Author: JT Smith
“This is the GNOME Summary for 2002-02-03 – 2002-02-16.”
============================================================== Table of Contents -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Interview With Daniel Veillard 2. Gnopher 0.2 3. GNOME 2 porting progress 4. GNOME 2 bughunting days 5. GNOME Foundation Board meeting minutes 6. Scaleable Gorilla SVG theme 7. GNOME on FreeBSD or Slackware? 8. Translated GNOME summaries 9. Hacker Activity 10. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity 11. New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1. Interview With Daniel Veillard -------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Veillard is the maintainer for the highly popular libxml1, libxml2 and libxslt libraries. He is also serving on the GNOME Foundation board which he was re-elected to not long ago. So be sure to check out this interview with one of the most central and important GNOME developers. http://www.gnome.org/developerinterviews/veillard-20020126.html ============================================================== 2. Gnopher 0.2 -------------------------------------------------------------- Gnopher was released this week, a gopher viewer for Nautilus. Paired with the nntp support Andy Hertzfeldt made I think Nautilus now supports most of the important protocols out there. So if you want to surf gopher pages in style get it now. http://gnopher.sourceforge.net/ ============================================================== 3. GNOME 2 porting progress -------------------------------------------------------------- The porting process to GNOME 2 seems to have gotten wings lately. Work is well underway on many of the major applications and both Gnumeric and Pan is reported to be compiling on the GNOME 2 plattform now. Christopher Blizzard have almost completet porting Mozilla and gtkmozembed to GTK2 so Galeon for GNOME 2 can now soon be released. Link to Mozilla bugzilla tracking GTK+ 2 port of gtkmozembed below. Bastien Nocera reports to have ported gnome-vfs-extras to GNOME 2, which means you will still be able to access smd shares and access your Rio500 from Nautilus. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121253 ============================================================== 4. GNOME 2 bughunting days -------------------------------------------------------------- Starting this Thursday, #bugs on irc.gnome.org will be hosting bugday from 9AM EST to 9PM EST. This will be a weekly event until GNOME2 is bugfree... hopefully not very long [;)] We hope to see a lot of people in #bugs- you don't have to be a hacker or even a GNOME2 user to make GNOME2 better; you just have to have some free time, a bit of patience, and a helping of common sense. If you'd like to help out, but can't on Thursday, we invite folks to visit #bugs at any time, gnome-bugsquad@gnome.org, or check out our triage page for information on how to help out as we make the bugzilla useful for GNOME2. In more general news, bugzilla.gnome.org has also been undergoing some revamping. There are links from the front page, but most of the focus has been on our reports page as linked to below. Wayne Schuller deserves a ton of credit for writing a lot of those. Anyone who is thinking about using bugzilla, either as a developer or bug-hunter, should read and think about the new, more consistent meanings of severity and priority.Using these consistently all around the bugzilla will make bugzilla a much better tool for everyone in the GNOME community. Also thanks to the great work of Wayne Schuller we will from now on have statistics of the latest changes in the GNOME bugzilla in the same way that we have had CVS stats. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/bug_status.html http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports.cgi http://bugzilla.gnome.org/triage.cgi ============================================================== 5. GNOME Foundation Board meeting minutes -------------------------------------------------------------- The GNOME Foundation has had another board meeting. Topics was GUADEC guest speakers, and the topics they always discuss. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2002-February/msg00000.html ============================================================== 6. Scaleable Gorilla SVG theme -------------------------------------------------------------- The long avaited SVG theme for Nautilus is now available. It is called Scaleable Gorilla, and features many wonderfull icons in SVG format. For those who don't know, SVG is a vektor graphics format, so unlike bitmats these icons will look good even if you increase the size of the icons tenfold. They are a little slow to resize in current versions of Nautilus, but Alex Larsson of Red Hat and Michael Meeks of Ximian are working on optimizing the rsvg library, in order to speed up rendering when resizing etc. Link below to Jimmacs theme page and some nice screenshots. http://jimmac.musichall.cz/themes.php3?skin=2 http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~havardw/2002_02_08_095401_shot.png ============================================================== 7. GNOME on FreeBSD or Slackware? -------------------------------------------------------------- For those of you using or interested in using GNOME on either FreeBSD or on Slackware, more help is now available. The FreeBSD community has set up a site dedicated to using GNOME on FreeBSD. For people using Slackware we now have a new mailing list for people using GNOME on Slackware. http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/ http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-slackware ============================================================== 8. Translated GNOME summaries -------------------------------------------------------------- As always we have translations of the GNOME summaries available. So linked below are French translation, Spanish translation and Hungarian translation. If there are other translations available please let us know. http://www.gynov.org/news/index.php4 http://es.gnome.org/actualidad/ http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/gnome/summary/ ============================================================== 9. Hacker Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists. Most active modules: 75 evolution 69 galeon 64 gtk+ 63 gnome-applets 62 gnome-games 57 gimp 46 gnome-core 45 SashXB 43 gnumeric 35 gnome-panel 32 gnome-media 29 gcompris 29 gnome-control-center 28 gnomemeeting 27 SashComponents 27 gtranslator 27 libgnomeui 26 gnomeicu 24 metacity 22 profterm [121 active modules omitted] Most active hackers: 136 kmaraas 66 pablo 45 mmclouglin 33 andersca 32 fejj 30 darin 30 veillard 30 jcorwin 29 hp 28 jody 27 michael 25 erat 24 chema 24 hestgray 24 rodo 24 jberkman 23 kabalak 22 wing 22 toivo 21 mpeseng [141 active hackers omitted] ============================================================== 10. 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: 6668 (In the last week: New: +695 Resolved: -968) Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests): nautilus: 1253 (In the last week: New: +30 Resolved: -39) gnome-core: 531 (In the last week: New: +84 Resolved: -214) gtk+: 356 (In the last week: New: +38 Resolved: -39) gnome-applets: 236 (In the last week: New: +25 Resolved: -104) gnome-vfs: 236 (In the last week: New: +5 Resolved: -4) gnome-pilot: 201 (In the last week: New: +12 Resolved: -1) galeon: 183 (In the last week: New: +147 Resolved: -136) sawfish: 180 (In the last week: New: +6 Resolved: -12) gnome-pim: 167 (In the last week: New: +2 Resolved: -45) gphoto: 125 (In the last week: New: +4 Resolved: -0) medusa: 125 (In the last week: New: +0 Resolved: -0) gmc: 121 (In the last week: New: +6 Resolved: -2) GIMP: 109 (In the last week: New: +13 Resolved: -60) balsa: 106 (In the last week: New: +18 Resolved: -9) Pan: 97 (In the last week: New: +28 Resolved: -2) Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs: louie@ximian.com: 447 bugs closed. yaneti@declera.com: 102 bugs closed. quinet@gamers.org: 48 bugs closed. srittau@jroger.in-berlin.de: 44 bugs closed. daniel@veillard.com: 35 bugs closed. otaylor@redhat.com: 30 bugs closed. hp@redhat.com: 25 bugs closed. kmaraas@gnome.org: 21 bugs closed. jfleck@inkstain.net: 20 bugs closed. mark@skynet.ie: 19 bugs closed. andersca@gnu.org: 18 bugs closed. mpeseng@tin.it: 16 bugs closed. menesis@delfi.lt: 12 bugs closed. dan_erat@pobox.com: 11 bugs closed. dsandras@seconix.com: 10 bugs closed. ============================================================== 11. New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- gCASL - CASL - COMET Assembly Language Firestarter - Firestarter is a complete firewall tool for Linux machines. GNet - A simple network library built onto of GLib. gxsm - Graphical interface for any kind of 2D data aquisitation method Moleskine - Moleskine is a source code editor Guikachu - Graphical editing of resource files for PalmOS-based pocket computers gnome-media - Contains the Gnome-CD CD player, CDDBSlave2, gmix, grecord and vumeter. paps - A program for printing utf8-files through pango/ft2. conc - Conc is a serial console concentrator package gEuCo - gEuCo stands for gnome Euro Conversor. Anjuta - Versatile Integrated Development Environment (IDE). gdkxft - Provides anti-aliased fonts to the gnome desktop. ijbapplet - Drag urls onto the applet to add them to your Junkbuster blockfile. glame - The GIMP for audio processing. gmmusic - A Gnomified music collection database. gimp - World Champion Graphics package. The Sushi Project - A suite to play a pen-and-paper game across the Internet. gcompris - GCompris is a simple education game. Adimeal - Adimeal is a recipe manager system. Bluefish - Bluefish is a programmer`s HTML editor Coriander - Coriander is a GUI for IIDC compliant, IEEE1394 Digital Camera. Metacity - Metacity is a window manager based on GTK+ 2.0 gnopher - Gnopher is Gopher for GNOME. Now fully integrated with Nautilus, for your viewing pleasure. Procman - GNOME process viewer and system monitor. pyFind - pyFind is a Find File utility. rubrica - Rubrica is an addressbook. gEuro - euro converter for all the currencies taking part in the euro monetary unit Pan - Pan is a newsreader Gil - Gil(GTK ISDN Launcher) Vget - Vget is a network download tool. euler - Quicky and interactvely computing with real and complex numbers and matrices. Balsa - Balsa is an email client. gnect - four in a row game with a computer player GSwitchIt - Xkb state indicator for the panel galeon - Web browser based on Gecko. GStreamer - Streaming multimedia library and development framework. gLabels - Lightweight program for creating labels and business cards. For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map: http://www.gnome.org/applist/listrecent.php3 Well as everyone is busy porting to GNOME 2 and writing their GUADEC papers there is little news to report this week. Unless you want us to start reporting on 500k of lines commited to CVS etc. :) Christian gnome-summary@gnome.org
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