This is the GNOME Summary for 2002-12-15 - 2003-01-03 ============================================================== Table of Contents -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Where does that file come from? 2. Absorbing Apple 3. Software Junkies get your fix 4. ExtremeTech looks at Phoebe 5. FOSDEM interviews gnomes 6. A Gem for GNOME 2 7. A new tree-view sidebar for Nautilus? 8. Need to access Access databases under GNOME? 9. New artist joins the GNOME atelier 10. Collection of XFCE 4 screenshots 11. Translated GNOME summaries 12. Hacker Activity 13. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity 14. New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1. Where does that file come from? -------------------------------------------------------------- In UNIX file hierarchy it isn't always easy to know which file belongs to which program or library. Well James Henstridge, famous for cool stuff like the GNOME python bindings and Fontilus ,is back with more - this time it is nautilus-rpm. Thanks to the new dynamic properties of Nautilus 2.2 you can now get the RPM info when you right click on a file. Screenshot of this beauty to be found below. http://www.daa.com.au/~james/images/nautilus-rpm-properties.png ============================================================== 2. Absorbing Apple -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to the Film Gimp developer Robn Rowe we now have a MacOS X version of GTK+. Still only GTK+ 1.2, but hopefully it will pave the way for a port of GTK+ 2.0 soon to. So I guess we now can welcome Mac OSX to the family of desktops that rely on the GNOME community for applications :) http://gtk-osx.sourceforge.net/ http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0301/02.gtk.php ============================================================== 3. Software Junkies get your fix -------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Waugh, the man who never stops giving, has another little gem for the software junkies among us. There is a new mailing list set up which will inform you of every package uploaded to the GNOME ftp server. So if you want to download the new stuff as soon as its out of the oven, well get subscribed. http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2003-January/msg00016.html ============================================================== 4. ExtremeTech looks at Phoebe -------------------------------------------------------------- While you might think the title is related it the rumoured nudity in the new Friends movie it is not. It is related to Red Hats latest beta called Phoebe which features a sneak peak of the upcoming, but already legendary, GNOME 2.2 desktop. The review goes in great detail talking about some of the new GNOME 2.2 features as they are showcased in Phoebe. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,803565,00.asp ============================================================== 5. FOSDEM interviews gnomes -------------------------------------------------------------- The FOSDEM organizers are not resting on their laurels from last years conference. This year they are at it again. To build up momentum for the event they are doing interviews with the speakers. Current GNOME hackers interviewed are Michael Meeks (tons of GNOME), Guenter Bartsch (Xine), Jakub 'Jimmac' Steiner (GNOME art) and Julian Smart (wxWindows). More interviews are to follow. http://www.fosdem.org/index/interviews/ ============================================================== 6. A Gem for GNOME 2 -------------------------------------------------------------- The Ruby-GNOME team brought us a new release of their GNOME 2 Ruby programing language this week. Maybe it is time to try out this gem of a programming language? http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.net/ ============================================================== 7. A new tree-view sidebar for Nautilus? -------------------------------------------------------------- Wolfgang Pichler mailed the Nautilus mailing-list with his first attempt at a new sidebar treeview. This one is multi-rooted which is nice with all the new stuff going into Nautilus these days. Nautilus maintainer Alexander Larsson is positive to the idea. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2003-January/msg00024.html http://www.dialog-online.at/Screenshot-nautilus.png ============================================================== 8. Need to access Access databases under GNOME? -------------------------------------------------------------- There is a cool project out there called mdbtools which aims a creating a set of tools for making the information in Access files available to Unix users. Not only that they have a really cool GNOME 2 frontend in the works. Check links below for homepage and screenshot. http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/ http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/gmdb/gmdb2screenshot.png ============================================================== 9. New artist joins the GNOME atelier -------------------------------------------------------------- Michelle Corbesier aka maYam has just set up a new homepage where she plans on featuring here GNOME related artwork. Some nice xmms skins already there and more to come. Be also sure to check out Michelle's artwork on her Chasmic Exit page, they are really cool. http://home.no/mayam/ http://users.chello.be/ws35703 ============================================================== 10. Collection of XFCE 4 screenshots -------------------------------------------------------------- The XFCE desktop has long been popular among both people wanting a light desktop alternative and people who wan't something similar to CDE. The XFCE team has been porting/rewriting their desktop to GTK+ 2.0 for some time now and things are starting to come togheter. They have put togheter a collection of screenshots of their desktop, one of the shots even include a filemanager called xfnautilus. http://members.home.nl/jbhuijsmans/screenshots/ http://www.xfce.org ============================================================== 11. Translated GNOME summaries -------------------------------------------------------------- We now have French, German, Hungarian, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish - all the links below. http://www.gynov.org/gnome-summary/gnome_summary.php4 http://www.gnome-de.org/projekte/listen/#[email protected] http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/gnome/summary/ http://developer.gnome.or.kr/news/ http://debian-br.cipsga.org.br/resumo-gnome/ http://es.gnome.org/actualidad/ ============================================================== 13. 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: 7591 (In the last week: New: 391, Resolved: 454, Difference: -63) Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests): nautilus: 701 (In the last week: New: 34, Resolved: 98, Difference: -64) gtk+: 493 (In the last week: New: 18, Resolved: 6, Difference: +12) galeon: 409 (In the last week: New: 46, Resolved: 42, Difference: +4) gnome-vfs: 253 (In the last week: New: 2, Resolved: 8, Difference: -6) GIMP: 247 (In the last week: New: 10, Resolved: 14, Difference: -4) gnome-applets: 179 (In the last week: New: 10, Resolved: 6, Difference: +4) gnome-panel: 149 (In the last week: New: 23, Resolved: 23, Difference: 0) control-center: 124 (In the last week: New: 12, Resolved: 16, Difference: -4) gnome-core: 104 (In the last week: New: 9, Resolved: 12, Difference: -3) libzvt: 94 (In the last week: New: 1, Resolved: 0, Difference: +1) medusa: 92 (In the last week: New: 0, Resolved: 0, Difference: 0) metacity: 90 (In the last week: New: 10, Resolved: 3, Difference: +7) sawfish: 90 (In the last week: New: 1, Resolved: 1, Difference: 0) balsa: 84 (In the last week: New: 15, Resolved: 8, Difference: +7) dia: 82 (In the last week: New: 2, Resolved: 3, Difference: -1) Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs: [email protected]: 78 bugs closed. [email protected]: 44 bugs closed. [email protected]: 37 bugs closed. [email protected]: 22 bugs closed. [email protected]: 21 bugs closed. [email protected]: 18 bugs closed. [email protected]: 11 bugs closed. [email protected]: 10 bugs closed. [email protected]: 9 bugs closed. [email protected]: 9 bugs closed. [email protected]: 9 bugs closed. [email protected]: 9 bugs closed. [email protected]: 9 bugs closed. [email protected]: 8 bugs closed. [email protected]: 7 bugs closed. ============================================================== 12. Hacker Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists. Most active modules: 93 gnucash 61 gnumeric 55 gimp 46 evolution 31 gtkmm-root 31 nautilus-media 30 gtranslator 27 beast 26 bug-buddy 25 libgnomeprint 25 crux 24 libegg 24 gedit 23 gnome-xml 23 gtk+ 23 gnomemeeting 21 glib 21 balsa 21 libgnomeprintui 20 sun-patches [117 active modules omitted] Most active hackers: 51 peterisk 47 dolfin 43 kmaraas 40 chyla 36 yacob 35 hadess 35 menthos 33 hampton (gnucash) 31 seth 30 jody 29 kabalak 27 timj 27 warlord (gnucash) 25 cstim (gnucash) 25 stano 24 neo 24 veillard 22 pablodc 22 tml 20 redfox [113 active hackers omitted] ============================================================== 14. New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- screem - Web Site / HTML Editor Quick Lounge - Quick Launch for GNOME 2 Coaster Architect - mix CD burner gLabels - creating labels and business cards gcompris - education games canvas kids children LostIRC - A simple IRC client. GnomeDAP - Nomad / D.A.P Jukebox Manager - Nomad / DAP Jukebox Manager gjots - jotter Gnome Crontab Editor - A crontab administration tool Gwine - A wine cellar manager GnomeQuran - Holy Quran for Gnome GNOME ALSA Mixer - GNOME ALSA Mixer Balsa - Gnome Mail Client hdate applet - hebrew date applet Terminal Server Client - a frontend for rdesktop GneleMixer - Oss Mixer Multi Options GnuCash - A personal finance manager TiLP - Ti Linking Program - TexasInstruments graphing calculators gThumb - Image viewer and browser. GtkGLExt - OpenGL Extension to GTK For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map: http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/latest.php Happy New Year Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller [email protected]
GNOME Summary: December 15, 2002-January 3, 2003
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