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GNOME Summary for March 22 - April 4, 2000Apr 06, 2000, 03:58 (1 Talkback[s])(Other stories by Havoc Pennington) The GNOME project intends to build a complete, easy-to-use desktop environment for the user, and a powerful application framework for the software developer. Date: 05 Apr 2000 23:23:26 -0400 Table of Contents 1) Cool Pango screenshots 1) Cool Pango screenshots After months of work and design, Owen started applying Pango to GTK and rapidly got some cool results; see the screenshots here: http://www.pango.org/gallery.shtml Be sure to scroll down, the good screenshots are at the bottom. Most of testgtk already had the correct interface-flipping behavior without any special programmer intervention, which bodes well for the amount of work required to get GNOME running in Hebrew. This is a big benefit of GTK's geometry management (along with windows that behave properly when resized, of course). The first tarball snapshot of GTK 1.3 is also available, Owen mentions it in his Pango update; check this out if you are _very_ adventurous. http://www.pango.org/status-000404 2) Miguel on Slashdot Slashdot has a nice interview with Miguel: http://slashdot.org/interviews/00/04/03/2344211.shtml 3) gnome-core release Another preview of the upcoming GNOME update: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/954892907/index_html 4) Interview with Federico See here: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/954505622/index_html 5) Updates to stable GNOME gnome-libs and control center were updated. Get your bug fixes here:
http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-announce-list/2000-April/0008.shtml 6) GUADEC summary from O'Reilly This one is really old, it just missed the last Summary. But it's a nice writeup of GUADEC. http://oreilly.linux.com/pub/a/linux/2000/03/21/guadec/guadec.html 7) GTK+ TODO list updates If you're curious what's desired for GTK+ 1.4, or how you can help enhance the GUI library your apps depend on, check out the newly-populated GTK+ TODO list: http://developer.gnome.org/status/ 8) Sysadmin tool project A new mailing list was created for discussion of graphical system administration tools. The list follows a long thread on gnome-devel-list. Read about the new list: http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-announce-list/2000-March/0034.shtml And the start of the thread that inspired it: http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-devel-list/2000-March/0433.shtml 9) Project of the Week Thanks to Federico and Ettore for suggesting this project: finish a PPP dialer. There are two in CVS; gnome-ppp and RP3. RP3 is a more complete GUI (except for the weird way you launch it) and uses wvdial to autodetect modem/PPP settings. It's quite functional but is Red Hat specific for now. gnome-ppp I haven't looked at in a while but it also has significant code in place. Most of the work for either is in the backend, not the GUI, if you're going to make it nice; users should not be required to write scripts or specify command lines. The project is to actually sit down and finish one of these things for real, so it can ship in gnome-utils. ;-) This requires a pragmatic, get-it-done approach. 10) Hacking Activity Module Score-O-Matic: (number of CVS commits per module, since the last summary) 221 evolution User Score-O-Matic: (number of CVS commits per user, since the last summary) 95 fredgo 11) New and Updated Software Software since the last summary. Jonathan kindly contributed this section, saving me some time this week. Sodipodi - A general vector drawing program. See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more information about any of these packages. Until next week - Havoc
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