers Balsa - Gnome Mail Client gmyclient - access your mysql Glitter Binary Newsreader - Newsgroup binary grabber GTablature - Tablature editor in Python bond - Rapid application development Greenwich - Whois client for GNOME GNOME Terminal - terminal console app gtkmm2 - GTK+ C++ binding gcompris - education games canvas kids children gedit - Lightweight UTF-8 text editor Gnotide - Tidal analysis software. Cream (for Vim) - Usability project for GUI Vim Gnome Chemistry Utils - chemical widgets for gnome-2 GtkDatabox - Fast display of numerical data Elysium Download - Download Manager for GNOME GtkDatabox - Fast display of numerical data Abiword - Word Processor gael - Electronic Design Automation xmms-applet - tiny xmms applet gramps - GNOME based genealogy program oggdoctor - ogg/vorbis toolbox Gnome Predict - Real time satellite tracking program. power-applet - APM/ACPI battery applet Enlightened Sound Daemon - sound server MrProject - Project management application Yelp - Help browser for GNOME 2.0 For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map: http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/latest.php Another two weeks with the GNOME 2 steam engine rolling forward. Lots of porting, polishing and bugfixing action going on. The GNOME hackers still need your help with identifying bugs, remember a bug that isn't in bugzilla don't exist :) Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller gnome-summary@gnome.org