Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:15:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com>
To: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org
This is the GNOME Summary for November 17-23, 1999.
Table of Contents
1) XFCE interoperability
2) send TODO items to Elliot
3) article shows off libglade/Python
4) new GnomePixmap screenshots
5) new gEdit
6) GTK+ 1.4 drawing enhancements
7) Hacking Activity
8) New and Updated Software
1) XFCE interoperability
Apparently XFCE has new features to interoperate nicely with
GNOME. Basically this means that you can now choose either the
GNOME user environment (gmc, panel, etc.) or the XFCE user
environment to go with your applications built with the GNOME
development framework.
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/943005993/index_html
I’m excited to see progress in this area; interoperability means
more user choice and better, more modular software. Remember that
in the free software world, more users means more developers.
Monolithic software (like the original Netscape codebase) falls
flat on its face in part because its components are only of
interest to one application.
There’s an article about it on Advogato:
http://www.advogato.org/article/14.html
2) send TODO items to Elliot
Elliot is compiling a list of TODO items that we’d like to have
volunteers to work on. Mail ideas to sopwith@redhat.com.
3) article shows off libglade/Python
Reduce an 87-line program to 26 with libglade!
http://www.baypiggies.org/10mintig.html
4) new GnomePixmap screenshots
In the development branch of gnome-libs we’ve been fooling with
alpha transparency and the gdk-pixbuf merge. The GnomePixmap widget
has changed a lot:
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/942954792/index_html
5) new gEdit
A new gEdit is out:
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/942966654/index_html
6) GTK+ 1.4 drawing enhancements
Lots of hacking on GTK+ proper lately; Owen has a master plan to
fix flicker during opaque resize and other multiple-redraw
situations. You can read about this here:
http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gtk-devel-list/1999-November/0073.shtml
This morning Owen’s been working on replacing the pixmap theme
engine with a faster one based on gdk-pixbuf. This will be another
GTK+ 1.4 feature.
7) Hacking Activity
Module Score-O-Matic:
(number of CVS commits per module, during this week)
62 gnumeric
40 gimp
32 gphotoweb
30 entity
25 gphoto
18 balsa
17 gnome-core
16 gw-web
15 gnome-libs
13 gee
12 libgtop
12 gtk–
12 gnome-docu
12 gconf
11 evolution
10 gnome-applets
“gee” is new, it’s an equation editor George is writing.
User Score-O-Matic:
(number of CVS commits per user, during this week)
56 ole
34 jirka
31 unammx
26 jgarzik
21 kmaraas
19 imain
17 martin
17 jrb
15 sopwith
13 pcg
12 jody
12 hp
11 peterh
11 mwimer
11 glaurent
10 pablo
10 cactus
10 arios
8) New and Updated Software
Finder – Mac-style finder bar
Atomix – mind game
Gseq – sequencer
Gfax – fax GUI
gFTP – ftp client
Pybliographer – bibliography database tool
ORBit-C++ – C++ bindings for ORBit GProc-applet process list
applet
GnOpenGL3ds – winner of Hardest Name to Type contest (3DS file
viewer 😉
Gmail – mail client
irssi – IRC client
GnomeICU – ICQ client
GIP – Gnome Install Project
gPhoto – digital camera tool (excellent application)
screem – web site creation tool
Electric Ears – audio player/editor
oregano – circuit editor/simulator
GuiSlp – GUI for Stampede Linux packages
POP Checker – mail check applet
Monitor Sensors – display sensor data from lm_sensors package
vsa – Visual Sound Analyzer applet
Gnome Transcript – SQL database client
GRAD – Delphi-style GUI builder
gEdit – text editor
gnoLyX – a LyX port
GnomeSensors – displays sensor data
Cloned Xunzip – gnomized Xunzip
libglade – loads XML GUI resource files and creates widgets
gno3dtet – 3D Tetris
gnommind – MasterMind
Bluefish – HTML editor
GMatH – math environment
Sarah – file manager
FireLoad Applet – shows flames corresponding to system load
gMessaging System – messaging system
See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more
information about any of these packages.
Until next week –
Havoc