GNOME Summary, September 28 - October 5

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

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.

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  Table of Contents
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 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

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 1)  Introduction to GNOME Programming

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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.

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 2)  New Releases

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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

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 3)  Icon Guidelines

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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/

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 4)  gnome-libs 2.0 Goals

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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.

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 5)  Hacking Activity

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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.

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 6)  New and Updated Software

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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 www.gnome.org (or Freshmeat) for more
information about any of these packages.

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Until next week - 

Havoc