From: Steve George <s@rascal.org> Subject: GNOME Summary for April 29-May 05 2001 Date: 07 May 2001 18:09:38 +0100 This is the GNOME Summary for April 29 - May 05, 2001. ============================================================= Table of Contents ------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting 1 May 2001 by Daniel Veillard. 2) GNOME Packaging Project announced by Gregory Leblanc. 3) New Nautilus 1.0.3 on the way. 4) GNOME Installation Guide. 5) A Gathering of GNOMES. 6) LinuxPlanet continues review of Ximian GNOME. 7) CNET review of GNOME 1.4 8) 10 Questions with Olivier Fourdan (an XFce update) 9) SGI updates their GNOME packages 10) HOW-TO compile GNOME 2.0 from CVS 11) Project of the Week 12) GNOME Print FAQ 13) Hacking Activity 14) New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1) Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting 1 May 2001 by Daniel Veillard. -------------------------------------------------------------- The important news was that Martin Baulig and Sander Vesik were selected as the GNOME 2.0 Release Co-ordinators. They will start by building their release team and working out what needs to be done. http://lists.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-May/msg00000.html ============================================================== 2) GNOME Packaging Project announced by Gregory Leblanc. -------------------------------------------------------------- The GPP is a community driven effort to produce binary packages for GNOME. Everyone can help with this by either packaging or testing, so if you'd like to join the efforts see the project page. http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gpp/ ============================================================== 3) New Nautilus 1.0.3 on the way. -------------------------------------------------------------- Eli Goldberg emailed to say that final release candidates for the 1.0.3 release will be starting this Monday the 7th May, with the final release due on May 11th. There are lots of new features, including: Files can now be moved and copied through Cut, Copy, and Paste menu items. New Delete feature which bypasses trash. New News sidebar downloads headlines off news sources that provide RSS feeds. Tree view is faster and does not use processor when closed. Candidate builds will be available at http://developer.eazel.com/download/candidate/ by rsync (rsync developer.eazel.com/::candidate), or through the Eazel Installer. ============================================================== 4) GNOME Installation Guide. -------------------------------------------------------------- Karsten Reincke released a new version of his guide on how to compile GNOME 1.4 from source files. Most people prefer to use the binaries from their distribution, but if you want to get the releases hot off the press this is how to do it: https://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-05-017-20-NW-GN ============================================================== 5) A Gathering of GNOMES. -------------------------------------------------------------- Christian Schaller, co-editor of this summary, describes his GUADEC 2 experiences. For the inside scoop on what happened including serious alcohol abuse and the Norwegian monarchy! http://www.linuxpower.org/display.php?id=210 ============================================================== 6) LinuxPlanet continues review of Ximian GNOME. -------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Hall continues his indepth report on the new features in Ximians latest release. His main concerns were that small areas of inconsistency within the UI remained. Overall he enjoyed the experience particularly praising the additions Ximian have made for new-users such as doorman and redcarpet. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/3301/1/ ============================================================== 7) CNET review of GNOME 1.4 -------------------------------------------------------------- Sean Dreilinger reviews GNOME 1.4 and gives it a positive 7/10. His main issue was the size of the download but overall found it "an effective and stable environment", for the full article: http://linux.cnet.com/linux/0-2136888-7-5736933.html ============================================================== 8) 10 Questions with Olivier Fourdan (an XFce update) -------------------------------------------------------------- This fast and light GTK+ based desktop environment recently added some features to make it work with GNOME seamlessly. The developer talks about the environment so far and his future plans which may include voice integration. http://www.moongroup.com/stories.php?story=01/05/01/0821338 ============================================================== 9) SGI updates their GNOME packages -------------------------------------------------------------- David Kaelbling announced that the SGI packages on their freeware site have been updated. Due to scheduling constraints they are not precisely 1.4 but are a lot closer. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-April/msg00042.html ============================================================== 10) HOW-TO compile GNOME 2.0 from CVS -------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Baulig released an update on the GNOME 2.0 status and what hackers can do to help. Some scripts provided by Vicious can help take much of the pain out of compiling from CVS. http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2001-May/msg00009.html ============================================================== 11) Project of the Week -------------------------------------------------------------- Seth Nickell tells us that the GNOME Usability Project is being reoganised: "Calum Benson and his team of merry usability hackers, writers, dreamers, philosophers and poets will strive to address usability issues in GNOME and help set a direction for the GNOME interface into the near and distant future." Their initial focus is to develop some proper UI rules and fix the major UI problems. Usability is really important as GNOME widens it's userbase. If you'd like to get involved and work with some great people follow the link. http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup ============================================================== 12) GNOME Print FAQ -------------------------------------------------------------- Lauris Kaplinski released an initial GNOME Print FAQ. Detailing how it works, the growing list of applications supported and how developers can help. http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gnome-print/2001-May/000632.html ============================================================== 13) Hacking Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Module Score-O-Matic: (Top 20 most active modules for this month by number of CVS commits) 101 nautilus 55 evolution 43 gnumeric 30 ximian-setup-tools 28 web-devel-2 27 gdm2 26 galeon 25 eel 22 guppi3 21 gimp 20 gnome-i18n 18 trilobite 18 libxslt 18 gtk+ 16 pan 16 libbonoboui 16 gtranslator 15 gtkhtml2 13 uf-view 13 gnome-xml User Score-O-Matic: (Top 20 hackers for this month by number of CVS commits) 68 ramiro 56 minmax 37 jirka 32 pablo 28 martin 28 darin 25 veillard 21 owen 19 mitch 19 michael 19 kabalak 19 cactus 18 rodrigo 17 trow 16 jpr 15 menesis 15 hansp 15 gman 15 charles 15 bansz ============================================================== 14) New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- Software altered this week: rubrica - Address book application. Guikachu - Resource file editor for PalmOS pocket computers. gramps - A genealogy program. GnoZip - Archiving applicatio_ that handles zip/bz2/gzip. Pan - Multi-threaded Usenet newsreader. Gnobog - GNOME Bookmarks Organiser helps you organise your links. Gnomermind - MasterMind-type puzzle game. Batalla Naval - A networked multiplayer battleship game. grapevine - NEW, a user notification system. netmon_applet - Network load monitor that supports Linux and Solaris. glame - (GNU/Linux Audio Mechanics) featureful audio processing application. gno3dtet - 3D tetris like game. Overflow - Visual programming environment. gtranslator - Translator helper application. gwireless_applet - Wireless link quality monitor. Gnucash - Easy-to-use personal finance application. Gewels - Jewels game. Spat - Intranet Messaging client. David - C/C++ code editor. Gaim - An AIM client. gjiten - Japanese word and kanji dictionary. GSnes9x - Front-end to the Snes9X SNES emulator. GRot13 - rot13 encryption application. IceWM - GNOME compliant Window Manager designed for performance and size. uf-view - cartoon viewer for User Friendly and others. pyFind - Find utility. Moleskine - Source code editor in pygnome. Glimmer - All-purpose editor. galeon - Gecko browser with native GNOME look Tenes Empanadas Graciela - Multiplayer turn-based strategy game. gThumb - Image viewer and browser. See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more information about any of these packages. ============================================================================== Best Wishes, Steve