Date: 15 Dec 1999 19:49:30 -0500
From: Havoc Pennington hp@redhat.com
To: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org, gnome-list@gnome.org
This is the GNOME Summary for December 8-15, 1999.
Table of Contents
1) Miguel wins free software award
2) Dia, GFax, AbiWord releases
3) Canvas cleanup in progress
4) HAL applet needs ideas
5) Test new gnome-core release
6) GOB release
7) Cary, NC Barnes and Noble event
8) Hacking Activity
9) New and Updated Software
1) Miguel wins free software award
Miguel was awarded the Free Software Foundation Award for the
Advancement of Free Software, an impressive honor. Congratulations
to Miguel!
The award itself is an interesting multicolored quilt:
http://kurt.andover.net/bazar/fsf/P1010016.JPG
Slashdot coverage:
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/12/14/1743220.shtml
Gnotices comments:
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/945223410/index_html
The GNU press release:
http://www.gnu.org/awards/1999.html
2) Dia, GFax, AbiWord releases
These three large application releases were announced on
Gnotices:
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/
This release of AbiWord now has GNOME support!
3) Canvas cleanup in progress
Federico is making giant strides with GnomeCanvas, in the
CANVAS_CLEANUP branch of the gnome-libs module. This will make
GnomeCanvas still more efficient and elegantly designed.
4) HAL applet needs ideas
Richard Hestilow insists that he needs feature ideas for his HAL
applet. If you believe him (I don’t 🙂 then send them to
hestgray@ionet.net.
5) Test new gnome-core release
There’s a prerelease of another stable series gnome-core
package. If you want to try it out, read here:
http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-December/0352.shtml
6) GOB release
GtkObject creation system, saves you some typing:
http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-announce-list/1999-December/0030.shtml
7) Cary, NC Barnes and Noble event
There is a book signing/talk thing for my book at the Cary, NC
Barnes and Noble store on January 12 at 7:30. Mark your
calendars!
Seriously, someone please come because I will feel like a loser
if no one does. 🙂 Cary Barnes and Noble has a large computer
section and is doing this event to promote the launch of a still
larger section.
The store is at 760 SE Maynard.
Now we just have to get B and N to take my book out of the
“Programming Languages” section…
8) Hacking Activity
Module Score-O-Matic:
(number of CVS commits per module, during this week)
119 eider
50 nautilus
40 gtkhtml
39 galway
31 gnumeric
29 gnome-libs
28 gtk–
27 gnome-core
24 balsa
22 gimp
21 dr-genius
20 bonobo
13 gnomeicu
13 evolution
12 gnome-vfs
10 eears
User Score-O-Matic:
(number of CVS commits per user, during this week)
60 sopwith
55 jrb
44 unammx
44 arios
36 hp
32 darin
24 owen
22 jirka
19 ettore
17 glaurent
16 martin
16 jberkman
12 nat
12 mmeeks
12 kenelson
10 giac
“eider” is the result of a little hacking party at RHAD Labs,
because Federico is leaving us to return to Mexico. It’s an IDE
written in Python we started on Saturday. The idea is to glue
existing components (Emacs, Glade, Insight, automake) together with
Python; it isn’t useful yet but it’s kind of impressively far along
given the amount of time invested. Python + Glade = Rapid
Development! Anyway we most likely won’t finish the prototype, at
least not quickly, so if someone wants to start hacking it please
do.
In other news, we have the “nautilus” browser shell application,
which will embed the file manager, help browser, and maybe the
control center panels. Hacking is firing up in earnest on this
component of GNOME 2.0.
9) New and Updated Software
galway – web site editor
gIPSC – IP subnet calculator
ORBit-C++ – C++ support for ORBit
yank – notekeeper, TODO list
Pan – newsreader
gbox_applet – file watcher
sawmill – nice window manager for GNOME
Everybuddy – universal instant messaging client
CD Changer Applet – for CD jukeboxes
NetLeds applet – displays network load
Gfax – fax application
gProjectGenerator – creates source trees
Emma – money management program
gnometris – Tetris clone
gFTP – ftp client
AlGnomegebraic – algebraic calculator
gmap – map viewer
bug-buddy – graphical bug report utility
gnome_dialup – PPP utility
gvoc – vocabulary trainer
MicroC Install Browser – application installer
gsteak – English/German translator
vsa – visual sound analyzer
New versions of Dia and AbiWord are also out, but not on the
software map. This AbiWord release includes GNOME support (it’s not
compiled in to the binaries, but if you get the source and pass a
flag to make it will build with GNOME support).
See the software map on http://www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for
more information about any of these packages.
Until next week –
Havoc