Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 15:46:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Havoc Pennington hp@redhat.com
To: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org
Subject: GNOME Summary, September 28 – October 5
Fairly boring summary this week, we are just plugging along
writing our code. 🙂 There’s lots of new software to download
listed at the end.
Table of Contents
1) Introduction to GNOME Programming
2) New Releases
3) Icon Guidelines
4) gnome-libs 2.0 Goals
5) Hacking Activity
6) New and Updated Software
1) Introduction to GNOME Programming
George wrote a nice tutorial you can find on IBM
DeveloperWorks:
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/gnome-programming/index.html
This tutorial assumes no knowledge of GTK+/GNOME whatsoever; it
gets you started quickly with a simple application and then has
pointers to more information.
2) New Releases
New releases of core components mentioned on news.gnome.org
include GConf, libxml, and gnome-core. See below for new releases
from the software map. libxml and gnome-core are part of the
ongoing 1.0.50 beta. (Though that release is now 1.0.60 or
something…)
Info on the beta is here:
http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-October/0017.shtml
3) Icon Guidelines
Matthias Warkus (the only Matthias in the world who is not a KDE
developer 😉 is managing the icon project, he posted some
guidelines for how to make a GNOME icon. Have a look if you know
how to draw:
http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-September/
4) gnome-libs 2.0 Goals
We have a document with the plans for the next version of the
GNOME libraries; you can find them in CVS as:
gnome-status/docs/gnome-libs-2.sgml
All GNOME developers will probably want to have a look at
this.
5) Hacking Activity
Module Score-O-Matic:
(number of CVS commits per module, during this week)
92 gimp
90 gnome-core
46 gnome-debug
33 gtk–
28 gphoto
27 gnome-libs
26 gtk+
25 gtrouble
24 control-center
20 gnome-chess
18 gnome-media
17 gtop
17 gnumeric
17 gnome-guile
17 gfloppy
15 eog
14 libgtop
14 gtk+hs
14 gnome-pim
12 mc
12 gnome-utils
11 gnomeweb
11 bonobo
User Score-O-Matic:
(number of CVS commits per user, during this week)
84 martin
50 kmaraas
36 mitch
33 jberkman
32 jirka
27 ole
25 unammx
24 tgil
20 docsbr
19 sopwith
18 kenelson
18 jrb
14 chak
13 gertd
13 asbjoer
12 pablo
12 owen
12 arios
11 yosh
11 neo
11 nakai
11 jpr
The gtrouble trouble-shooting application has hit CVS. It is
kind of neat; you write a help system in XML and it generates an
HTML walkthrough for you. Should eventually integrate into the help
browser.
Federico continues to work on his Eye of Gnome image viewer,
which seems like a nice application and also contains an icon list
widget which will end up in the new file manager.
Manuel’s gtk+hs module appeared, containing the Haskell bindings
for GTK+. Cool stuff.
6) New and Updated Software
Sound monitor applet: display VU meter or scope for esound
sawmill: nice-with-GNOME window manager
Pan: Newsreader
gPhoto: digital camera application, the best way to use a digital
camera on Linux
gnome-core: Core GNOME desktop components (panel, session manager,
etc)
DPS-FTP: ftp client
Quest: role-playing game
gnuclear: Nuclear clock application
GMalawi: GNOME version of Malawi board game
GTransferManager: Retrieve web files
gwsearch: front end for Internet search engines
elknews: newsreader
GPacman: a pacman clone
Eucalyptus: Mail reader
GProc: process list
Gnofract: fractal generator/viewer
gimon: ISDN monitor
Grio: Diamond Rio tool
gquest: GNOME questionnaire
Pybliographer: bibliography databases
gnome-python: Python bindings for GNOME
libglade: Load Glade-generated interfaces at runtime
Gone: news client
gFTP: FTP client
Pygmy: mail client
GSnes9x: Nintendo emulator
Eye of GNOME: Image viewer
URL Collector: stores URLs for later viewing
LED Counter: counts stuff (applet)
See the software map on http://www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for
more
information about any of these packages.
Until next week –
Havoc