Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 17:42:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Havoc Pennington <<a
href=”hp@redhat.com”>hp@redhat.com>
To: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org, gnome-list@gnome.org
This is the GNOME Summary for November 9-17, 1999.
Table of Contents
1) GNOME UI Summary
2) Sound
3) George has monthly column on IBM DeveloperWorks
4) Miguel at Comdex
5) Screenshots
6) New libglade 0.8
7) FireLoad applet
8) Mozilla M11
9) Hacking Activity
10) New and Updated Software
1) GNOME UI Summary
Many of you may not have seen the GNOME UI Improvement Project
here:
http://www.jcinteractive.com/gnome-ui/
James Cape is running this; if you look at the rest of
jcinteractive.com you’ll see that he knows a fair bit about
interfaces. Anyway, he’s started up a pale imitator of the GNOME
Summary, cleverly entitled the “GNOME UI Summary” 😉 Here’s an
installment:
http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-November/0349.shtml
2) Sound
In the development version of gnome-libs Elliot split the sound
support into a dynamically loaded module; basically this means that
if you turn off sound you won’t get libesd or libaudiofile loaded
off disk (in fact you won’t need to have them installed). I suppose
it also implies that an alternative sound module could be
substituted for the current one.
There’s work left to be done on this though, requested in this
post to the list:
http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-devel-list/1999-November/0285.shtml
There was also discussion of aRts, a different sound system, on
gnome-kde-list:
http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-kde-list/1999-November/0003.shtml
If any non-desktop-developers who know a lot about sound want to
jump in on that discussion, I’m sure it would be appreciated. We
want to have a nice GNOME-KDE sound standard, but most of us are
not “sound guys,” so there aren’t that many people who can say
something smart on the topic.
3) George has monthly column on IBM DeveloperWorks
George Lebl is now a monthly columnist on the IBM site; a first
installment is here:
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/gnome2/
The article introduces a slightly more real-world application
than the “Hello, World” featured in an earlier IBM article. It’s a
nice column, check it out. It even has a picture of George at the
end. 🙂
4) Miguel at Comdex
Miguel gave a Comdex talk yesterday, but I can’t find any press
coverage of it right this minute. Anyway, here is a short GNOME
blurb on the Comdex site:
http://daily.zdevents.com/comdex/fall99/daily/tuesday/lbe2_t.html
5) Screenshots
Lots of these:
GNOME AbiWord Screenshots:
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/942233708/index_html
GNOME 1.1 Screenshots:
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/942329007/index_html
More GNOME 1.1 Screenshots:
http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-November/0486.shtml
And Still More GNOME 1.1 Screenshots:
http://venus.bergsoe.dtu.dk/~pbk1807/files/skaermbilleder/
Note: GNOME 1.1 is the CVS development version, if you have to
ask where to get it or how to install it then you don’t want to
install it. It is unstable and you should not expect it to work.
“Developers only.” etc.
6) New libglade 0.8
Find that announce here:
http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-devel-list/1999-November/0302.shtml
7) FireLoad applet
This week’s gratuitous software plug is for a quickie hack that
I am nonetheless enjoying, a port of the wmfire WindowMaker applet
(port by Iain Barnes, original by Zinx Verituse). Basically it
displays some flames proportional to your system load. More fun
than the little graph.
Find that here:
http://home.freeuk.net/igbarn/alarm-applet.html#loadmonitor
8) Mozilla M11
Not strictly a GNOME thing, but we do hope to integrate Mozilla
into GNOME; Milestone 11 binaries are available. Have a look
at:
9) Hacking Activity
Module Score-O-Matic: (number of CVS commits per module, during
this week)
91 gnumeric
53 gimp
50 entity
41 gnome-debug
31 gnome-libs
28 gnome-db
26 gdk-pixbuf
25 gtk+
22 bug-buddy
21 gconf
20 gnome-core
18 gdf-test
17 gtk–
16 gob
16 dr-genius
14 evolution
13 crescendo
12 gxsnmp
11 gnome-pim
11 bonobo
11 beast
User Score-O-Matic: (number of CVS commits per user, during this
week)
58 martin
42 jirka
34 jody
33 imain
30 unammx
30 jberkman
29 hp
28 mmeeks
26 rodrigo
22 sopwith
19 pablo
18 tml
17 mwimer
16 ettore
14 glaurent
13 neo
11 timj
11 kmaraas
11 atena
10 philipd
10 nakai
10 jrb
10 jpr
10 drmike
10 campd
10 asbjoer
10) New and Updated Software
GMatH – Math environment
Sarah – another file manager
FireLoad applet – displays flames in proportion to system load
gMessagingSystem – “gets information where it should be”
gnoLyX – a LyX port
gIPSC – IP subnet calculator
GFax – popup fax app
gPool – GNOME pool simulation
Gnomovision – TV app (for TV cards)
gtkdiff – diff frontend
GProc – process list
Elvis-Gnome – GNOME frontend for the Elvis vi clone
Pan – newsreader
yank – takes notes, keep TODO list
bug-buddy – graphical bug reporting wizard
Eucalyptus – mail program
gerk – one-button mouse applet
GIP – GNOME install project
graphtool – graphing software
GNOME dialup – ppp tool
GNOME Update Manager – informs you of new software since last
login
Vget – network download tool
Monitor sensors – displays motherboard information (temperature,
etc.)
graham – document organizer
gisdnload – loadmeter for an ISDN line
gnome-ppp – PPP tool
gmt – kernel module GUI
Gnonews – news client
See the software map on http://www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for
more information about any of these packages.
Until next week –
Havoc