This is the GNOME Summary for 2003-07-07 – 2003-07-18
Table of Contents
- New look for gnome.org
- update from Welsh translation team
- art.gnome.org update
- Lord of the HIG
- Real releases SMIL 2.0 implementation
- Sodipodi passing true usability threshold
- Evolution looks to update its GUI
- freedesktop.org distribution considered
- Dashboard being dashing
- Translated GNOME summaries
- Hacker Activity
- Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
- New and Updated Software
1. New look for gnome.org
After a long wait the big update to our favourite website,
gnome.org, is underway. The first phase is mostly updating the look
of the site, using a shared template across all of gnome.org. This
is a huge job, but we hope that it will help navigating the site.
We have also done away with the old WML site building system in
order to make life easier for content contributors. The real
backend upgrade is still not done, but we have decided that if the
new website is to happen then we need to make it happen step by
step. So be sure to check out the website from time to time as we
evolve the website towards its new incarnation. And of course if
you want to help us make content, like more developer documenation
don’t be stranger, but contanct the web-developer on the web
mailing list.
http://www.gnome.org
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list
2. update from Welsh translation team
Telsa Gwynne was kind enough to send us this update on the
effort of the Welsh translation team. If there are other
translation teams out there who would like to do similar status
reports, feel free to do so and send them in 🙂
There was a Welsh translation of GTK back in gtk-1.0 days, but
things languished a bit after that. A bunch of us got together and
decided to give it a go. We started by taking the Gnome Glossary
and agreeing how to translate each item (well, except for
anti-aliasing: that’s still a problem :)) and using the existing
GTK and Abiword translations. (Yes, there has been Abiword in Welsh
for ages.) And then started on a few apps and libraries. The first
commit went in on the 4th of May. Since then, we have comfortably
passed “partially supported” for both HEAD and the 2.2 branch, and
are heading for “fully supported” if we can get there in time for
2.4. In less than four months. (Okay, it took us two months to do
the glossary first.)
(I say “we”, but as a learner all I do is commit what native
speakers are giving me. Oh, and I created 40 typos of one word in
an effort to be helpful. And discovered new CVS error messages.)
Something that has helped us hugely is Kyfieithu (or Gyfieithu :)),
a wonderful web-based translation system put together by Kevin
Donnelly to help the KDE Welsh effort which we joined in with. See
link below for how it works. Other teams might want to borrow the
idea. You just aim your browser there and translate a bunch of
strings when you have time. Lovely.
The credits for the work so far, and I really hope I don’t miss
anyone out here, goes to: Rhoslyn Prys (original Gtk translation)
Owain Green, Gruffudd Williams, Gareth Williams, Tom Llewelyn,
Dafydd Jones, Daniel, Steve Griffiths, Keith Willoughby and
multiple instances of ‘anonymous’/’anhysbys’ (Kyfieithu
contributors); Kevin Donnelly (Kyfieithu creator); Chris M Jackson,
Gareth Bowker, Dafydd Harries (mostly straight from the po files);
Dafydd Tomos, Dewi Jones, Jim Killock (discussion and bashing word
lists into shape), larne on IRC for screenshots of Evolution in
Welsh on FreeBSD _12 hours_ after we committed the first part of
the translation (!) ; Alan Cox for the “fill in 20% of Evo from
other strings in other files” program; Bryn S for volunteering to
test the “how to teach your Linux box to speak Welsh” instructions
and then doing it all again after the first time didn’t work; and
Rhys Jones for running the [email protected]
mailing list. If you want to be in this list next time, get over to
#gnome-cy on freenode or the mailing-list 🙂 Next stop, 2.4. (We
hope.) Wish us luck, and stop changing those strings!
3. art.gnome.org/ update
Its not just the core GNOME sites that has gotten an update in
the last two weeks. The dedicated team who runs art.gnome.org/ has also done some major
updates and added new functionality like searching to the site. The
art.gnome.org/ websmith Alex
Duggan also tells me that art.gnome.org/ soon will move to using
the same new template as the other GNOME sites has switched to. I
can’t run a art.gnome.org/ story
without using the opportunity to congratulate a.g.o founder Roman
“star” Beigelbeck with his new PhD title and wish him luck in his
new job at the Austrian Academy of Scientists.
4. Lord of the HIG
Since its introduction the human interface guidelines has had an
tremendous impact on GNOME and GTK+ applications. It has helped
move the GNOME desktop to a new level of polish and integration and
improve usability of GNOME applications greatly. But making the
desktop comply 100% with these guidelines has been a huge
undertaking, an undertaking not yet completed. One of the people
who has been working very hard over the last few weeks on these
issues is Dennis Cranston who after seeing his name pop up in CVS
with HIG fixes time and time again I felt deserved a special
mention. A big thanks to Dennis for his effort!
5. Real releases SMIL 2.0 implementation
Real Networks has released the sourcecode to their SMIL 2.0
implementation as part of their Helix Community effort. This is
something that many in the GNOME accessibility community has wanted
for some time. It is not released under the LGPL unfortunatly, but
the OSI approved RPSL license might be acceptable to application
developers. Just remember to that if you use the GPL license for
your application you would need to add an exception if you decide
to include/link this library into your application. In related news
from Real/Helix they have set up a project website for their
upcoming GTK+ RealOne client for Unix and GNU/Linux.
http://www.realnetworks.com/company/press/releases/2003/smilsource.html
6. Sodipodi passing true usability threshold
The Sodipodi project has been making steady progress over the
last months, and is establising itself in the free software
community to be as synonymous with vector graphics creation as Gimp
is for bitmap graphics. It has reached the stage now where more and
more artists find that it is powerfull enough for them to actually
do serious artwork with. To examplify this we got a new SVG icon
theme this month that is done 100% in Sodipodi by a wonderfull
artist called Kuswanto a.k.a Zeus. His icon theme proves that you
now can make just as beautiful and detailed icons in Sodipodi as
you can in illustrator. Another use for Sodipodi is for making
Manga comics, something which Sodipodi developer MenTaLguY do with
his Lunar 8 project. A big thanks to Zeus and the Sodipodi
developers for their work so far.
7. Evolution looks to update its GUI
Our favourite groupware team is considering changing the way
Evolution looks in their next major release. Anna Dirks has made
some neat mockups of the proposed new GUI. Check out the full story
and discussion on gnomedesktop.org. The Evolution team has also
made a list of things they want to see happen in the backend space,
but they are also aware that there is no way they will be able to
handle all all the items in the list themselves, so they are hoping
for contributions from the community to make it happen, check out
the email linked below for the todo list.
http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1215&mode=&order=0&thold=1
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-hackers/2003-June/000535.html
8. freedesktop.org distribution considered
The freedesktop.org metateam is contemplating doing a combined
release of the development plattform they have developed for Unix
desktops, primarly GNOME and KDE. This in order to help promote the
shared technologies developed under and in conjunction with
freedesktop.org. Check out Havoc Penningtons announcement and the
ensuing discussion on the freedesktop mailing list.
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/xdg-list/2003-July/msg00101.html
9. Dashboard being dashing
According to the gnome dictionary T.Campbell said ‘The dashing
and daring spirit is preferable to the listless’, and there is no
doubt that the Dashboard developers are dashing and daring :).
Since we mentioned the effort here two weeks ago it has moved fast
forward and now even have a status page with screenshots of
contributed frontends. In fact Dashboard is moving so fast forward
that Nat hasn’t even had time to add a screenshot to Mark Humphreys
Rhythmbox frontend, so we do it here instead 🙂
10. Translated GNOME summaries
We now have French, German, Hungarian, Korean, Portuguese,
Spanish and Japanese
– all the links below.
http://www.gynov.org/gnome-summary/gnome_summary.php4
http://www.gnome-de.org/news
http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/gnome/summary/http://developer.gnome.or.kr/news/
http://debian-br.cipsga.org.br/resumo-gnome/
11. Hacker Activity
Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.
Most active modules:
97 gnucash
39 gnomeweb-wml
38 gnumeric
35 evolution
34 gossip
34 gnome-control-center
33 gpdf
27 gtk+
21 gnome-applets
21 gimp
19 web-devel-2
17 gok
15 epiphany
15 gnome-panel
14 totem
13 drgeo
13 galeon
13 gdm2
13 eog
13 beast
[137 active modules omitted]
Most active hackers:
101 adrighem
81 hampton (gnucash)
33 jdub
29 dnloreto
28 dcransto
25 cneumair
24 pablodc
23 rcoscali
21 mitr
19 aflinta
17 rhult
17 jody
16 warlord (gnucash)
16 mortenw
15 redfox
15 baddog
15 hallski
13 timj
12 dolfin
12 jamesh
[104 active hackers omitted]
12. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
This information is from http://bugzilla.gnome.org, which
hosts bug and feature reports for most of the Gnome modules. If you
would like to join the bug hunt, subscribe to the gnome-bugsquad
mailing list.
Currently open: 9593 (In the last week: New: 616, Resolved: 456,
Difference:
+160)
Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement
requests):
nautilus: 882 (In the last week: New: 45, Resolved: 14,
Difference: +31)
gtk+: 591 (In the last week: New: 17, Resolved: 37, Difference:
-20)
galeon: 548 (In the last week: New: 44, Resolved: 26, Difference:
+18)
gnome-panel: 302 (In the last week: New: 29, Resolved: 14,
Difference: +15)
gnome-vfs: 223 (In the last week: New: 10, Resolved: 10,
Difference: 0)
control-center: 198 (In the last week: New: 13, Resolved: 10,
Difference: +3)
GnuCash: 159 (In the last week: New: 14, Resolved: 11, Difference:
+3)
GIMP: 152 (In the last week: New: 12, Resolved: 13, Difference:
-1)
balsa: 133 (In the last week: New: 6, Resolved: 7, Difference:
-1)
metacity: 125 (In the last week: New: 11, Resolved: 4, Difference:
+7) sawfish: 119 (In the last week: New: 2, Resolved: 0,
Difference: +2)
gnome-applets: 109 (In the last week: New: 9, Resolved: 15,
Difference: -6)
dia: 108 (In the last week: New: 8, Resolved: 20, Difference:
-12)
epiphany: 101 (In the last week: New: 30, Resolved: 26, Difference:
+4)
gnome-terminal: 99 (In the last week: New: 10, Resolved: 14,
Difference: -4)
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs:
ps baum ro: 25 bugs closed.
yaneti declera com: 24 bugs closed.
mpeseng tin it: 15 bugs closed.
jody gnome org: 15 bugs closed.
richard imendio com: 14 bugs closed.
ccevans cox net: 14 bugs closed.
kris gtk org: 13 bugs closed.
aguelzow taliesin ca: 12 bugs closed.
hans breuer org: 12 bugs closed.
charles rebelbase com: 12 bugs closed.
maclas gmx de: 11 bugs closed.
warlord MIT EDU: 11 bugs closed.
teuf users sourceforge net: 10 bugs closed.
andrew sobala net: 9 bugs closed.
hadess hadess net: 9 bugs closed.
13. New and Updated Software
gURLChecker – Graphic web links checker
Greenwich – Whois client for GNOME
GHome Mover – User home directory migration tool
tsemgr – manager for the T68 mobile phone
Gossip – GNOME 2 Jabber client
polyxmass – Polymer mass spectrometry framework
Background Buddy – wallpaper changing daemon
Eye of Gnome – Image viewer
Bluefish HTML Editor – HTML editor
GNOME Applets – Applets
Gwine – A wine cellar manager
gramps – GNOME based genealogy program
OSGEdit – OSG Scene Editor
Rubik – A 3D rubik cube game
XML Security Library – Implementation of XML Security specs
solfege – Free ear training software
Tutka – tracker style midi sequencer
Gwine – A wine cellar manager
Fisterra Open Source ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning and POS
Libcroco – The Gnome CSS manipulation toolkit
Terminal Server Client – remote desktop tool
Coriander – IEEE1394 IIDC camera GUI firewire
gnome-mud – Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) client
Proxy-applet – A quick proxy configuration applet
ffmpeg with tv/radio – ffmpeg tv radio
gtk copy-paste buffer – gtk copy-paste buffer
Gossip – GNOME 2 Jabber client
galculator – GTK2 based scientific calculator
CVSGnome Build Script – CVSGnome Build Script
Balsa – Gnome Mail Client
polyxmass – Polymer mass spectrometry framework
File Roller – Archive Manager
Quick Lounge – Quick Launch for GNOME 2
gThumb – Image viewer and browser.
Phone Manager – manage your mobile phone
For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software
map: http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/latest.php
Even has many GNOME hackers and contributors are enjoying their
summer vacations the work continues at rapid speed. To clarify the
statistics for this summary, the CVS and bugzilla stats are for the
last week, while the software map list is for the last two
weeks.
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
[email protected]
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