GNOME Summary Nov. 9-17 (covers UI summary, sound, DeveloperWorkscolumn, comdex, screenshots, new libglade, fireload, M11)

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

This is the GNOME Summary for November 9-17, 1999.

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  Table of Contents
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 1)  GNOME UI Summary
 2)  Sound
 3)  George has monthly column on IBM DeveloperWorks
 4)  Miguel at Comdex
 5)  Screenshots
 6)  New libglade 0.8
 7)  FireLoad applet
 8)  Mozilla M11
 9)  Hacking Activity 
 10)  New and Updated Software

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 1)  GNOME UI Summary

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Many of you may not have seen the GNOME UI Improvement Project here:

  http://www.jcinteractive.com/gnome-ui/

James Cape is running this; if you look at the rest of
jcinteractive.com you'll see that he knows a fair bit about
interfaces. Anyway, he's started up a pale imitator of the GNOME
Summary, cleverly entitled the "GNOME UI Summary" ;-) Here's an
installment:

  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-November/0349.shtml

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 2)  Sound

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In the development version of gnome-libs Elliot split the sound
support into a dynamically loaded module; basically this means that if
you turn off sound you won't get libesd or libaudiofile loaded off
disk (in fact you won't need to have them installed). I suppose it
also implies that an alternative sound module could be substituted for
the current one.

There's work left to be done on this though, requested in this post to the list:

  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-devel-list/1999-November/0285.shtml

There was also discussion of aRts, a different sound system, on gnome-kde-list:

  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-kde-list/1999-November/0003.shtml

If any non-desktop-developers who know a lot about sound want to jump
in on that discussion, I'm sure it would be appreciated. We want to
have a nice GNOME-KDE sound standard, but most of us are not "sound
guys," so there aren't that many people who can say something smart on
the topic.

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 3)  George has monthly column on IBM DeveloperWorks

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George Lebl is now a monthly columnist on the IBM site; a first
installment is here:

  http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/gnome2/

The article introduces a slightly more real-world application than the
"Hello, World" featured in an earlier IBM article. It's a nice column,
check it out. It even has a picture of George at the end. :-)

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 4)  Miguel at Comdex

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Miguel gave a Comdex talk yesterday, but I can't find any press
coverage of it right this minute. Anyway, here is a short GNOME blurb
on the Comdex site:

  http://daily.zdevents.com/comdex/fall99/daily/tuesday/lbe2_t.html

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 5)  Screenshots

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Lots of these:

GNOME AbiWord Screenshots:

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/942233708/index_html

GNOME 1.1 Screenshots:

  http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/942329007/index_html

More GNOME 1.1 Screenshots:

  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-list/1999-November/0486.shtml

And Still More GNOME 1.1 Screenshots:

  http://venus.bergsoe.dtu.dk/~pbk1807/files/skaermbilleder/

Note: GNOME 1.1 is the CVS development version, if you have to ask
where to get it or how to install it then you don't want to install
it. It is unstable and you should not expect it to work. "Developers
only." etc.

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 6)  New libglade 0.8

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Find that announce here:

  http://www.gnome.org/mailing-lists/archives/gnome-devel-list/1999-November/0302.shtml

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 7)  FireLoad applet

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This week's gratuitous software plug is for a quickie hack that I am
nonetheless enjoying, a port of the wmfire WindowMaker applet (port by
Iain Barnes, original by Zinx Verituse). Basically it displays some flames 
proportional to your system load. More fun than the little graph.

Find that here:

  http://home.freeuk.net/igbarn/alarm-applet.html#loadmonitor

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 8)  Mozilla M11

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Not strictly a GNOME thing, but we do hope to integrate Mozilla into
GNOME; Milestone 11 binaries are available. Have a look at:

 http://www.mozilla.org

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 9)  Hacking Activity 

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Module Score-O-Matic:
 (number of CVS commits per module, during this week)
  91 gnumeric
  53 gimp
  50 entity
  41 gnome-debug
  31 gnome-libs
  28 gnome-db
  26 gdk-pixbuf
  25 gtk+
  22 bug-buddy
  21 gconf
  20 gnome-core
  18 gdf-test
  17 gtk--
  16 gob
  16 dr-genius
  14 evolution
  13 crescendo
  12 gxsnmp
  11 gnome-pim
  11 bonobo
  11 beast

User Score-O-Matic:
 (number of CVS commits per user, during this week)

  58 martin
  42 jirka
  34 jody
  33 imain
  30 unammx
  30 jberkman
  29 hp
  28 mmeeks
  26 rodrigo
  22 sopwith
  19 pablo
  18 tml
  17 mwimer
  16 ettore
  14 glaurent
  13 neo
  11 timj
  11 kmaraas
  11 atena
  10 philipd
  10 nakai
  10 jrb
  10 jpr
  10 drmike
  10 campd 
  10 asbjoer

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 10)  New and Updated Software

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GMatH - Math environment
Sarah - another file manager
FireLoad applet - displays flames in proportion to system load
gMessagingSystem - "gets information where it should be"
gnoLyX - a LyX port 
gIPSC - IP subnet calculator
GFax - popup fax app
gPool - GNOME pool simulation
Gnomovision - TV app (for TV cards)
gtkdiff - diff frontend
GProc - process list
Elvis-Gnome - GNOME frontend for the Elvis vi clone
Pan - newsreader
yank - takes notes, keep TODO list
bug-buddy - graphical bug reporting wizard
Eucalyptus - mail program
gerk - one-button mouse applet
GIP - GNOME install project
graphtool - graphing software
GNOME dialup - ppp tool
GNOME Update Manager - informs you of new software since last login
Vget - network download tool
Monitor sensors - displays motherboard information (temperature, etc.)
graham - document organizer
gisdnload - loadmeter for an ISDN line
gnome-ppp - PPP tool
gmt - kernel module GUI
Gnonews - news client

See the software map on www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more
information about any of these packages.

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Until next week - 

Havoc