GNOME Summary April 25-May 8

Date: 08 May 2000 14:47:47 -0400
From: Havoc Pennington hp@redhat.com
To: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org, gnome-list@gnome.org
Subject: GNOME Summary April 25-May 8 (KDevelop support, GTK Emacs,
GNOME in Germany, Users Guide, IRIX packages, new gnome-libs,
Evolution status report)

This is the GNOME Summary for April 25 – May 8, 2000.

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Table of Contents

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1) KDevelop 1.2 has GNOME application templates
2) GTK (X)Emacs efforts
3) GNOME in Germany
4) Users Guide Prerelease
5) Insane quantity of mail clients
6) IRIX Packages Updated
7) New gnome-libs
8) Evolution Update
9) Hacking Activity
10) New and Updated Software

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1) KDevelop 1.2 has GNOME application templates

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The KDevelop guys are supporting GNOME application targets now, so
you can use KDevelop to write your GNOME apps. Check it out.

http://www.kdevelop.org

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2) GTK (X)Emacs efforts

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William Perry has a SourceExchange project to port XEmacs to GTK+:

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/elisp/gui-xemacs/

Martin Baulig, a GNOME hacker now working at SuSE, also has some
pretty extensive work on GTK+ Emacs/XEmacs in CVS, under the
‘gnomacs’ module.

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3) GNOME in Germany

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With Martin working at SuSE, GNOME is moving forward in Germany.
Martin has set up a web page with information of interest to GNOME
users and developers in Germany:

http://www.home-of-linux.org/gnome/germany/

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4) Users Guide Prerelease

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The docs team has been hard at work on an update of the GNOME users
guide for the upcoming GNOME 1.2 release. Check out this
announcement:

http://mail.gnome.org/pipermail/gnome-doc-list/2000-May/000111.html

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5) Insane quantity of mail clients

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Two new ones, first TradeClient:

http://www.tradeclient.org

and CSCMail:

http://www.cyberdeck.org/cscmail/

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6) IRIX Packages Updated

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See this post:

http://mail.gnome.org/pipermail/gnome-announce-list/2000-May/000025.html

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7) New gnome-libs

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gnome-libs 1.0.60 is out. The most interesting change in this
release is that now the antialiased mode for GnomeCanvas is
“officially supported.”

http://mail.gnome.org/pipermail/gnome-announce-list/2000-May/000030.html

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8) Evolution Update

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Matt Loper sent me Evolution status updates last Monday and also
this
Monday. So, here are two status reports – looks like Helix is
finally starting to write the user-visible shell itself, while
previously they were focused on the components that would go into
it.

Status Update #1:

Evolution, GNOME’s groupware solution, is well underway.

Here’s our progress for the week:

* OAF support and compilation cleanup (ettore)

* allowing the wombat to terminate cleanly (federico)

* many mail-display enhancements (danw)
– much better multipart support
– better “embedded message in message” support
– dingus clicking
– unrecognized attachment support
– camel auto-loadable providers

* libcamel (mail library) enhancements (zucchi)
– camelstream restructuring
– much faster mail reading in new mbox provider
– bugfixing

* iCalendar work (seth)

* LDAP server dialog and improved support (toshok)

* importing of pine addressbooks (clahey)

* integration of a name parsing engine, and contact dialog
enhancements
(clahey)

* faster e-table resorting (clahey)

* client/server and ui enhancement in the calendar (damon)

* respawning of dead bonobo controls (matt)

* undo/redo additions, bugfixing, and image editing in the html
editor (ettore, larry, and radek)

Status Update #2:

Evolution’s growing by leaps and bounds! The most impressive
accomplishment this week was Ettore’s massive overhaul of the
shell, which makes Evolution much more flexible. Other developments
include….

The mailer:

* Dynamic provider work (danw)
* Mail config druid (danw)
* KPOP support (danw)
* expunging for mbox provider (zucchi)
* really nice search functionality (zucchi)
* 2 orders of magnitude speed increase (!) in ETable startup and
column sort times (zucchi and clahey)

The calendar:

* tons of bugfixing (damon)

The addressbook:

* LDAP server dialog work (toshok)
* ETable view of addresses (toshok & clahey)
* Hooking it up to the shell properly (clahey)

GtkHTML/composer work:
* Some utf-8 insertion work (lewing)
* fixing an embedded widget problem (lewing)
* pasting fixes (lewing)

Other items:
* purify compilation support (toshok)
* wombat fixups (federico)

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9) Hacking Activity

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Module Score-O-Matic: (number of CVS commits per module, since the
last summary)

311 evolution
231 nautilus
123 gnumeric
121 gnome-core
111 gnomacs
99 gimp
64 gnome-applets
64 gimp-freetype
61 gnome-libs
60 gnome-db
57 balsa
53 gnome-utils
52 gtkhtml
50 gnome-games
48 gnome-i18n
48 bonobo
45 gnome-vfs
42 gtranslator
37 control-center
36 gnomeicu
35 pan
34 gedit
31 dr-genius
30 gnome-media
25 bug-buddy
24 gxsnmp
22 gnome-print
21 gtk+
21 desktop-docs
21 achtung
20 sodipodi
19 guppi3
19 gnomeweb-wml
18 eog
16 mc
16 gegl

User Score-O-Matic: (number of CVS commits per user, since the
last summary)

141 pablo
136 darin
126 kenneth
115 kmaraas
96 martin
78 ettore
69 ahyden
58 ke
53 zucchi
53 frob
51 jody
49 neo
48 danw
47 jberkman
47 clahey
42 kabalak
42 jesusb
40 mmeeks
38 mitch
37 jirka
35 rodo
30 toshok
30 rasta
28 sullivan
28 rodrigo
25 nakai
24 mstachow
24 dmueth
23 jleach
23 chyla
22 miguel
21 ramiro
21 pawels
21 hilaire
20 mathieu
19 owen
18 jochen
18 chema
18 charles
18 cgabriel
17 tml
17 lauris
17 dcm
17 bansz

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10) New and Updated Software

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Software since the last summary.

Bluefish – HTML editor
GTransferManager – retrieve files from the web
Gabber – Jabber client
gVid – change your X resolution
Seahorse – GPG frontend
Nova – astronomy app
The Gernel – Linux kernel configurator
MySQL Navigator – navigate a MySQL database
MixMagic – mixer
CORBA::ORBit – Perl bindings for ORBit
gts – GNOME task scheduler
Gmail – experimental vfolder-based mail system
gnome_dialup – control a dialup connection
KRunning – track running events (running as in exercise)
Solfege – ear training program
gxsm – 2D data acquisition
LnxZip – frontend to archive utilities
MemoPanel – put a memo on the GNOME panel
EtherApe – network monitor, like EtherMan, but less evolved
NumExp – numeric methods, 2D plots
gno3dtet – tetris game
GNOME WebAds – maintain ad banners on your web site
GNOME WebNews – news database admin utility for web sites
GNOME PM – portfolio manager
DDUP applet – update a hostname in the dyndns.org nic database
Industrializer – creates percussion samples
PyBiff – extensible, scriptable biff applet
Everybuddy – universal instant messaging client
BINARS – music sequencer
CodeCommander – programming editor
Tenes Empanadas Graciela – Argentinian board game, similar to
Risk
ScrudgeWare – GNOME-based Linux distribution
Pan – Usenet newsreader for GNOME
gnomerar – frontend for the rar archiver
GNOME character map – select and use high asciii characters
genSQL – generic SQL database UI
Math Literature – educational math app
Skill Literature – educational app
Ggradebook – gradebook app
gmessage+ – clone of xmessage for GNOME
Arianne RPG – massively multiplayer online RPG
gob – GTK+ object builder (macro language to write GtkObjects)
Grave – interface for Sensory Science RaveMP MP2000 Digital Media
Player
xNetTools – clone of MacOS network tools
gvplay – lightweight video player
grio_applet – manage files on the Rio PMP300 portable MP3
player
1159 – electronic secretary
gnetview – GUI for network tasks
gbrctl – configure Linux ethernet bridging
GNOME ReadNews – nntp client
gcardinfo_applet – PCMCIA applet
gnome-utils – collection of small GNOME utilities

See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more
information about any of these packages.

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Until next week –

Havoc