This is the GNOME Summary for 2002-10-20 - 2002-10-26 ============================================================== Table of Contents -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The Captains of Nautilus 2. GNOME 2.1.1 development snapshot 3. Abiword robbed 4. First development release of GNOME 2 Galeon 5. Major content update on art.gnome.org/ 6. Making Eugenia Loli-Queru happy 7. Fighting the eyecandy fight 8. Mime-type-sensitive pages in properties dialog. 9. Scariest screenshot of the week? 10. What is the color of the day? 11. GNOME Filesector shows its face 12. GNOME 2 in Debian Sid 13. Performance patch of the week 14. Polish to the search interface 15. Gtk# gets GConf love 16. C# and GStreamer 17. Ready to be Eclipsed? 18. Translated GNOME summaries 19. Hacker Activity 20. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity 21. New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1. The Captains of Nautilus -------------------------------------------------------------- People are always curious about what is happening with Nautilus. This week I interviewed Alexander Larsson and Dave Camp about where Nautilus is sailing. To get the inside scope check on the interview on LinuxOrbit. http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=vi ewarticle&artid=540&page=1 ============================================================== 2. GNOME 2.1.1 development snapshot -------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Waugh announced a new development snapshot of the upcoming GNOME 2.2 release. And to make it easy for you to test he also made a new release of Garnome. Check out the announcement on gnomedesktop.org for all the links and details. http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=725&mode=&order=0&thold=0 ============================================================== 3. Abiword robbed -------------------------------------------------------------- The Abiword team had a fund setup where user could contribute money. This fund had already been used to help core developers attend developers conferences and enable them to extend Abiword. Sadly someone seems to be low enough to even steal the meager funds of a volunteer project like Abiword. Dominic Lachowicz had to report that all of Abiwords money had been stolen from the Abiword PayPal account. What makes matters even worse is the attitude PayPal is showing towards the matter, so if you have a PayPal account today I strongly recommend reconsidering it or at least removing any funds and credit card information you have attached to it. Full details in the mail from Dom. http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/Oct/0422.html ============================================================== 4. First development release of GNOME 2 Galeon -------------------------------------------------------------- With Christopher Blizzard now hacking fulltime on the Gtk2 support in Mozilla, the Galeon team decided to put out the first development release of Galeon2. The build process is still a bit manual with some patching needed, but the Galeon developers have provided good documentation about the needed steps. Go Galeon! http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1232231&forum_id=6200 http://galeon.sourceforge.net/galeon2/ ============================================================== 5. Major content update on art.gnome.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------- The art.gnome.org/ team is still hard at work adding new content and improving the infrastructure of the site. This weekend the team added tons of new content to art.gnome.org/ so be sure to check it out. Thanks both to Roman, Alex and Thomas for their effort on the site, but also a great thanks to all the wonderful artists and theme hackers out there for their incredible work. You make GNOME really shine. http://art.gnome.org/ ============================================================== 6. Making Eugenia Loli-Queru happy -------------------------------------------------------------- Those of us that read OSNews regularly know that Eugenia writes some though reviews and have no inhibitions about commenting on what she thinks are bad UI design choices. Well Jan Rosczak read one of her articles and decided to try and make her happy. The result is a very nice Gtk+ 2.0 theme which I myself use. For screenshots and the full story check out the lighthouseblue homepage. http://lighthouseblue.sourceforge.net/ ============================================================== 7. Fighting the eyecandy fight -------------------------------------------------------------- Partly due to GNOME springing out of the Gimp project we have always had some great eyecandy to offer our users. Some of that eyecandy got lost in the transition to GNOME 2 while of course other things where added. But of course what got lost in the transition is something many people have been missing. We have two patches submitted this week to bring back two such pieces of eyecandy, the first is from Ian McKellar who has made a patch for getting panel translucency back. The second is from Alex Duggan who brings back the desktop background image inside the workspace switcher. Links to current patches and example screenshots below. There is also a very cool patch for Acme which makes the acme windows translucent. This patch is made by David Kennedy and shown in screenshot at link number five. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96752 http://www.gnome.org/~roman/Private/Spacy-Shot.png http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96988 http://art.gnome.org/show_screenshot.php?screenshotID=6 http://www.tinytoad.com/dkennedy/acme_transparent.png ============================================================== 8. Mime-type-sensitive pages in properties dialog. -------------------------------------------------------------- James Willcox continues his great work on Nautilus. This week he created a patch to add Mime-type sensitive tabs in the Nautilus properties dialog. The first use for his is adding a a metadata tab for Music, but more uses for this are sure to come. Check out the screenshot, looks great! http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2002-October/msg00105.html http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~jwillcox/files/screenshots/nautilus-music-properties. png ============================================================== 9. Scariest screenshot of the week? -------------------------------------------------------------- Many GNOME users chocked this week on seeing the screenshot below. To those who are still missing sleep over it I can say that it is just a mockup made with Gimp magic, so no reason to worry ;) At least not until someone submits a patch. http://www.themedepot.org/showzoomedframe.php4?id=364 ============================================================== 10. What is the color of the day? -------------------------------------------------------------- Pier Luigi Fiorini has made the following capplet which lets you override the default colors of your Gtk2 themes. Currently it is a standalone capplet, but after some discussion on the desktop-devel mailing list Pier will turn it into a tab for the Apperance capplet Jonathan Blandford is working on. http://digilander.libero.it/plfiorini/gnome-color-properties.png ============================================================== 11. GNOME Filesector shows its face -------------------------------------------------------------- There has for a long time been discussions and prototypes made for the new GNOME fileselector. The layout and number of buttons has been highly debated, but it seems a likely candidate is starting to emerge. Once again it is Bastien Nocera who is providing the goods. Take a look at screenshot below for the first peak. http://snorp.coreyo.net/~snorp/fileselector-test.png ============================================================== 12. GNOME 2 in Debian Sid -------------------------------------------------------------- Christian Marillat and Colin Walters have created the migration scripts needed to move GNOME 2 from experimental into SID. So for all you Debian users out there, you can now get the official GNU Desktop for the official GNU Linux distribution. Announcement linked below. http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2002/debian-gtk-gnome-200210/msg00288.h tml ============================================================== 13. Performance patch of the week -------------------------------------------------------------- Sun and Wipro is currently working hard to help out with improving general performance in GNOME2. While GNOME2 is already snappier with what it is natural to compare with including GNOME1 there is always room for improvement. Brian Cameron posted a patch to gnome-vfs this weeks which shaves of around 15% on Nautilus startup time. Very cool Cameron!. Link below to Brian's mail. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-vfs-list/2002-October/msg00031.html ============================================================== 14. Polish to the search interface -------------------------------------------------------------- Dennis Cranston has been working hard on cleaning up the GNOME search tool the last few weeks. Many of the changes where human interface guideline related stuff. Improvements include among other things; combined the simple and advanced tabs, removed the menu bar, icon loading using the new freedesktop.org icon theme specification, drag and drop of search results, new rules to search by content, size, and date and of course many bug fixes. The new search tool looks simply wonderful. Screenshots below: http://www.linuxrising.com/files/gnome-search-tool-simple.png http://www.linuxrising.com/files/gnome-search-tool-advanced.png ============================================================== 15. Gtk# gets GConf love -------------------------------------------------------------- The Gtk# team has turned into liquid lightning recently and new stuff is just storming in. In the new and cool department is the new GConf# bindings by Rachel Hestilow. The interesting bits is that it is possible to do things with GConf# that are not possible with GConf, so check the white paper linked below and a screenshot from Miguel de Icaza himself showing it in action. http://toxic.magnesium.net/~hestilow/gconfsharp/intro.html http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/shots/gconf-shot.png ============================================================== 16. C# and GStreamer -------------------------------------------------------------- Alp Toker has been working on C# bindings for GStreamer and will be commiting them to Mono CVS very soon. He is also porting his Gtk# based mediaplayer Phonic to use his GStreamer# bindings. Link showing (pre-gst) Phonic in action, but Alp promises a new GStreamer based release is just around the corner. Seems to me Mono and Gtk# is getting there much faster than most anticipated. http://www.atoker.com/phonic/phonic-0.6.png ============================================================== 17. Ready to be Eclipsed? -------------------------------------------------------------- Havoc wrote in to gnomedesktop.org last week to make people aware of the great work being done on the Eclipse development tools. Eclipse is a cross plattform set of development tools which has a nice Gtk2 GUI on Unix. It is well featured and definetly something people hacking on GNOME should try out. Check the story on gnomedesktop.org for the details. http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=724&mode=&order=0 ============================================================== 18. Translated GNOME summaries -------------------------------------------------------------- We now have French, German, Hungarian, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish - all the links below. http://www.gynov.org/news/index.php4 http://www.gnome-de.org/projekte/listen/#news@gnome-de.org http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/gnome/summary/ http://developer.gnome.or.kr/news/ http://debian-br.cipsga.org.br/resumo-gnome/ http://es.gnome.org/actualidad/ ============================================================== 19. Hacker Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists. Most active modules: 97 mc 78 gnucash 68 sun-patches 50 gtk+ 43 evolution 40 galeon 40 rhythmbox 38 gnome-applets 36 mergeant 36 gtkmm-root 33 gnumeric 33 gnomeicu 30 gimp 26 gnome-media 22 sodipodi 21 beast 20 gnome-python 20 totem 20 web-devel-2 19 art-web [118 active modules omitted] Most active hackers: 78 proskin 70 kmaraas 43 jbaayen 41 rodrigo 40 menthos 34 warlord (gnucash) 25 pablo 24 yacob 23 bansz 23 mortenw 23 iain 21 daniel 20 hadess 20 cstim (gnucash) 20 owen 20 jamesh 20 murrayc 19 aldug 19 calum 19 dtb [128 active hackers omitted] ============================================================== 20. 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: 7675 (In the last week: New: 677, Resolved: 992, Difference: -315) Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests): nautilus: 862 (In the last week: New: 56, Resolved: 65, Difference: -9) gtk+: 541 (In the last week: New: 34, Resolved: 29, Difference: +5) galeon: 365 (In the last week: New: 88, Resolved: 70, Difference: +18) gnome-vfs: 299 (In the last week: New: 2, Resolved: 2, Difference: 0) GIMP: 274 (In the last week: New: 16, Resolved: 19, Difference: -3) gnome-applets: 189 (In the last week: New: 23, Resolved: 151, Difference: -128) gnome-panel: 137 (In the last week: New: 56, Resolved: 117, Difference: -61) gnome-core: 111 (In the last week: New: 32, Resolved: 17, Difference: +15) sawfish: 104 (In the last week: New: 3, Resolved: 12, Difference: -9) control-center: 95 (In the last week: New: 13, Resolved: 66, Difference: -53) medusa: 94 (In the last week: New: 0, Resolved: 0, Difference: 0) GnuCash: 89 (In the last week: New: 18, Resolved: 9, Difference: +9) libzvt: 86 (In the last week: New: 4, Resolved: 2, Difference: +2) dia: 79 (In the last week: New: 12, Resolved: 3, Difference: +9) glib: 78 (In the last week: New: 6, Resolved: 2, Difference: +4) Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs: kmaraas@gnome.org: 178 bugs closed. vincent@vuntz.net: 105 bugs closed. dkennedy@tinytoad.com: 100 bugs closed. andrew@sobala.net: 67 bugs closed. yaneti@declera.com: 61 bugs closed. louie@ximian.com: 40 bugs closed. bfrantzdale@hmc.edu: 33 bugs closed. jfleck@inkstain.net: 23 bugs closed. bordoley@msu.edu: 21 bugs closed. hadess@hadess.net: 20 bugs closed. arvind.samptur@wipro.com: 19 bugs closed. otaylor@redhat.com: 18 bugs closed. davef@tetsubo.com: 16 bugs closed. sven@gimp.org: 13 bugs closed. hp@redhat.com: 13 bugs closed. ============================================================== 21. New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- Straw - Desktop news aggregator gdcalc - RPN calculator gjots - jotter gNumExp - GNOME math program GnomeMeeting - Videoconferencing software Account Tracker - Consultant billing program gnome-db - Database access for Gnome applications BananaPos - Point Of Sale gnome-games - Many games GIrDA - ir monitor. Coriander - 1394 camera controller rubrica - address book, pim GTetrinet - Tetrinet client for GNOME XML Security Library - Implementation of XML Security specs File Roller - Archive manager. gcompressor - compression decompression utility For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map: http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/latest.php Lots of cool stuff happening this week with bugs getting fixed and features added. We are doing the same thing with the summary too, for some reason the bugzilla stats in the summary and the ones on bugzilla.gnome.org are totally different so we are trying to discover why that is. I am also working with our friends at art.gnome.org/ to see if we can add art.gnome.org/ section in the summary like we have for recent software. Look for that next week. Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller gnome-summary@gnome.org
GNOME Summary: October 20-26, 2002
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