This is the GNOME Summary for 2002-05-25 – 2002-06-01.
============================================================== Table of Contents -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. GNOME 2 enters hard freeze 2. Hacking GTK+ apps in LOGO 3. Want another flavour GTK+ 2.0 Window Manager? 4. GNOME gets big in Christchurch 5. GnomeMeeting release for Gnome2 available 6. Thumbs up for gthumb 7. GStreamer gets seek support 8. Accessibility framework explained 9. Translated GNOME Summaries 10. Hacker Activity 11. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity 12. New and Updated Software ============================================================== 1. GNOME 2 enters hard freeze -------------------------------------------------------------- GNOME2 is entering hard freeze today (monday). This means the only allowed code changes are fixes to the bugs with the GNOME 2.0.0 milestone. At the time of this writing that means 9 bugs left to fix before we can make the GNOME 2.0 RC 1 release. To follow the hunt to squash those last bugs check out the link below. http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q19142BD ============================================================== 2. Hacking GTK+ apps in LOGO -------------------------------------------------------------- Is LOGO your favourite programing Language and you always felt left out since there was not bindings? Well help is underway. The first screenshoot of a GTK button programed in LOGO has been made available. This huge step for mankind has been made possible by the existence of Mono and GTK-Sharp. http://monologo.sourceforge.net/gtk.png http://monologo.sourceforge.net http://www.go-mono.org http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/ ============================================================== 3. Want another flavour GTK+ 2.0 Window Manager? -------------------------------------------------------------- A lot of projects are busy with porting to GTK+ 2.0 these days including the XFCE project. Olivier Fourdan has just put up a new batch for tar files and rpms of the GTK+ 2.0 based window manager XFCE4 and his new GTK+ 2.0 theme engine. The XFCE4 windowmanager boast such features as being based on the GTK event loop, support all freedesktop.org standards and it takes its default colors from your gtkrc-2.0 file meaning its use of colors are consistent with the rest of your desktop. http://www.xfce.org/archive/xfce4-snapshots/ http://moongroup.com/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2002-May/000060.html http://moongroup.com/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2002-April/000049.html http://www.xfce.org ============================================================== 4. GNOME gets big in Christchurch -------------------------------------------------------------- Our friends at gnomedesktop.com provided a nice link this week to a story about a New Zealand company that is sucessfully migrated its 300 desktops to using GNOME. It seems Evolution is giving GNOME a foot inside the door many places these days. When GNOME 2.0 is releases with its new accessibility features expect to see that too opening a lot of doors for us. http://www.idg.net.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/ECC4743A6E460FAFCC256BC2007F707F?OpenDocu ment&Highlight=2,Linux ============================================================== 5. GnomeMeeting release for Gnome2 available -------------------------------------------------------------- The first GnomeMeeting version for GNOME2 was released this week, version 0.92.1. In addition to the improvements brought by the GNOME 2 plattform this release includes things like improved preferences window and experimental Quicknet support. Check out the Gnomemeeting website for nice updated screenshoots and a complete feature list. http://www.gnomemeeting.org/ ============================================================== 6. Thumbs up for gthumb -------------------------------------------------------------- Always wanted a very fast and easy to use image viewer kinda like GQView, but with better GNOME integration. Well then you should try out gthumb. It is very fast and features a really nice looking GUI. And of course a GNOME2 version is available. http://gthumb.sourceforge.net http://gthumb.sourceforge.net/tn_main_window_1.100.jpg ============================================================== 7. GStreamer gets seek support -------------------------------------------------------------- One feature that has been often requested in the GStreamer media framework is support for seeking. Thanks to the great work of Wim Taymans support for this is now commited to GStreamer CVS. What makes this extra good is that this seek support does time-accurate seeks unlike many of the other seek implementations available on Linux and Unix. The GStreamer team is now hard at work to get a 0.4.0 release out the door and at the same time Jorn Baayen and the Rhythmbox team is working on making a Rhythmbox release that implements and uses this new seek support. Another cool GStreamer development is by Thomas Vander Stichele who have added a libfame plugin to GStreamer giving us support for encoding and decoding Mpeg-4 videos. From the Rhythmbox developers camp Kristian Rietveld is reported to have added support for shoutcast metadata to gnome-vfs. http://www.gstreamer.net http://www.rhythmbox.org ============================================================== 8. Accessibility framework explained -------------------------------------------------------------- As you know GNOME will feature a very nice accessibility framework in GNOME 2.0. What you might not know is that this framework is very modular, which means that the libraries that implementes it can be used by other toolkits and frameworks also to get accessibility support. Two projects that will use the same libraries are Mozilla and Open Office. For a nice overview of the accessibility support check out this writeup created to illustrate things to the Mozilla developers. This also illustrates how the Java accessibility support will integrate with the rest of the system. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=77614&action=view ============================================================== 9. Translated GNOME Summaries -------------------------------------------------------------- Want to read the Summary in your native languagae? We now feature French, Spanish, Hungarian, Korean and Portuguese translations. http://www.gynov.org/news/index.php4 http://es.gnome.org/actualidad/ http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/gnome/summary/ http://developer.gnome.or.kr/news/ http://debian-br.cipsga.org.br/resumo-gnome/ ============================================================== 10. Hacker Activity -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists. Most active modules: 70 gimp 60 gnome-panel 57 gnumeric 48 evolution 44 gnome-utils 40 yelp 40 nautilus 40 metacity 38 gnome-docu 37 gnome-applets 36 gnome-media 36 galeon 33 gtk+ 33 gnome-pim 31 gnome-control-center 30 libgnomeprint 29 gnome-i18n 29 glade-- 29 gnome-games 26 libgnomeprintui [150 active modules omitted] Most active hackers: 74 isam 67 carlos 63 kmaraas 55 jody 55 chyla 48 stano 46 pablo 45 michael 42 olau 38 menthos 36 gman 33 dnloreto 32 neo 32 sander 31 srittau 31 ireneryan 30 christof 30 hp 28 hallski 28 adrighem [150 active hackers omitted] ============================================================== 11. 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: 7072 (In the last week: New: 865, Resolved: 723, Difference: +142) Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests): nautilus: 841 (In the last week: New: 65, Resolved: 130, Difference: -65) gtk+: 559 (In the last week: New: 25, Resolved: 12, Difference: +13) gnome-core: 291 (In the last week: New: 76, Resolved: 59, Difference: +17) gnome-vfs: 262 (In the last week: New: 3, Resolved: 4, Difference: -1) galeon: 253 (In the last week: New: 147, Resolved: 133, Difference: +14) GIMP: 218 (In the last week: New: 15, Resolved: 31, Difference: -16) control-center: 201 (In the last week: New: 44, Resolved: 31, Difference: +13) sawfish: 182 (In the last week: New: 13, Resolved: 9, Difference: +4) gnome-applets: 175 (In the last week: New: 33, Resolved: 24, Difference: +9) gnome-pilot: 154 (In the last week: New: 11, Resolved: 0, Difference: +11) gnome-panel: 149 (In the last week: New: 76, Resolved: 43, Difference: +33) balsa: 135 (In the last week: New: 10, Resolved: 2, Difference: +8) medusa: 127 (In the last week: New: 0, Resolved: 0, Difference: 0) glib: 80 (In the last week: New: 9, Resolved: 2, Difference: +7) Gnumeric: 75 (In the last week: New: 16, Resolved: 22, Difference: -6) Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs: yaneti@declera.com: 117 bugs closed. bordoley@msu.edu: 91 bugs closed. kmaraas@gnome.org: 63 bugs closed. louie@ximian.com: 50 bugs closed. jody@gnome.org: 49 bugs closed. jfleck@inkstain.net: 26 bugs closed. hp@redhat.com: 23 bugs closed. quinet@gamers.org: 21 bugs closed. michael@ximian.com: 16 bugs closed. k_wayne@linuxpower.org: 15 bugs closed. mark@skynet.ie: 15 bugs closed. kfv101@psu.edu: 12 bugs closed. micke@codefactory.se: 10 bugs closed. shane.oconnor@ireland.sun.com: 10 bugs closed. federico@ximian.com: 9 bugs closed. ============================================================== 12. New and Updated Software -------------------------------------------------------------- AFE Bluetooth applet - Bluetooth communication suite gsendfile - gnome sendfile frontend Encompass - A lightweight Web Browser GtkDatabox - Fast display of numerical data Armada Backlight Controller - Compaq Armada backlight controller BananaPos - Point Of Sale gFTP - A multithreaded FTP client Bond - Database RAD tool. vlc - DVD and MPEG player CCView - A C++ project browser. oggdoctor - ogg/vorbis toolbox MrProject - Project management application gnocl - A gtk / gnome extension for Tcl Pan - Usenet newsreader Yelp - Help browser for GNOME 2.0 gedit - Lightweight UTF-8 text editor File Roller - File Roller is an archive manager. Sagasu - Find strings in multiple files For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map: http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/latest.php We are getting down to the last and hardest bugs now before GNOME 2.0 is ready to be released. Personally I am getting really y excited about this release as it brings a level of polish and usability to the GNOME desktop that we have not had before. But maybe more important is how this release really makes a solid and good foundation to build on for years to come, enabling us to do things that where simply not possible on the old development plattform. One of my favourite features of the new plattform is how it has united the GTK+ and GNOME worlds so we no longer have a different look between GTK+ and GNOME applications, giving you a much more consistent look accross the desktop. My most heartfelt thanks to all the developers who have helped us get here, while I and Steve have tried mentioning the efforts of as many as you as possible through the years we know that there are a lot of unsung heroes out there. Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller gnome-summary@gnome.org