Author: JT Smith
The latest GNOME Summary is now available. This edition looks at the GNOME Accessibility Framework, Sun’s desktop division, Ximian’s new shrinkwrapped software, additions to the GNOME Foundation, and the status of libgnome.
This is the GNOME Summary for 2001-08-19 - 2001-09-01
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Table of Contents
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1. GNOME accessibility
2. Sun's Desktop Division making headway
3. GNOME 2.0 Status Interview: James Henstridge and libglade
4. Ximian shrink-wrap software
5. Gnome Foundation news
6. libgnome* status
7. Bonobo-python 0.2.0
8. Hacker Activity
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1. GNOME accessibility
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An early access release of the GNOME Accessiblity Framework was announced by
the Foundation. The ATK (Accessibility ToolKit) is a toolkit independent
implementation which allows assistive technologies (screen readers etc) to get
information about the desktop. This is a general capability that any GUI
toolkit could use, in GTK+ 2.0's case the standard widgets have built-in
support. So applications written with GTK+ 2.0 will automatically be
accessible, though coders can do various things to make their apps more
accessible - the GAP (GNOME Accessiblity Project) project has more information.
This is an important piece of work predominantly provided by the SUN hackers.
http://www.gnome.org/pr-accessible.htmlhttp://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/
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2. Sun's Desktop Division making headway
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Christian Schaller interviews many of the Sun hackers to find out what they've
been up to with GNOME. Topics covered include some of the reasons Sun chose
GNOME, usability, accessiblity, testing and how the transition from CDE is
planned. This is a wide-ranging interview which really gives you a feel for
what this team hopes to achieve working with GNOME.
http://www.linuxpower.org/display.php?id=213
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3. GNOME 2.0 Status Interview: James Henstridge and libglade
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Glade and libglade have been two of the most outstanding successes of GNOME for
application developers. Describing the GUI as an XML document allows quick
development and freedom to try different designs quickly. Jeff Waugh asks James
about the port of libglade to GNOME 2.0.
http://perkypants.org/projects/gnome-2.0-interviews/libglade/
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4. Ximian shrink-wrap software
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Ximian announced availability of its' commercial version of the GNOME
evironment. The Ximian desktop is a packaged version of GNOME provided on CD
for either $29.95 or with Staroffice for $49.95. Meanwhile the Ximian hackers
are all steam ahead to get Evolution 1.0 ready by October: a competition for
anyone helping with bug-hunting was announced.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6984949.htmlhttp://www.ximian.com/products/ximian_desktop/http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/29/1846223&mode=thread
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5. Gnome Foundation news
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The GNOME Foundation announced Timothy Ney as Director of the GNOME Foundation.
He will be responsible for the administrative side of the Foundation and will
also be the main contact point. This is an exciting development, with a full
time employee hopefully the Foundations work will progress quickly. Federico
also released the proposed policy on gnome.org accounts - comments are sought.
http://www.gnome.org/pr-ney_execdir.htmlhttp://lists.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2001-August/msg00027.htmlhttp://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2807176,00.htmlhttp://lists.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2001-August/msg00008.html
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6. libgnome* status
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Anders Carlsson the new maintainer for the libgnome* libraries sent an update
on their status and what's left to be done for the freeze to become solid.
There's still lots to be done and a number of tough problems to sort out, but
it's down to enough issues that everyone can concentrate on them. Some of the
core developers have started considering moving to the GNOME 2.0 platform so
that bugs will be more easily discovered such as Nautilus and gide.
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-2-0-list/2001-August/msg00405.html
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7. Bonobo-python 0.2.0
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Johan Dahlin released an initial version of Python bindings for Bonobo the
GNOME component architecture. There are some basic examples and screenshots on
his homepage, hopefully more will come. As bonobo is becoming more important to
the development platform more effort is being put into language bindings.
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-August/msg00033.html
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8. Hacker Activity
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Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.
Most active modules:
230 evolution
77 galeon
68 gtranslator
63 gnumeric
60 web-devel-2
58 mc
40 gtk+
37 gtkhtml
34 gnome-core
31 procman
31 nautilus
28 pan
27 guile-gobject
24 gnomemeeting
24 balsa
23 gnome-utils
23 libglade
22 gnome-xml
21 gdm2
21 guppi3
[110 active modules omitted]
Most active hackers:
70 kabalak
56 proskin
55 chyla
52 rodrigo
44 damon
44 martin
44 ettore
32 jirka
30 kmaraas
28 darin
27 jesusb
27 veillard
27 fejj
26 jamesh
26 trow
26 kevinv
26 jberkman
25 peterw
24 mpeseng
23 menthos
[122 active hackers omitted]
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8. Hacker Activity
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Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.
Most active modules:
111 gnome-utils
91 galeon
77 evolution
57 gtranslator
45 gnumeric
38 gtk+
29 pan
29 nautilus
28 ximian-setup-tools
28 libgnome
26 gimp
26 gdm2
26 libgnomeui
25 procman
25 web-devel-2
23 mc
20 guile-gobject
17 gnome-core
17 devhelp
16 gtkhtml
[124 active modules omitted]
Most active hackers:
102 linas
88 baddog
63 jirka
51 kabalak
42 martin
41 darin
31 mpeseng
24 chyla
24 olau
24 menthos
22 cactus
21 jody
21 proskin
20 unammx
19 lark
18 uraeus
18 bansz
18 hp
17 trow
17 rodrigo
[117 active hackers omitted]
Until next time,
Steve
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