Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 17:34:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Havoc Pennington <<a
href=”mailto:hp@redhat.com”>hp@redhat.com>
To: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org, gnome-list@gnome.org
This is the GNOME Summary for November 23 – December 1,
1999.
Table of Contents
1) Widget Repository Created
2) Business 2.0 Magazine Mention
3) sawmill.themes.org goes live
4) New Sawmill
5) Helix Code guys have activity logs
6) GNOME Office Web Pages and Name Change
7) GtkHTML Screenshots
8) Hacking Activity
9) New and Updated Software
1) Widget Repository Created
A widget repository for widgets and other hunks of GTK/GNOME
code is an often-requested feature. Now we have one set up;
see:
http://developer.gnome.org/tools/repo/
Please submit your widgets!
2) Business 2.0 Magazine Mention
Business 2.0 magazine mentioned GNOME in one of those
“overstated/underrated” articles. Notable because it’s an article
in a business magazine, not a computer magazine:
http://www.business2.com/articles/1999/11/content/technology_3.html
3) sawmill.themes.org goes live
Themes for Sawmill are now just a click away:
4) New Sawmill
John Harper normally releases Sawmill every Monday like
clockwork; but converting his Lisp interpreter to lexical scoping
and changing all the window manager code accordingly made him miss
(only) a week or two. The guy is a coding machine.
Anyway, a new Sawmill is out, and the lexical scoping allows
themes to be “sandboxed” and made relatively safe; Trojan horse
themes shouldn’t be a danger with the latest version.
Sawmill is here:
http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~john/sw/sawmill/index.html
5) Helix Code guys have activity logs
If you’re a fan of Alan Cox’s diary you might enjoy the diaries
of some of the Helix Code (formerly International GNOME Support)
employees, look here:
http://www.nuclecu.unam.mx/~miguel/activity-log.html
6) GNOME Office Web Pages and Name Change
Miguel posted a request-for-assistance with new GNOME Office web
pages. Also, we are renaming it from GNOME Workshop to GNOME Office
because no one could figure out that we had an office suite with
the GNOME Workshop name. Blame the media!
Here’s the request-for-assistance:
http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-November/0880.shtml
7) GtkHTML Screenshots
Massive hacking on the GtkHTML module; check out these
screenshots:
http://info.stjerneskolan.com/gnome/gtkhtml/
Anders and Ettore are doing a great job with this widget.
8) Hacking Activity
Module Score-O-Matic:
(number of CVS commits per module, during this week)
53 gimp
44 entity
38 gnumeric
32 gtk–
27 gnome-core
27 balsa
26 web-devel-2
26 gtkhtml
25 bonobo
23 gnome-utils
20 pybliographer
19 libgtop
19 gnome-libs
19 evolution
18 glade–
17 bonobo-doc
16 panel–
15 galway
14 bug-buddy
12 mc
12 gnome-docu
User Score-O-Matic:
(number of CVS commits per user, during this week)
42 unammx
26 pablo
24 hp
23 imain
21 mwimer
21 jrb
20 fredgo
19 neo
19 christof
18 mmeeks
18 kenelson
18 cactus
17 mathieu
17 ettore
17 dietmar
16 sopwith
16 martin
16 jody
16 jberkman
15 arios
14 rasta
13 jirka
12 philipd
12 kodis
12 kmaraas
12 jcape
12 cgabriel
9) New and Updated Software
Eucalyptus – email client
db_designer – Merise diagram db designer
gPopUp – SAMBA message program
Pygmy – email client written in Python
bug-buddy – bug report wizard
gnome_dialup – PPP utility
Gnome Toaster – CD creation suite
Pan – newsreader
GnomeSensors – dock application
sawmill – nice window manager for GNOME
GSwitchIt – Xkb state indicator for the panel
LED Counter – counts things (applet)
DPS-FTP – ftp client
gEdit – text editor
Merlin’s CPU Fire Applet – shows flames corresponding to system
load
irssi – IRC client
wmG – small GTK based window manager
Finder – Mac-style finder bar
vsa – visual sound analyzer applet
GMatH – math environment
GProc-applet – process list
EasyASP – ASP web development
galway – nice web editor
See the software map on http://www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for
more information about any of these packages.
Until next week –
Havoc