Date: 09 Dec 1999 16:19:46 -0500
From: Havoc Pennington <<a
href=”mailto:hp@redhat.com”>hp@redhat.com>
To: gnome-list@gnome.org, gnome-announce-list@gnome.org
This is the belated GNOME Summary for December 1-8, 1999.
Table of Contents
1) AbiWord gets GNOME Support
2) GMap
3) Conglomerate
4) Galway needs hackers
5) Free books from Helix Code
6) Guppi returns from the dead
7) New gmc
8) New Sawmill
9) New GNOME Calendar/VCard with Pilot support
10) Hacking Activity
11) New and Updated Software
1) AbiWord gets GNOME Support
There’s now a “GNOMEized” version of AbiWord; read all about
it:
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/944263234/index_html
Thanks to Joaquin Cuenca Abela for doing this work, it looks
really nice.
2) GMap
A new map-browsing application, which looks pretty neat. It can
browse the map data Bruce Perens made available under the GPL some
time ago. Have a look at the screenshots:
3) Conglomerate
Simplemente, a company in Mexico City, announced a new GUI for
editing XML/SGML structured documents. The screenshots look really
sweet:
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/944281582/index_html
4) Galway needs hackers
Ariel Rios wrote in with a request for assistance with the
Galway web editor. It’s a pretty nice-looking application for
creating web sites, written in Scheme. Here’s his mail:
What i need is:
-Schemers willing to help with coding.
-People to write the HTML, Scheme, VRML and JScript parsers
-People to write documentation
-And most of all translators
I want to start integrating gtkhtml into it but need other
people to deal with parts of the development.
Galway is located under GNOME CVS module galway. Its current
homepage is:
http://erin.netpedia.net/galway.html
Anyone interested can contact me at: jarios@usa.net
5) Free books from Helix Code
Helix Code (Miguel and Nat’s company) is offering to purchase
copies of GTK+/GNOME Application Development for any hackers that
need one.
Helix Code:
http://www.helixcode.com/
The book:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/
If you’d like a copy of the book, mail Nat (nat@helixcode.com)
or track down Nat or Miguel on IRC or in person.
6) Guppi returns from the dead
Jon Trowbridge has started hacking Guppi again; see this
post:
http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/guppi-list/1999-December/0000.shtml
For its third rewrite, Guppi is now in the ‘guppi3’ CVS module.
It’s great to see it moving along again!
7) New gmc
New version of the file manager:
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/944588761/index_html
8) New Sawmill
John Harper is back on his every-Monday schedule:
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/944530567/index_html
9) New GNOME Calendar/VCard with Pilot support
An alpha release:
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/944488555/index_html
10) Hacking Activity
Module Score-O-Matic:
(number of CVS commits per module, during this week)
47 guppi3
46 entity
38 gimp
31 gnome-libs
26 gnumeric
25 gnome-db
21 gtk–
21 gdk-pixbuf
20 libgtop
20 gw-web
19 gnome-pim
18 balsa
17 gtkhtml
17 gnomeicu
15 gnome-core
13 gill
13 bonobo
12 gphotoweb
12 dia
11 nautilus
11 libgtop-bindings
11 galway
User Score-O-Matic:
(number of CVS commits per user, during this week)
47 trow
40 unammx
39 martin
32 imain
29 sopwith
25 rodrigo
24 kmaraas
20 jberkman
20 arios
19 ole
18 kenelson
18 hp
15 kabalak
15 jwise
14 mwimer
14 mmeeks
14 jrb
13 jamesh
13 ettore
13 eskil
12 mathieu
11) New and Updated Software
gvoc – vocabulary trainer
MicroC Install Browser – software installer
gsteak – English-German translator
vsa – visual sound analyzer
gnome-pilot – Palm Pilot connectivity
Emma – money management program
GTransferManager – grabs files from the web
gIDE – IDE for GNOME
Hitchhiker 2000 – 3D astronomy visualization/simulation app
Morpheus – 3D model viewer
Pygmy – mail client written in Python
gnome-napster – Napster client
sawmill – nice GNOME-compliant window manager
gPhoto – digital camera application
gProjectGenerator – generates source trees
CD Changer Applet – applet to change CDs
yank – notekeeper/todolist
graham – manage important documents
db_designer – Merise diagrams
ggv – GNOME GhostView
gfinger – graphical finger
RP3 – PPP dialup GUI
groach – Return of XRoach
Xwhois – whois client
Atomix – mind game
gsetit – SETI@Home app
GUL – geometric objects
gMessagingSystem – sends messages around
guileGL – Guile bindings for OpenGL and GtkGLArea
Electric Ears – audio player/editor
Pan – News client
Eucalyptus – Mail client
gPopUp – Samba client
See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more
information about any of these packages.
Until next week –
Havoc